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7 January 1922: The Ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty
Read Richard Bourke’s essay ‘Political Thought in Revolutionary Ireland’ on Century Ireland.
Publications
‘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.
Historical Studies Committee
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.
Climate Change and Environmental Sciences Committee
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…
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy
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.
Policy and International Relations
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).
Dictionary of Irish Biography
Higher Education Futures Series
The Higher Education Futures Taskforce has developed a series of discussion papers on the future of higher education.
