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Available now: 'Ireland 1922' and 'The Handover'
Thursday, 16 December 2021Order now to receive them in time for Christmas.
Climate and Society in Ireland podcast ep. 4: Graeme Warren
Wednesday, 15 December 2021In the final episode of Climate and Society in Ireland, Gill Plunkett talks to Graeme Warren about the impact of climate change on the earliest human settlement of Ireland.
Climate and Society in Ireland podcast ep. 3: Bruce Campbell and Francis Ludlow
Wednesday, 8 December 2021In episode 3, host Gill Plunkett talks to Bruce Campbell and Francis Ludlow about climate change as a major but neglected grand theme of late medieval Irish history.
Shelfmarks with Neil Hegarty
Friday, 3 December 2021This week is the final episode of Shelfmarks and in it Zoë explores the life and work of chemist Richard Kirwan (President of the RIA 1790-1812)
ARINS podcast episode 6: let 'the people' decide
Wednesday, 1 December 2021In this episode, Colin Harvey and Jennifer Kavanagh pick through the political uncertainties surrounding the anticipated referendums, north and south.
Climate and Society in Ireland podcast ep. 2: Lucy Collins
Wednesday, 1 December 2021In episode 2 of our new podcast, host Gill Plunkett talks to Lucy Collins about representations of climate change in Irish poetry between 1600 and 1820.
Climate and Society in Ireland podcast ep. 1: John Sweeney
Wednesday, 24 November 2021In this first episode of our new podcast, host Gill Plunkett talks to John Sweeney about the challenges posed by climate change over the past few centuries.
Climate and society in modern Ireland: past and future vulnerabilities
Wednesday, 24 November 2021In today's blog on Climate and Society in Ireland, John Sweeney considers the challenging interaction between climate and society from the nineteenth century to the present.
New DIB book ‘Irish lives in America’ published
Thursday, 18 November 2021The Royal Irish Academy has published a special Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) collection, Irish lives in America (November 2021).
Shelfmarks with Siobhán Mannion
Thursday, 18 November 2021In episode 5 of Shelfmarks, Zoë Comyns explores the myth of Cessair and Fintan mac Bochra from the Leabhar Gabhála.