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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…
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy
Heritage Podcast: Placing Value on our Past Managing Ireland’s Archaeology: Michael MacDonagh
In this podcast Michael MacDonagh talks of the opportunities and challenges of preserving Ireland’s past and managing our archaeological heritage.
Historical Studies Committee
10 years on, was austerity worth it? Debating Austerity, the RIA’s volume on the crisis and recovery, is now free to download
Free from the RIA to mark ten years since the bank guarantee: our definitive volume on the crisis and recovery
Humanities and Social Sciences
Thirty-eight new lives just added to the DIB online
Thirty-eight new lives were added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography online in June 2018, our seventeenth online update.
Dictionary of Irish Biography
Report from Twenty Years after the Belfast Agreement 1998: A Young Person’s Guide to the Future
A succinct report from the conversation about the main issues facing young people in Ireland twenty years after the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.
Ethics, Politics, Law and Philosophy Committee
Survival and the citizen: Micro-dialogues on key challenges
Read the first in a series of ‘microdialogues’ online conversations between two experts on key challenges for modern society. The first addresses end-of-life care and…
Call for papers: Irish Studies in International Affairs
We are seeking good quality papers from academics, policy-makers and PhD students
Publications
Glaoch Oscailte freastal ar Choistí Ildisciplíneacha
Is iad aidhmeanna Choistí an Acadaimh ná saineolas eolaíochta agus léannta a chur ar fáil agus luach na n-eolaíochtaí, na ndaonnachtaí agus na n-eolaíochtaí sóisialta…
Coiste Léann na Gaeilge agus an Léinn Cheiltigh
435 million year old fossil starfish discovered in Maam Valley
A new species of fossil starfish discovered in the Maam Valley of County Galway is described in the latest issue of the Irish Journal of…
Launch of Archaeology 2025
On 2 May Dr Ann Lynch officially launched Archaeology 2025: Strategic Pathways for Archaeology in Ireland at an event in Academy House.
Launch of Archaeology 2025: Strategic Pathways for Archaeology in Ireland
Archaeology 2025: Strategic Pathways for Archaeology in Ireland will be launched by Minster Heather Humphreys on Tuesday, 2 May at 18:00.
Study of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication Committee Our Work
The committee has presented the following programme of events and activities which have been held at the Royal Irish Academy and elsewhere.
