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A conversation with Michel Déon Prize winner
On Thursday 20 April, we had the pleasure of welcoming the 2021?Michel Déon Prize?winner Fran?ois Cérésa to the Royal Irish Academy for a conversation with Mary Gallagher MRIA, introduced by author Chantal Thomas.
Dictionary of Irish Biography News
In April the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) published?40 new entries?including a mix of contemporary figures, ‘missing persons’, specially commissioned biographies for their recently published book,?Irish Sporting Lives,?and five fascinating early modern women.
The DIB recently hosted a workshop in the Royal Irish Academy, which examined ways in which early modern women might be better represented within their corpus. The workshop was the latest step in an ongoing collaboration between the DIB and scholars of early modern Ireland.
2024 RIA Gold Medals: call for nominations
In 2024, the Royal Irish Academy will present two Gold Medals, one in the Engineering Sciences and one?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. See details on how to nominate here
News from our Library
In the latest Library Blog post,?'On the importance of preserving lantern slide collections'?Rebecca Cairns explores the photographic collection of Robert Lloyd Praeger (1865-1953) at the Royal Irish Academy.
New images from the RIA Library’s Gabriel Beranger collection of eighteenth-century watercolour drawings are now preserved digitally in the Digital Repository of Ireland and Watercolour World.?View here
Members Research Series
Our latest?Members Research blog?features Tadhg O hAnnrachain MRIA, professor of history and former head of the School of History at University College Dublin . Professor ó hAnnracháin’s research into the religious culture of Early Modern Europe explores how Irish events and processes can illuminate and provide fresh perspectives on the wider history of the European reformations.
Grangegorman?Histories
Grangegorman Histories?is now in its fourth year of activities. Their new?Implementation Plan?for the period 2022-2025 has just been announced and it includes many more activities that will engage with the history of the site.
As part of their Implementation Plan,?Grangegorman Histories?commit to supporting academic research and are calling researchers in the areas of history, design, architecture or cognate disciplines to apply for a?fully-funded PhD?on the histories of the Grangegorman site and society, 1770-2012.
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Digital Repository of Ireland News
The DRI is very pleased to share a guest blog 'Honest Conversations that Bring Women Researchers Closer'?by Dr Arjumand Younus and Dr Valesca Lima discussing important advocacy work of Women in Research Ireland (WIRI). This collaboration is one of many threads informing the DRI's Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion policy work.
The DRI?has welcomed?Roscommon County Council?as their latest member. The library holds and manages local history and primary source material related to the county of Roscommon, which is not available in any other library or archive.
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Human (in)security in an unsettled world
The RIA's annual International Affairs Conference, kindly supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ireland , will take place on?Tuesday, 2 May, 9.30am-5pm?in the Royal Irish Academy. View the programme and register here
Discourse Series:?Philip Nolan MRIA
Join us for?'There’s so much to know': Post-pandemic reflections on the human thirst for knowledge and its value and utility?by Philip Nolan MRIA, Director-General of Research Ireland on?Wednesday, 10 May at 6pm?at the Royal Irish Academy. Hannah McGee MRIA, Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) , will be the Respondent for this Discourse.
Library lunchtime lecture
The next RIA Library lunchtime lecture?'Ireland’s stamps and changing national image'?by Stephen Ferguson, An Post Archivist and Museum Curator, will take place on?Wednesday, 17 May at 1pm. Book now
Exploring climate change and culture and heritage
A?conference, which will explore the solutions needed to protect Ireland's culture and heritage from the impacts of climate change, will take place at the Royal Irish Academy on?Thursday, 1 June, 10am-4:30pm. Book now
Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge
Beidh comhdháil idirnáisiúnta ar siúl in Acadamh Ríoga na héireann ar an?8ú agus 9ú lá de Mheitheamh?ina bpléifear na teangacha Gaelacha in éirinn, in Albain agus ar Oileán Mhanann, faoi choimirce Fhoclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge agus Choiste Léann na Gaeilge agus an Léinn Cheiltigh. Is féidir clárú anseo
The Asylum Workshop
A documentary drama written by Colin Murphy, featuring the final-year drama students of the Technological University Dublin Conservatoire, is coming back for 11 performances from?14 to 24 June. Tickets: €20 full price / €15 concession (students/OAPS). Book now