The Royal Irish Academy: Recent Episodes
The Royal Irish Academy
The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh Ríoga na hEireann is an all-Ireland, independent, academic body that promotes study and excellence in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is the principal learned society in Ireland and has over 420 members who are elected in recognition of their academic achievements.
The Royal Irish Academy, the academy for the sciences and humanities for the whole of Ireland will vigorously promote excellence in scholarship, recognise achievements in learning, direct research programmes and undertake its own research projects, particularly in areas relating to Ireland and its heritage.
In this month’s ARINS podcast host Rory Montgomery speaks with Adele Bergin, Seamus McGuinness and Conor Banahan of the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin about their recently published ARINS article ‘Who is Better Off? Updated Cross-Border Differences in Living Standards, Opportunities and Quality of Life on the Island of Ireland’. The discussion covers their recent work which provides an updated assessment of living standards, opportunities for life progression and well-being across the island of Ireland. The article can be read open access, along with all ARINS publications, here: https://www.ria.ie/arins-research/who-is-better-off-updated-cross-border-differences-in-living-standards-opportunities-and-quality-of-life-on-the-island-of-ireland/This podcast series provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.comARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In this episode of ‘My Identity’ Professor Colin Graham (Maynooth) is in conversation with Joy Gerrard and Paul Seawright.This episode was recorded live, at Belfast Exposed as part of as part of the BIEN programme — an ongoing series of exhibitions and events under the title “British? Irish? Either? Neither?” sponsored by the Office of Identity and Cultural Expression (OICE).Joy Gerrard lives and works in Belfast. She is known for work that investigates different systems of relations between crowds, architecture and the built environment. Using Japanese ink on paper and canvas Gerrard makes detailed ink works which re-create recent political protests from around the world, including recent work on UK based Brexit demonstrations and political protest in the USA. Professor Paul Seawright OBE is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Ulster University. He was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences for five years and previously Head of Belfast School of Art. Paul has an international profile as an artist and researcher. His work is held in many museum collections including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, International Centre of Photography New York, Arts Councils of Ireland, England and Northern Ireland, the UK Government Collection and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome. The My Identity series is hosted by Professor Colin Graham, Maynooth. In this series, Colin is in conversation with a range of people whose ideas, work and life experiences shed light on the topic of identity on the Island of Ireland. My Identity is part of the ARINS project.About ARINSColin Graham is Professor English and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Maynooth University. His books include Northern Ireland: Thirty Years of Photography, Deconstructing Ireland and Ideologies of Epic. He was editor of The Irish Review from 2004 to 2020. During the Brexit negotiations he created the Twitter account @borderirish and wrote the book I am the Border, so I am, published by HarperCollins. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs. My Identity is hosted by Professor Colin Graham. Podcast management and production by Dr Susie Deedigan (University of Notre Dame). With thanks to Conor Patterson and Morgan Blain-Crehan, The Spinner’s Mill, Belfast.
Poem by Shirley O’Shea a writer from Carrick-on-Suir and a Teacher of English and German at St. Declan’s Community College, Kilmacthomas since 1999. She is an active participant of Poetry Plus in Brewery Lane Theatre. Her poem ‘With Grace and with Gratitude’ about Dr. Mary Strangman was published for SETU Blue Plaque unveiling at Carriganore House in Waterford in 2023. This poem and another ‘PJ 07’, was shortlisted for the Sean Dunne Literary award in June 2024.Seven Years Transportation(Taken women)I wonder what they saw as they looked back over the stern of the Isabella or Sea Queen?The ships conveying them eleven thousand miles away from home. The convict girls, taken from Waterford city and county.Offenders, mothers, mistresses, daughters,Thievers and givers of food, cloaks and blankets,Swapping petticoats and shawls for a life behind bars and a colony.Culprits adjudged and condemned to Spike Island or Grangegorman,Vagabond girls, subjected to earn their own living in felony,Serving time till their freedom papers and tickets of leave.Risk takers. Lawbreakers. No pardons or pleas. Mary Moon. Deported 1834The widow Mary stole a kerchief, and her child was taken from her.A convict dressmaker traded in Van Dieman’s Island in Tasmania.Hard labour or toil, nor her crude tongue could tame her,The mischievous vixen escaped times over, as a deep poverty maniaDrove her forth in her anger and grief.Better than the penalty of death but no less,Not worth the mantilla, or the price she paid too steep.In waters deep.Ellen Lennehan. Deported 1842Like Mary, Ellen had an eye for the style and fancied a petticoat,That cost her more than the penny she would have paid for it,And a shawl to go with it, pretty slippers, ten more months, was made payWith no conditional or absolute pardon.The shoes she required for her night on the town,and she did not drown on her journey from Kingstown or Queenstown,to Hobart female penitentiary,and a life of continued brutality.Margaret Daly. Deported 1847This girl was one and twenty years, illiterate and abandoned,stole a cloak and so exiled on the boat from Grangegorman,Her convict trade to be made toil and scrub as a housemaid.A freckled girl, with a gap in her smile, all the while,Her 7 children did not survive or were orphaned.7, the number unlucky for Margaret of Dungarvan.Her Hemiplegic body paralysed by the loss and the grief.37 the number of years in her life.Bridget Crotty. Deported 1849The Lismore girl stole three geese from Pat Walsh of Portlaw,Made an outlaw of her and her friend JudithSent first to Grangegorman workhouse to await her passage,Yet a quiet girl like Bridget understood the messageand good behaviour cut short her servitude, with her modest attitude,and the flesh of the geese never made it to her bellyfrom Ballyduff to the rough seas,going under to the hell of a retributive colony.Judith Farrell. Deported 1849Of Lismore and a friend of Ms Crotty, the geese stealerShe sailed down to hard labour without favour from healingherself from the dysentery on the boat of transportation,Frequented disorderly houses and stationsWhere she took up with a fellow, a drunken braggard boaster,Her black tale of woe ends with her rape and her murder.No absence permitted or sanctitude or saviour,She couldn’t escape from his fervour and venture.Bridget Brien. Deported 1852Ms Brien stole a hen at the height of the famineTo sustain starving children, 7 years transportation.Transformed to a penal servant girl, dark haired and blue eyedHer boy John Brien, age 4 by her sidewas taken into the orphanage on arrival, the pain of survival.Bereft Bridget heartbroken, caught drunk and abscondingOne of 9000 women, repentant remanding.The women of Waterford and Van Diemen’s landing.What did they see when the glanced back over the stern?They saw Ireland, to where they would never to return.
In this month’s ARINS podcast, Rory Montgomery is in conversation with Professor Nikos Skoutaris about his recent article ‘Accommodating Territorial Contestation and National Constitutional Change: The Cases of Cyprus and Ireland’ published by ARINS in Irish Studies in International Affairs. The article is available open access, as are all ARINS publications, and can be read here: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/article/963080This is episode 50 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In this month’s ARINS podcast, Professor Brendan O’Leary (UPenn) and Professor John Garry (QUB) together with host Rory Montgomery discuss the recently published article they co-authored with Dr James Pow (QUB): My Symbols or Our Symbols? The Effect of Inclusive Narratives on the Acceptability of Out-Group Symbols. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970057/The article is available open access in Irish Studies in International Affairs, as are all ARINS articles. This podcast series provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In this episode of ‘My Identity’ Professor Colin Graham (Maynooth) is in conversation withQueen’s University Belfast students James Tourish and Rea Thien.Following the publication of For and Against a United Ireland by Fintan O’Toole and SamMcBride, ARINS held two sold out events in collaboration with the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Thefirst of these was an interactive debate for school pupils and university students. Colin metwith James and Rea immediately after the event, recording this conversation on site at theLyric to capture their reactions and discuss their thoughts about the event and the book.James is in his second year studying Politics and International Relations at QUB, he identifiesas coming from an Irish Nationalist background having grown up in Derry. Rea recentlygraduated from Law and Politics at QUB and grew up in Southern California.The My Identity series is hosted by Professor Colin Graham, Maynooth. In this series, Colin isin conversation with a range of people whose ideas, work and life experiences shed light onthe topic of identity on the Island of Ireland. My Identity is part of the ARINS project.Colin Graham is Professor English and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Maynooth University. His books include Northern Ireland: Thirty Years of Photography, Deconstructing Ireland and Ideologies of Epic. He was editor of The Irish Review from 2004 to 2020. During the Brexit negotiations he created the Twitter account @borderirish(opens in a new tab) and wrote the book I am the Border, so I am, published by HarperCollins.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at WWW.ARINSPROJECT.COM(opens in a new tab)ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs.My Identity is hosted by Professor Colin Graham.Podcast management and production by Dr Susie Deedigan (University of Notre Dame). With thanks to Conor Patterson and Morgan Blain-Crehan, The Spinner’s Mill, Belfast.
In this episode of ‘My Identity’ Professor Colin Graham (Maynooth) is in conversation with Drew Harris.Jeremy Andrew Harris, OBE, QPM is a retired senior police officer who was Commissioner of An Garda Síochána from September 2018 to September 2025.He previously served as Deputy Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) from 2014 to 2018. The My Identity series is hosted by Professor Colin Graham, Maynooth. In this series, Colin is in conversation with a range of people whose ideas, work and life experiences shed light on the topic of identity on the Island of Ireland. My Identity is part of the ARINS project.---Colin Graham is Professor English and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Maynooth University. His books include Northern Ireland: Thirty Years of Photography, Deconstructing Ireland and Ideologies of Epic. He was editor of The Irish Review from 2004 to 2020. During the Brexit negotiations he created the Twitter account @borderirish and wrote the book I am the Border, so I am, published by HarperCollins.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at WWW.ARINSPROJECT.COMARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.My Identity is hosted by Professor Colin Graham.Podcast management and production by Dr Susie Deedigan (University of Notre Dame). With thanks to Conor Patterson and Morgan Blain-Crehan, The Spinner’s Mill, Belfast.
ARINS Podcast 48: Beyond Identity and Ideology: how deliberation can reframe constitutional debateIn this month’s ARINS podcast, host Rory Montgomery discusses the Irish Studies in International Affairs article, Beyond Identity and Ideology: how deliberation can reframe constitutional debate with its authors Dr Shelley Deane (DCU), Professor Joanne McEvoy (Aberdeen) and Professor Jennifer Todd (UCD). The article discusses a series of grassroots cross-border, cross-community deliberative cafes conducted by the researchers to discuss potential future constitutional change. The broader project considers how deliberation and engaging with ordinary people - in this case, women - an reframe the constitutional agenda. Read the summary report: https://www.ria.ie/assets/uploads/2025/11/30.10.30-ARINS-Conference-A4-flier.pdf A forthcoming article in Irish Studies in International Affairs will be available open access, as are all ARINS publications, which can be read on our website: https://www.ria.ie/research-programmes/arins/#latest-arins-articlesThis podcast series provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In this episode of ‘My Identity’ Professor Colin Graham (Maynooth) is in conversation with Jess Majekodunmi. Jess Majekodunmi is Managing Director of the Human Sciences Studio at Accenture, a Member of the Board of Directors at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and a champion of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. The My Identity series is hosted by Professor Colin Graham, Maynooth. In this series, Colin is in conversation with a range of people whose ideas, work and life experiences shed light on the topic of identity on the Island of Ireland. My Identity is part of the ARINS project.Colin Graham is Professor English and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Maynooth University. His books include Northern Ireland: Thirty Years of Photography, Deconstructing Ireland and Ideologies of Epic. He was editor of The Irish Review from 2004 to 2020. During the Brexit negotiations he created the Twitter account @borderirish and wrote the book I am the Border, so I am, published by HarperCollins. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs. My Identity is hosted by Professor Colin Graham. Podcast management and production by Dr Susie Deedigan (University of Notre Dame).
