Blogs

Race, crannogs and the end of empire: Lord Dunsany and the Harvard Irish Mission (1932–6)

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Cormac Ó Gráda MRIA, economic historian

Professor Ó Gráda’s solo and collaborative research over a long, and much-enjoyed, career as an economic historian has seen him engage with topics ranging from…

The Dublin Cattle Market – A Grangegorman Neighbour

Dr Mary Muldowney, Dublin Historian-in-Residence and member of the Grangegorman Histories Working group, is publishing an upcoming book on the Dublin Cattle Market. In this…

‘The Coastwatchers’: Ireland’s Second World War early warning system

For Heritage Week 2024 Dr Michael Kennedy, Executive Editor of the RIA’s Document on Irish Foreign Policy series, explores the remains of a network of…

Fergus Shanahan MRIA, clinician–scientist

Research resulting from Professor Shanahan’s longstanding curiosity with the traditional lives of Irish Travellers has revealed that their microbiome challenges restrictive definitions of a healthy…

Northern stars: Irish music and literature in imperial Russia

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David Livingstone MRIA, geographer and historian

Professor Livingstone is interested in researching the connections between the history of ideas and geographical thought; how history can be radically different from what people…

Stubborn Modes, Stubborn Problems, Stubborn Women

Modernism in Irish Women’s Contemporary Writing Paige Reynolds