Category: Grants, Prizes and Awards

Nowlan Digitisation Grants open to applications

The Royal Irish Academy is delighted to open applications for the Nowlan Digitisation Grants until Thursday, 11 April 2024.

2025 RIA Gold Medals: call for nominations

The call for nominations for the 2025 RIA Gold Medal in the Humanities and the 2025 RIA Gold Medal in the Life and Medical Sciences…

2024 Charlemont Grants announced

This year, the Royal Irish Academy is delighted to announce funding for fourteen early career researchers under the annual Charlemont Grants scheme.

Gold for top Irish researchers

Colm O’Reardon, Secretary General of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science presented the 2024 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medals to…

R.J. Hunter Digital Fellowship open to applications

The Royal Irish Academy is delighted to welcome applications from researchers with a background and track record in a relevant research area, namely research on…

Dr William McCarthy wins the 2024 Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize

Recent graduate of TU Dublin has been recognised for his innovative work addressing the presence of chlorate in dairy products

Michel Déon Prize winners event in Paris

On the evening of 28 November at the Irish Embassy in Paris, RIA Michel Déon Prize winners Conor O’Clery (2020) and Sally Hayden (2022) participated…

Watch 2023 Hamilton Lecture: ‘How surprisingly intricate are random structures?’

If you missed our 2023 Hamilton lecture ‘How surprisingly intricate are random structures?’ delivered by Professor Wendelin Werner you can watch it now  

2023 Hamilton Prize awarded to nine top mathematical students in Ireland

On Monday 16 October 2023 the prestigious undergraduate Hamilton Prize was awarded to the top nine mathematical students on the Island of Ireland, at a…

Watch the Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize 2023

Dr Chunchun Li is awarded the Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize for best chemistry PhD thesis in Ireland at a ceremony at the Royal Irish…

Gold Medals for top Irish researchers shaping their fields

Senator Malcolm Byrne, presented Jane Ohlmeyer MRIA with the 2023 RIA Gold Medal in the Humanities and Jonathan N. Coleman MRIA with the 2023 RIA…

Sally Hayden wins 2022 Michel Déon Prize

Today Sally Hayden was announced as the winner of the prestigious 2022 Royal Irish Academy Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction for her debut book My…