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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)

Watch the Hamilton Lecture 2022

If you missed the 2022 annual Royal Irish Academy Hamilton Lecture given by Professor Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton you can watch it…

Recording now available: Aoife Monks on Dion Boucicault

A public lecture by Dr Aoife Monks and panel discussion to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Dion Boucicault held on Thursday, February…

4 March 1922: The Wife of a Plasterer Tells the Archbishop of Dublin a Secret

Read Lindsey Earner-Byrne​’s essay on ‘Gender and Poverty in the New “Free State”‘ on Century Ireland.

3 March 1922: Closing Border Roads

Read Peter Leary​’s essay on ‘Friction on the Frontier’ on Century Ireland.

2 March 1922: Countess Markievicz Defends Female Citizenship

Read Aidan Beatty’s essay on ‘The Politics of Masculinity’ on Century Ireland.

9 students awarded the 2022 Hamilton Prize for Mathematics

Today, the prestigious undergraduate Hamilton Prize was awarded to the top 9 mathematical students on the Island of Ireland, at a ceremony in the Royal…

25 February 1922: Publication of the ‘Free State’ Newspaper

Read Ciara Meehan’s essay on ‘The Propaganda War Over the Anglo-Irish Treaty’ on Century Ireland.

Call for Nominations 2022 TÜBA Academy Prizes

The Royal Irish Academy is invited to nominate outstanding scientists with original, leading and path-breaking works for each category of TÜBA Academy Prizes

Turin Academy of Sciences 2022 Prizes

The Turin Academy of Sciences invites nominations for their scientific prizes.

12 February 1922: The Nicholson Revival

Read Andrew R. Holmes’s essay on ‘Popular Protestantism in Belfast’ on Century Ireland.