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The DIB and revolutionary women: Charlotte Despard
Thursday, 11 April 2019Kate O'Malley of the Dictionary of Irish Biography will be giving a talk on 'Irish Revolutionary Women and the Wider World' in Muckross House, Killarney on Friday 12 April. She will be looking at the later life of...
Academic freedom and institutional autonomy: Commitments must be followed by action
Wednesday, 10 April 2019ALLEA, EUA and Science Europe call to protect academic freedom and safeguard institutional autonomy by providing and honouring sound regulatory frameworks.
DIB entry of the day: Katherine Conolly
Tuesday, 9 April 2019As part of the RIA lunchtime series ‘Sisters’, Dr Gabrielle M. Ashford this Wednesday presents her lecture 'Ties that endure – the lives and correspondence of three eighteenth-century sisters – Katherine Conolly, Jane...
DIB entries of the day: Lollie and Lily Yeats
Wednesday, 3 April 2019As part of the current RIA lunchtime series ‘Sisters’, Dr Lucy Collins delivered her lecture '"Who will ever say again that poetry does not pay?": The Yeats Sisters and the Cuala Press ' at Academy House.
'"A little remnant of the work of the ancients" 23 N 10: the Book of Ballycummin'
Thursday, 28 March 2019Listen back to the Library’s 4th Irish Manuscripts Conference in partnership with Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad.
Mrs Somerville – ‘queen of nineteenth-century science’
Thursday, 28 March 2019Fifth and final blog post in our series on the five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century'.
New DIFP exhibition in National Archives on Ireland's application to join the League of Nations, 1923
Wednesday, 27 March 2019Our April exhibition co-curated with the National Archives of Ireland looks at Ireland's admission to the post-WW1 League of Nations.
'Dáil Éireann: the first 100 years, 1919–2019'
Wednesday, 27 March 2019This one-day conference held on 11 December 2018 produced in partnership with the Houses of the Oireachtas to mark the 100th anniversary of Dáil Éireann is is now available to watch online.
DIB entry of the day: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington
Wednesday, 27 March 2019As part of the current RIA lunchtime series ‘Sisters’, Dr Margaret Ward today delivers her lecture ‘“A precious boon” in difficult times – Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and her sisters’ at Academy House. To accompany that...
DIFP on RTÉ Radio One, Sunday 24 March
Friday, 22 March 2019DIFP XI featured on a special edition of on RTÉ Radio One's Bowman on Sunday 24 March. Buy the book for just €25 until 1 April 2019.