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DRI’s Annual Community Archive Scheme Opens for 2023

Friday, 2 September 2022

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is delighted to announce that our annual Community Archive Scheme is open for applications for 2023. The Community Archive Scheme is one way that DRI works to help preserve and...

Digital Repository of Ireland

The completion of the New Survey of Clare Island

Friday, 2 September 2022

John Feehan reflects on the impact of the Clare Island surveys

Publications, New Survey of Clare Island

ARINS podcast episode 14: Making Sense of a United Ireland, Should it Happen, How Might it Happen?

Thursday, 1 September 2022

In this month’s episode, host Rory Montgomery and Brendan O’Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science, at the University of Pennsylvania, discuss Brendan’s latest book Making Sense of a United Ireland, Should it...

Publications, ARINS - Analysis and Research: Ireland North and South

Provenance and annotations in Bertrand Russell’s Principles of Mathematics

Wednesday, 31 August 2022

The latest library guest blog post by Bill Mc Cormack, MRIA, explores the provenance of Bertrand Russell’s 1903 edition Principles of Mathematics (vol 1) and its annotations in the copy held at the Royal Irish Academy...

Library, Library Blog

SPUR student, Kevin Comiskey in the IHTA

Wednesday, 31 August 2022

Maynooth University history student, Kevin Comiskey, gives an account of his six weeks as a SPUR student in the Irish Historic Towns Atlas project.

Irish Historic Towns Atlas

Grangegorman Histories: Dublin Festival of History podcast launch

Tuesday, 30 August 2022

As part of the Dublin Festival of History, Grangegorman Histories will launch ‘Instituting Grangegorman’ a podcast sharing the history of the original Richmond Lunatic Asylum building, now the recently restored TU...

Grangegorman Histories

Friday, 26 August 2022

Read Brian Hanley's essay on State Terror on Century Ireland.

Publications, Ireland 1922

RIA Multidisciplinary Committees 2022-2026

Wednesday, 24 August 2022

The Academy is delighted to announce the new multidisciplinary committee members for the 2022-2026 term.

Humanities and Social Sciences Committees, Science Committees

Revealing Grangegorman – 70 metre artwork inspired by the site’s history begins installation

Wednesday, 24 August 2022

A 70 metre long artwork is currently being hand painted in Grangegorman to represent details of the stories of patients and staff throughout the site's 200+ years.

Grangegorman Histories

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