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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

24 March 1922: The McMahon Murders

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

Publications

Liz Evers and a copy of Irish Lives in America

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.

Dictionary of Irish Biography

17 March 1922: ‘Wading Through Blood’ in Thurles

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

Publications

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.

Publications

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…

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