In this month’s ARINS podcast, host Rory Montgomery chat to Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride about their recent ARINS publication: For and Against a United Ireland. The prospect of Irish unification is now stronger than at any point since partition in 1921. Voters on both sides of the Irish border may soon have to confront for themselves what the answer to a referendum question would mean - for themselves, for their neighbours, and for their society.Journalists Fintan O'Toole and Sam McBride examine the strongest arguments for and against a united Ireland. What do the words 'united Ireland' even mean? Would it be better for Northern Ireland? Would it improve lives in the Republic of Ireland? And could it be brought about without bloodshed?O’Toole and McBride each argue the case for and against unity, questioning received wisdom and bringing fresh thinking to one of Ireland’s most intractable questions. With cartoons by Fergus Boylan.The book has been shortlisted for An Post Book Award 2025 - BEST IRISH-PUBLISHED BOOK OF THE YEAR. See shortlistBook tickets to see the authors debate the strongest arguments for and against a united Ireland in The Lyric Theatre, Belfast and The National Concert Hall, Dublin in November 2025!---This is episode 47 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.comARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
As part of Dublin Festival of History, this lecture was organised to mark the RIA Library exhibition, Collecting Ireland’s History.This lecture was organised in collaboration with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) Library Network and explored the diverse approaches to collecting Irish historical manuscripts of the last 700 years; and the role of libraries in preserving and recovering lost materials. Focusing on materials from the Bodleian Libraries, Cambridge University Library, British Library, National Library Ireland, Trinity College Dublin and the Royal Irish Academy, the talk also addressed the themes presented in the accompanying Collecting Ireland’s History exhibition. It examined the links between private and institutional collecting and how their combined efforts are helping to reconstruct a lost archive: the Public Record Office of Ireland, destroyed on 30 June 1922.About the speakerDr Sarah Hendriks is an early modern historian specialising in the socio-cultural and architectural history of Ireland and the British Isles. She has studied and worked in universities around the world including The Australian National University, The University of Oxford, The University of Cambridge, and The University of Edinburgh. At the time of recording, Sarah was Archival Discovery Research Fellow and Lead Coordinator of the Library Network for the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland.
The Book of Lecan ConferenceDuring this two-day event in October 2025, speakers explored the production of the Book of Lecan or Leabhar Mór Lecain, its scribes and patrons, and the texts contained within the manuscript.The manuscript known as the Book of Lecan (Leabhar Mór Lecain) was created in Co. Sligo in the early fifteenth century. It contains a large amount of genealogical material, especially relating to the families with which the scribes were associated, as well as historical, biblical and hagiographical material. Included are a Dindshenchas, Bansenchas, and versions of Lebor Gabála, Uraicept an nÉces, Cóir Anmann, and Book of Rights. The conference papers shared new insights into how the manuscript was produced, its history of ownership and the significance of the various texts found within the compilation.The event was a collaboration between the Royal Irish Academy, Maynooth University, and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.Recordings have some of the lectures have been made available, subject to the presenters’ consent. It is hoped that the proceedings of this conference will be published as part of the Codices Hibernenses Eximii series in due course.Thursday 2 October 20252.00 pm Making the Book of Lecan - Pádraig Ó Macháin2.45 pm The Later History of the Book of Lecan - Bernadette Cunningham3.30 pm Coffee break4.00 pm Poets and Poetry in the Book of Lecan - Elizabeth Boyle4.45 pm Lebor Bretnach and the International Perspective of the Book of Lecan - Patrick WaddenFriday 3 October 20259.30am A History of the Men of Britain: Text and Context - Alex Woolf10.15 am Lebor na Cert: a “Grossly Overrated” Text? - Seán Ó Hoireabhárd11.00 am Coffee break11.30 am Gilla Íosa Mór: Pseudohistorian - John Carey12.15 pm Shaping Dindshenchas Érenn: What the Book of Lecan Version Reveals - Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and David McCay1.00 pm Lunch2.30pm A Return to Cóir Anmann: its Etymologies, its Date and the Book of Lecan Text - Sharon Arbuthnot3.15pm The Book of Lecan’s Secular Genealogies (especially those of Connacht) - Nollaig Ó Muraíle4.00 pm “A Splendid Family Heirloom”: Manuscript Illumination and the School of Lecan - Karen Ralph
The Book of Lecan ConferenceDuring this two-day event in October 2025, speakers explored the production of the Book of Lecan or Leabhar Mór Lecain, its scribes and patrons, and the texts contained within the manuscript.The manuscript known as the Book of Lecan (Leabhar Mór Lecain) was created in Co. Sligo in the early fifteenth century. It contains a large amount of genealogical material, especially relating to the families with which the scribes were associated, as well as historical, biblical and hagiographical material. Included are a Dindshenchas, Bansenchas, and versions of Lebor Gabála, Uraicept an nÉces, Cóir Anmann, and Book of Rights. The conference papers shared new insights into how the manuscript was produced, its history of ownership and the significance of the various texts found within the compilation.The event was a collaboration between the Royal Irish Academy, Maynooth University, and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.Recordings have some of the lectures have been made available, subject to the presenters’ consent. It is hoped that the proceedings of this conference will be published as part of the Codices Hibernenses Eximii series in due course.Thursday 2 October 20252.00 pm Making the Book of Lecan - Pádraig Ó Macháin2.45 pm The Later History of the Book of Lecan - Bernadette Cunningham3.30 pm Coffee break4.00 pm Poets and Poetry in the Book of Lecan - Elizabeth Boyle4.45 pm Lebor Bretnach and the International Perspective of the Book of Lecan - Patrick WaddenFriday 3 October 20259.30am A History of the Men of Britain: Text and Context - Alex Woolf10.15 am Lebor na Cert: a “Grossly Overrated” Text? - Seán Ó Hoireabhárd11.00 am Coffee break11.30 am Gilla Íosa Mór: Pseudohistorian - John Carey12.15 pm Shaping Dindshenchas Érenn: What the Book of Lecan Version Reveals - Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and David McCay1.00 pm Lunch2.30pm A Return to Cóir Anmann: its Etymologies, its Date and the Book of Lecan Text - Sharon Arbuthnot3.15pm The Book of Lecan’s Secular Genealogies (especially those of Connacht) - Nollaig Ó Muraíle4.00 pm “A Splendid Family Heirloom”: Manuscript Illumination and the School of Lecan - Karen Ralph
The Book of Lecan ConferenceDuring this two-day event in October 2025, speakers explored the production of the Book of Lecan or Leabhar Mór Lecain, its scribes and patrons, and the texts contained within the manuscript.The manuscript known as the Book of Lecan (Leabhar Mór Lecain) was created in Co. Sligo in the early fifteenth century. It contains a large amount of genealogical material, especially relating to the families with which the scribes were associated, as well as historical, biblical and hagiographical material. Included are a Dindshenchas, Bansenchas, and versions of Lebor Gabála, Uraicept an nÉces, Cóir Anmann, and Book of Rights. The conference papers shared new insights into how the manuscript was produced, its history of ownership and the significance of the various texts found within the compilation.The event was a collaboration between the Royal Irish Academy, Maynooth University, and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.Recordings have some of the lectures have been made available, subject to the presenters’ consent. It is hoped that the proceedings of this conference will be published as part of the Codices Hibernenses Eximii series in due course.Thursday 2 October 20252.00 pm Making the Book of Lecan - Pádraig Ó Macháin2.45 pm The Later History of the Book of Lecan - Bernadette Cunningham3.30 pm Coffee break4.00 pm Poets and Poetry in the Book of Lecan - Elizabeth Boyle4.45 pm Lebor Bretnach and the International Perspective of the Book of Lecan - Patrick WaddenFriday 3 October 20259.30am A History of the Men of Britain: Text and Context - Alex Woolf10.15 am Lebor na Cert: a “Grossly Overrated” Text? - Seán Ó Hoireabhárd11.00 am Coffee break11.30 am Gilla Íosa Mór: Pseudohistorian - John Carey12.15 pm Shaping Dindshenchas Érenn: What the Book of Lecan Version Reveals - Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and David McCay1.00 pm Lunch2.30pm A Return to Cóir Anmann: its Etymologies, its Date and the Book of Lecan Text - Sharon Arbuthnot3.15pm The Book of Lecan’s Secular Genealogies (especially those of Connacht) - Nollaig Ó Muraíle4.00 pm “A Splendid Family Heirloom”: Manuscript Illumination and the School of Lecan - Karen Ralph
The Book of Lecan ConferenceDuring this two-day event in October 2025, speakers explored the production of the Book of Lecan or Leabhar Mór Lecain, its scribes and patrons, and the texts contained within the manuscript.The manuscript known as the Book of Lecan (Leabhar Mór Lecain) was created in Co. Sligo in the early fifteenth century. It contains a large amount of genealogical material, especially relating to the families with which the scribes were associated, as well as historical, biblical and hagiographical material. Included are a Dindshenchas, Bansenchas, and versions of Lebor Gabála, Uraicept an nÉces, Cóir Anmann, and Book of Rights. The conference papers shared new insights into how the manuscript was produced, its history of ownership and the significance of the various texts found within the compilation.The event was a collaboration between the Royal Irish Academy, Maynooth University, and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.Recordings have some of the lectures have been made available, subject to the presenters’ consent. It is hoped that the proceedings of this conference will be published as part of the Codices Hibernenses Eximii series in due course.Thursday 2 October 20252.00 pm Making the Book of Lecan - Pádraig Ó Macháin2.45 pm The Later History of the Book of Lecan - Bernadette Cunningham3.30 pm Coffee break4.00 pm Poets and Poetry in the Book of Lecan - Elizabeth Boyle4.45 pm Lebor Bretnach and the International Perspective of the Book of Lecan - Patrick WaddenFriday 3 October 20259.30am A History of the Men of Britain: Text and Context - Alex Woolf10.15 am Lebor na Cert: a “Grossly Overrated” Text? - Seán Ó Hoireabhárd11.00 am Coffee break11.30 am Gilla Íosa Mór: Pseudohistorian - John Carey12.15 pm Shaping Dindshenchas Érenn: What the Book of Lecan Version Reveals - Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and David McCay1.00 pm Lunch2.30pm A Return to Cóir Anmann: its Etymologies, its Date and the Book of Lecan Text - Sharon Arbuthnot3.15pm The Book of Lecan’s Secular Genealogies (especially those of Connacht) - Nollaig Ó Muraíle4.00 pm “A Splendid Family Heirloom”: Manuscript Illumination and the School of Lecan - Karen Ralph
The Book of Lecan ConferenceDuring this two-day event in October 2025, speakers explored the production of the Book of Lecan or Leabhar Mór Lecain, its scribes and patrons, and the texts contained within the manuscript.The manuscript known as the Book of Lecan (Leabhar Mór Lecain) was created in Co. Sligo in the early fifteenth century. It contains a large amount of genealogical material, especially relating to the families with which the scribes were associated, as well as historical, biblical and hagiographical material. Included are a Dindshenchas, Bansenchas, and versions of Lebor Gabála, Uraicept an nÉces, Cóir Anmann, and Book of Rights. The conference papers shared new insights into how the manuscript was produced, its history of ownership and the significance of the various texts found within the compilation.The event was a collaboration between the Royal Irish Academy, Maynooth University, and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.Recordings have some of the lectures have been made available, subject to the presenters’ consent. It is hoped that the proceedings of this conference will be published as part of the Codices Hibernenses Eximii series in due course.Thursday 2 October 20252.00 pm Making the Book of Lecan - Pádraig Ó Macháin2.45 pm The Later History of the Book of Lecan - Bernadette Cunningham3.30 pm Coffee break4.00 pm Poets and Poetry in the Book of Lecan - Elizabeth Boyle4.45 pm Lebor Bretnach and the International Perspective of the Book of Lecan - Patrick WaddenFriday 3 October 20259.30am A History of the Men of Britain: Text and Context - Alex Woolf10.15 am Lebor na Cert: a “Grossly Overrated” Text? - Seán Ó Hoireabhárd11.00 am Coffee break11.30 am Gilla Íosa Mór: Pseudohistorian - John Carey12.15 pm Shaping Dindshenchas Érenn: What the Book of Lecan Version Reveals - Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and David McCay1.00 pm Lunch2.30pm A Return to Cóir Anmann: its Etymologies, its Date and the Book of Lecan Text - Sharon Arbuthnot3.15pm The Book of Lecan’s Secular Genealogies (especially those of Connacht) - Nollaig Ó Muraíle4.00 pm “A Splendid Family Heirloom”: Manuscript Illumination and the School of Lecan - Karen Ralph
