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29 New Members Admitted
Friday, 22 May 2020Today Dr Mary Canning, PRIA welcomed our recently elected Members as we held our annual Admittance Day ceremony online
Bringing the Stowe Missal to life
Friday, 22 May 2020This month's Library Blog post looks at the Stowe Missal. Thank you to our guest writer Lars Nooij for bringing this wonderful manuscript to life.
An illustrated history of Irish foreign policy?
Thursday, 21 May 2020John Gibney of the RIA’s Documents on Irish Foreign policy project on the importance of images in 'Ireland: a voice among the nations'.
‘Ní ceadmhach neamhshuim’
Thursday, 21 May 2020A blog post by Professor Máirín Nic Eoin, MRIA on the use of the Irish language in this time of acute crisis. Professor Nic Eoin hopes that the Irish language and the language community can continue to inspire communal...
From the Archives: Does Ireland need a Minister for Higher Education in Research?
Thursday, 21 May 2020In 2016, the Academy gave consideration to the position of higher education and research within central government in Ireland and considered the potential benefits of introducing a Minister for High Education.
IHTA Town Type Series: Early Modern, Gaelic and Plantation Towns
Thursday, 21 May 2020The fourth essay on IHTA Town Types sees Raymond Gillespie, MRIA, Chair, Irish Historic Towns Atlas and lecturer in Maynooth University, discuss the development of different types of towns from c. 1500 to c. 1700.
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy and the Digital Repository of Ireland
Thursday, 21 May 2020Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) now has a dedicated collection in the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI).
How linguistics can help the historian: Part III
Wednesday, 20 May 2020The third part of our weekly series for an interdisciplinary, non-specialist readership, written by Dr Anthony Harvey, project editor at DMLCS.
RDA COVID-19 Guidelines and Recommendations: 4th release
Tuesday, 19 May 2020The Research Data Alliance (RDA) COVID-19 Working Group published the 4th release of the COVID-19 Data Sharing Recommendations and Guidelines on 15 May 2020.
Favourite DIB lives: Michael Dillon, trans man, doctor, Buddhist monk, writer
Sunday, 17 May 2020Selected by the DIB's Liz Evers, Michael Dillon is a remarkable figure whose brave quest for self understanding and freedom led him to transition from female to male, West to East, Christianity to Buddhism. Dillon's...