The committee plays a key role in the assessment and administration of a number of our grant programmes. The programmes include the Archaeology C14 Radiocarbon Dates Scheme, the Excavation grants scheme, the Research grants scheme and the Archaeological Research for World Heritage Sites scheme.

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Autumn Archaeology Grants schemes open, offering research funding across a number of areas

The RIA, together with the National Monuments Service are delighted to welcome applications for the Archaeology Research Excavation Grants, Archaeology Legacy Grants, Archaeological Research for…

Grants, Prizes and Awards

Watch: Revealing the Past 2023

If you missed our biennial seminar on 4 December 2023, presenting a selection of recent discoveries from archaeological excavation funded by the National Monuments Service,…

Humanities and Social Sciences

‘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

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.

Humanities and Social Sciences

Archaeology 2025: Strategic Pathways for Archaeology in Ireland

In 2015 the committee, in partnership with the Discovery Programme undertook to develop a 10-year strategy to inform the future development journey for Irish archaeology.

Archaeology 2025: Strategic Pathways for Archaeology in Ireland (PDF)

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