The Book of Lecan ConferenceDuring this two-day event in October 2025, speakers explored the production of the Book of Lecan or Leabhar Mór Lecain, its scribes and patrons, and the texts contained within the manuscript.The manuscript known as the Book of Lecan (Leabhar Mór Lecain) was created in Co. Sligo in the early fifteenth century. It contains a large amount of genealogical material, especially relating to the families with which the scribes were associated, as well as historical, biblical and hagiographical material. Included are a Dindshenchas, Bansenchas, and versions of Lebor Gabála, Uraicept an nÉces, Cóir Anmann, and Book of Rights. The conference papers shared new insights into how the manuscript was produced, its history of ownership and the significance of the various texts found within the compilation.The event was a collaboration between the Royal Irish Academy, Maynooth University, and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.Recordings have some of the lectures have been made available, subject to the presenters’ consent. It is hoped that the proceedings of this conference will be published as part of the Codices Hibernenses Eximii series in due course.Thursday 2 October 20252.00 pm Making the Book of Lecan - Pádraig Ó Macháin2.45 pm The Later History of the Book of Lecan - Bernadette Cunningham3.30 pm Coffee break4.00 pm Poets and Poetry in the Book of Lecan - Elizabeth Boyle4.45 pm Lebor Bretnach and the International Perspective of the Book of Lecan - Patrick WaddenFriday 3 October 20259.30am A History of the Men of Britain: Text and Context - Alex Woolf10.15 am Lebor na Cert: a “Grossly Overrated” Text? - Seán Ó Hoireabhárd11.00 am Coffee break11.30 am Gilla Íosa Mór: Pseudohistorian - John Carey12.15 pm Shaping Dindshenchas Érenn: What the Book of Lecan Version Reveals - Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and David McCay1.00 pm Lunch2.30pm A Return to Cóir Anmann: its Etymologies, its Date and the Book of Lecan Text - Sharon Arbuthnot3.15pm The Book of Lecan’s Secular Genealogies (especially those of Connacht) - Nollaig Ó Muraíle4.00 pm “A Splendid Family Heirloom”: Manuscript Illumination and the School of Lecan - Karen Ralph
The Book of Lecan ConferenceDuring this two-day event in October 2025, speakers explored the production of the Book of Lecan or Leabhar Mór Lecain, its scribes and patrons, and the texts contained within the manuscript.The manuscript known as the Book of Lecan (Leabhar Mór Lecain) was created in Co. Sligo in the early fifteenth century. It contains a large amount of genealogical material, especially relating to the families with which the scribes were associated, as well as historical, biblical and hagiographical material. Included are a Dindshenchas, Bansenchas, and versions of Lebor Gabála, Uraicept an nÉces, Cóir Anmann, and Book of Rights. The conference papers shared new insights into how the manuscript was produced, its history of ownership and the significance of the various texts found within the compilation.The event was a collaboration between the Royal Irish Academy, Maynooth University, and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.Recordings have some of the lectures have been made available, subject to the presenters’ consent. It is hoped that the proceedings of this conference will be published as part of the Codices Hibernenses Eximii series in due course.Thursday 2 October 20252.00 pm Making the Book of Lecan - Pádraig Ó Macháin2.45 pm The Later History of the Book of Lecan - Bernadette Cunningham3.30 pm Coffee break4.00 pm Poets and Poetry in the Book of Lecan - Elizabeth Boyle4.45 pm Lebor Bretnach and the International Perspective of the Book of Lecan - Patrick WaddenFriday 3 October 20259.30am A History of the Men of Britain: Text and Context - Alex Woolf10.15 am Lebor na Cert: a “Grossly Overrated” Text? - Seán Ó Hoireabhárd11.00 am Coffee break11.30 am Gilla Íosa Mór: Pseudohistorian - John Carey12.15 pm Shaping Dindshenchas Érenn: What the Book of Lecan Version Reveals - Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and David McCay1.00 pm Lunch2.30pm A Return to Cóir Anmann: its Etymologies, its Date and the Book of Lecan Text - Sharon Arbuthnot3.15pm The Book of Lecan’s Secular Genealogies (especially those of Connacht) - Nollaig Ó Muraíle4.00 pm “A Splendid Family Heirloom”: Manuscript Illumination and the School of Lecan - Karen Ralph
The Book of Lecan ConferenceDuring this two-day event in October 2025, speakers explored the production of the Book of Lecan or Leabhar Mór Lecain, its scribes and patrons, and the texts contained within the manuscript.The manuscript known as the Book of Lecan (Leabhar Mór Lecain) was created in Co. Sligo in the early fifteenth century. It contains a large amount of genealogical material, especially relating to the families with which the scribes were associated, as well as historical, biblical and hagiographical material. Included are a Dindshenchas, Bansenchas, and versions of Lebor Gabála, Uraicept an nÉces, Cóir Anmann, and Book of Rights. The conference papers shared new insights into how the manuscript was produced, its history of ownership and the significance of the various texts found within the compilation.The event was a collaboration between the Royal Irish Academy, Maynooth University, and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.Recordings have some of the lectures have been made available, subject to the presenters’ consent. It is hoped that the proceedings of this conference will be published as part of the Codices Hibernenses Eximii series in due course.Thursday 2 October 20252.00 pm Making the Book of Lecan - Pádraig Ó Macháin2.45 pm The Later History of the Book of Lecan - Bernadette Cunningham3.30 pm Coffee break4.00 pm Poets and Poetry in the Book of Lecan - Elizabeth Boyle4.45 pm Lebor Bretnach and the International Perspective of the Book of Lecan - Patrick WaddenFriday 3 October 20259.30am A History of the Men of Britain: Text and Context - Alex Woolf10.15 am Lebor na Cert: a “Grossly Overrated” Text? - Seán Ó Hoireabhárd11.00 am Coffee break11.30 am Gilla Íosa Mór: Pseudohistorian - John Carey12.15 pm Shaping Dindshenchas Érenn: What the Book of Lecan Version Reveals - Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and David McCay1.00 pm Lunch2.30pm A Return to Cóir Anmann: its Etymologies, its Date and the Book of Lecan Text - Sharon Arbuthnot3.15pm The Book of Lecan’s Secular Genealogies (especially those of Connacht) - Nollaig Ó Muraíle4.00 pm “A Splendid Family Heirloom”: Manuscript Illumination and the School of Lecan - Karen Ralph
The Book of Lecan ConferenceDuring this two-day event in October 2025, speakers explored the production of the Book of Lecan or Leabhar Mór Lecain, its scribes and patrons, and the texts contained within the manuscript.The manuscript known as the Book of Lecan (Leabhar Mór Lecain) was created in Co. Sligo in the early fifteenth century. It contains a large amount of genealogical material, especially relating to the families with which the scribes were associated, as well as historical, biblical and hagiographical material. Included are a Dindshenchas, Bansenchas, and versions of Lebor Gabála, Uraicept an nÉces, Cóir Anmann, and Book of Rights. The conference papers shared new insights into how the manuscript was produced, its history of ownership and the significance of the various texts found within the compilation.The event was a collaboration between the Royal Irish Academy, Maynooth University, and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.Recordings have some of the lectures have been made available, subject to the presenters’ consent. It is hoped that the proceedings of this conference will be published as part of the Codices Hibernenses Eximii series in due course.Thursday 2 October 20252.00 pm Making the Book of Lecan - Pádraig Ó Macháin2.45 pm The Later History of the Book of Lecan - Bernadette Cunningham3.30 pm Coffee break4.00 pm Poets and Poetry in the Book of Lecan - Elizabeth Boyle4.45 pm Lebor Bretnach and the International Perspective of the Book of Lecan - Patrick WaddenFriday 3 October 20259.30am A History of the Men of Britain: Text and Context - Alex Woolf10.15 am Lebor na Cert: a “Grossly Overrated” Text? - Seán Ó Hoireabhárd11.00 am Coffee break11.30 am Gilla Íosa Mór: Pseudohistorian - John Carey12.15 pm Shaping Dindshenchas Érenn: What the Book of Lecan Version Reveals - Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and David McCay1.00 pm Lunch2.30pm A Return to Cóir Anmann: its Etymologies, its Date and the Book of Lecan Text - Sharon Arbuthnot3.15pm The Book of Lecan’s Secular Genealogies (especially those of Connacht) - Nollaig Ó Muraíle4.00 pm “A Splendid Family Heirloom”: Manuscript Illumination and the School of Lecan - Karen Ralph
In this episode of ‘My Identity’ Professor Colin Graham (Maynooth) is in conversation with Leo Varadkar.Leo Varadkar was Taoiseach of Ireland from 2017 to 2020 and from 2022 to 2024. During the thirteen years he spent in cabinet, he held many positions across the Ministries of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Social Protection, and Health.After stepping down from political life in late 2024, he was appointed as a Hauser Leader at the Center for Public Leadership in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, a Board Member of Brussels based Care4Everybody and writes a column for the Sunday Times Ireland.In this episode he discusses, among other things, national identity, religion, family and his book: Speaking My Mind.About the SeriesMy Identity is hosted by Professor Colin Graham, Maynooth. In this series, Colin is in conversation with a range of people whose ideas, work and life experiences shed light on the topic of identity on the Island of Ireland. My Identity is part of the ARINS project. Colin Graham is Professor English and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Maynooth University. His books include Northern Ireland: Thirty Years of Photography, Deconstructing Ireland and Ideologies of Epic. He was editor of The Irish Review from 2004 to 2020. During the Brexit negotiations he created the Twitter account @borderirish and wrote the book I am the Border, so I am, published by HarperCollins.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.comARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.My Identity is hosted by Professor Colin Graham. Podcast management and production by Dr Susie Deedigan.
Listen back to our 2025 Heritage Week lecture by Emma Murphy, curator at the National Museum of Ireland – Natural History. Learn about R. J. Ussher MRIA, 1841-1913, and his connections to the National Museum, including a large collection of archived correspondence from Ussher to the curators and the hundreds of specimen donations that Ussher gave personally, or were given by his associates due to his encouragement.Richard John Ussher MRIA, 1841-1913, was a speleologist, ornithologist, and renowned Irish naturalist. He published lists of Irish birds, showing the species contained in the National Collection. These, alongside “The Birds of Ireland” (1900), co-authored with Warren, were important works in the history of Irish ornithology. He donated his archive collection to the Royal Irish Academy, and many specimens to the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History.Emma Murphy, Curator of Terrestrial Zoology at NMI – Natural History gave this lecture, exploring some of the stories, both funny and tragic, that can be found within Ussher’s collections, and highlighting his enduring scientific legacy.This lecture was part of an programme of events relating to the Ussher Birds Notes collection, held in RIA Library. In 2024, the Library received funding from the Heritage Council as part of the Heritage Stewardship Fund for a project entitled, ‘The Birds of Ireland: Curating the Richard J. Ussher Collection at the Royal Irish Academy’. This project aimed to secure the long-term preservation, access, and discovery of material from the Ussher Bird Notes Collection through a programme of archival cataloguing, digitisation and outreach. The Ussher Bird Notes Digital Archive was launched in May 2025, and included digital images, with accompanying metadata, of 900 selected items from the collection. Detailed cataloguing of over 9000 items from the collection was also completed and researchers can contact library@ria.ie for more information about this listing. Thanks to a second tranche of funding from the Heritage Stewardship Fund, granted in 2025, the remainder of the Ussher Bird Notes Collection will be catalogued and more material will be added to the digital archive in due course.
