Blogs

Adapting to a changing climate: How can we build resilience?

We must build resilience to a range of challenges, including that of climate change. Individuals play a critical role in our combined path to a…

A colourful collaboration

Library Blog post. The Royal Irish Academy Library recently collaborated with The Watercolour World, an online resource of watercolour paintings from before 1900.

Kathleen James-Chakraborty MRIA: Architectural historian

Professor James-Chakraborty’s scholarship addresses the connections between buildings and the societies that erect them.

‘Flash Fiction’ i bhFoclóir Mháirtín Uí Chadhain

San fhoclóir a réitigh Máirtín Ó Cadhain, is minic féith na scéalaíochta le brath ar na samplaí a bhí aige ar úsáid focal. Tá spléachadh…

Rob Kitchin MRIA: Geographer

Professor Kitchin is a geographer who researches how digital technologies are reshaping urban life and how cities are managed and governed.

Creating sustainable futures through a Circular Economy

Circular pathways our future for regenerative and sustainable living.

Diane Negra MRIA: Film studies and screen culture

At the heart of Professor Negra’s work is a desire to understand how we articulate and challenge collective beliefs, ideals and values through media fictions.

Yvonne Buckley MRIA: Population ecologist

Professor Buckley’s research deals with the ups and downs of populations as a population ecologist, looking at the natural world through a lens of numbers.