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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

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…

‘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.

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.

Scoláireachtaí Foilsitheoireachta

Tá dhá scoláireacht le bronnadh faoi scéim nua a ceapadh d’fhonn tacaíocht a thabhairt d’fhoilsitheoireacht acadúil na Gaeilge.

‘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…

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.

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

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.