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Blogpost: IAP 2021 Young Physicians Leaders Programme

Dr Eimear Duff recently represented the Academy at the IAP 2021 Young Physicians Leaders Programme.

Climate and Society in Ireland podcast ep. 1: John Sweeney

In this first episode of our new podcast, host Gill Plunkett talks to John Sweeney about the challenges posed by climate change over the past…

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).

Higher Education Futures Series

The Higher Education Futures Taskforce has developed a series of discussion papers on the future of higher education.

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: 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…

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…