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Call for Nominations: experts needed to represent International Science Council on an international alliance around COVID-19 education

Thursday, 14 May 2020

This project will look at the world-wide educational challenges caused by the COVID-19 crisis and how innovations and technologies can help educational institutions moving forward

Policy and International Relations, International Activities, Covid-19 Research Response

RDA COVID-19 Guidelines and Recommendations: 3rd Release

Thursday, 14 May 2020

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) COVID-19 Working Group published the third release of the COVID-19 Data Sharing Recommendations and Guidelines on 8 May 2020.

Digital Repository of Ireland

Funding for UK-Irish collaborative research projects announced

Wednesday, 13 May 2020

The Royal Irish Academy is delighted that the British Academy have announced funding for 11 collaborative research projects arising from the joint ‘Knowledge Frontiers symposium’ held in Academy House on Friday 31...

Grants and Awards

2020 Academy Gold Medals: call for nominations

Wednesday, 13 May 2020

The Academy is seeking the nomination of candidates for the 2020 Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities and the 2020 Academy Gold Medal in the Life Sciences.

Grants and Awards, Gold Medals

IHTA Town Type Series: Anglo-Norman Towns

Wednesday, 13 May 2020

In the third IHTA town type essay, Michael Potterton, Irish Historic Towns Atlas editor and Maynooth University lecturer, focuses on the buildling boom of Irish towns from the twelth to fourteenth centuries. 

Irish Historic Towns Atlas

Favourite DIB lives: James Redpath, American journalist

Wednesday, 13 May 2020

Selected and written by Dr Patrick Maume of the DIB, James Redpath was an American journalist and anti-slavery campaigner who became an outspoken advocate of the Land League in Ireland.

Dictionary of Irish Biography

Favourite DIB lives: Thomas Phillips, military surveyor and map-maker

Monday, 11 May 2020

Selected by Sarah Gearty, cartographic editor of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Thomas Phillips was a seventeenth-century military surveyor. His biography is part of our Favourite DIB lives #LockdownReading series.

Dictionary of Irish Biography

New beginnings…

Friday, 8 May 2020

A word from the new Academy Librarian, Barbara McCormack.

Library

Call for nominations: a systemic approach to the energy transition in Europe

Friday, 8 May 2020

Experts are needed for a new project on the energy pathways in Europe

Policy and International Relations, International Activities

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