Summer news and opportunities
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Folúntais / Job vacancies
Tá muid ag glacadh le hiarratais ar dhá phost lonnaithe in Acadamh Ríoga na héireann:
Dáta deiridh: 26ú Iúil 2024
We seek applications for two roles based at the Royal Irish Academy:
Closing date: 26 July 2024
Knowth - coming soon!
This forthcoming publication?is both a guide that visitors can use to navigate their way around the megalithic passage tombs at Knowth (Co. Meath), as well as a book through which readers anywhere in the world can get a feel for the site,?its archaeology and history.
Commemorations Bursary Scheme open for applications
This new RIA grant scheme, funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media , has been established to encourage and support new local research and local history studies relating to the commemoration of events associated with the early years of the State as well as other significant historical anniversaries, events and themes across the island of Ireland. The closing date for applications is Friday, 9 August at 5pm.
Upcoming events
Northerners not welcome?
On Thursday, 11 July at 12.30pm,?editor Mark Hennessy will chair a panel discussion?in the Royal Irish Academy?to explore?the experiences of Northerners working and living south of the border with guests Una O'Neill, Karyn Harty and Malachai O'Hara.?
This event is in association with ARINS and The Irish Times .?
Webinar on RIA Membership application process?
On Tuesday,?23 July at 10:00am, to coincide with the opening of the RIA membership call, we will?host?a webinar outlining the membership nomination process. This session is dedicated to all members of the academic community on the island of Ireland, who are curious about the work of the RIA and would like to understand and engage with the admission process at some stage of their academic career.
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Latest blogs
Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB)
Eoin Kinsella revisits the Irish army’s historic successes in international showjumping.
This month’s DIB blog is a guest contribution from Emily Hurley, an undergraduate student from Carlow College, St Patrick's , in which she reflects on official attitudes towards women in twentieth-century Ireland.
RIA Library
The latest Library blog 'OS200: Spotlight on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey maps' is the first in a series that marks 200 years since the first Ordnance Survey of Ireland. As home to a significant Ordnance Survey Archive, the RIA Library is pleased to be a partner in the OS200 research project.
Members' Research Series
This year marks twenty years since the RIA Gold Medals were established?to acclaim Ireland’s foremost thinkers in the humanities, social sciences, and across the fields of science. In recognition of this important milestone, past RIA Gold Medals recipients have contributed blogs focusing on their research to our Members' Research Series.
Our latest contributions include: John Dillon MRIA, Regius Professor of Greek (Emeritus), Trinity College Dublin , he was awarded the RIA Gold Medal in the Humanities in 2005.?Although by training a Classical scholar rather than a philosopher,?Professor Dillon's research interests on the philosophy of Plato and the development of the Platonic tradition.
Mary E. Daly MRIA, professor emeritus of Irish History at University College Dublin , was awarded the RIA Gold Medal in the Humanities in 2020. Her blog reflects on the research question that guide much of her work, in particular: what features of Ireland’s history are exceptional?
Other news
News from ARINS
Digital Repository of Ireland updates
The finalists for the prestigious Digital Preservation Award 2024 for Research and Innovation, proudly sponsored by the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), have been announced! Four innovative and impressive initiatives are being recognised for their achievements.
Three new collections have been published in the DRI Repository by DRI members Clare County Archives, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, and the 2024 DRI Community Archive Scheme Winner, Folklore.ie. Folklore.ie's collection 'A Bird in the House, God Bless Her'?is the first collection in the Repository that specifically focuses on the culture and experiences of the Traveller (Mincéirí) community. Explore all the collections in the DRI Repository
Image credits:
Cover image: The Meeting Room of the RIA.
1.?Job vacancy icon.
2.?Knowth book cover by RIA Publications.
3. Graffiti on a door in the Custom House recorded following its destruction on 25 May 1921. ? Photographic Archive, National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland.
4.?Pictured (left-right): Malachai O'Hara (Leader of the Green Party Northern Ireland,?a Senator in the Oireachtas and Belfast native);?Karyn Harty (Partner at Dentons Ireland and?native of Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim); Una O'Neill (Derry-born GP partner at Mercer's Medical Centre);?Mark Hennessey (Britain and Ireland editor at The Irish Times).
5. Exterior of the RIA at 19 Dawson Street.
8. Winifred Carney. Illustration by David Rooney from '1916 portraits and lives', Royal Irish Academy, 2015. Limited edition prints available at https://www.ria.ie/1916-portraits-and-lives
9.?RIA Gold Medals designs.
10. ARINS design.
11.?New collection graphic supplied by the DRI.