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New DIB book ‘Irish lives in America’ published
The Royal Irish Academy has published a special Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) collection, Irish lives in America (November 2021).
Dictionary of Irish Biography
Higher Education Futures Series
The Higher Education Futures Taskforce has developed a series of discussion papers on the future of higher education.
Policy and International Relations
Grangegorman Histories: historical language and terminology and the history of mental illness
This pre-recorded, online discussion explored the evolution of language and terminology associated with mental illness.
Grangegorman Histories
Grangegorman Histories: Timepiece podcast
Grangegorman Histories celebrated Culture Night 2021 with the launch of ‘Timepiece’, a podcast exploring the history of the turret clock in Grangegorman.
Thirty new entries added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography
The Dictionary of Irish Biography has added thirty new entries to its corpus of nearly 11,000 entries. These include stage school founder Billie Barry (1927–2014);…
Vaccine Questions Ep8: Looking to the future with Professor Christine Loscher
In the final episode of this series, Professor of Immunology Christine Loscher discusses the vaccine rollout and answers questions on vaccines for teens, booster shots…
Life and Health Sciences Committee
Grangegorman Histories: Interview with Ivor Browne
Watch a recent interview with Ivor Browne, originally presented as part of a special online screening of ‘Meetings with Ivor’ at the Virtual Stonetbatter Festival…
Vaccines: a life-saving choice
A new expert statement from the RIA’s Life and Medical Sciences Committee written by Kingston Mills MRIA, Bert Rima MRIA and Dick Ahlstrom.
Vaccine Questions Ep7: Understanding human behaviour with Professor Pete Lunn
In episode 7 behavioural economist, Professor Pete Lunn shares expert insights on how our behaviour impacts the spread of COVID-19 and what drives this behaviour.
A financial analyst’s love of fashion leads to a new career as a software engineer
For our second computer science profile, we spoke to Olga Minguett, a National College of Ireland graduate working on voice recognition technology at Optum while…
Engineering and Computer Sciences Committee
Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s new dictionary launched
A new online dictionary of over half a million words written by the celebrated Irish author Máirtín Ó Cadhain gives a snapshot of Gaeltacht life.
Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge
Vaccine Questions Ep6: Vaccine solidarity with Dr Siobhán O’Sullivan
In episode six Dick chats to Dr Siobhán O’Sullivan, Chief Bioethic Officer at the Department of Health about the difficult decisions officials and individuals must…