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Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: In Her Own Image, Eavan Boland

In Her Own Image, by Eavan Boland, 1980

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: Faith Healer, Brian Friel

Faith Healer, by Brian Friel, 1979

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: Jim Larkin Statue on O’Connell Street

Jim Larkin Statue, O’Connell Street Dublin by Oisín Kelly, 1978

Seventy-five ‘missing persons’ added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography online.

A range of lives feature in the December 2015 ‘missing persons’ update – comprising persons omitted from the 2009 first edition – added to the…

Dublin Rising 1916-2016

Academy partners with Google to launch virtual tour.

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: Aspen 5+6, Brian O’Doherty

Aspen 5+6, Brian O’Doherty, 1967

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: Eoghan Ó Tuairisc

Dé Luain By Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, 1966

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: John McGahern

The Barracks, by John McGahern, 1963

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: Ár Ré Dhearóil, by Máirtín Ó Direáin

Ár Ré Dhearóil, by Máirtín Ó Direáin

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: Tom Murphy

A Whistle in the Dark, Tom Murphy, 1961

Seamus Heaney on the DIB

Address by Seamus Heaney at the launch in Belfast on 16 December 2009 of the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography (9 vols and…

DIFP IX is launched by Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade

On 5 November we received the first copies of DIFP IX and through the month we set in place and rolled out a major publicity…