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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…

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

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

30 March 1922: The Craig-Collins Pact

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

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.

24 March 1922: The McMahon Murders

Read Laurence Marley’s essay on ‘Class and Killing in Belfast’ on Century Ireland.

DIB editor Liz Evers on RTÉ Radio 1

Book editor Liz Evers talks to ‘The Business’ about nineteenth century Irish entrepreneurs included in Irish Lives in America.

17 March 1922: ‘Wading Through Blood’ in Thurles

Read David McCullagh​’s essay on ‘Éamon de Valera’s Civil War’ on Century Ireland.

17 March 1922: St Patrick’s Day, New York City

Read Enda Delaney​’s essay on ‘The Global Diaspora and Irish Identity’ on Century Ireland.

Royal Irish Academy ongoing support of Ukraine

The Royal Irish Academy stands in solidarity with the citizens and scholarly community in Ukraine and has, along with colleagues from Europe and around the…

Statement in support of Ukraine, its citizens and academics

Today, the President of the Royal Irish Academy has released a statement in support of Ukraine, its citizens and academics. The statement is a response…

Science supports new and improved cancer screening programmes, say EU advisors

There is a strong scientific basis for introducing life-saving screening programmes in EU member states for both lung cancer and prostate cancer, according to experts…

Forest bioenergy update: BECCS and its role in integrated assessment models

“Look before you Leap”: European Science Academies Caution against Subsidies for Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)