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Dr Kinmonth’s interdisciplinary research, drawing from texts, manuscripts, poetry, oral history, artworks and objects, allied to her experience as a restorer and woodworker, enhances appreciation of how the rural majority of Ireland lived and allows insight into the materials and methods used by past generations.
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The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is delighted to announce that we have a new collection from Erasmus Smith Schools Archive.
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Joan Kavanagh, author and historian, has documented the experiences of women and girls transported from Ireland to the Australian colonies during the 19th Century. Here, Joan discovers the history of the Clock Tower Building, originally constructed as a penitentiary and later the Grangegorman Transportation Depot.
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The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is pleased to announce that a new collection – Artistic Doctorate Resources – has been published in the Repository through University College Cork (UCC) as part of the Visioning the Future: Artistic Doctorates in Ireland project, led by Professor...
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The first digital all-island Directory of Irish Publishers is being launched on Bloomsday 2023 by PublishOA.ie .
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To help us celebrate National Heritage Week 2023, Stephen Ferguson, An Post Archivist & Museum Curator delivered a lunchtime lecture at RIA Library on Ireland’s stamps and changing national image.
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Déanann Conchúr Mag Eacháin cur síos achomair ar an turas a rinne Carl Marstrander go dtí an Blascaod Mór in 1907 agus a chaidreamh le Tomás Ó Criomhthain.
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The Academy would like to extend its congratulations to Brian Norton MRIA, on his election to the position of EASAC Vice-President.
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The Royal Irish Academy is delighted to open applications for the Archaeology Research Grants and Radiocarbon dates schemes until 29 March 2024.
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Fáiltítear roimh iarratais ar phost Ceann na gClár agus na Rannpháirtíochta, atá lonnaithe in Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann.
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Commemorating the anniversary of William Rowan Hamilton’s historical discovery of the formula for quaternion algerbra, the Academy put together a programme of events on Thursday, 16 October 2014.
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This weekend marks the start of the Royal Irish Academy’s collaboration with the Irish Times entitled Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks.
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Island People by Gerard Dillon, 1950
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The Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) website has had a make-over.
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Inspiring Ireland Brings the Public and Private Stories of 1916 to the World.
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Applications are now open.
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A range of lives feature in the December 2015 ‘missing persons’ update to the Dictionary of Irish Biography online, comprising persons omitted from the 2009 first edition. Read the entry on Pearl Dunlevy, a tenacious public health physician who tackled childhood TB in Dublin, below.
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Report published following Constitutional Conversation no. 4 of 6.
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During 2016 Mason Hayes & Curran sponsored the committee’s series of Constitutional Conversations on a range of topics.
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Athlone, Carlingford, Carrickfergus, Fethard, Kilkenny, Mullingar, Sligo and Trim are freely availble to search or download.
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The Royal Irish Academy and the UK Academies today released a joint statement on higher education, research and innovation, following the formal invocation of Article 50 by the UK Government.
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A series of talks commemorating the 350th anniversary of Jonathan Swift's birth.
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Was the exceptional strength of ex-hurricane Ophelia when it hit Ireland on the 16th of October 2017 due to global warming or was it a chance occurrence resulting from natural variability?
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Dr Alwynne McGeever, TCD, outlines her briefing paper on the relevance to Ireland of the EASAC Negative Emissions Technology report in the latest blogpost from the Climate Change and Environmental Sciences Committee.
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Latest Library Blog post: A short film about the Royal Irish Academy Library
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