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'Revealing the past: archaeological excavation and research in Ireland'
Tuesday, 26 November 2019If you did not manage to secure a place at this year’s sell-out seminar you can listen to it now.
The DRI’s Atlantic Philanthropies Digital Archive and Oral History Project. Can you help?
Thursday, 21 November 2019Have any stories of successful PRTLI projects or graduates from the Atlantic funding period? DRI oral historian Bláithín Ní Chatháin would like your help with the ongoing research.
John Andrews MRIA
Wednesday, 20 November 2019We remember John Andrews, MRIA, who died on Friday (15 November 2019) in Chepstow, Wales. Founding father of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, historical geographer and renowned historian of Irish cartography, he was a...
'Housing and home, global and local: where are we now?’
Tuesday, 19 November 2019We regret to announce that this event, which had been scheduled for Thursday 21 November 2019 at 3.00 p.m., has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control. We apologise most sincerely for the inconvenience...
The call for nominations for the Ernst Schering Prize 2020 is now open
Tuesday, 19 November 2019The €50,000 Ernst Schering Prize is one of the most prestigious German science awards. Given annually by the Schering Stiftung, Berlin, it honours individual scientists in the fields of medicine, biology or chemistry,...
New DIFP exhibition in National Archives of Ireland on the 1986 Chernobyl disaster
Friday, 15 November 2019Our November exhibition co-curated with the National Archives of Ireland looks at Irish responses to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster
New DIB publication: Transatlantic Lives
Wednesday, 13 November 2019To celebrate the publication by the Ulster Historical Foundation of Transatlantic lives: the Irish experience in Colonial America, we publish the DIB entry on Anne Bonney, by Frances Clarke.
Adomnán: the man behind the milestone law
Tuesday, 12 November 2019To mark the publication of A history of Ireland in 100 words here is the biography of Adomnán, who makes an appearance in the entry for the word 'Cáin', tax laws, specifically the landmark Cáin Adomnáin (law of Adomnán...
ALLEA Statement: ‘The Need for Intellectual Property Rights Strategies at Academic Institutions’.
Monday, 11 November 2019This publication formulates recommendations both to scientific organisations and European and national legislators and highlights the importance of managing intangible assets with due consideration of intellectual...
Queen Medb and the Irish language
Monday, 11 November 2019To mark the publication of A history of Ireland in 100 words the DIB is publishing biographies of key figures from Irish history who make intriguing appearances in the new book. Queen Medb of Connacht, for example,...