The Royal Irish Academy

Dr Geraldine Stout, National Monuments Service Revealing the past: archaeological excavation and research in Ireland' This biennial seminar was held on 10 October 2019 and show cased a selection of recent discoveries from archaeological excavation and related research in Ireland funded by the National Monuments Service, and from C14 dating research funded by Queen’s University Belfast, through gra...

Professor Brigid Laffan MRIA discusses how membership of the EU has become Ireland’s geopolitical anchor. About the discourse The texture of Ireland’s membership of the EU was transformed by shifts and shocks in Europe and the wider international system. Ireland’s traditional preference was to straddle different geopolitical arenas, the European, the UK, the US and the global without having to cho...

Professor Emma Teeling MRIA talks about her research into what bat genetics can teach us about human disease and aging. Living mammals (~5,400 species) originated approximately 217-238 Million Years Ago, inhabit every biome on Earth, and are arguably one of the most phenotypically diverse group of vertebrates. This Academy Discourse will showcase how studying our most unique mammals, using state-o...

Public lecture by Sara Day Thomson of the Digital Preservation Coalition. This talk, co-organised by the Digital Repository of Ireland and the National Archives, Ireland, focuses on the power of a personal digital archive and the importance of determining a course of action for safeguarding that archive. It prompts us to start thinking about how we manage our digital files and how we may access or...

Mr Michael Ring T.D., Minister for Rural and Community Development, launched the Rural Conversations report on Wednesday, 4 September 2019 at the Royal Irish Academy. Rural Conversations was a series of three rural stakeholder consultative events produced by the RIA’s Social Sciences Committee in association with the Department of Rural and Community Development. Stakeholders’ feedback on economic...

Speaker: Professor Peter Gray, Queens University Belfast, and Assoc. Professor Emily Mark-FitzGerald, University College Dublin, A Library Lunchtime Lecture exploring the life of Count Strzelecki, a Polish humanitarian who saved over 200,000 children during the Great Irish Famine. This lecture accompanied the exhibition 'A Forgotten Polish Hero of the Great Irish Famine: Paul Strzelecki’s Struggle...

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon participated in a wide-ranging discussion with journalist Dearbhail McDonald including a short Q&A session to close in the Royal Irish Academy on 27 May 2019. Nicola Sturgeon Biography Born in Irvine in 1970 and educated at Greenwood Academy, she studied law at the University of Glasgow where she graduated with LLB (Hons) and Diploma in legal practice. Bef...

This panel discussion took place on 1 May 2019 at the Royal Irish Academy. Panellists explored the challenges and opportunities that digital and social media opens in our society and the growing case, across Europe, for online content regulation and controls. Panelists discussed questions such as; How do we balance the civil freedom of expression that online provides while protecting the common go...

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Gaye Ashford on three C18th sisters - Katherine Conolly, Jane Bonnell and Mary Jones. The fourth lecture in our series 'Sisters' celebrating the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who have made their mark on Irish life. Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 10 April, 2019 Speaker: Dr Gaye Ashford, a graduate of Dublin City University (DCU), is a hi...

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Lucy Collins, School of English, Drama & Film, UCD. The third lecture in our series 'Sisters', celebrating sisterhood and specifically the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who made their mark on Irish life. Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 3 April, 2019 Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully,...

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Mary O'Dowd, MRIA, Queen's University of Belfast. The fifth lecture in our series 'Sisters' celebrating the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who have made their mark on Irish life. Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 10 April, 2019 Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warrant...

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Margaret Ward, Honorary Senior Lecturer in History at Queen’s University, Belfast. The Second lecture in our series 'Sisters', celebrating sisterhood and specifically the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who made their mark on Irish life. Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 27 March, 2019 Speaker: Dr Margaret Ward is Honorary Senior Lecturer in...

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Sonja Tiernan, Associate Professor of Modern History and Head of Department of History and Politics at Liverpool Hope University. The first lecture in our series 'Sisters' celebrating the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who have made their mark on Irish life. series celebrating sisterhood and specifically the lives and achievements of five familie...

