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This new EASAC commentary entitled 'How can science help to guide the European Union’s green recovery after COVID-19?' discusses how science can help to guide the European Union’s green recovery after COVID-19.
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In this month's Library Blog post Dr. Ciaran McDonough looks at the James Hardiman papers and how letters can be so valuable when writing historical biographies.
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The Academy has been invited to submit one or more candidates for the 2021 Wolf Prize.
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The Royal Irish Academy, Ireland’s leading body of experts in the sciences and humanities, has convened an online workshop series curated by the Academy’s Vice- President, Daniel Carey, MRIA, NUIG to address the vital questions raised by the Covid-19 pandemic. Watch our latest webinars.
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An online exhibition featuring nine antiquarian artists and their work spanning more than 140 years. The drawings - mainly watercolours and sketches in ink or pencil – depict Irish landscapes and buildings and objects of archaeological and architectural interest.
A new online exhibition...
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There are many paper records from the nineteenth century containing handwritten weather observations from various sites around Ireland. Finding these records and rescuing the data from them is not an easy task but could prove more useful than you might expect.
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Book of Fenagh 500th anniversary online exhibition
An exhibition celebrating the 500th anniversary of the making of the Book of Fenagh.
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A word dear to Seamus Heaney, how does 'dulse' feature in medieval Irish law, literature and medicine?
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Find out in today's episode of Spreading the Words, a new podcast by the authors of A history of Ireland in 100 words .
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To complement the Irish Historic Towns Atlas Online series we are producing short essays by experts on particular town types.
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In the first of a three-part series on public health and infectious disease, we introduce the biographies of doctor John Crawford (1746–1813) and bacteriologist Adrian Stokes (1887–1927), key figures in understanding the transmission of, and developing early treatment for, yellow fever.
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The issue, edited by Mary Kelly-Quinn, features a selection of papers originally presented at Ireland’s first National Biodiversity Conference, ‘New Horizons for Nature’, which was held in February 2019 and hosted by the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Irish Forum on Natural Capital.
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This new ALLEA book examines the lives and achievements of women who played determining roles in the history of European academies and in the development of modern science in Europe, including in Ireland
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