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Inside ‘A history of Ireland in 100 words’: Ríomhaire
Did you know that Saint Columba could ‘number the stars’ and predict the course of the moon? Find out more in today’s entry on star-counting.
Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge
Inside ‘A history of Ireland in 100 words’: Caoch
Why can’t the one-eyed man be king? Find out in today’s entry on blindness, blemishing and being ‘blind drunk’!
Inside ‘A history of Ireland in 100 words’: Grá
What exactly is a ‘love-spot’? Find out in today’s entry on affairs of the heart.
Inside ‘A history of Ireland in 100 words’: Cróga
Why does this Cú Chulainn have apples spiked on his hair? Find out in today’s entry on bravery, bloodiness and the infamous ‘warp spasm’!
New DIFP exhibition in National Archives of Ireland: Ireland joins the UN, December 1955
Our December exhibition co-curated with the National Archives of Ireland looks at Ireland’s accession to the United Nations in December 1955
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy
Quarks, Joyce and two twentieth-century physicists!
On 3 December the family of Professor Kevin Carroll, MRIA (1926-2016) presented the Academy with his signed first-edition copy of Finnegans Wake. We are delighted…
Library
‘Revealing the past: archaeological excavation and research in Ireland’
If you did not manage to secure a place at this year’s sell-out seminar you can listen to it now.
Humanities and Social Sciences
Halloween special: ominous birds and banshees
Discover the origins of the word ‘badhbh’ in our book A history of Ireland in 100 words
325-million-year-old amphibian bones discovered in County Clare
The fossilised bones of a tiny amphibian-like creature that scurried around the shores of County Clare 325 million years ago have been discovered.
Publications
Scoláireachtaí Foilsitheoireachta
Tá dhá scoláireacht le bronnadh faoi scéim nua a ceapadh d’fhonn tacaíocht a thabhairt d’fhoilsitheoireacht acadúil na Gaeilge.
Coiste Léann na Gaeilge agus an Léinn Cheiltigh
‘Women writing Ireland’
Listen to a panel discussion with four Irish women writers to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849).
New exhibition on Joseph Walshe (1886-1956): the founding father of the Irish foreign service
The second of the monthly exhibitions we are co-curating with the National Archives of Ireland deals with the lengthy career of the founding father of the Irish…
