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Dr Junsi Wang wins Young Chemist Prize 2017
Friday, 20 April 2018This award which is sponsored by Henkel, is granted to the most outstanding Irish Ph.D. thesis in the general area of the chemical sciences.
Academy Gold Medals: Call for nominations
Friday, 20 April 2018In 2018 the Academy will award two Gold Medals: one in the Humanities and one in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
Watch Catherine Day's discourse: 'Will the post Brexit EU be different?'
Tuesday, 13 February 2018Catherine Day, MRIA and former Secretary General of the EU Commission, examines and contextualises the landscape of Post Brexit EU. Response by Noel Dorr, MRIA.
Women on Walls on tour
Monday, 5 February 2018The Women on Walls exhibition is not on display at the Academy currently.
100th anniversary of the birth of Sheila Tinney, MRIA
Friday, 12 January 2018We are commemorating the100th anniversary of Sheila Tinney's birth one of our first female Members on 15th January 2018.
2018 Suffrage Centenary
Tuesday, 9 January 2018As part of the Academy's 2018 theme of Diversity, the Suffrage Centenary was commemorated at the Academy with a conference, which was held on 1 February 2018 in association with the Houses of the...
‘Causes and consequences of obesity; lessons from human genetics’
Thursday, 21 December 2017Professor Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, Hon. MRIA talks about his recent Academy Discourse
Maria Edgeworth's 250th anniversary
Tuesday, 19 December 2017The 250th anniversary of the birth of Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849), novelist, essayist, and educationist is on 1st January 2018.
The Holy See and the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Is a once-promising journey now going backward
Friday, 17 November 2017Watch Professor Mary McAleese's interview about her recent discourse addressing issues of Canon Law and children's rights.
The Academy’s latest ‘Women on Walls’
Thursday, 19 October 2017The Academy's newest artwork acquisition of four female Members of the Royal Irish Academy was unveiled in Academy House on 12 October 2017.