In this month’s ARINS podcast, host Rory Montgomery discusses the recent Irish Studies in International Affairs article, A Review of Employment Law in Ireland, North and South, with its authors Esther McGuinness (Ulster University), Desmond Ryan (Trinity College Dublin) and Rory O'Connell(Ulster University). The article explores the evolution and current state of employment law across the two jurisdictions on the island of Ireland, a century after the 1920 Government of Ireland Act. It examines how partition and constitutional changes have affected shared legal origins and analyses collective and individual labour law, including health and safety, through the lens of historical and contemporary influences, such as Brexit and the Windsor Framework. The article is available open access, as are all ARINS publications, and can be read here: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/article/962917
This is episode 45 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
As part of Biodiversity Week 2025, Dr Carla Mateus delivered a lunchtime lecture in the Royal Irish Academy on the topic of historical meteorological records held in the Academy Library's archive collections. Historical meteorological observations are crucial to better assess past climate variability and trends and the frequency, intensity, duration, and distribution of extreme weather events, and to put the current climate change into historical context. The records preserved in the archives of the Royal Irish Academy date from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century and are of cultural and scientific importance. Many of the records were sent to the Academy by diligent observers interested in science and the arts, others were collated in response to an Academy initiative to organise a system of meteorological observations in Ireland in the period 1850-52.This lecture highlights the role of the Royal Irish Academy as a curator of historical meteorological records across the Island of Ireland, as a publisher of diverse papers on instrumentation and meteorological observations, and as a learned body which encouraged a standardised approach for reliable weather recording.The meteorological records include observations of air temperature, maximum and minimum air temperatures, wet bulb, sea temperature, rainfall, pressure, wind direction and force, cloud cover and weather remarks. Many well-known historical extreme weather events are covered by instrumental observations and documentary weather remarks, such as storms and air temperature extremes.
In the fifth episode of ‘My Identity’ Professor Colin Graham (Maynooth) is in conversation with Claire Mitchell. Claire Mitchell is a writer and researcher from Belfast. She writes about people and everyday politics in Northern/Ireland, using interviews, memoir, archives and storytelling. Her latest book, The Ghost Limb: Alternative Protestants and the Spirit of 1798, was published in 2022. Clare was formerly a senior lecturer in Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast and holds a BA, PhD & post-doc in Politics from University College Dublin. In this episode, she discusses her identity and her work. This is episode 5 of the My Identity podcast series hosted by Professor Colin Graham, Maynooth. In this series, Colin is in conversation with a range of people whose ideas, work and life experiences shed light on the topic of identity on the Island of Ireland. My Identity is part of the ARINS project.This is episode 5 of the My Identity podcast series hosted by Professor Colin Graham, Maynooth. In this series, Colin is in conversation with a range of people whose ideas, work and life experiences shed light on the topic of identity on the Island of Ireland. My Identity is part of the ARINS project. Colin Graham is Professor English and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Maynooth University. His books include Northern Ireland: Thirty Years of Photography, Deconstructing Ireland and Ideologies of Epic. He was editor of The Irish Review from 2004 to 2020. During the Brexit negotiations he created the Twitter account @borderirish and wrote the book I am the Border, so I am, published by HarperCollins. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs. My Identity is hosted by Professor Colin Graham. Podcast management and production by Dr Susie Deedigan (University of Notre Dame). Audio design and editing by Conor Patterson and Morgan Blain-Crehan, The Spinner’s Mill, Belfast.
In this month’s ARINS podcast, host Rory Montgomery discusses the recent UCL Constitution Unit report ‘Reform of Stormont: Options for Discussion’ with its authors, Conor Kelly, Alan Renwick and Alan Whysall.This is episode 44 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
This is episode 4 of the My Identity podcast series hosted by Professor Colin Graham, Maynooth. In this series, Colin is in conversation with a range of people whose ideas, work and life experiences shed light on the topic of identity on the Island of Ireland. My Identity is part of the ARINS project. Colin Graham is Professor English and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Maynooth University. His books include Northern Ireland: Thirty Years of Photography, Deconstructing Ireland and Ideologies of Epic. He was editor of The Irish Review from 2004 to 2020. During the Brexit negotiations he created the Twitter account @borderirish and wrote the book I am the Border, so I am, published by HarperCollins. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs. My Identity is hosted by Professor Colin Graham. Podcast management and production by Dr Susie Deedigan (University of Notre Dame). Audio design and editing by Conor Patterson and Morgan Blain-Crehan, The Spinner’s Mill, Belfast.
In this month’s ARINS podcast, former Deputy First Minister and leader of the SDLP, Mark Durkan discusses his political career with host Rory Montgomery. The conversation focuses on the recent book by Professor Graham Spencer, The SDLP, Politics and Peace: the Mark Durkan interviews which was published in 2024 by Peter Lang.This is episode 43 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.comARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In the third episode of ‘My Identity’ Professor Colin Graham (Maynooth) is in conversation with Manchán Magan. This episode is a recording of a public conversation which took place in Dublin on 4 February 2025.Manchán Magan has written books on his travels in Africa, India and South America. He writes occasionally for The Irish Times, and presents the Almanac of Ireland podcast for RTÉ. He has made dozens of documentaries on issues of world culture for TG4, RTÉ, & Travel Channel. His books include Thirty-Two Words For Field, Listen to the Land Speak, Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Words For Nature, and Wolf-Men and Water Hounds. With Antic-Ham, he’s collaborated on two art books for Redfoxpress. www.manchan.comIn this episode he discusses his identity and background as well as his work.Read more about this public event: https://www.ria.ie/blog/you-need-to-walk-the-land-to-feel-the-stories/About the SeriesThis is episode 3 of the My Identity podcast series hosted by Professor Colin Graham, Maynooth. In this series, Colin is in conversation with a range of people whose ideas, work and life experiences shed light on the topic of identity on the Island of Ireland. My Identity is part of the ARINS project. Colin Graham is Professor English and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Maynooth University. His books include Northern Ireland: Thirty Years of Photography, Deconstructing Ireland and Ideologies of Epic. He was editor of The Irish Review from 2004 to 2020. During the Brexit negotiations he created the Twitter account @borderirish and wrote the book I am the Border, so I am, published by HarperCollins.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at WWW.ARINSPROJECT.COMARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.My Identity is hosted by Professor Colin Graham. Podcast management and production by Dr Susie Deedigan. Audio design and editing by Conor Patterson and Morgan Blain-Crehan, The Spinner’s Mill, Belfast.
A Walnut Wound is set in July 1795. A young girl is brought to the Grangegorman House of Industry when her family becomes homeless following their eviction.This is the third episode of the Flighty Creatures trilogy of short stories for podcast by Wexford-based writer, Sylvia Cullen. Inspired by women who dwelt in the Grangegorman Asylum, Penitentiary and Workhouse, these stories are set in the 18th and 19th centuries. Listen back to episode one, The Holding Room, which follows Asylum Attendant Muriel Hill facing a quandary when her patient refuses to have her image captured by the asylum photographer. Episode two, By the Spider's Bed, tells the story of an older inmate of the Women’s Penitentiary, awaiting transportation to Van Diemen’s Land.Flighty Creatures is a project of Grangegorman Histories' public call.Find out more about Grangegorman Histories on grangegormanhistories.ieIllustration by Fidelma Slattery.
Held on 21 January 2025, and jointly organised by the Royal Irish Academy and the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, this seminar looked to add impetus to the implementation of the national policy approach being advanced by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.
In this month’s ARINS podcast, Professor Brendan O’Leary (UPenn), Professor John McGarry (QUB), Dr Dawn Walsh (UCD) and Dr James Pow (QUB) together with host Rory Montgomery MRIA discuss the recently published results of surveys conducted in 2024. The discussion covers opinions on membership of NATO and the Commonwealth, attitudes towards immigration, the role of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference and emotional responses to potential constitutional change. More information on the surveys, including links to all recent publications and booking links for upcoming public discussions (Dublin 10 March, Belfast 13 March) can be found here: https://www.ria.ie/research-programmes/arins/arins-the-irish-times-north-and-south-surveys-2024-results/
By the Spider's Bed is the story of an older inmate of the Women’s Penitentiary, awaiting transportation to Van Diemen’s Land.This is the second episode of the Flighty Creatures trilogy of short stories for podcast by Wexford-based writer, Sylvia Cullen. Inspired by women who dwelt in the Grangegorman Asylum, Penitentiary and Workhouse, these stories are set in the 18th and 19th centuries. Listen back to episode one, The Holding Room, which follows Asylum Attendant Muriel Hill facing a quandary when her patient refuses to have her image captured by the asylum photographer.Flighty Creatures is a project of Grangegorman Histories' public call. Find out more about Grangegorman Histories on grangegormanhistories.ieIllustration by Fidelma Slattery.
The Holding Room follows Attendant Muriel Hill, facing a quandary when her patient refuses to have her image captured by the asylum photographer. This is the first episode of the Flighty Creatures trilogy of short stories for podcast by Wexford-based writer, Sylvia Cullen. Inspired by women who dwelt in the Grangegorman Asylum, Penitentiary and Workhouse, these stories are set in the 18th and 19th centuries.Flighty Creatures is a project of Grangegorman Histories' public call. Find out more about Grangegorman Histories on grangegormanhistories.ieIllustration by Fidelma Slattery.
In the second episode of ‘My Identity’ Professor Colin Graham (Maynooth) is in conversation with NI Justice Minister and Leader of the Alliance Party, Naomi Long MLA. This episode is a recording of a public conversation which took place in Dublin on 6 December 2024.A lifelong resident of East Belfast, and politically active since her early twenties, Naomi first joined Belfast City Council as an Alliance Party councillor in 2001. She was subsequently elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly as MLA for East Belfast in 2003. After having the honour of serving as Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2009 to 2010, she became the first Alliance MP elected to Westminster, as Member of Parliament for East Belfast in 2010, unseating the then First Minister, Peter Robinson. In May 2016, Naomi returned to the Northern Ireland Assembly as MLA for East Belfast, before becoming Leader of Alliance that October. Since then, she has presided over the most successful elections in Alliance’s history. Naomi is the current Justice Minister in the Northern Ireland Executive.In this episode she discusses, among other things, her upbringing, her faith and her career journey.The recording of the event can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXiqr9KX34sRead more about the event here: https://www.ria.ie/blog/the-long-view-identity-is-a-fluke-of-where-you-were-born/ This is episode 2 of the My Identity podcast series hosted by Professor Colin Graham, Maynooth. In this series, Colin is in conversation with a range of people whose ideas, work and life experiences shed light on the topic of identity on the Island of Ireland. My Identity is part of the ARINS project.Colin Graham is Professor English and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Maynooth University. His books include Northern Ireland: Thirty Years of Photography, Deconstructing Ireland and Ideologies of Epic. He was editor of The Irish Review from 2004 to 2020. During the Brexit negotiations he created the Twitter account @borderirish and wrote the book I am the Border, so I am, published by HarperCollins.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.comARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.My Identity is hosted by Professor Colin Graham. Podcast management and production by Dr Susie Deedigan. Audio design and editing by The Spinning Mill, Belfast.
The Asylum Workshop: a performers perspective is the fourth in the Grangegorman Histories podcast series exploring the histories of the Grangegorman area of north, inner-city Dublin.Evie O’Brien is an actor and performer. As a drama student at the Grangegorman campus of TU Dublin. Evie played a central role in the Asylum Workshop play, a documentary-drama written by playwright Colin Murphy, directed by Peter McDermott and performed by final year TU Dublin students in June 2023, supported by Grangegorman Histories.In this short podcast, Evie shares her experience of how engaging with the play shaped her understanding of the history of the Grangegorman site as a one of the first TU Dublin students to move on to the site. She reflects on how mental health has been viewed in Ireland in the past, and how the physical buildings on Grangegorman serves as a reminder of the importance of dismantling the stigma that surrounds mental health in the future.
