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COVID-19 recovery and green growth: What is holding up implementation of the Paris Agreement?

Tuesday, 21 July 2020

In just a few weeks, the Covid-19 pandemic has led us to mobilise crisis response and best determine how we can live with the pandemic in the short term. The next stage, and one that we eagerly await, is how we can...

Science Committees, Climate Change and Environmental Sciences Committee, Climate Change Blog

DIB Explorers: Thomas Heazle Parke, army surgeon and African traveller

Monday, 20 July 2020

Our series of explorers continues with Thomas Heazle Parke, the first Irishman known to have crossed the continent of Africa. He once saved a man’s life by sucking arrow poison into his own mouth.

Dictionary of Irish Biography

Tellus: the largest collaborative cross-border programme of geoscience surveys

Monday, 20 July 2020

Our author Mike Young reflects on the impacts of this unprecedented survey of Northern Ireland and the six northern counties of the Republic of Ireland.

Publications

New DRI Collection: The Prevention and Early Intervention Publications

Friday, 17 July 2020

The Centre for Effective Studies(CES)has published a large collection of evaluation and research reports from The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Children and Youth programme in the Digital Repository of Ireland.

Digital Repository of Ireland

Rose Anne Kenny Women in Leadership Masterclass

Thursday, 16 July 2020

In July 2020 Professor Rose Anne Kenny joined us online for an interactive Women in Leadership masterclass sponsored by Accenture.

Public Engagement, Women in Leadership

DRI Director announced as one of the judges for the Digital Preservation Awards 2020

Thursday, 16 July 2020

The prestigious Digital Preservation Awards ceremony is the most prominent celebration of achievement for those people and organisations who have made significant and innovative contributions to maintaining our digital...

Digital Repository of Ireland

A gateway for future research in archaeology

Thursday, 16 July 2020

Did you know that Ireland has the richest early medieval archaeological landscape in Europe, if not the world? Learn more in today's episode of 'Meet the authors' featuring Aidan O'Sullivan.

Publications, Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge

DIB Explorers: Annie S. D. Maunder, astronomer

Thursday, 16 July 2020

We continue our series of intrepid explorers with celebrated astronomer Annie Scott Dill Maunder who travelled the world observing and recording celestial phenomena and is known for her work on sunspot activity and...

Dictionary of Irish Biography

DIB Explorers: Lady Heath, aviator

Tuesday, 14 July 2020

With so many holiday plans on hold this summer, the DIB has compiled a selection of intrepid explorers we can accompany on their exciting travels. We start the series with Lady Heath, the first woman to complete a solo...

Dictionary of Irish Biography

Deadline extended for DRI Early Career Research Award 2020

Monday, 13 July 2020

The Digital Repository of Ireland  Early Career Research Award, for research informed in whole, or in part, by objects/collections deposited in DRI is extended until 31 August 2020.

Digital Repository of Ireland

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