The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann champions research. We identify and recognise Ireland’s world class researchers. We support scholarship and promote awareness of how science and the humanities enrich our lives and benefit society. We believe that good research needs to be promoted, sustained and communicated. The Academy is run by a Council of its members. Membership is by election and considered the highest academic honour in Ireland.
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Andrew R. Holmes is reader in History at Queen’s University Belfast. He has published extensively in the history of Protestantism and evangelicalism in Ireland, including The Irish Presbyterian mind: conservative theology, Evangelical experience, and modern criticism 1830–1930 (Oxford University Press, 2018). With Gladys Ganiel, he is currently editing The Oxford handbook of religion in modern Ireland.