April 2023
Royal Irish Academy
Ireland's leading body of experts in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. Reg Charity No 20003524
Annual Review 2022
The 2022 Annual Review of the Royal Irish Academy is available now to view and download?here
New President of the RIA
At their recent Stated General Meeting, the Members of the Royal Irish Academy voted Professor Pat Guiry as their 58th President.
Professor Guiry who is Full Professor of Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Director of the Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology in University College Dublin ,?has been an active Member of the RIA since 2013. He replaces?Dr Mary Canning as President with immediate effect. We thank Dr Canning for her service to the Academy during her three year term.?Read more
Young Academy Ireland first members
The first 40 members of the new?Young Academy Ireland (YAI)?– a network of early career researchers and innovators (ECRIs), were recently announced.
The YAI has been established to promote greater engagement and opportunities for ECRIs. It will encourage?Young Academy members to utilise their expertise and potential to tackle important issues and challenges in society and promote meaningful change. Read more
2024 RIA Gold Medals: call for nominations
In 2024, the Royal Irish Academy will present the Academy Gold Medal in the Engineering Sciences and the Academy Gold Medal in the Social Sciences to individuals who have made a demonstrable and internationally recognised outstanding scholarly contribution in their fields.
The call for nominations?is now open until?Tuesday, 6 June at 5pm.?
2023 RIA Gold Medals
Senator Malcolm Byrne recently presented Jane Ohlmeyer MRIA,?Professor of Modern History, Trinity College Dublin with the 2023 RIA Gold Medal in the Humanities and Jonathan N. Coleman MRIA, Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy in the School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin with the 2023 RIA?Gold Medal in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Read here
Nowlan Digitisation grants scheme open
This RIA scheme is seeking applications from within the discipline of History, to expand the range of digitised historical sources available through open and free access to researchers. Applications close on?Wednesday, 12 April 2023.?
R.J. Hunter Research Bursary scheme open
Thanks to the generous support of Laura Houghton Hunter, the RIA is pleased to open this scheme once again. The scheme provides support for the direct costs for amounts of up to €2,500 for research on?aspects of Ulster History during the period 1500-1800. Applications are welcomed until?Thursday,?13 April 2023.
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Grangegorman Histories: Fully-funded PhD opportunity
Grangegorman Histories is delighted to support a fully-funded PhD on the 'Histories of Grangegorman site and society, 1770-2012' with the School of Media, TU Dublin . This PhD programme will be of interest to researchers in the areas of history, design or architecture, public history and/or histories of architecture, landscape, urban design, visual culture or cognate disciplines. The deadline for applications is 1 July 2023. See here for more information.
Members Research Series
Our latest?Members Research blog?features Kath Browne MRIA who is Professor of Geography at University College Dublin, principal investigator on the European Research Council-funded ‘Beyond opposition’ project and lead researcher on the Horizon Europe project, RESIST.
Professor Browne’s research focuses on creating new understandings of how societies differentiate and create hierarchies and inequalities. She seeks positive social change that recognises that where we are matters to the power relations that re-constitute our lives.
Royal Irish Academy Library
The latest library guest blog 'The RIA Library’s collaboration with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland' by Dr David Brown, Senior Researcher for the Virtual Treasury of Ireland, looks at how the Royal Irish Academy Library is helping to replace historical records destroyed by fire in 1922.
Dublin City Library and Archive (DCLA) have published the Savita Halappanavar Memorial Collection on the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). This collection brings together photographs commissioned by DCLA in May 2018 of the hundreds of personal notes left by the public at the mural of Savita Halappanavar. Read more
Watch: 'Why are there so few women political leaders?'
The livestream recording of our?recent Discourse Series?is available to watch now. This panel discussion explored the challenges confronting women leaders and the advantages to society of having more women in leadership positions.
??Events
Bilingual 'in-conversation' event
Join us in the Royal Irish Academy on?Thursday, 20 April at 6pm?for a conversation with Mary Gallagher MRIA, Professor of French and Francophone Studies at University College Dublin and Fran?ois Cérésa the 2021 winner of the Michel Deón Prize, who will share his perspective and experience as a writer. This event is jointly hosted by the RIA and the French Embassy in Ireland .?Book now
Tomás ó Máille exhibition
Visit the Royal Irish Academy Library to see?'Culture and citizenship'?a bilingual?exhibition which celebrates Irish scholar Tomás ó Máille (1880-1938)?with focus on his recordings of folklore, song, and dialects of Irish speakers. No booking required.?Open?until 21 April 2023, 10am-5pm.
Leabhar Breac Conference?
RIA Library in association with the Department of Early Irish, Maynooth University and the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies are hosting a two-day conference on?27-28 April,?exploring?the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of the Leabhar Breac manuscript. See full programme and booking details?here
Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge: Linguistics of the Gaelic Languages
Comhdháil faoi choimirce Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge agus Coiste Léann na Gaeilge ina gcuirfear teangeolaíocht Ghaeilge na héireann, na hAlban agus Mhanann faoi chaibidil. 8-9 Meitheamh 2023. Féach anseo