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DRI Early Career Research Award
Wednesday, 17 April 2019Digital Repository of Ireland invite early career researchers to apply for a new annual Research Award worth €500.
Rural Conversation Podcast No. 3: 'Building vibrant and sustainable communities in rural Ireland'
Wednesday, 17 April 2019Rural Conversation No. 3: 'Building vibrant and sustainable communities in rural Ireland’, the final in the series of three Rural Conversations was held on Thursday, 4 April 2019 and hosted in Waterford Institute of...
Republic to Republic DIB entry: Sheila Murphy
Wednesday, 17 April 2019To mark the seventieth anniversary of the declaration of the republic and Ireland’s departure from the Commonwealth on 18 April 1949, we are publishing a number of our entries of figures involved in Irish foreign policy...
DIB entry of the day: Mary Leadbeater
Wednesday, 17 April 2019Professor Mary O'Dowd, MRIA, will today deliver a lecture 'The Shackleton sisters: Irish Quaker women c. 1750-1850' the fifth and final event in the current lunchtime series, 'Sisters', celebrating the lives and...
Welcoming an Irish republic, 17-18 April 1949
Wednesday, 17 April 2019At midnight on 17 April 1949 Ireland officially became a republic, and it is often forgotten that enormous crowds came out to celebrate the occasion.
New atlas of Drogheda presented to President Michael D. Higgins
Tuesday, 16 April 2019A delegation from the Royal Irish Academy, Highlanes Gallery and Louth County Council were invited for a courtesy call to Áras an Uachtaráin on 15 April 2019 where author Ned Mc Hugh presented President...
Republic to Republic DIB entry: Éamon de Valera
Tuesday, 16 April 2019To mark the seventieth anniversary of the declaration of the republic and Ireland’s departure from the Commonwealth on 18 April 1949, we are publishing a number of our entries of figures involved in Irish foreign policy...
Republic to Republic DIB entry: John J. Hearne
Monday, 15 April 2019To mark the seventieth anniversary of the declaration of the republic and Ireland’s departure from the Commonwealth on 18 April 1949, we are publishing a number of our entries of figures involved in Irish foreign policy...
The DIB and Century Ireland
Saturday, 13 April 2019On the centenary of the Amritsar Massacre read the DIB entry on Sir Michael O'Dwyer who was Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab in 1919, written by David Murphy.
Dr Rhona Mahony Women in Leadership Masterclass
Thursday, 11 April 2019Dr Rhona Mahony delivered the second in our 2019 Women in Leadership Masterclass series, inspiring the next generation of female leaders