October 2024
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Hallowe’en blog: ‘Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, the mummy, the wicked surgeon and the headless corpse’
Read about evidence uncovered in the Royal Irish Academy Library regarding Joseph?Sheridan Le Fanu’s early life in the Phoenix Park, his childhood reading material and how it may have influenced his ghost stories. ?
'The Irish art of calligraphy: a step-by-step guide' by Timothy O'Neill is out now!?
Have you ever wanted to try your hand at calligraphy? Delve into Ireland’s artistic past and, with guidance from a master calligrapher, learn how to write your own letters in a matter of hours.? ?
Conference report:?‘Exploring climate change and culture and heritage’
The Climate Change and Environmental Sciences Committee has released a report of proceedings from the ‘Exploring climate change and culture and heritage’ conference held in the Royal Irish Academy in June 2023. The document contains summaries of the keynote papers and case studies presented on the day, as well as a summary of the conclusions and recommendations captured during the conference’s closing discussion. ?
Upcoming Events
‘The world in 2025: elections and their consequences’ —the UK general?election
Join us for part two of our?event series examining the results of several significant elections (EU, UK and US) taking place in 2024, with a view to exploring their implications for 2025 and beyond.
Date:?Monday, 11?November
Time:?13.00 - 2.30?p.m.
Discourse Series: ‘AI and genomics: a future of personalised medical care?’
Join us as Professor?Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Professor of Medical and Family Sociology and Co-Head of the Centre for Biomedicine at the University of Edinburgh, discusses how Artificial Intelligence?is transforming predictive genomics, offering a glimpse into the future of personalised healthcare.
Date:?Tuesday, 26?November
Time:?6.00 - 7.30?p.m.
‘“Enemies of promise”? Academic publishing in a changing public sphere’
A half-day symposium examining the implications of the numerous changes in the world of academic publishing today.?Across two presentation sessions and a Q&A panel, this event will explore the relationship of—and dynamics between—authors, publishers, university libraries and a wider academically informed readership. Both sessions will address academic production; the first will focus on books, while the second will relate to academic articles and journals.
Date: Thursday, 7?November
Time:?12.00 - 5:30 p.m.
Research Day 2024
Drawing on the Royal Irish Academy's?internationally renowned research programmes and higher education policy initiatives, this year’s Research Day offers insights into the use of national and international collaborations to shape policy, and the blending of cutting-edge technology with established scholarship to transform the ways we preserve, understand and share Ireland’s rich linguistic, historical and cultural heritage.
Date:?Tuesday, 19?November
Time:?8.45 a.m. - 4.15?p.m.
Digital Repository Ireland: Creating Inclusive Digital Collections
Join our?online training event to learn about inclusive approaches to describing digital cultural heritage collections.?The event is aimed at digital archivists, cultural heritage professionals, community archivists, curators, librarians and all those interested in learning more about enriching archives through community engagement methodologies, participatory practices and inclusive strategies. ?
Date: Tuesday, 26?November Time:?3.00 p.m.
Judith Gillespie in conversation with Richard English
The ARINS ‘Conversations on Britishness and Irishness’ series continues on 12 November at 12.30p.m., with Judith Gillespie in conversation with Richard English. Gillespie served as a police officer in Northern Ireland for 32 years, making history by becoming the first woman in RUC/PSNI to become an Assistant Chief Constable in 2004.
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Date:?Tuesday, 12?November
Time:?12.30?p.m.
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Latest News
Members Research Series
Our latest blog is by Samson Shatashvili MRIA. Professor Shatashvili’s research has recently established the deep connection between two major aspects of mathematics and theoretical physics: supersymmetric quantum field theories and quantum integrable systems. This discovery has multiple applications—both in pure mathematics and mathematical physics—and at present is a highly active area of research worldwide.
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Recent podcasts and audio recordings
The latest podcasts and audio recordings from the Royal Irish Academy.
Listen:?‘Three Castles Burning’ podcast featuring ‘Irish food history’ Donal Fallon's 'Three Castles Burning' podcast with 'Irish food history' editors Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire and Dorothy Cashman, recorded with a live audience at the Royal Irish Academy as part of the Dublin Festival of History.
In this month's ARINS podcast, host Rory Montgomery discusses the paper 'Beyond unionism and nationalism: do the “neithers” want a border poll and a United Ireland?' with one of its authors, Jon Tonge, professor of Politics at the University of Liverpool.?
You can now listen to the panel discussion on the consequences of the European Parliament elections that took place on 24 September 2024.
Watch now: recent videos from the Royal Irish Academy.
'Tracking a plant killer: historical and scientific reflections on the Irish famine pathogen.'
In case you missed it, you can now watch Professor Jean Ristaino's fascinating lecture, 'Tracking a Plant Killer: Historical and Scientific Reflections on the Irish Famine Pathogen.' The talk traces the evolution of scientific thinking about the underlying causes of late blight before delving into Professor Ristaino’s own research journey, which culminated in the genome sequencing of historic plant DNA to establish where the pathogen that caused the potato blight originated.
RIA Library and the OG(H)AM project
Four manuscripts from the RIA Library collection feature in a new video about the Maynooth University and University of Glasgow research project: OG(H)AM. While ogham script is more commonly associated with stone carvings, you can listen to Dr Deborah Hayden introduce some fascinating examples of manuscript ogham in the Stowe Missal, the Book of Ballymote and other manuscripts in our collection.
RIA Library loan to the 'Murmur of bees' exhibition
Our copy of ‘Instructions for managing bees’ (1733) featured in a new video by the National Museum of Ireland-County Life, which highlights how bees influence the world around us—from natural history and the environment to folklore and artworks.This item from the Haliday Pamphlet collection is the first published book on beekeeping in Ireland and is currently on display in the National Museum of Ireland in Castlebar, Co. Mayo as part of the ‘Murmur of Bees’ exhibition.
Image credits:
1.'Tracking a plant killer: historical and scientific reflections on the Irish famine pathogen.' (Royal Irish Academy, 2024)
2. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (National Gallery of Ireland)
3. 'The Irish Art of Calligraphy: a Step-By-Step Guide' (Royal Irish Academy, 2024)
4. 'Exploring Climate Change and Culture and Heritage Conference' Report (Royal Irish Academy, 2024)
5. 'Elections and their Consequences' (Royal Irish Academy, 2024)
6. Discourse Series design (Royal Irish Academy, 2023)
7. 'Enemies of Promise? Academic Publishing in a Changing Public Sphere' (Royal Irish Academy, 2024)
8. Research Day (Royal Irish Academy)
9. Digital Repository Ireland: 'Creating Inclusive Digital Collections' (Royal Irish Academy, design by Fidelma Slattery)
10. ARINs artwork (Royal Irish Academy, design by Fidelma Slattery)
11. An Post Collection (Digital Repository of Ireland, 2024)
12. 'Irish food history: a companion' (Royal Irish Academy, 2024)
Art Historian and Academic Editor
1 个月Just bought a signed copy of The Irish Art of Calligraphy by Timothy O’Neill for my husband and he’s delighted with it.