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The Royal Irish Academy host the ALLEA Permanent Working Group on Science and Ethics
Monday, 24 September 2018ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, was founded in 1994 and currently brings together almost 60 Academies in more than 40 countries from the Council of Europe region.
The Royal Irish Academy host the EASAC Environment Steering Panel
Monday, 24 September 2018The EASAC Environment Steering Panel recently met in Dublin.
Margaret Stokes: antiquarian scholar with an artist’s eye
Thursday, 20 September 2018We continue our Blog post series on the five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century'. This month we look at Margaret Stokes
Royal Irish Academy joins Digital Repository of Ireland under new membership model
Thursday, 20 September 2018As 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...
Royal Irish Academy Public Discourse Series 2018/19 sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran
Wednesday, 19 September 2018Between September 2018 and April 2019, this Series will include expert speakers on a wide range of subjects including cybersecurity, the experience of female politicians at the highest ranks of Irish parliamentary...
An Irish envoy to revolutionary Russia, 1921
Thursday, 13 September 2018Who was Patrick McCartan, and why did Dáil Éireann send him to Russia during the War of Independence?
Call for nominations: All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values 2019
Thursday, 13 September 2018ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities
Serve on the Standing Committee for International Affairs
Thursday, 13 September 2018The Royal Irish Academy is issuing an open call seeking expressions of interest to serve on the Standing Committee for International Affairs (SCIA), for its new four year term commencing January 2019.
Call for nominations of participants to sit on the “Respect and Dialogue” Steering Committee
Wednesday, 29 August 2018Nominations welcome from science, policy, religion, industry, civil society, art.
An Irish diplomat in London during the Blitz, 1941
Tuesday, 28 August 2018In a sequel of sorts to our last blog post on the 'Emergency', what did an Irish diplomat see and hear while in London during the Blitz of 1941?