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‘Debating the Future of the Defence Forces’

Report of a seminar on the Commission on the Defence Forces, 7 April 2021

19 January 1922: Dedication of the John Nicholson Statue, Lisburn

Read Michael Silvestri’s essay ‘Ireland and Empire’ on Century Ireland.

16 January 1922: The ‘Surrender of Dublin Castle’

Read Martin Maguire’s essay ‘Administering Ireland’ on Century Ireland.

RIA White Paper, ‘Better together: Knowledge co-production for a sustainable society’

The RIA white paper, ‘Better together: Knowledge co-production for a sustainable society’, provides an overview of knowledge co-production for sustainability and environmental research in Ireland;…

7 January 1922: The Ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty

Read Richard Bourke’s essay ‘Political Thought in Revolutionary Ireland’ on Century Ireland.

‘Ireland 1922’ on RTÉ’s Century Ireland

50 essays exploring a year that transformed Ireland available for online reading.

Watch: The Centenary of the Anglo Irish Debates

If you missed the recent conference on the Centenary of the Anglo Irish Debates, you can watch it now online.

Climate and Society in Ireland podcast ep. 4: Graeme Warren

In the final episode of Climate and Society in Ireland, Gill Plunkett talks to Graeme Warren about the impact of climate change on the earliest…

Watch Ireland’s Grasslands and Carbon

In the sixth in this series of Climate Conversations held on 24 November 2021, Professor Matthew Saunders gave a talk on Ireland’s Grasslands and Carbon.

The Treaty, 1921: Records from the Archives

On Monday 6 December 2021 the National Archives’ centenary exhibition on the Anglo-Irish Treaty, The Treaty, 1921: Records from the Archives, presented in partnership with…

Climate and Society in Ireland podcast ep. 3: Bruce Campbell and Francis Ludlow

In episode 3, host Gill Plunkett talks to Bruce Campbell and Francis Ludlow about climate change as a major but neglected grand theme of late…

Climate and Society in Ireland podcast ep. 2: Lucy Collins

In episode 2 of our new podcast, host Gill Plunkett talks to Lucy Collins about representations of climate change in Irish poetry between 1600 and…