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Sandra Collins: STEM and Mobility
Friday, 14 November 2014Dr Sandra Collins is the director of the Digital Repository of Ireland, the national trusted digital repository for humanities and social sciences data headquartered in the Royal Irish Academy. She is also a funded...
Donald Fitzmaurice: Time to Build Home-Grown Businesses that Can Compete Globally
Wednesday, 12 November 2014Donald Fitzmaurice is a founder and chief executive officer of Brandtone, a mobile marketing company headquartered in Ireland that conducts campaigns in emerging markets for brands, including Unilever, Syngenta,...
Alan Smeaton: Why Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is Essential for Good STEM Education
Monday, 10 November 2014As a research scientist, it is my duty to keep abreast of developments in my field and I do this by reading newspapers and books, attending and presenting at conferences and other events, and by dialogue and interaction...
DIFP involved in seminar to mark 90 years of formal Irish-American diplomatic relations
Saturday, 25 October 2014Tuesday 7 October 2014 was the 90th anniversary of the formal commencement of Irish-American diplomatic relations, marking the day in 1924 when Prof Timothy A. Smiddy presented his credentials to President Coolidge in...
Hamilton Day 2014
Thursday, 16 October 2014Commemorating the anniversary of William Rowan Hamilton’s historical discovery of the formula for quaternion algerbra, the Academy put together a programme of events on Thursday, 16 October 2014.
DIFP IX almost ready to go to print
Thursday, 25 September 2014We completed the prelims to DIFP IX, checked the index and gave the text of the volume a final once over. By the end of September DIFP IX was almost ready for print.
Future Earth Townhall
Wednesday, 17 September 2014On the 17 September 2014 the Royal Irish Academy hoste the first national Future Earth townhall.
The text of DIFP IX is complete
Monday, 25 August 2014We finally got the introduction and the prelims and endmatter of DIFP IX completed and off for copyediting in the first weeks of August. It was a very time-consuming period as there were a complicated series of...
Writing the introduction to DIFP IX
Friday, 25 July 2014With the body text of DIFP IX finalised our attention turned to writing the introduction to DIFP IX.
An Introduction to Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks
Friday, 27 June 2014This weekend marks the start of the Royal Irish Academy’s collaboration with the Irish Times entitled Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks.