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Celebration for 2020 and 2021 elected Members

20 December 2022

We were delighted to welcome our 2020 and 2021 elected Members to the RIA on Friday, 16 December for a celebratory day, acknowledging their achievements, as they had missed out on an in-person Admittance Day during the pandemic. Our Members had the opportunity to sign the Academy's historic Roll Book.

Members in attendance on the day included:

Honorary Member - Polite Literature and Antiquities   

  • Thomas JJ. O'Loughlin, Hon. MRIA (2017)

2020 elected Members
Polite Literature and Antiquities     

  • Niamh Brennan MRIA
  • David Collings MRIA
  • Enrico Dal lago MRIA
  • Paul Garrett MRIA
  • Margaret Kelleher MRIA
  • Deirdre Madden MRIA
  • Christopher Marsh MRIA
  • Máire Ní Annracháin MRIA
  • Fintan O'Toole MRIA
  • Philipp Rosemann MRIA
  • Karen E. Till MRIA
  • Ben Tonra MRIA

Sciences   

  • Pavel Baranov MRIA
  • Steven Bell MRIA
  • Marie Therése Cowan MRIA
  • J.C. Séamus Davis MRIA
  • Robert Forster MRIA
  • Cecily Kelleher MRIA
  • Frank McDermott MRIA
  • Nabeel Agha Riza MRIA
  • Afshin Samali MRIA
  • Miles Turner MRIA

Members in attendance on the day included:

2021 elected Members
Honorary Member - Polite Literature and Antiquities     

  • Deirdre Curtin MRIA


Honorary Member - Sciences    

  • Anne Magurran MRIA


Polite Literature and Antiquities   

  • Ruth Barton MRIA
  • Janice Carruthers MRIA
  • Philip Dine MRIA
  • Gerard Hogan MRIA
  • Rory Montgomery MRIA
  • Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail MRIA
  • Brian O'Connor MRIA

Sciences    

  • Frank Barry MRIA
  • John Crown MRIA
  • John Feehan MRIA
  • Joseph Keane MRIA
  • Noel G. McElvaney MRIA
  • Philip Nolan MRIA
  • Bashar Nuseibeh MRIA
  • Lorraine O'Driscoll MRIA
  • Desmond John Tobin MRIA

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