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ARINS podcast episode 6: let 'the people' decide

Wednesday, 1 December 2021

In this episode, Colin Harvey and Jennifer Kavanagh pick through the political uncertainties surrounding the anticipated referendums, north and south.

Publications, ARINS - Analysis and Research: Ireland North and South

Climate and Society in Ireland podcast ep. 2: Lucy Collins

Wednesday, 1 December 2021

In 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.

Publications, Climate and Society in Ireland

Climate and Society in Ireland podcast ep. 1: John Sweeney

Wednesday, 24 November 2021

In 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.

Publications, Climate and Society in Ireland

Climate and society in modern Ireland: past and future vulnerabilities

Wednesday, 24 November 2021

In 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.

Publications, Publications Blog, Climate and Society in Ireland

New DIB book ‘Irish lives in America’ published

Thursday, 18 November 2021

The Royal Irish Academy has published a special Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) collection, Irish lives in America (November 2021).

Publications, Dictionary of Irish Biography

Shelfmarks with Siobhán Mannion

Thursday, 18 November 2021

In episode 5 of Shelfmarks, Zoë Comyns explores the myth of Cessair and Fintan mac Bochra from the Leabhar Gabhála.

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Proceedings of the RIA 121C now available in print and online

Wednesday, 17 November 2021

Covering bloodletting, prehistoric hillforts, women in war and much more.

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New podcast series on Climate and Society in Ireland

Wednesday, 17 November 2021

Host Gill Plunkett explores the long view of climate change with some of the authors of Climate and Society in Ireland.

Publications, Climate and Society in Ireland

Reconstructing hydrological drought in Irish catchments (1850–2015)

Wednesday, 17 November 2021

In today's blog on Climate and Society in Ireland, Simon Noone and Conor Murphy provide a first attempt to reconstruct historical river flows to examine hydrological drought in Ireland.

Publications, Publications Blog, Climate and Society in Ireland

Seeing the natural world: Comhbhá an Dúlra

Wednesday, 10 November 2021

In today's blog on Climate and Society in Ireland, Máire Ní Annracháin examines the ecocritical spirit of modern Gaelic poetry.

Publications, Publications Blog, Climate and Society in Ireland

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