This Academy Discourse by Professor Michele Nicoletti, Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Trento, Italy and Former President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.is part of a discourse series sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran. Friday, March 29, 2019 - 18:00, Academy House. About the speaker Michele Nicoletti is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Universi...

Rural Conversation No. 3: 'Building vibrant and sustainable communities in rural Ireland’, the nal intheseriesofthreeRuralConversationswasheld on Thursday, 4 April 2019 and hosted in Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT). Dr Willie Donnelly, President, WIT (timecode—1:18) welcomed the delegates and opened the event. Professor Áine Hyland, MRIA spoke on behalf of the Royal Irish Academy's Social...

Professor Ruairí Ó hUiginn MRIA is Director and Senior Professor in the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. He formerly was Professor of Modern Irish at Maynooth University and has held lecturing positions in the universities of Uppsala, Bonn, Galway and at Queen’s University Belfast. He has published widely on many aspects of the Irish language and its literatur...

Prof. Richard Sharpe, Hon. MRIA Based at the University of Oxford, Richard Sharpe has published extensively on a range of medieval topics – lives of saints, studies of medieval libraries, individual manuscripts and collections. With Mícheál Hoyne, he has compiled Clóliosta, an online catalogue of books printed in Irish, 1571-1871 (publication autumn 2019). Conference by the Royal Irish Academy Lib...

Nollaig Ó Muraíle, MRIA, is a former senior lecturer in Irish at NUI Galway, and, prior to that, reader in Irish and Celtic Studies at Queen's University Belfast. His numerous publications treat, inter alia, of the Gaelic manuscript tradition, learned families of Gaelic Ireland, Irish onomastics, and medieval Irish annals and genealogies. Conference by the Royal Irish Academy Library in partnershi...

Dr Mícheál Hoyne is Bergin Fellow in the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. He studied Modern Irish and History in Trinity College, where he also wrote his PhD, and before joining the School of Celtic Studies taught in the Philipps-Universitaet in Marburg. Conference by the Royal Irish Academy Library in partnership with Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad...

Professor Liam Breatnach, MRIA is a Senior Professor in the School of Celtic Studies and co-editor of the journal Ériu, published by the Royal Irish Academy. His main research interests are in Old Irish language, Middle Irish and the historical development of Irish, law texts, and poets, poetry and metrics. Conference by the Royal Irish Academy Library in partnership with Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, O...

Kevin Murray is a Senior Lecturer in The Department of Early and Medieval Irish in University College Cork. His research interests include medieval Irish language and literature (particularly the Finn Cycle), and textual editing. He is also one of the editors of the Locus project which is creating a new Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames to replace Fr Edmund Hogan’s Onomasticon Goedelicum....

Karen Ralph lectures in medieval art in NYU Paris. Her research interests focus primarily on the patronage of art and architecture in medieval Ireland. Conference by the Royal Irish Academy Library in partnership with Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad. The Royal Irish Academy manuscript known by its shelfmark ‘23 N 10’ was produced in Ballycummin, Co. Roscommon, in the sixteenth century. I...

John Carey is Professor of Early and Medieval Irish at University College Cork. His most recent books, both published in 2018, are The Ever-New Tongue: The Text in the Book of Lismore (Brepols) and The Mythological Cycle of Medieval Irish Literature (Cork Studies in Celtic Literatures). Conference by the Royal Irish Academy Library in partnership with Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad. The...

Dr Elizabeth Boyle is Head of the Department of Early Irish at Maynooth University. Her research centres on the religious, cultural and intellectual history of medieval Ireland. She is currently writing a book, entitled History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland, to be published by Routledge. Conference by the Royal Irish Academy Library in partnership with Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad...

Dr Deborah Hayden is a Lecturer in the Department of Early Irish at Maynooth University, where she is currently also working as Principal Investigator for the project Medieval Irish Medicine in its North-western European Context: A Case Study of Two Unpublished Texts, funded by a Laureate Award from the Irish Research Council. Her research interests and publications centre on medieval Irish, Latin...