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ARINS Podcast 22: Education across the island of Ireland

Thursday, 4 May 2023

In this, our first episode exploring education north and south, Devlin explores how economic background impacts educational attainment and the way in which education in turn impacts the labour market north and south.

ARINS - Analysis and Research: Ireland North and South

Webinar: Learning from national open access platforms

Friday, 28 April 2023

If you missed our Publish OA webinar, co-led by the RIA and TCD focusing on the founding and evolution of national open access (OA) platforms, you can watch it now.

Publications

'Reaffirming the knowledge-based economy'

Thursday, 27 April 2023

A research innovation symposium, organised by the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland (AmCham) took place yesterday at the Royal Irish Academy.

Grants and Awards, US-Ireland Research Innovation Awards

PCMS submission to consultation on state supports for PhDs

Tuesday, 25 April 2023

The Physical, Chemical and Mathematical Sciences submitted a response to the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science consultation on State supports for PhD researchers in March 2023.

Science Committees, Physical, Chemical and Mathematical Sciences Committee

Grangegorman Lives: Jennie Wyse Power

Monday, 24 April 2023

Our Grangegorman Lives series continues with Jennie Wyse Power (1858-1941), Governor of the Richmond District Lunatic Asylum.

Grangegorman Histories, Grangegorman Lives

Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin MRIA: Historian

Wednesday, 19 April 2023

Professor Ó hAnnracháin’s research into the religious culture of Early Modern Europe explores how Irish events and processes can illuminate and provide fresh perspectives on the wider history of the European...

Members Research Series

DIB publishes diverse mix of new entries April 2023

Wednesday, 19 April 2023

This April the Dictionary of Irish Biography is publishing 40 new entries, including a mix of contemporary figures, ‘missing persons’, specially commissioned biographies for our recently published book, Irish Sporting...

Dictionary of Irish Biography

More Gabriel Beranger antiquarian watercolours deposited at the DRI and The Watercolour World

Friday, 14 April 2023

New images from the Royal Irish Academy Library’s Beranger collection of eighteenth-century watercolour drawings are now preserved digitally.

Library, Digital Repository of Ireland

On the importance of preserving lantern slide collections

Thursday, 13 April 2023

In the latest Library Blog post, Rebecca Cairns explores the photographic collection of Robert Lloyd Praeger (1865-1953) at the Royal Irish Academy.

Library, Library Blog

The future of cross-border cooperation in the arts – article published in ISIA

Tuesday, 11 April 2023

Steven Hadley and Sophie Woodley's article, entitled 'The Future of Cross-Border Cooperation in the Arts: Research and Policy Findings from Ireland and Northern Ireland' has been published in Irish Studies in...

ARINS - Analysis and Research: Ireland North and South

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