In this month’s ARINS podcast, Dr Ida Milne and Dr Ian d’Alton, with host Rory Montgomery, discuss the lives of Southern Irish Protestants, including their own experiences. The conversation focuses on their 2019 co-edited collection of essays, Protestant and Irish: The minority’s search for place in independent Ireland, https://bit.ly/3Cous3i and Ian d’Alton’s 2024, Southern Irish Protestants: Histories, Lives and Literatures. Reviewed recently in the Irish Times: https://bit.ly/3EqdrX2.This is episode 41 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.comARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In the first episode of ‘My Identity’ Professor Colin Graham (Maynooth University) is in conversation with Dr Gail McConnell (QUB). Gail discusses her identity, and her uneasiness around discussing identity. The conversation explores themes including queerness, parenting, religion and the murder of Gail’s father and its resultant influence on her work. Gail is the author of The Sun is Open (Penned in the Margins, 2021), Northern Irish Poetry and Theology (Palgrave, 2014), and two pamphlets of poetry: Fothermather (Ink Sweat & Tears, 2019) and Fourteen (Green Bottle Press, 2018). Colin Graham is Professor English and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Maynooth University. - This is episode 1 in the ‘My Identity’ podcast series, hosted by Colin Graham and published by ARINS. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information about the research, resources and upcoming events can be found at www.arinsproject.com. The ARINS project is a partnership between the University of Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute and the Royal Irish Academy. Audio design and editing for this podcast are by Conor Patterson and Morgan Blain-Crehan; The Spinners Mill Studio, Belfast.
In this month's ARINS podcast Stephen Roulston and Martin Brown, with host Rory Montgomery, discuss education systems in Ireland. Their recent paper is 'A Century of Growing Apart and Challenges of Coming Together: Education Across the Island of Ireland'. Read the article in full here: https://bit.ly/3BCCZyXThis is episode 40 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
Religion has played a huge role in the history of Ireland and Northern Ireland. There has been little comparative analysis, however, of the legal elements of this topic. Prof Oran Doyle, Prof David Kenny & Prof Christopher McCrudden discuss, with host Rory Montgomery, their recent paper on the convergence and divergence in religious law on the Island of Ireland, North and South. Read more here: https://bit.ly/49e4tYfThis is episode 39 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
This episode, Birnie Esmond, Senior Economist in the Ulster University Business School discusses his recent paper 'Trading Places: Continuity and Change in Northern Ireland's Trading Relationships' with John FitzGerald, Adjunct Professor of the Department of Economics Trinity College Dublin, and host Rory Montgomery. The paper is available to read here: https://bit.ly/3NSWCFEThis is episode 38 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
On Monday, 7 October, Nicholas Canny MRIA delivered this lecture as part of the Dublin Festival of History in the Royal Irish Academy.Spenser’s View has, for centuries, been treated variously as a trove of prejudiced antiquarian lore useful for disparaging Irish people at moments of crisis, and as a store house of evidence that the English government engaged upon an Irish genocide in Elizabethan times. This lecture by Nicolas Canny, MRIA, offers a radical re-appraisal of the manuscript copy that Spenser left to posterity in 1596, and asks what motivated Spenser to take time from poetic composition to write this prose dialogue, what circumstances influenced his composition of different passages, and what sources and methods he used to underpin the ideas advanced by his interlocutors?
In this month's ARINS podcast host Rory Montgomery discusses the paper 'Beyond unionism and nationalism: do the ‘neithers’ want a border poll and a United Ireland?' with one of its authors, Jon Tonge,Professor of Politics at the University of Liverpool. Read the article in full here: https://bit.ly/3XPHHkb This is episode 37 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
Panel discussion on the consequences of the European Parliament elections that took place on the 24th of September 2024.The members of the panel were Francis Jacobs (former head of the European Parliament Office, Dublin), Sarah Collins (Brussels correspondent, Business Post) and Professor Ben Tonra, MRIA (UCD). It was chaired by Iulia Siedschlag (ESRI). Francis Jacobs, in his analysis of the EP election results, confirmed that the EPP had been a clear winner, increasing its seat share. The S & D group had largely held its own. It had been a poor election for Renew and the Greens. The far left had increased its seat numbers slightly. While the far right had done well, especially in the largest member states, it had not had the sweeping victory some had predicted, and was fragmented into three rival parties. In principle the mainstream parties should have a majority, but there could also be times when ECR votes were needed. How PM Meloni played her hand would be critically important. There could well be different majorities on different issues. Sarah Collins spoke about the formation of the Commission. The definition and allocation of portfolios was complex and was generally felt to be likely to boost the authority of President Von der Leyen, as the arbiter of likely disputes, still further. She confirmed that Von der Leyen had been irritated by the Irish Government’s approach to the nomination process, and by the high-profile opposition of four FF MEPs to her re-election. The promotion of European competitiveness as a core objective meant that the Commission could be expected to tilt in a pro-business direction. The Draghi Report offered a range of policy priorities to further this overarching goal. State aid could become very controversial. Climate change and the green new deal would remain important, and other prominent topics would include defence, tech and biopharma regulation, energy and the rule of law. The Ukraine/Russia war would obviously loom large too, however it developed. Ben Tonra, recognising that the Parliament’s role in relation to the Common Foreign and Security Policy remained relatively weak, nonetheless said that its budgetary role, and its resolutions, even if non-binding, gave it influence. Trends to look out for, with an increase in far right representation and growing anxieties within mainstream parties, included an opposition to strengthening the EU’s foreign policy capacity; resistance to the pooling of defence resources; a transactional approach by some (HU, CZ) to Russia and China; scepticism about enlargement; hostility to migration, including legal migration; the securitisation of development policy; a reluctance to push hard on human rights; less ambition on climate change. Several varied issues were raised from the floor, including regarding the strength of the commitment to combating climate change; the next Multiannual Financial Framework; the contribution of Irish MEPs; the Apple tax decision; the EU and the Middle East; the speed of decision-making; planning for the effects of either outcome in the US election, including on the goal of strategic autonomy; Von der Leyen’s management style; the role of EP President Metsola; and the robustness of the euro. The rapporteur for this event was Rory Montgomery, MRIA
On Wednesday 21 August 2024, ecologist and author, Richard Nairn, delivered a lunchtime lecture in the Royal Irish Academy as part of National Heritage Week 2024 entitled 'Richard J. Ussher: Chronicling the Birds of Ireland'. Richard John Ussher MRIA, 1841-1913, was a speleologist, ornithologist and the main author of Ussher & Warren, The Birds of Ireland (1900), a seminal publication in the history of Irish ornithology that provides an early benchmark by which we can measure the decline of native bird species.The lecture focuses on the life and work of Ussher, descending the depths of Ireland’s caves in search of fossils and surmounting cliff-faces, mountains and rivers in pursuit of rare birds. The Ussher Bird Notes collection (RIA A009), housed in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, consists of Ussher’s notes and correspondence relating to his research.Recently, the RIA Library announced a new project, The Birds of Ireland, generously supported by The Heritage Council. The project aims to enable the long-term preservation, access, and discovery of this collection.
Host Rory Montgomery is joined by Brice Dickson and Aoife O'Donoghue in this month's ARINS podcast. They discuss the topic of Dickson's recent paper (written with Tom Hickey) on how British and/or Irish nationality is currently acquired and lost, first under the law in Northern Ireland and then under the law in Ireland. This paper also looks at some of the rights that Irish citizens currently have in the UK and that UK citizens currently have in Ireland, paying particular attention to the impact of the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement of 1998 on those rights. Read the paper: https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/isia.2024.a932295Having served from 1999 to 2005 as the first Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, a body set up as a result of the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement, Brice Dickson was employed in the School of Law at Queen’s University from 2005 to 2017 as a Professor of International and Comparative Law. Since retiring from full-time employment, Brice Dickson still takes a keen interest in the work of the Human Rights Centre in the School of Law and remains a Research Associate at the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s and an Emeritus Fellow of the University’s Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice.Aoife O'Donoghue is a professor of law in Queen's University Belfast since 2022, having previously lectured in Durham University and the University of Galway. This is episode 36 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
Dr Evelyn Collins and Niall Crowley, along with host Rory Montgomery, explore the frameworks of equality legislation, institutions and policy mechanisms that underpin the equality agenda in Northern Ireland and in Ireland. Learn more in their recently published paper: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/article/912707This is episode 35 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
This week, Prof Kieran McEvoy and Dr Cheryl Lawther discuss the politics of apologies within the Northern Ireland Peace Process. This is based of Kieran's recent paper 'Abject and True Remorse': Loyalism and the Politics of Regret in Northern Ireland' which is part of the Irish Studies in International Affairs journal, available at this link https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/article/922275This is episode 34 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
This episode features Vikram Pakrashi in conversation with Lorraine Hanlon and David McKeown from UCD, who share their experience of working on EIRSAT-1, Ireland’s first satellite. Burning Questions is a conversation podcast that shines a spotlight on expertise in the fields of the engineering, mechanics and computer science across the island of Ireland. Each episode is structured around an interview with a leader/leaders in their field who will share insights into projects and research that have a tangible impact on the world around us.Lorraine Hanlon is Professor of Astronomy at UCD and Director of UCD’s Centre for Space Research. She did her undergraduate (BSc) and graduate (MSc and PhD) degrees in Experimental Physics and was a research fellow and an EU Human Capital and Mobility fellow at the European Space and Technology Research Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands, ESA’s establishment for space mission development. Lorraine is currently Chair of ESA’s Astronomy Working Group and is a member of the ESA Space Science Advisory Committee. She also serves as science advisor to the Irish delegation to the ESA Science Programme Committee and is a member of the National Advisory Committee for the European Southern Observatory. She is a former trustee of the Royal Astronomical Society and Chair of the INTEGRAL Users’ Group. Her main research interests are in high-energy astrophysics, gamma-ray bursts, multi-messenger astronomy, robotic telescopes, and space instrumentation. She is the Endorsing Professor for EIRSAT-1, Ireland’s first satellite, a CubeSat developed by an interdisciplinary team of UCD students and staff under ESA’s ‘Fly Your Satellite!’ programme.David McKeown is Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin. His research focuses on the modelling and control of large flexible aerospace structures and the testing and verification of attitude determination and control systems (ADCS) for Nanosatellites. He was the Engineering Manager for the EIRSAT-1, Ireland’s First Satellite which was recently launched. He is also the Principal Investigator on the European Space Agency funded DEAR project, building a robotic arm breadboard to test Lunar dust mitigation strategies. In collaboration with Lorraine, his team is building an ADCS testbed as part of the SFI funded NANO-SPACE project. He is a founding member of the UCD Centre for Space Research (C-Space) and the Lead academic for the Space Structure Dynamics and Control Theme.Vikram Pakrashi is Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Director of Dynamical Systems and Risk Laboratory (DSRL) in UCD. Vikram is a Chartered Engineer and has served both industry and academia working on numerical and experimental applications of dynamics and risk/probabilistic analysis on traditional (roads, bridges) and bourgeoning (wind/wave energy devices and platforms) sectors of built infrastructure. is recent research activities involve structural health monitoring, analysis of dynamic systems, vibration control, experimental methods in dynamics, damage detection algorithms and the use of new technologies for such applications. Vikram has supervised and mentored several doctoral and postdoctoral researchers and has received multiple awards for his research and leadership activities. He currently works with a dynamic and motivated team in DSRL close to industrial needs.
