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Professor Alvin Jackson's book Judging Redmond and Carson was launched on 6 March 2018 by an Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, as part of an Academy Discourse delivered on the centenary of John Redmond's death.
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In this podcast Michael MacDonagh talks of the opportunities and challenges of preserving Ireland’s past and managing our archaeological heritage.
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Thirty-nine lives were added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography online in December 2018, our eighteenth online update.
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To mark International Women's Day we publish below one of our most recent entries by a woman, about a woman. Read about the fascinating life of one of Ireland's foremost writers Maeve Binchy (1939–2012), novelist and journalist, by Professor Margaret Kelleher, below.
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This month's blog post is dedicated to the generous funders of conservation work on the Book of Ballymote. Thank you!
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Professor Moyra Haslett, principal investigator for the Irish Song database was admitted as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy on 24 May 2019.
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Professor Rowland Stout, contemporary philosopher was admitted as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy on 24 May 2019.
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Frank Cullen's sold out publication focusing on The Ordnance Survey’s large-scale town plans for Dublin (1847) has been reprinted
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A call has been issued by Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, Italy for the 2020 Antonio Feltrinelli Prizes.
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This publication formulates recommendations both to scientific organisations and European and national legislators and highlights the importance of managing intangible assets with due consideration of intellectual property rights (IPR).
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The European National Academies of Sciences warn of the serious mismatches between science and policy on forest bioenergy.
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What exactly is a ‘love-spot’? Find out in today's entry on affairs of the heart.
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Dr Yikai Xu was selected as this year’s winner for the most outstanding Irish PhD thesis in the general area of the chemical sciences in the Henkel sponsored prize.
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Selected by Dr Déirdre D’Auria, Eagarthóir Cúnta, Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge, paediatrician Dorothy Stopford-Price conducted groundbreaking research into the treatment of TB in children. Her entry is presented here as part of our 'Favourite DIB lives' series.
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As part of IHTA Online, Howard Clarke, MRIA and editor of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas , explores the traditional Irish Viking towns and other towns associated with them.
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The DIB has curated a selection of its most notorious rogues – pirates, blackmailers, thieves and murderers – for your delectation. Next up is Mary Ann Duignan aka ‘Chicago May’, a one-time chorus girl who supported a showy lifestyle of jewels, furs and first-class travel...
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Our author Myles Dungan discusses one of Ireland's most infamous murders in today's episode of 'Meet the authors'.
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In just a few weeks, the Covid-19 pandemic has led us to mobilise crisis response and best determine how we can live with the pandemic in the short term. The next stage, and one that we eagerly await, is how we can ignite new growth...
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EASAC calls upon the EU to introduce requirement that net carbon emissions from biomass power stations be properly accounted for and declared under the Emissions Trading System.
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The diplomatic documents published by DIFP often reveal a lot about Ireland's social and cultural history; in this case, some official attitudes towards Irish women emigrating to Britain after the Second World War.
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In July 2019 former Tánaiste Mary Harney delivered a Women in Leadership Masterclass at the Royal Irish Academy with the support of Accenture.
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In today's episode of Spreading the Words we explore some of the stories associated with the word Coll.
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Learn more in today's episode of Spreading the Words on the word gorm .
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EASAC welcomes JRC report strengthening the case for shorter payback periods
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Latest Library Blog post. Grace Toland of the Irish Traditional Music Archive, introduces us to a wonderful project connecting artists with archival song, music and dance collections and the new art it has inspired.
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