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R.J. Hunter Digital Fellowship open to applications
The Royal Irish Academy is delighted to welcome applications from researchers with a background and track record in a relevant research area, namely research on…
Grants, Prizes and Awards
Unveiling Grangegorman’s Histories: Five public call awardees announced
The public call, which invited proposals for projects to explore and share any element of the history of Grangegorman contributes to the important work of…
Grangegorman Histories
North and South surveys data now published
Last updated: June 2024. Survey results have now been published and can be downloaded in PDF and SAV format at the bottom of this page.
ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South
Watchback Discourse Series | The Geometry of Chaos: From Climate Change to Foundations of Quantum Physics
Watch the recording of the Discourse given by Tim Palmer, Hon. MRIA, with Luke Drury MRIA as respondent that took originally place on 7 February…
Public Engagement
Announcing the 2024 DPASSH Conference: Collections as data / Data as collections
The Digital Repository of Ireland’s Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities Conference 2024 will be co-hosted by the University of Limerick and…
Digital Repository of Ireland
Watch back: Celebrating the 170th anniversary of the Great Industrial Exhibition of Dublin
An initiative of the Royal Irish Academy’s Historical Studies Committee, consisting of a collaborative exhibition, plenary session and conference in collaboration with the RDS, and…
Historical Studies Committee
Raymond Gillespie MRIA
We are deeply saddened by the death of our editor and colleague, Raymond Gillespie MRIA, on 8 February 2024.
Irish Historic Towns Atlas
Trinity College and SADSI students through to the Irish Times debate finals, in a semi-final hosted by ARINS
There was full house in the Royal Irish Academy last night for the semi-finals of the Irish Times debate
EASAC report released: Towards an International Plastics Treaty
Systemic failures are driving rapid growth in production, consumption and leakage of plastics in the marine, terrestrial and freshwater environments, shows a new EASAC Commentary.…
Policy and International Relations
Dr William McCarthy wins the 2024 Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize
Recent graduate of TU Dublin has been recognised for his innovative work addressing the presence of chlorate in dairy products
‘Making St Brigit real in the early middle ages’ by Elva Johnston
Brigit has been treated differently to Irish male saints, becoming a secondary character in her own biographies, reductively overshadowed by a barely attested goddess.
Publications
ARINS Podcast 30: Health Law: convergence and divergence on the island of Ireland
In this month’s ARINS podcast host Rory Montgomery meets Clayton Ó Néill (Senior Lecturer of Law at Queen’s University Belfast) and Andrea Mulligan (Barrister and…