THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY IS IRELAND'S LEADING BODY OF EXPERTS IN THE SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

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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David McCullagh

David McCullagh is a journalist with Ireland’s public service broadcaster, RTÉ, and author of a history of the first Inter-Party government, A makeshift majority (Institute of Public Administration, 1998), a biography of John A. Costello, The reluctant Taoiseach (Gill Books, 2010), and a recent two-volume biography of Éamon de Valera, Volume 1: Rise, 1882–1932 and Volume 2: Rule, 1932–1975 (Gill, 2017, 2018).

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