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Research Begins On Documents On Irish Foreign Policy Volume X
Saturday, 31 January 2015DIFP is now in a ‘research year’ for DIFP volume X. This volume will run from 1951 to 1957 and so take in the 1951-4 Fianna Fáil government with Frank Aiken in his first term as Minister and the 1954-7 Second Inter-...
Academy Gold Medal Ceremony 2014
Tuesday, 27 January 2015Minister Jan O’Sullivan presented the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medals to the Philosopher Professor Desmond Clarke and Theoretical Physicist Werner Nahm on Tuesday 27 January 2015 in recognition of their outstanding...
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: The Plough and the Stars
Saturday, 24 January 2015The Plough and the Stars by Seán O’Casey, 1926
Art and Architecture of Ireland reviewed in the Irish Times
Saturday, 17 January 2015The Royal Irish Academy’s Art and Architecture of Ireland project took 6 years to complete, contains over 2 million words, 3,000 pages and 1,600 years of culture.
The Making of the Art and Architecture of Ireland
Friday, 16 January 2015How do you put together a five volume work, with ten editors and over 270 external contributors? A project that contains over 3 million words, 3,000 pages and 3,500 images?
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: Harry Clarke's Eve of St Agnes
Saturday, 10 January 2015Harry Clarke’s Eve of St Agnes 1924
Seamus Heaney on the DIB
Saturday, 10 January 2015Address by Seamus Heaney at the launch in Belfast on 16 December 2009 of the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography (9 vols and online, Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Philosophy to be taught for the Junior Cert
Tuesday, 6 January 2015WHAT’S THE MEANING of life? Is our universe real? Do we have free will? These are just some of the questions that Irish teenagers could be contemplating in 2017, when a philosophy course is set to be introduced into the...
Work begins on DIFP X
Thursday, 25 December 2014In preparation for work on DIFP X, which will run from 1951 to 1957, Kate and Michael reviewed Cabinet minutes for the period and began to set the forthcoming research year for the volume in motion.