Spring News and Events

Spring News and Events


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Elizabeth Shee Twohig, Newgrange, Co. Meath. Elizabeth worked on M.J. O’Kelly’s excavations at Newgrange in the 1960s.

Archaeology Grants schemes

Together with the National Monuments Service?and Historic Environment Division NI, the Royal Irish Academy recently opened applications for the Archaeology Research Grants, Archaeological Research for World Heritage Sites and Archaeology Radiocarbon dates schemes. Applications for all three schemes are welcomed until?Thursday, 30?March 2023.?See here

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Drama Group 1926 Carrickmacross, Monaghan. Image courtesy of Monaghan County Museum.

Decade of Centenaries bursary scheme

The RIA has opened this?scheme once again as part of the commemorative programme for the final year of the Decade of Centenaries, supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. This scheme?encourages and supports new local research and?history studies focusing?on?the Struggle for Independence and Civil War period.?Applications are welcomed until?Wednesday, 5 April 2023.?See here

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Kevin B. Nowlan (1921-2013) was a Dublin-born scholar and Member of the RIA who taught history at University College Dublin, 1948-1986. Professor Nowlan left a generous bequest to the Academy which has funded The Kevin B. Nowlan Digitisation Grant scheme.

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.?

Read more here

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Call for papers - 'Human (in)security in an unsettled world'

The RIA annual International Affairs Conference?will take place on 2 May 2023. Proposals are invited for papers on all aspects of global (in)security from early career researchers and scholars in all academic disciplines, as well as current and retired practitioners in foreign policy, international development, government, NGOs and civil society by?Wednesday, 8 March.?Read more and apply

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L-R: Dr Kate O’Malley (Assistant Editor, DIFP); Ms Orlaith McBride (Director, National Archives); Dr Michael Kennedy (Executive Editor, DIFP); An Tánaiste, Micheál Martin TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Dr Mary Canning (President, RIA); Dr John Gibney (Assistant Editor, DIFP); Prof. Bernadette Whelan MRIA; and Mr John Paul Kavanagh (DFA), pictured at the launch of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Vol. XIII in Iveagh House, Dublin, 21 February 2023 (Image credit: Phil Behan/DFA).

DIFP Vol. XIII launched

?The thirteenth and latest volume in the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series was?recently launched?in Iveagh House by Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin T.D.

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Vol. XIII: 1965-1969?covers significant changes in the international context in which Ireland conducted its foreign policy including Ireland’s ongoing efforts to join the European Economic Community and closer to home, the beginning of the ‘Troubles’.?

??Available now from our bookstore

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Enrico Dal Lago MRIA

Members Research Series

Our latest?Members Research blog ?features Enrico Dal Lago, Member of the RIA, established professor of history at the University of Galway and a recipient of the D.Litt. on published work in history awarded by the National University of Ireland. Professor Dal Lago’s research looks at the comparative history of the nineteenth-century Americas and Europe - particularly the United States in the era of the American civil war and Italy in the age of Italian national unification.

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Irish scholar Tomás ó Máille (1880-1938) was elected as a Member of the RIA in 1911.

Library Lunchtime Lecture: 'Vivid Voices: Tomás ó Máille and Sound Recording in the Modern Irish State'

Dr Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, New York University will speak about Professor?Tomás ó Máille’s contribution to Ireland's audio heritage on?Tuesday, 14 March at 1pm?in the Royal Irish Academy. Free lecture, in-person only. No booking required.?See details

This lecture coincides with a new bilingual exhibition?'Culture & Citizenship: Tomás ó Máille' ?at the RIA which?focuses on the Irish scholar's recordings of folklore, song, and dialects of Irish speakers to shed new light on the history of the Irish language.?Open?Monday - Friday, 10am-5pm until 21 April 2023.

No booking required.

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Academy Discourse: Why are there so few women political leaders?

Join us at the Royal Irish Academy or online on?Thursday, 30 March?at 6pm?for a panel discussion which?will explore the challenges confronting women leaders and the advantages to society of having more women in leadership positions. Broadcaster áine Lawlor will moderate this discussion, with panellists?Baroness Ruth Davidson, Professor Yvonne Galligan, former president of Finland?Tarja Halonen and Professor Emerita Monica McWilliams.?Book now

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