Dr Máire Kennedy, Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Early Modern History, Trinity College DublinDr Máire Kennedy and Dr Jason McElligott introduce us to institutional and private libraries in early modern Ireland. This is the first event in a three-part series on early modern book collections presented by the Historical Studies Committee and the Library of the Royal Irish Academy.In April / May 2024, The Royal Irish Academy Library and Historical Studies Committee were delighted to present a three-part lunchtime lecture series on the topic of Early Modern book collections. At each lecture, experts from the field of print culture and book collecting elaborated on the subjects of Early Modern libraries, private collections and caring for Early Modern collections in the 21st century.Wednesday 24 April: Institutional and private libraries in Early Modern Ireland.Chair: Dr Richard Kirwan, University of Limerick.- 'Curious collections of scarce and valuable books': eighteenth-century Irish private libraries.Dr Máire Kennedy, Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Early Modern History, Trinity College Dublin.- 'Cold, draughty, and unwelcoming?': the institutional libraries of Early Modern Ireland.Dr Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh’s Library.Wednesday 08 May: Early Modern book collections in the 21st century.Chair: Barbara McCormack, Academy Librarian, Royal Irish Academy.- The Bolton Library: reconsidering an Early Modern book collection in the 21st century.Olivia Lardner, Cataloguer of the Bolton Library, University of Limerick.- Well read and well-travelled: the Franciscan book collection at UCD Special Collections.Eugene Roche, Assistant Librarian, UCD Special Collections.The St. Canice's Library: past, present and future.- Alexandra Caccamo, Assistant Librarian with responsibility for Special Collections and Archives, Maynooth University Library.Wednesday 15 May: Reading and collecting books in Early Modern Ireland and Europe.Chair: Prof Sandy Wilkinson, University College Dublin.- Factors affecting book collecting in Early Modern Ireland and Europe.Dr Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian, Edward Worth Library.- Reading books: here, there and then.Prof Brendan Dooley, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College Cork.
Eugene Roche, Assistant Librarian, UCD Special CollectionsHear about the experiences of library professionals working with early modern collections today. This is the second event in a three-part series about early modern book collections presented by the Historical Studies Committee and the Library of the Royal Irish Academy.In April / May 2024, The Royal Irish Academy Library and Historical Studies Committee were delighted to present a three-part lunchtime lecture series on the topic of Early Modern book collections. At each lecture, experts from the field of print culture and book collecting elaborated on the subjects of Early Modern libraries, private collections and caring for Early Modern collections in the 21st century.Wednesday 24 April: Institutional and private libraries in Early Modern Ireland.Chair: Dr Richard Kirwan, University of Limerick.- 'Curious collections of scarce and valuable books': eighteenth-century Irish private libraries.Dr Máire Kennedy, Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Early Modern History, Trinity College Dublin.- 'Cold, draughty, and unwelcoming?': the institutional libraries of Early Modern Ireland.Dr Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh’s Library.Wednesday 08 May: Early Modern book collections in the 21st century.Chair: Barbara McCormack, Academy Librarian, Royal Irish Academy.- The Bolton Library: reconsidering an Early Modern book collection in the 21st century.Olivia Lardner, Cataloguer of the Bolton Library, University of Limerick.- Well read and well-travelled: the Franciscan book collection at UCD Special Collections.Eugene Roche, Assistant Librarian, UCD Special Collections.The St. Canice's Library: past, present and future.- Alexandra Caccamo, Assistant Librarian with responsibility for Special Collections and Archives, Maynooth University Library.Wednesday 15 May: Reading and collecting books in Early Modern Ireland and Europe.Chair: Prof Sandy Wilkinson, University College Dublin.- Factors affecting book collecting in Early Modern Ireland and Europe.Dr Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian, Edward Worth Library.- Reading books: here, there and then.Prof Brendan Dooley, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College Cork.
Alexandra Caccamo, Assistant Librarian with responsibility for Special Collections and Archives, Maynooth University LibraryHear about the experiences of library professionals working with early modern collections today. This is the second event in a three-part series about early modern book collections presented by the Historical Studies Committee and the Library of the Royal Irish Academy.In April / May 2024, The Royal Irish Academy Library and Historical Studies Committee were delighted to present a three-part lunchtime lecture series on the topic of Early Modern book collections. At each lecture, experts from the field of print culture and book collecting elaborated on the subjects of Early Modern libraries, private collections and caring for Early Modern collections in the 21st century.Wednesday 24 April: Institutional and private libraries in Early Modern Ireland.Chair: Dr Richard Kirwan, University of Limerick.- 'Curious collections of scarce and valuable books': eighteenth-century Irish private libraries.Dr Máire Kennedy, Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Early Modern History, Trinity College Dublin.- 'Cold, draughty, and unwelcoming?': the institutional libraries of Early Modern Ireland.Dr Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh’s Library.Wednesday 08 May: Early Modern book collections in the 21st century.Chair: Barbara McCormack, Academy Librarian, Royal Irish Academy.- The Bolton Library: reconsidering an Early Modern book collection in the 21st century.Olivia Lardner, Cataloguer of the Bolton Library, University of Limerick.- Well read and well-travelled: the Franciscan book collection at UCD Special Collections.Eugene Roche, Assistant Librarian, UCD Special Collections.The St. Canice's Library: past, present and future.- Alexandra Caccamo, Assistant Librarian with responsibility for Special Collections and Archives, Maynooth University Library.Wednesday 15 May: Reading and collecting books in Early Modern Ireland and Europe.Chair: Prof Sandy Wilkinson, University College Dublin.- Factors affecting book collecting in Early Modern Ireland and Europe.Dr Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian, Edward Worth Library.- Reading books: here, there and then.Prof Brendan Dooley, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College Cork.
Dr Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian, Edward Worth LibraryDr Elizabethanne Boran and Professor Brendan Dooley give two short talks about cultures of reading and collecting in Ireland and Europe in the early modern period. This is the final event in a three-part series about early modern book collections presented by the Historical Studies Committee and the Library of the Royal Irish Academy.In April / May 2024, The Royal Irish Academy Library and Historical Studies Committee were delighted to present a three-part lunchtime lecture series on the topic of Early Modern book collections. At each lecture, experts from the field of print culture and book collecting elaborated on the subjects of Early Modern libraries, private collections and caring for Early Modern collections in the 21st century.Wednesday 24 April: Institutional and private libraries in Early Modern Ireland.Chair: Dr Richard Kirwan, University of Limerick.- 'Curious collections of scarce and valuable books': eighteenth-century Irish private libraries.Dr Máire Kennedy, Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Early Modern History, Trinity College Dublin.- 'Cold, draughty, and unwelcoming?': the institutional libraries of Early Modern Ireland.Dr Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh’s Library.Wednesday 08 May: Early Modern book collections in the 21st century.Chair: Barbara McCormack, Academy Librarian, Royal Irish Academy.- The Bolton Library: reconsidering an Early Modern book collection in the 21st century.Olivia Lardner, Cataloguer of the Bolton Library, University of Limerick.- Well read and well-travelled: the Franciscan book collection at UCD Special Collections.Eugene Roche, Assistant Librarian, UCD Special Collections.The St. Canice's Library: past, present and future.- Alexandra Caccamo, Assistant Librarian with responsibility for Special Collections and Archives, Maynooth University Library.Wednesday 15 May: Reading and collecting books in Early Modern Ireland and Europe.Chair: Prof Sandy Wilkinson, University College Dublin.- Factors affecting book collecting in Early Modern Ireland and Europe.Dr Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian, Edward Worth Library.- Reading books: here, there and then.Prof Brendan Dooley, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College Cork.
Professor Brendan Dooley, Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College CorkDr Elizabethanne Boran and Professor Brendan Dooley give two short talks about cultures of reading and collecting in Ireland and Europe in the early modern period. This is the final event in a three-part series about early modern book collections presented by the Historical Studies Committee and the Library of the Royal Irish Academy.In April / May 2024, The Royal Irish Academy Library and Historical Studies Committee were delighted to present a three-part lunchtime lecture series on the topic of Early Modern book collections. At each lecture, experts from the field of print culture and book collecting elaborated on the subjects of Early Modern libraries, private collections and caring for Early Modern collections in the 21st century.Wednesday 24 April: Institutional and private libraries in Early Modern Ireland.Chair: Dr Richard Kirwan, University of Limerick.- 'Curious collections of scarce and valuable books': eighteenth-century Irish private libraries.Dr Máire Kennedy, Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Early Modern History, Trinity College Dublin.- 'Cold, draughty, and unwelcoming?': the institutional libraries of Early Modern Ireland.Dr Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh’s Library.Wednesday 08 May: Early Modern book collections in the 21st century.Chair: Barbara McCormack, Academy Librarian, Royal Irish Academy.- The Bolton Library: reconsidering an Early Modern book collection in the 21st century.Olivia Lardner, Cataloguer of the Bolton Library, University of Limerick.- Well read and well-travelled: the Franciscan book collection at UCD Special Collections.Eugene Roche, Assistant Librarian, UCD Special Collections.The St. Canice's Library: past, present and future.- Alexandra Caccamo, Assistant Librarian with responsibility for Special Collections and Archives, Maynooth University Library.Wednesday 15 May: Reading and collecting books in Early Modern Ireland and Europe.Chair: Prof Sandy Wilkinson, University College Dublin.- Factors affecting book collecting in Early Modern Ireland and Europe.Dr Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian, Edward Worth Library.- Reading books: here, there and then.Prof Brendan Dooley, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College Cork.
Dr Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh’s LibraryDr Máire Kennedy and Dr Jason McElligott introduce us to institutional and private libraries in early modern Ireland. This is the first event in a three-part series on early modern book collections presented by the Historical Studies Committee and the Library of the Royal Irish AcademyIn April / May 2024, The Royal Irish Academy Library and Historical Studies Committee were delighted to present a three-part lunchtime lecture series on the topic of Early Modern book collections. At each lecture, experts from the field of print culture and book collecting elaborated on the subjects of Early Modern libraries, private collections and caring for Early Modern collections in the 21st century.Wednesday 24 April: Institutional and private libraries in Early Modern Ireland.Chair: Dr Richard Kirwan, University of Limerick.- 'Curious collections of scarce and valuable books': eighteenth-century Irish private libraries.Dr Máire Kennedy, Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Early Modern History, Trinity College Dublin.- 'Cold, draughty, and unwelcoming?': the institutional libraries of Early Modern Ireland.Dr Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh’s Library.Wednesday 08 May: Early Modern book collections in the 21st century.Chair: Barbara McCormack, Academy Librarian, Royal Irish Academy.- The Bolton Library: reconsidering an Early Modern book collection in the 21st century.Olivia Lardner, Cataloguer of the Bolton Library, University of Limerick.- Well read and well-travelled: the Franciscan book collection at UCD Special Collections.Eugene Roche, Assistant Librarian, UCD Special Collections.The St. Canice's Library: past, present and future.- Alexandra Caccamo, Assistant Librarian with responsibility for Special Collections and Archives, Maynooth University Library.Wednesday 15 May: Reading and collecting books in Early Modern Ireland and Europe.Chair: Prof Sandy Wilkinson, University College Dublin.- Factors affecting book collecting in Early Modern Ireland and Europe.Dr Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian, Edward Worth Library.- Reading books: here, there and then.Prof Brendan Dooley, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College Cork.
Olivia Lardner, Cataloguer of the Bolton Library, University of LimerickHear about the experiences of library professionals working with early modern collections today. This is the second event in a three-part series about early modern book collections presented by the Historical Studies Committee and the Library of the Royal Irish Academy.In April / May 2024, The Royal Irish Academy Library and Historical Studies Committee were delighted to present a three-part lunchtime lecture series on the topic of Early Modern book collections. At each lecture, experts from the field of print culture and book collecting elaborated on the subjects of Early Modern libraries, private collections and caring for Early Modern collections in the 21st century.Wednesday 24 April: Institutional and private libraries in Early Modern Ireland.Chair: Dr Richard Kirwan, University of Limerick.- 'Curious collections of scarce and valuable books': eighteenth-century Irish private libraries.Dr Máire Kennedy, Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Early Modern History, Trinity College Dublin.- 'Cold, draughty, and unwelcoming?': the institutional libraries of Early Modern Ireland.Dr Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh’s Library.Wednesday 08 May: Early Modern book collections in the 21st century.Chair: Barbara McCormack, Academy Librarian, Royal Irish Academy.- The Bolton Library: reconsidering an Early Modern book collection in the 21st century.Olivia Lardner, Cataloguer of the Bolton Library, University of Limerick.- Well read and well-travelled: the Franciscan book collection at UCD Special Collections.Eugene Roche, Assistant Librarian, UCD Special Collections.The St. Canice's Library: past, present and future.- Alexandra Caccamo, Assistant Librarian with responsibility for Special Collections and Archives, Maynooth University Library.Wednesday 15 May: Reading and collecting books in Early Modern Ireland and Europe.Chair: Prof Sandy Wilkinson, University College Dublin.- Factors affecting book collecting in Early Modern Ireland and Europe.Dr Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian, Edward Worth Library.- Reading books: here, there and then.Prof Brendan Dooley, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College Cork.
