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A book that is timely and timeless: renowned journalist Olivia O'Leary launched our latest publication on 22 November.
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The latest Library Blog post highlights the works of artist Sarah Purser at Academy House.
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Paul Giller, Zoologist and Ecologist, was admitted to the Royal Irish Academy on 25 May 2018.
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Frances Ruane gave the first masterclass in our Women in Leadership Series, which sees outstanding women leaders share their experiences with the next generation of female leaders to inspire, motivate and mentor.
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Watch an interview and full discourse with Professor Chris Bean in which he discusses predictability and uncertainty in forecasting volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, landslides.
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The winner of the inaugural Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction is Breandán Mac Suibhne for his book The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland
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Nominations are now being welcomed for the 2019 Balzan Prizes
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As part of the current RIA lunchtime series ‘Sisters’, Dr Margaret Ward today delivers her lecture ‘“A precious boon” in difficult times – Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and her sisters’ at Academy House. To accompany that event here is the Dictionary of Irish Biography’s entry on...
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John O'Keefe, a Nobel Prize-winning cognitive neuroscientist, was admitted as an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy on 24 May 2019.
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Annual prize celebrating contributions of early career researchers to the involvement of scientific data stewardship through their (1) engagement with the community, (2) academic achievements, and (3) innovations.
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The Royal Irish Academy recently held a workshop on Cultural Heritage, Creativity and Education to mark the launch of the Academy’s Culture and Heritage Working Group’s discussion papers on creativity.
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For this weekend's All-Ireland camogie final we are revisiting the life of Kathleen 'Kay' Mills who won fifteen All-Ireland senior medals. Read her entry below by Mary Moran.
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Read an extract from our new centenary history of Irish foreign policy, Ireland: a voice among the nations .
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Thank you to Nancy Hurrell, our guest writer for this month's Library Blog post.
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Pioneering motorist Fay Taylour joins the DIB in our latest batch of 'missing persons'. Born in Offaly in 1904, she won multiple major motorcycle and car racing titles against both male and female competitors.
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This report provides key recommendations to make digital data in the humanities “Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable”
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The last RIA Library blog post by Siobhán Fitzpatrick, who retires this week, was on The First Seanad Éireann . To complement it we are publishing below the DIB entry on Jennie Wyse Power (1858–1941), nationalist and suffragist, one of the first four women elected...
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Selected by Dr Joseph Flahive of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources , John Scottus Eriugena was a prolific medieval scholar of Latin and Greek, 'rediscovered' in the nineteenth century. His biography is presented here as part of our ‘Favourite DIB lives’ series...
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In the third IHTA town type essay, Michael Potterton, Irish Historic Towns Atlas editor and Maynooth University lecturer, focuses on the buildling boom of Irish towns from the twelth to fourteenth centuries.
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A new report by the European Academies of Science and Medicine on Regenerative Medicine calls upon European lawmakers to protect biomedical science from false claims.
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With so many holiday plans on hold this summer, the DIB has compiled a selection of intrepid explorers we can accompany on their exciting travels. We start the series with Lady Heath, the first woman to complete a solo flight from South Africa to England.
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After the Second World War Irish diplomats began to consider new ways of representing Ireland overseas; a conscious commitment to 'cultural diplomacy' was the outcome.
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Explore the concept of sea-creatures mentioned in medieval Irish literature in the first episode of Spreading the Words.
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We continue our series on alcohol in the DIB with famed temperance crusader Theobald Mathew.
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Professor James-Chakraborty’s scholarship addresses the connections between buildings and the societies that erect them.
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