THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY IS IRELAND'S LEADING BODY OF EXPERTS IN THE SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann champions research. We identify and recognise Ireland’s world class researchers. We support scholarship and promote awareness of how science and the humanities enrich our lives and benefit society. We believe that good research needs to be promoted, sustained and communicated. The Academy is run by a Council of its members. Membership is by election and considered the highest academic honour in Ireland.

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Royal Irish Academy joins Digital Repository of Ireland under new membership model

Thursday, 20 September 2018

As one of DRI’s core consortium organisations, the RIA has been closely involved with DRI’s development since 2011 and collections from the Academy Library and Publications departments have been deposited in the...

Library, Publications, Digital Repository of Ireland

Tuesday, 21 August 2018

To mark the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the world renowned Eastern Tomb at Knowth, we are publishing free online our six books on Excavations at Knowth via the Digital Repository of Ireland.

Publications, Humanities and Social Sciences Committees, Standing Committee Archaeology, Public Engagement

Call for papers: Irish Studies in International Affairs

Thursday, 10 May 2018

We are seeking good quality papers from academics, policy-makers and PhD students

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NEW BOOK: Enfranchising Ireland? Identity, citizenship and state

Wednesday, 2 May 2018

This book explores the origin and evolution of the concepts of citizenship and identity in Ireland

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Brexit, Trump and the new populism

Wednesday, 25 April 2018

Latest issue of Irish Studies in International Affairs to be launched at conference on 'Multilateralism and Interdependence' on 2 May

Publications, Standing Committee for International Affairs

The Maamtrasna murders 135 years on

Thursday, 29 March 2018

President Higgins to issue posthumous pardon to man wrongfully executed in 1882

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Marking the twentieth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement

Thursday, 15 March 2018

A special issue of Irish Studies in International Affairs is available for free download

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Judging Redmond and Carson US lectures

Tuesday, 6 February 2018

Professor Alvin Jackson will be visiting the United States in March and April to discuss his new book.

Publications, Decade of Centenaries

Ireland’s finest get ‘everyday’ treatment

Thursday, 25 January 2018

Ireland’s latest definitive stamps will bring some of the nation’s most loved antiquities to a new audience.

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435 million year old fossil starfish discovered in Maam Valley

Monday, 22 January 2018

A new species of fossil starfish discovered in the Maam Valley of County Galway is described in the latest issue of the Irish Journal of Earth Sciences, published by the Royal Irish Academy.

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