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New DIB 'missing person': Joan Horan
Wednesday, 12 February 2020A member of the first team of paralympians to represent Ireland, Joan Horan competed in archery and swimming at the inaugural 1960 Paralympics in Rome. Read her DIB entry, by Turlough O'Riordan, below.
Documenting a conquest: The RIA copies of the ‘Books of Survey and Distribution’
Friday, 7 February 2020For this month’s Library blog post, Dr John Gibney, Assistant Editor with the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series, looks at an important seventeenth-century document from our collections.
Reflections on the role of a Learned Academy
Wednesday, 5 February 2020Listen to Professor Michael Peter Kennedy reflect on the role of a Learned Academy in the Royal Irish Academy Presidential Discourse.
New DIFP series editors required: call for expressions of interest
Wednesday, 5 February 2020We are inviting expressions of interest from academics to volunteer as editors of the DIFP series from 2021 onwards
Celebrating Irish women: Kathleen Lynn
Wednesday, 5 February 2020Suffragist, nationalist and medical practitioner, Kathleen Lynn, is among the remarkable women featured in the RIA's exhibition 'A celebration of Irish women'
Celebrating Irish women: Constance Markievicz
Monday, 3 February 2020The Royal Irish Academy is hosting an exhibition in celebration of Irish women running from St Brigid’s Day (1 February) to International Women’s Day (8 March). One of the remarkable women featured is Constance ...
Celebrating the women of Ireland this Brigid's Day
Saturday, 1 February 2020The Royal Irish Academy is marking Brigid’s Day (1 Feb) with an exhibition of remarkable Irish women at Academy House. To mark this event, the DIB is publishing our entry for the woman (or goddess) herself: Brigit, by...
The DIB and the Six Nations: Ireland's first Grand Slam
Friday, 31 January 2020Hope springs eternal as Ireland approach their opening fixure of the 2020 Six Nations, against Scotland, on Saturday 1 February. To mark Ireland's first ever Grand Slam, in 1948, we publish the DIB entry on Karl Mullen...
A celebration of Irish women
Friday, 31 January 2020An exhibition running from St Brigid’s Day to International Women’s Day
Irish Higher Education Debate
Thursday, 30 January 2020On the 28 January, a debate was held on the future of higher education and research in Ireland, with spokespersons from the major political parties ahead of #GE2020.