April 2024
Royal Irish Academy
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Young Academy Ireland Strategic Plan 2024-28
The Young Academy Ireland (YAI) marked its first anniversary earlier this week with the unveiling of its?strategic plan which sets out the YAI mission and ‘grand challenges’ for the years 2024–28. It establishes the priorities of YAI and outlines the contribution that YAI members aim to make to the research and cultural life of the island of Ireland. Read?and download the YAI's Strategic Plan 2024-28 in English or Irish
2025 RIA Gold Medals: call for nominations
In 2025, the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) will award two Gold Medals: one in the Humanities and one in the Life and Medical 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, 4 June 2024 at 5pm. Further information on the awards' criteria, nomination and assessment procedures?are available on the RIA website.
Upcoming Events
ARINS My Identity conversation with Ben Lowry
The 'My Identity'?conversation series is an initiative of the ARINS project. The?series seeks to understand the diverse identities and traditions on the island of Ireland and how they are understood, felt, expressed and promoted. As part of this?series, Ben Lowry, editor of the News Letter will be interviewed by Colin Graham, Maynooth University on Monday, 29 April at 12.30pm?in the Royal Irish Academy. Book?tickets online
Irish Persistent Identifier Roadmap events
During May and June 2024, the National Open Research Forum ?based at the Digital Repository of Ireland and the MoreBrains Cooperative will present?a series of virtual and in-person community events to share updates on the Irish Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) Roadmap Project. Browse?the upcoming PID events and book tickets
Early Modern Book Collections lectures
The RIA Historical Studies Committee and RIA Library are hosting?lunchtime lectures on Wednesday, 8 May and Wednesday, 15 May, 1-2pm?on the topic of early modern book collections. The speakers will elaborate on the subjects of early modern libraries, private collections and caring for early modern collections in the 21st century.?Book?tickets online
Discourse Series: The future of the EU: Bigger and Better?
We live in turbulent times. The future feels less certain, war has returned to the European continent and the face of democracy is changing. In these troubled times, the European Union is grappling with its place in the world, security and defence, climate ambition and competitiveness. Join us in the Royal Irish Academy on Thursday, 23 May at 6pm?for a conversation between Mairead McGuinness (European Commissioner for financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union, 2020-24) and broadcaster Olivia O’Leary MRIA. Reserve a place at this upcoming Discourse
Publications News
Death in Irish prehistory talk
Author of Death in Irish prehistory, Gabriel Cooney will be giving a talk at the Féile Na Bealtaine festival in Dingle, Co Kerry on Friday, 3 May at 4pm.
Death in Irish prehistory?is a RIA publication which explores life and death over 8,500 years in Ireland. Available to order from the RIA?website
Cork/Corcaigh - coming soon!
The emergence of Cork from a monastic settlement on a marshland site through to the thriving city we know today is explained in Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 31, Cork/Corcaigh?by H.B. Clarke MRIA and Máire Ní Laoi. Priced at €50, this thoroughly researched text is illustrated with newly created thematic maps, early views and photographs. It is available exclusively from the RIA website from 3 May or to pre-order now
Grants News
Nowlan Digitisation Grant funded project
The Irish Stone Axe Project: Digital Collection has been made publicly available through the Digital Repository of Ireland , under the RIA's Nowlan Digitisation Grants scheme.?The project was led by Gabriel Cooney MRIA, Emeritus Full Professor of Celtic Archaeology at University College Dublin , with assistance from The Discovery Programme . Read more and explore the collection
Archaeological Research Excavation Grants project
The footage of RIA Archaeological Research Excavation Grants scheme recipient Nial O'Neill's recent research-led archaeological excavation surrounding Ballymoon Castle in?County Carlow is available to?watch above on the RIA's YouTube channel.
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2024 Charlemont Grants announced
Fourteen early career researchers have been granted funding?under the RIA's annual Charlemont Grants scheme which?facilitates short international visits from Ireland for the conduct of primary research in any subject area. Read about the 2024 Charlemont Grants scheme awardees
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News from our Library
RIA Library recently received funding from The Heritage Council as part of the Heritage Stewardship Fund for their project ‘The Birds of Ireland: Curating the Richard J. Ussher Collection at the Royal Irish Academy’. This project will enable the long-term preservation, access, and discovery of material from the Ussher Bird Notes Collection through a programme of archival cataloguing, digitisation and outreach. Read more about the project
New collections in the Digital Repository of Ireland
South East Technological University (SETU) has published the Roses from the Heart collection in the Digital Repository of Ireland . This collection preserves material remembering 25,566 women sentenced to transportation as convicts from Ireland and the UK to Australia and Tasmania (formerly named Van Diemen’s Land) between 1788-1853.
The?Women's Stories collection contains oral histories gathered by the local history charity Cuimhneamh an Chláir/Clare Memories, focusing on women's stories.
Blogs and podcasts
Watch back: recent events via YouTube
Image credits:
Cover image: The Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2
1. Pictured (left to right) YAI Executive Committee Members: Niamh Wycherley; Emma Farrell; Declan O’Loughlin; Karina Doorley.
2. Royal Irish Academy Gold Medals branding.
3. Pictured (left to right) Ben Lowry, editor of the News Letter; Colin Graham, Maynooth University.
4. An engagement event graphic supplied by the Digital Repository of Ireland.
5. Stock photo of antiquarian books on library shelves.
6.?Discourse Series logo.
7. An?illustration by Conor McHale from Death in Irish prehistory by Gabriel Cooney.
8. 19th century watercolour of Old St Finbarr's and Elizabeth Fort, 1796 Fitzgerald (Crawford Art Gallery, Cork) which appears on the Cork/Corcaigh book cover.
9. Photograph of face 1 of stone axe (ISAP 00522) Drumakeely, County Antrim, from the National Museum of Ireland (NMI 1915:25). Copyright The Irish Stone Axe Project, University College Dublin.
10. Ferdinand Levy pictured with a portrait of himself done by Louis le Brocquy. Image from Dr. Karl O’Hanlon's project titled 'Mid-Century Migrant Poetry Ireland' which was funded by the 2023 Charlemont Grant scheme.
11.?Ussher Bird Notes Collection, Library of the Royal Irish Academy.
12. Bonnet created for Mary Moore a native of Waterford who was transported on 29 Nov 1837 on board the ship Diamond to New South Wales.
Hearne, Betty. (2024) Mary Moore (1838), Digital Repository of Ireland [Distributor], South East Technological University [Depositing Institution], https://doi.org/10.7486/DRI.rj43d0143