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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…

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);…