Host Rory Montgomery is joined by Paul Nolan to discuss censuses and how they have influenced, and will influence, Northern Ireland's constitutional position. This discussion is based on Paul's most recent paper 'The Imprint of Finality? Partition and Census Enumeration' which can be read here: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/article/921576This is episode 33 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
The RIA Library held a lunchtime lecture to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of Cynthia Longfield's adventure on the St George Expedition. Cynthia set out on the St George Expedition travelling across the Atlantic and around the South Sea Islands. To talk about this voyage of discovery, Dr Angela Byrne gave a lunchtime lecture, on Tuesday 9 April 2024, entitled 'Cynthia Longfield and the St George expedition of 1924: the making of an entomologist'.Image: Cynthia Longfield sitting in a palm-leaf shelter, Panama. June 1924 (RIA LRC/27/17)
Host Rory Montgomery is joined by Pat Leahy, Political Editor of the Irish Times and Mark Hennessy, Ireland and Britain Editor of the Irish Times. Their conversation focuses on how north-south and east-west relationships are covered in the media and the recently launched Irish Times initiative, 'Common Ground', which examines the constitutional issues facing Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. https://www.irishtimes.com/common-ground/This is episode 32 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
Host Rory Montgomery is joined by Professor John Doyle, VP for research at DCU, Dr Esmond Birnie, senior economist, University of Ulster and Professor Edgar Morgenroth, professor of Economics at DCU to discuss the the UK financial ‘subvention’ to Northern Ireland. Their conversation is based around Doyle's paper arguing that the 'subvention' does not matter and Birnie's response arguing that it does. Doyle's paper 'Why the ‘Subvention’ does not Matter: Northern Ireland and the All-Ireland Economy' can be read here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/810176/pdfBirnie's response is here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913623/pdfThis is episode 31 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In this month’s ARINS Podcast host Rory Montgomery interviews Dr Andrea Mulligan, Trinity College Dublin, and Dr Clayton Ó Néill, Queens University Belfast, authors of Health Law: Convergence and Divergence on the Island of Ireland. The authors identify the formation of health law north and south across public and private law and the constitutional, policy, and legislative changes that have shaped and re-shaped healthcare in both jurisdictions. Specifically, the implementation of laws north and south regarding healthcare rights and capacity law, the ability to consent and refuse medical treatment, the specific requirements, and interpretations of conscientious objection to abortion, discrimination and disability, and the development of criminal negligence law in both jurisdictions. This is episode 30 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In the January ARINS podcast on the ARINS/IrishTimes survey Rory Montgomery hosts Professors John Garry (QUB) and Brendan O’Leary (UPENN) authors of the survey along with Dr Jamie Pow (QUB). Together they scrutinise the intriguing findings of the ARINS/Irish Times survey and disentangle the answers to seasoned questions asked in the ’22 Survey, while exploring the perceptions and expectations posed in the answers to innovative new questions about the short and long run costs of the economics of the status quo and unification.Find out more about the survey: https://www.ria.ie/news/arins-analysis-and-research-ireland-north-and-south/initial-findings-new-arinsthe-irish-timesThis is episode 29 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
Anurag Dep is a PhD researcher in law at QUB and Ian Jeffers commissioner for Victims and Survivors in Northern Ireland, soon to be chief executive of Cooperation Ireland speak to our host Rory Montgomery about the legal framework of provision of rights and support to victims of crime in Ireland and Northern Ireland.What legal frameworks support the rights for victims of crime? How have rights harmonised north and south? How has provision for victims and victims' rights on the island of Ireland changed? How did the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement support the position of victims? How have we changed to put victims at the heart of the justice process?Read Deb's paper of the same name: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/article/909440This is episode 28 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In this month’s ARINScast Paul Gosling author of 'A New Ireland' and 'Lessons from the Troubles and the Unsettled Peace', shares his insights regarding the quality of life, the standard and cost of living, and disparities in disposable income, (income inequality) in and across Northern Ireland, Ireland and Britain with Professor John Fitzgerald and our ARINS host Rory Montgomery. Drawing on Gosling’s regional comparisons, in educational attainment, technical skills, productivity, and housing they explore why the cost of living crisis impacts Northern Ireland more readily than the Republic and Great Britain.https://www.ria.ie/news/arins-analysis-and-research-ireland-north-and-south/who-better-those-northern-ireland-irelandThis is episode 27 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
This month’s ARINS podcast examines how the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement has functioned over the 25 years since it was signed, and how it is currently received. Host Rory Montgomery speaks with Professor Alan Renwick and Conor J. Kelly authors of the UCL constitution unit’s report on Perspectives on the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement: Examining Diverse Views, 1998-2003. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/publications/unit-reportsThe report offers an array of perspectives shared in political party manifestos, in interviews and in focus groups for UCL’s constitution unit. The insights offered by politicians, academics, civil society representatives, from across the political spectrum in Northern Ireland, Britain and Ireland, show the impact and importance of the Agreement after twenty five years and identify the ways in which the different strands of the agreement have instituted a robust level of stability thus far weathering perceived vulnerabilities including wavering interest from London and Dublin and the ebb and flow of trust in and from political parties. The report’s findings demonstrate the success of the agreement as a peace treaty and the need for unwavering commitment from the parties to peace to listen to the needs, fears and anxieties of the constituencies and communities in Northern Ireland. Professor Alan Renwick, Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit in UCL. He also chaired the Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland. He is an expert in the mechanisms through which citizens can participate in formal politics. Conor J. Kelly is a PhD student at Birkbeck College, University of London. He previously worked for the Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland. This is episode 26 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In this ARINS Podcast hosted by Rory Montgomery, Professor Jennifer Todd from UCD and Professor John Doyle DCU discuss their recent article with co-author Dr Joanne McEvoy (University of Aberdeen) titled 'Time for Deliberation, not Decision, on the Shape of a New United Ireland: Evidence from the ARINS Survey focus groups.'Together they explore the power of focus group findings for Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South. We understand the views of people who said they were undecided in how they might vote in a referendum on the future of Northern Ireland. We learn how important issues are identified from perceptions of identity to the understanding of the workings of power-sharing, public policy processes, and governance and institution preferences for people North and South. Based on their findings Professors Doyle and Todd share their insights into how to create sustained and systemic processes of discussion and deliberation processes in tandem with survey findings to help us address the need for greater information and knowledge transfer, across the island.This is episode 25 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.comARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
Discover the ARINS podcast through the clips you hear here. If you want to hear more from any of the podcast episodes included find the episode names below:In order of appearance: Two labour markets - John FitzGerald and Tom McDonnell Police governance, oversight and accountability in a united Ireland - Vicky Conway (RIP) and Roger MacGinty, The ARINS/Irish Times survey: origins and outcomes - Brendan O'Leary and John Garry One Good Day - Tim O'Donnell and David DonoghueIrish and Ullan Language(s) - Roisin Costello and Brian O’Conchubhair
Lecture title: Window on the Irish soul: A century of Irish stamps Speaker: Stephen Ferguson, An Post Archivist and Museum Curator Chair: Barbara McCormack, Academy Librarian
This lecture was recorded on 17 May 2023 and due to popular demand was held again during Heritage Week on 15 August 2023. Shortly after independence in 1922, the new Irish government turned its attention to the design of stamps to replace the contemporary British stamps then is use. Over the years since then Irish identity, culture and aspirations have been expressed through the medium of these miniature masterpieces with postage stamps acting as our ambassadors throughout the world. Long before the advent of the postage stamp, however, the idea of a stamp as a form of tax was well-known and the Academy’s library holds a remarkable album of eighteenth century revenue stamps which can, in a sense, be seen as the world’s very first stamp album. Highlighting such connections between the Academy and Irish stamps, Stephen Ferguson traces the changing nature of Ireland’s image from the conservative and inward-looking era of the early Free State to the more confident, socially progressive, and tech-savvy nation of today.
The Market was a significant element of the area in the hinterland of Grangegorman from 1863 when it opened first to 1973 when it was closed down. This talk by Dr Mary Muldowney and Dr Declan O'Brien includes extracts from oral history interviews, with a range of people who shared their memories of working in the Market as well as information about the local and national importance of this very rural enterprise in its busy urban setting. Representing different facets of the life of the Market, the contributors came from various parts of the city and country and shed a fascinating light on what was once such an important workplace.
This talk was delivered on 3 June as part of Revealing Grangegorman, a celebratory event organised by GDA, along with TU Dublin, HSE and Workday.
Grangegorman Histories is a public history programme of research and shared discovery of the Grangegorman site and surrounding communities. Founding partners: Dublin City Council, Grangegorman Development Agency, HSE, Local Communities, National Archives, Royal Irish Academy and TU Dublin. Visit www.grangegormanhistories.ie.
In this month’s ARINS podcast Mapping the Tapestry: National and International Human Rights Frameworks in Northern Ireland and Ireland authors Profs. Kathryn McNeilly, and Aoife O’Donoghue from Queens University Belfast’s School of Law share their research examining legal equivalence in Human Rights law in Ireland and Northern Ireland with our host Rory Montgomery.
By exploring the convergence and divergence in institutional Human Rights arrangements Professors McNeilly and O’Donoghue share the significance of the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement for Human Rights provision in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Particularly the importance of the Human Rights bodies north and south and the joint committee’s collaborative working methods in supporting co-operation across the two jurisdictions.
The authors explain how collaborative legal provision attempts to weather discretionary or “Henry VIII” challenges from domestic governments, such as the Bill of Rights Bill that sought to replace the Human Rights Act of 1998. Drawing on the wider international provisions and European Union (ECHR) Human Rights frameworks we learn how human rights law provisions in Ireland and Northern Ireland evolve and intersect.
