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1 May 1922: Dublin Corporation Calls for the Censorship of Films

Read Kevin Rockett’s essay on ‘Keeping Hollywood’s ‘Monkey House’ Morality Out Of Ireland’ on Century Ireland.

Publications

Patent system needs adjustment to harmonize with open science objectives, European Academies say

This new ALLEA statement examines the current patent system in the context of the ideals and objectives of open science and recommends, among others, the…

Policy and International Relations

Launch of EASAC Report on “Regenerative Agriculture”

Regenerative Agriculture: Healthy Soil Best Bet for Carbon Storage. This report provides evidence that regenerative agriculture holds promising keys to reducing climate risks while providing…

Policy and International Relations

A woman (left) with grey hair in a bob and a man with short grey hair (left), wearing glasses, face the camera smiling. She wears a grey formal jacket and he wears a black suit with blue shirt and red tie.

Watchback Discourse Series | The Changing World of Money and Finance

Watch the recording of  the conversation between Frances Ruane MRIA and Patrick Honohan MRIA, which took place on 6 April 2022.

Public Engagement

ARINS podcast episode 10: Police governance, oversight and accountability in a united Ireland

In this episode, Vicky Conway and Roger Mac Ginty examine how policing in a united Ireland might coordinate questions of governance, oversight and accountability.

ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South

Two women (Ruth M.J. Byrne MRIA on the left and Jennifer C. McElwain MRIA on the right) pose for a photograph (from the shoulders up) with their RIA Gold Medals in a green case, held in both their hands. Ruth M.J. Byrne MRIA is wearing glasses and has shoulder-length strawberry blonde hair. She is wearing a grey shirt and black blazer. Jennifer C. McElwain MRIA has silver curly hair and wears red lipstick. She is wearing black and wears gold jewellery. A painting hangs on a wallpapered wall in the background of the lavish room they stand in.

2021 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medals presented

On 4 April 2022, Ruth M.J. Byrne MRIA, Professor of Cognitive Science, Trinity College Dublin was awarded the 2021 RIA Gold Medal in the Social…

Grants, Prizes and Awards

Launch of Treaty exhibition catalogue and regional exhibition

Following the huge success of the National Archives’ The Treaty, 1921: Records from the Archives exhibition, a limited edition illustrated book has been published in…

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Watch: Selling Planet Earth: re-purposing geoscience for sustainable human wellbeing

If you missed the first lecture in our Sustainability Lecture series: Challenges and Opportunities for Science in Society you can watch it now.

Climate Change and Environmental Sciences Committee

Breakthrough Prize Foundation partners with ALLEA to support scientists forced to leave Ukraine

Foundation dedicates $1.5 million from a $3 million pledge for impacted scientists to ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, for distribution…

Policy and International Relations

31 March 1922: W.B. Yeats in Thoor Ballylee

Read R.F. Foster’s essay ‘Meditating in Time of Civil War’ on Century Ireland.

Publications

30 March 1922: The Craig-Collins Pact

Read Tim Wilson’s essay on ‘Conciliation Committees and the 1920s Troubles’ on Century Ireland.

Publications

Dictionary of Irish Biography publishes 36 new entries

The DIB has published its latest collection of new entries online, adding thirty-six new lives to its corpus of nearly 11,000.

Dictionary of Irish Biography