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Modelling and Contextualising Ireland's Earliest Burials: geophysical and geomorphological surveys.
In 2001 in advance of a pipeline scheme, two or possibly three cremations in pits dating to the Early Mesolithic period were excavated at Hermitage, near Castleconnell, Co Limerick.
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John Hughes Monument to William Gladstone
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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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RICHARD JOHN USSHER, MRIA, 1841-1913, was a speleologist, ornithologist and the main author of Ussher & Warren, The birds of Ireland (Dublin and London, 1900). Ussher was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1906. He bequeathed his books, papers and correspondence on natural...
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Languages of Forgetting: Multilingual Responses to the Irish Civil War (1922-1923)
This project aimed to generate public and academic debate around multilingual responses to the Irish Civil War (1922-1923) through three separate research activities.
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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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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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1923, Decoration.
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World Heritage Tentative List Climate Risk Scoping Study
This report documents the work undertaken in phase one of the World Heritage Tentative List Climate Risk Scoping Study.
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The winners of the 2019 US-Ireland Research Innovation Awards were announced on Friday 17 May at the American Chamber of Commerce annual dinner.
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Archaeological Archives Research Grants 2024
Please click download to view a list of the Archaeological Archives Research Grants awarded for 2024. Individual reports will be published here in 2025.
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by Terence Brown.
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Annual Review 2007-2008
The Royal Irish Academy's annual review for 2007-2008.
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The Royal Irish Academy in association with Queen's University Belfast offers radiocarbon dating for up to twelve applicants per annum to be used for the purposes of archaeological research in Ireland. A minimum of two out of the twelve radiocarbon dates offered are exclusively allocated to...
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We completed the prelims to DIFP IX, checked the index and gave the text of the volume a final once over. By the end of September DIFP IX was almost ready for print.
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Awarded €1833. Report not available yet.
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Exercise Book - Knowth Mace Head
This blank, unlined copybook pictures an archaeological drawing of the 5000 year-old ceremonial flint macehead, discovered in the burial ground of Knowth, Co. Meath, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Archaeological excavations began a Knowth in...
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