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Professor Mary McAleese MRIA, former President of Ireland, delivered a discourse entitled ‘The Holy See and the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: is a once-promising journey now going backwards?’

Catherine Day, MRIA and former Secretary General of the EU Commission, examines and contextualises the landscape of Post Brexit EU. The Academy discourse programme is sponsored by Mason Hayes and Curran.

Abstract The recent increase in the proportion of the population with obesity and/or type 2 diabetes is a matter of great concern for global public health. The rising incidence of these disorders is clearly attributable to changes in the environment that promote caloric consumption and decrease energy expenditure. However, we need to understand why some individuals are susceptible to obesogenic in...

Panel discussion featuring Noel Dorr, author of 'Sunningdale: the search for peace in Norther Ireland', with Seamus Mallon and chaired by Marie Coleman. Belfast, 8 December 2017.

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Aileen Douglas, School of English, TCD. The third lecture in our series commemorating the 350th anniversary of Jonathan Swift's birth. Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 19 July, 2017 Speaker: Aileen Douglas is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and Head of the School of English. Her teaching and research interests focus on eighteenth-century writing. Among her...

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Professor David Dickson, MRIA, Department of Modern History, TCD. The second lecture in our series commemorating the 350th anniversary of Jonathan Swift's birth. Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 12 July, 2017 Speaker: David Dickson is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and Professor of Modern History in Trinity College Dublin. He has published extensively on th...

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Professor Andrew Carpenter, MRIA, Emeritus Professor of English, UCD. The first lecture in our series commemorating the 350th anniversary of Jonathan Swift's birth. Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 21 June, 2017 Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the acc...

Lunchtime Lecture to accompany the Polish Embassy's exhibition on the life and career of Consul-General Wacław Tadeusz Dobrzyński. Speaker: Ian Cantwell, grandson of the Consul-General Wacław Tadeusz Dobrzyński Commemorating the birth of diplomatic relations between Poland and Ireland, this lecture accompanies an exhibition focusing on the life and career of Consul-General Wacław Tadeusz Dobrzyńsk...

Speaker: Ruairí Ó hUiginn, MRIA. The Book of Uí Mhaine is one of the most important manuscripts of late medieval Ireland. Its size, scope and extent, the range of texts it encompasses and its illumination all mark it out as one of the outstanding productions of Irish scholarship in this period. Written in the late fourteenth century for Muircheartach Ó Ceallaigh (†1407) Lord-Bishop of Clonfert, an...

Speaker: Pádraig Ó Macháin, UCC. The Book of Uí Mhaine is one of the most important manuscripts of late medieval Ireland. Its size, scope and extent, the range of texts it encompasses and its illumination all mark it out as one of the outstanding productions of Irish scholarship in this period. Written in the late fourteenth century for Muircheartach Ó Ceallaigh (†1407) Lord-Bishop of Clonfert, an...

Speaker: Nollaig Ó Muraíle, MRIA. The Book of Uí Mhaine is one of the most important manuscripts of late medieval Ireland. Its size, scope and extent, the range of texts it encompasses and its illumination all mark it out as one of the outstanding productions of Irish scholarship in this period. Written in the late fourteenth century for Muircheartach Ó Ceallaigh (†1407) Lord-Bishop of Clonfert, a...

Speaker: Mícheál Hoyne, DIAS. The Book of Uí Mhaine is one of the most important manuscripts of late medieval Ireland. Its size, scope and extent, the range of texts it encompasses and its illumination all mark it out as one of the outstanding productions of Irish scholarship in this period. Written in the late fourteenth century for Muircheartach Ó Ceallaigh (†1407) Lord-Bishop of Clonfert, and s...

Speaker: Michael Clarke NUIG. The Book of Uí Mhaine is one of the most important manuscripts of late medieval Ireland. Its size, scope and extent, the range of texts it encompasses and its illumination all mark it out as one of the outstanding productions of Irish scholarship in this period. Written in the late fourteenth century for Muircheartach Ó Ceallaigh (†1407) Lord-Bishop of Clonfert, and s...

