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North and South surveys data now published

Last updated: June 2024. Survey results have now been published and can be downloaded in PDF and SAV format at the bottom of this page.

Watchback Discourse Series | The Geometry of Chaos: From Climate Change to Foundations of Quantum Physics

Watch the recording of the Discourse given by Tim Palmer, Hon. MRIA, with Luke Drury MRIA as respondent that took originally place on 7 February…

Announcing the 2024 DPASSH Conference: Collections as data / Data as collections

The Digital Repository of Ireland’s Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities Conference 2024 will be co-hosted by the University of Limerick and…

Watch back: Celebrating the 170th anniversary of the Great Industrial Exhibition of Dublin

An initiative of the Royal Irish Academy’s Historical Studies Committee, consisting of a collaborative exhibition, plenary session and conference in collaboration with the RDS, and…

Raymond Gillespie MRIA

We are deeply saddened by the death of our editor and colleague, Raymond Gillespie MRIA, on 8 February 2024.

Trinity College and SADSI students through to the Irish Times debate finals, in a semi-final hosted by ARINS

There was full house in the Royal Irish Academy last night for the semi-finals of the Irish Times debate

EASAC report released: Towards an International Plastics Treaty

Systemic failures are driving rapid growth in production, consumption and leakage of plastics in the marine, terrestrial and freshwater environments, shows a new EASAC Commentary.…

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

‘Making St Brigit real in the early middle ages’ by Elva Johnston

Brigit has been treated differently to Irish male saints, becoming a secondary character in her own biographies, reductively overshadowed by a barely attested goddess.

ARINS Podcast 30: Health Law: convergence and divergence on the island of Ireland

In this month’s ARINS podcast host Rory Montgomery meets Clayton Ó Néill (Senior Lecturer of Law at Queen’s University Belfast) and Andrea Mulligan (Barrister and…

Dr Ivor Browne

Grangegorman Histories was saddened to hear of the death of Dr Ivor Browne, who was the Chief Medical Superintendent at St Brendan’s Hospital, Grangegorman for…

Watch: Revealing the Past 2023

If you missed our biennial seminar on 4 December 2023, presenting a selection of recent discoveries from archaeological excavation funded by the National Monuments Service,…