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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.

Dr Conor Crawford awarded the Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize 2021

UCD PhD student recognised for his transformative work developing vaccines against a major human pathogen

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…

Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s new dictionary launched

A new online dictionary of over half a million words written by the celebrated Irish author Máirtín Ó Cadhain gives a snapshot of Gaeltacht life.

Vaccine Questions Ep6: Vaccine solidarity with Dr Siobhán O’Sullivan

In episode six Dick chats to Dr Siobhán O’Sullivan, Chief Bioethic Officer at the Department of Health about the difficult decisions officials and individuals must…

Watch: Better Together: knowledge co-production for a sustainable society

Symposium exploring how the Irish research system can increase the impact of sustainability research through co-production of knowledge

Watch back: ‘A history of Ireland in 100 words: language into lives’

Did you miss the event with RIA authors of A history of Ireland in 100 words? Watch it here.