Blogs

LGBTQIA+ archival material in the collections of the Royal Irish Academy Library

Professor Sonja Tiernan, Co-ordinator of Irish Humanities Alliance, provides an insightful overview of items from the RIA Library collection relating to LGBTQIA+ history in Ireland.

Sparing the child: the end of corporal punishment in Irish schools (part 1)

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, the mummy, the wicked surgeon and the headless corpse

For the Halloween season, read about one of Ireland’s best ghost story writers, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and what the RIA Library collection can tell…

Samson Shatashvili MRIA, theoretical and mathematical physicist

Professor Shatashvili’s research has recently established the deep connection between two major aspects of mathematics and theoretical physics: supersymmetric quantum field theories and quantum integrable…

The Rebel and the Dame

Dame Louise Richardson is a wonder of contradictions. A leading light at Oxford University whose writing on terrorism has educated policymakers, she grew up singing…

A taste of nightlife in the DIB

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OS200: Spotlight on the Ordnance Survey Memoirs

This blog is the third and final post in a series that marks 200 years since the first Ordnance Survey of Ireland.

Dermot Moran MRIA, philosopher

Professor Moran approaches his research interests in Early Medieval philosophy and twentieth-century European philosophy, especially phenomenology, largely from a historical perspective, exploring how ideas arise…