Speaker: Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, DIAS. The Book of Uí Mhaine is one of the most important manuscripts of late medieval Ireland. Its size, scope and extent, the range of texts it encompasses and its illumination all mark it out as one of the outstanding productions of Irish scholarship in this period. Written in the late fourteenth century for Muircheartach Ó Ceallaigh (†1407) Lord-Bishop of Clonfe...

Speaker: Liam Breatnach, MRIA. The Book of Uí Mhaine is one of the most important manuscripts of late medieval Ireland. Its size, scope and extent, the range of texts it encompasses and its illumination all mark it out as one of the outstanding productions of Irish scholarship in this period. Written in the late fourteenth century for Muircheartach Ó Ceallaigh (†1407) Lord-Bishop of Clonfert, and...

Speaker: Karen Ralph, New York University's Paris Centre. The Book of Uí Mhaine is one of the most important manuscripts of late medieval Ireland. Its size, scope and extent, the range of texts it encompasses and its illumination all mark it out as one of the outstanding productions of Irish scholarship in this period. Written in the late fourteenth century for Muircheartach Ó Ceallaigh (†1407) Lo...

Speaker: Elizabeth Boyle, Maynooth University. The Book of Uí Mhaine is one of the most important manuscripts of late medieval Ireland. Its size, scope and extent, the range of texts it encompasses and its illumination all mark it out as one of the outstanding productions of Irish scholarship in this period. Written in the late fourteenth century for Muircheartach Ó Ceallaigh (†1407) Lord-Bishop o...

Speaker: Deborah Hayden, MU. The Book of Uí Mhaine is one of the most important manuscripts of late medieval Ireland. Its size, scope and extent, the range of texts it encompasses and its illumination all mark it out as one of the outstanding productions of Irish scholarship in this period. Written in the late fourteenth century for Muircheartach Ó Ceallaigh (†1407) Lord-Bishop of Clonfert, and su...

Speaker: Dr Bernadette Cunningham, Deputy Librarian, Royal Irish Academy. The Book of Uí Mhaine is one of the most important manuscripts of late medieval Ireland. Its size, scope and extent, the range of texts it encompasses and its illumination all mark it out as one of the outstanding productions of Irish scholarship in this period. Written in the late fourteenth century for Muircheartach Ó Ceal...

Speaker: Professor Colm Lennon Library Lunchtime Lecture on the manuscripts of the Guild of St Anne, part of the Haliday Collection held at the Royal Irish Academy. The Guild of St Anne was established in 1430 by charter of King Henry VI and a chantry chapel was established at St Audoen’s Church, Dublin. The guild had its own common seal and was entitled to buy and lease property to fund the maint...

Lecture by the Engineering and Computer Science Speaker 2016-2017, Dr Brian MacNamee, University College Dublin The aim of the series is to promote topical issues relating to these disciplines to a wide audience. This year the topic was 'Show me your data, and I'll tell you who you are: an exploration of data-driven prediction. Dr Brian MacNamee delivered the lecture in Dublin, Galway, Derry and C...

A discussion on Henry James as critic by Man Booker Prize winner Alan Hollinghurst in conversation with Carlo Gébler. About the speakers Alan Hollinghurst Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954 and was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. Hollinghurst was on the staff of the Times Literary Supplement from 1982 to 1995. He has published five novels including The Swimming-Pool Library (1988) and The St...

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Rióna Ní Fhrighil, lecturer in Modern Irish at NUI Galway. Second lecture in the series examining the Representations of Jews in Irish Literature. Funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Representations of Jews in Irish Literature is a landmark project between Ulster University and the National University of Ireland, Galway. It examines the port...

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Barry Montgomery, Research Associate in Irish-Jewish Literature at the Ulster University. The first lecture in a series examining the Representations of Jews in Irish Literature. Funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Representations of Jews in Irish Literature is a landmark project between Ulster University and the National University of Ir...

Speaker: Andrew Pettegree Long before journalism had a name, Europe had a fully operative commercial news market, and newsmen had their own strongly felt code of ethics. In this paper Andrew Pettegree charts the emergence of journalism as a professional craft, from the earliest regular news serials, the birth of the newspapers, and the growth of party politics, through to the mass media of the mod...