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How linguistics can help the historian: Part I
Thursday, 7 May 2020A weekly series for an interdisciplinary, non-specialist readership in which the editor of the Academy's Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources outlines how insights from linguistics can help the historian.
IHTA Town Type Series: Viking Towns
Wednesday, 6 May 2020As part of IHTA Online, Howard Clarke, MRIA and editor of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, explores the traditional Irish Viking towns and other towns associated with them.
Favourite DIB lives: John Scottus Eriugena, medieval scholar
Wednesday, 6 May 2020Selected by Dr Joseph Flahive of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources, John Scottus Eriugena was a prolific medieval scholar of Latin and Greek, 'rediscovered' in the nineteenth century. His biography is...
Climate, food and health: Critical policy choices in the post-Covid 19 world
Wednesday, 6 May 2020Charting an economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic will involve difficult choices and trade-offs. Finding the right balance between measures to kick start the economy and policies which require time to deliver...
Call for experts for InterAcademy Partnership COVID-19 Advisory Committee
Tuesday, 5 May 2020The IAP are looking for a pool of experts to provide science-based responses to the myriads of doubts and queries that have arisen, and will continue to arise, in many countries.
Favourite DIB lives: Ernest Shackleton, explorer
Tuesday, 5 May 2020Selected by Dr Juliana Adelman of DCU, and introduced by Kevin Kenny (Shackleton Autumn School) and Professor Jim McAdam (Shackleton Scholarship Committee), Ernest Shackleton had a gift for coping with crisis and...
RDA COVID-19 Guidelines and Recommendations: 2nd release
Friday, 1 May 2020The Research Data Alliance has published the 2nd release of the RDA COVID-19 Working Group Recommendations and Guidelines.
Newly-digitised Dáil Éireann records preserved in DRI
Friday, 1 May 2020New collection of documents from the Irish revolutionary period (1918-1923) has been digitally preserved in the Digital Repository of Ireland.
Acht ós cinneamhaint dom imtheacht ‘mo dhíorfach... (Since I am fated to become a hermit…)
Friday, 1 May 2020Dr Charles Dillon of the Academy’s Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge considers hermits, hermitage and the lonely life as manifested in Irish literature and language over the centuries.
Favourite DIB lives: James Deeny, medical doctor and public health official
Friday, 1 May 2020Selected by the DIB's Turlough O'Riordan, doctor James Deeny was a leading public health figure in Ireland, and internationally, with the World Health Organisation. Widely respected for his scientifically rigorous...