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Pirates of west Cork

Tuesday, 5 December 2023

The latest in an ongoing series of Dictionary of Irish Biography blog posts.

Dictionary of Irish Biography

Grangegorman Lives: Patrick Thomas Daly

Saturday, 2 December 2023

The next addition to our Grangegorman Lives series is Patrick Thomas Daly, born on this day (2 December) in 1870, trade unionist and republican.

Grangegorman Histories, Grangegorman Lives

Margaret Kelleher MRIA, Professor of Literature

Friday, 1 December 2023

Professor Kelleher describes her year as a Cullman Center fellow at New York Public Library.

Members Research Series

Knowth megalithic art volume and related resources added to ‘Excavations at Knowth’ collection in the DRI

Thursday, 30 November 2023

The megalithic art of the passage tombs at Knowth, County Meath, by George Eogan MRIA and Elizabeth Shee Twohig MRIA, is now available as an online, open access resource in the Digital Repository of Ireland.

Publications

DRI Launches Member Case Studies

Thursday, 30 November 2023

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) has launched our first collection of Member Case Studies!

Digital Repository of Ireland

Town & Country launch and 'Mapping places, mapping people' lecture

Thursday, 23 November 2023

Town & Country: perspectives from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas was launched by Vanessa Harding, chair, Historic Towns Trust last night following a lecture by Howard Clarke 'Mapping places, mapping people: Dublin...

Publications, Irish Historic Towns Atlas

Watchback - Discourse Series: Light illuminates innovation in medicine and climate solutions

Wednesday, 22 November 2023

Watch the recording of the Discourse Series with Professor Naomi J. Halas and Brian Norton MRIA that took place on 16 November 2023.

Discourse Series

2024 RIA Gold Medals recipients announced

Tuesday, 21 November 2023

The 2024 RIA Gold Medal in the Engineering Sciences has been awarded to Máire O'Neill MRIA and the 2024 RIA Gold Medal in the Social Sciences has been awarded to Brigid Laffan MRIA.

Gold Medals

Celebrating the 1853 Great Industrial Exhibition of Dublin

Tuesday, 21 November 2023

A collaborative exhibition, plenary session and conference of the Royal Irish Academy, the RDS, and the National Gallery of Ireland taking place across the month of November 2023

Humanities and Social Sciences Committees, Historical Studies Committee

You can be anything in Ireland now, as long as it’s not English - a panel discussion

Monday, 20 November 2023

'You can be anything in Ireland now, as long as it’s not English', a panel discussion held in the Royal Irish Academy on Monday, 20 November 2023 Luke Sheehan

ARINS - Analysis and Research: Ireland North and South

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