McNeilly and O'Donoghue's article 'Mapping the Tapestry: National and International Human Rights Frameworks in Northern Ireland and Ireland': https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/article/883501
This is episode 24 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In this month’s ARINS podcast, host Rory Montgomery is joined by Dr Philip McGuinness lecturer in the Department of Computing Science and Mathematics at Dundalk Institute of Technology to discuss the results of the local elections in Northern Ireland held on 18 May. In the elections to eleven councils across Northern Ireland the nationalist bloc gained a majority of the vote in both Belfast and L/Derry for the first time with Sinn Fein winning a larger than expected victory finding itself the largest party in six of the eleven councils with a 39 seat increase to 144 of 462 seats. The DUP retained its 122 council seats, and asserted a mandate to pursue its conditions to return to Stormont. The Alliance Party won 14 seats taking its total to 67 seats promising delivery over drama. The results demonstrate that the local electoral landscape in Northern Ireland is changing. The geographical shorthand of east and west of the river Bann no longer fits. While discussions about demographic changes and a diminishing unionist base go some way to explain the differential turnout between nationalists and unionists, McGuinness can better help us navigate our way through these local election result findings and follow on political puzzles.Philip McGuinness is a lecturer in the Department of Computing Science and Mathematics at Dundalk Institute of Technology. He studied at Athlone RTC, Trinity College Dublin, and Queen's University Belfast. His commentaries on Irish culture and politics have been published in the Times Literary Supplement, Irish Studies Review, Fortnight and the Irish dailies. He co-edited John Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious: Text, Associated Works and Critical Essays with Alan Harrison and Richard Kearney, see https://www.lilliputpress.ie/product/john-tolands-christianity-not-mysterious-text-associated-works-and-critical-essays. He writes regularly about Northern Ireland politics on Sluggerotoole https://www.sluggerotoole.com/author/philip-mcguinness/This is episode 23 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
A two-day conference exploring the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac which ran from Thursday 27 April - Friday 28 April 2023 in the Royal Irish Academy.Royal Irish Academy Library in association with the Maynooth University Department of Early Irish, and the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.The Royal Irish Academy manuscript An Leabhar Breac/The Speckled Book was written in Irish by Murchadh Riabhach Ó Cuindlis (a scribe of the Book of Lecan), at Cluain Lethan in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary and at other locations, between the years 1408 and 1411. In the 16th century the manuscript was held by the Mac Egans of Duniry, the most prominent of the hereditary legal families of late medieval Ireland, whence it also received the title of Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre/The Book of the MacEgans. It is the largest Irish vellum manuscript created by one scribe and contains religious and biblical material derived from Latin, Irish literature and history, including the lives of St Patrick and St Brigid, the Litany of Our Lady, Félire Óengusso Céli Dé, the humorous saga Aisling Meic Conglinne, and some reworkings of biblical history. This two-day conference will explore the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac, this most impressive example of a predominantly religious manuscript compilation in the Irish vernacular.
A two-day conference exploring the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac which ran from Thursday 27 April - Friday 28 April 2023 in the Royal Irish Academy.Royal Irish Academy Library in association with the Maynooth University Department of Early Irish, and the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.The Royal Irish Academy manuscript An Leabhar Breac/The Speckled Book was written in Irish by Murchadh Riabhach Ó Cuindlis (a scribe of the Book of Lecan), at Cluain Lethan in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary and at other locations, between the years 1408 and 1411. In the 16th century the manuscript was held by the Mac Egans of Duniry, the most prominent of the hereditary legal families of late medieval Ireland, whence it also received the title of Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre/The Book of the MacEgans. It is the largest Irish vellum manuscript created by one scribe and contains religious and biblical material derived from Latin, Irish literature and history, including the lives of St Patrick and St Brigid, the Litany of Our Lady, Félire Óengusso Céli Dé, the humorous saga Aisling Meic Conglinne, and some reworkings of biblical history. This two-day conference will explore the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac, this most impressive example of a predominantly religious manuscript compilation in the Irish vernacular.
A two-day conference exploring the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac which ran from Thursday 27 April - Friday 28 April 2023 in the Royal Irish Academy.Royal Irish Academy Library in association with the Maynooth University Department of Early Irish, and the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.The Royal Irish Academy manuscript An Leabhar Breac/The Speckled Book was written in Irish by Murchadh Riabhach Ó Cuindlis (a scribe of the Book of Lecan), at Cluain Lethan in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary and at other locations, between the years 1408 and 1411. In the 16th century the manuscript was held by the Mac Egans of Duniry, the most prominent of the hereditary legal families of late medieval Ireland, whence it also received the title of Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre/The Book of the MacEgans. It is the largest Irish vellum manuscript created by one scribe and contains religious and biblical material derived from Latin, Irish literature and history, including the lives of St Patrick and St Brigid, the Litany of Our Lady, Félire Óengusso Céli Dé, the humorous saga Aisling Meic Conglinne, and some reworkings of biblical history. This two-day conference will explore the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac, this most impressive example of a predominantly religious manuscript compilation in the Irish vernacular.
A two-day conference exploring the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac which ran from Thursday 27 April - Friday 28 April 2023 in the Royal Irish Academy.Royal Irish Academy Library in association with the Maynooth University Department of Early Irish, and the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.The Royal Irish Academy manuscript An Leabhar Breac/The Speckled Book was written in Irish by Murchadh Riabhach Ó Cuindlis (a scribe of the Book of Lecan), at Cluain Lethan in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary and at other locations, between the years 1408 and 1411. In the 16th century the manuscript was held by the Mac Egans of Duniry, the most prominent of the hereditary legal families of late medieval Ireland, whence it also received the title of Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre/The Book of the MacEgans. It is the largest Irish vellum manuscript created by one scribe and contains religious and biblical material derived from Latin, Irish literature and history, including the lives of St Patrick and St Brigid, the Litany of Our Lady, Félire Óengusso Céli Dé, the humorous saga Aisling Meic Conglinne, and some reworkings of biblical history. This two-day conference will explore the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac, this most impressive example of a predominantly religious manuscript compilation in the Irish vernacular.
A two-day conference exploring the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac which ran from Thursday 27 April - Friday 28 April 2023 in the Royal Irish Academy.Royal Irish Academy Library in association with the Maynooth University Department of Early Irish, and the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.The Royal Irish Academy manuscript An Leabhar Breac/The Speckled Book was written in Irish by Murchadh Riabhach Ó Cuindlis (a scribe of the Book of Lecan), at Cluain Lethan in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary and at other locations, between the years 1408 and 1411. In the 16th century the manuscript was held by the Mac Egans of Duniry, the most prominent of the hereditary legal families of late medieval Ireland, whence it also received the title of Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre/The Book of the MacEgans. It is the largest Irish vellum manuscript created by one scribe and contains religious and biblical material derived from Latin, Irish literature and history, including the lives of St Patrick and St Brigid, the Litany of Our Lady, Félire Óengusso Céli Dé, the humorous saga Aisling Meic Conglinne, and some reworkings of biblical history. This two-day conference will explore the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac, this most impressive example of a predominantly religious manuscript compilation in the Irish vernacular.
A two-day conference exploring the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac which ran from Thursday 27 April - Friday 28 April 2023 in the Royal Irish Academy.Royal Irish Academy Library in association with the Maynooth University Department of Early Irish, and the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.The Royal Irish Academy manuscript An Leabhar Breac/The Speckled Book was written in Irish by Murchadh Riabhach Ó Cuindlis (a scribe of the Book of Lecan), at Cluain Lethan in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary and at other locations, between the years 1408 and 1411. In the 16th century the manuscript was held by the Mac Egans of Duniry, the most prominent of the hereditary legal families of late medieval Ireland, whence it also received the title of Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre/The Book of the MacEgans. It is the largest Irish vellum manuscript created by one scribe and contains religious and biblical material derived from Latin, Irish literature and history, including the lives of St Patrick and St Brigid, the Litany of Our Lady, Félire Óengusso Céli Dé, the humorous saga Aisling Meic Conglinne, and some reworkings of biblical history. This two-day conference will explore the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac, this most impressive example of a predominantly religious manuscript compilation in the Irish vernacular.
A two-day conference exploring the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac which ran from Thursday 27 April - Friday 28 April 2023 in the Royal Irish Academy.Royal Irish Academy Library in association with the Maynooth University Department of Early Irish, and the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.The Royal Irish Academy manuscript An Leabhar Breac/The Speckled Book was written in Irish by Murchadh Riabhach Ó Cuindlis (a scribe of the Book of Lecan), at Cluain Lethan in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary and at other locations, between the years 1408 and 1411. In the 16th century the manuscript was held by the Mac Egans of Duniry, the most prominent of the hereditary legal families of late medieval Ireland, whence it also received the title of Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre/The Book of the MacEgans. It is the largest Irish vellum manuscript created by one scribe and contains religious and biblical material derived from Latin, Irish literature and history, including the lives of St Patrick and St Brigid, the Litany of Our Lady, Félire Óengusso Céli Dé, the humorous saga Aisling Meic Conglinne, and some reworkings of biblical history. This two-day conference will explore the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac, this most impressive example of a predominantly religious manuscript compilation in the Irish vernacular.
A two-day conference exploring the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac which ran from Thursday 27 April - Friday 28 April 2023 in the Royal Irish Academy.Royal Irish Academy Library in association with the Maynooth University Department of Early Irish, and the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.The Royal Irish Academy manuscript An Leabhar Breac/The Speckled Book was written in Irish by Murchadh Riabhach Ó Cuindlis (a scribe of the Book of Lecan), at Cluain Lethan in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary and at other locations, between the years 1408 and 1411. In the 16th century the manuscript was held by the Mac Egans of Duniry, the most prominent of the hereditary legal families of late medieval Ireland, whence it also received the title of Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre/The Book of the MacEgans. It is the largest Irish vellum manuscript created by one scribe and contains religious and biblical material derived from Latin, Irish literature and history, including the lives of St Patrick and St Brigid, the Litany of Our Lady, Félire Óengusso Céli Dé, the humorous saga Aisling Meic Conglinne, and some reworkings of biblical history. This two-day conference will explore the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac, this most impressive example of a predominantly religious manuscript compilation in the Irish vernacular.
A two-day conference exploring the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac which ran from Thursday 27 April - Friday 28 April 2023 in the Royal Irish Academy.Royal Irish Academy Library in association with the Maynooth University Department of Early Irish, and the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.The Royal Irish Academy manuscript An Leabhar Breac/The Speckled Book was written in Irish by Murchadh Riabhach Ó Cuindlis (a scribe of the Book of Lecan), at Cluain Lethan in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary and at other locations, between the years 1408 and 1411. In the 16th century the manuscript was held by the Mac Egans of Duniry, the most prominent of the hereditary legal families of late medieval Ireland, whence it also received the title of Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre/The Book of the MacEgans. It is the largest Irish vellum manuscript created by one scribe and contains religious and biblical material derived from Latin, Irish literature and history, including the lives of St Patrick and St Brigid, the Litany of Our Lady, Félire Óengusso Céli Dé, the humorous saga Aisling Meic Conglinne, and some reworkings of biblical history. This two-day conference will explore the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac, this most impressive example of a predominantly religious manuscript compilation in the Irish vernacular.
A two-day conference exploring the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac which ran from Thursday 27 April - Friday 28 April 2023 in the Royal Irish Academy.Royal Irish Academy Library in association with the Maynooth University Department of Early Irish, and the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.The Royal Irish Academy manuscript An Leabhar Breac/The Speckled Book was written in Irish by Murchadh Riabhach Ó Cuindlis (a scribe of the Book of Lecan), at Cluain Lethan in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary and at other locations, between the years 1408 and 1411. In the 16th century the manuscript was held by the Mac Egans of Duniry, the most prominent of the hereditary legal families of late medieval Ireland, whence it also received the title of Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre/The Book of the MacEgans. It is the largest Irish vellum manuscript created by one scribe and contains religious and biblical material derived from Latin, Irish literature and history, including the lives of St Patrick and St Brigid, the Litany of Our Lady, Félire Óengusso Céli Dé, the humorous saga Aisling Meic Conglinne, and some reworkings of biblical history. This two-day conference will explore the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac, this most impressive example of a predominantly religious manuscript compilation in the Irish vernacular.
A two-day conference exploring the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac which ran from Thursday 27 April - Friday 28 April 2023 in the Royal Irish Academy.Royal Irish Academy Library in association with the Maynooth University Department of Early Irish, and the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.The Royal Irish Academy manuscript An Leabhar Breac/The Speckled Book was written in Irish by Murchadh Riabhach Ó Cuindlis (a scribe of the Book of Lecan), at Cluain Lethan in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary and at other locations, between the years 1408 and 1411. In the 16th century the manuscript was held by the Mac Egans of Duniry, the most prominent of the hereditary legal families of late medieval Ireland, whence it also received the title of Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre/The Book of the MacEgans. It is the largest Irish vellum manuscript created by one scribe and contains religious and biblical material derived from Latin, Irish literature and history, including the lives of St Patrick and St Brigid, the Litany of Our Lady, Félire Óengusso Céli Dé, the humorous saga Aisling Meic Conglinne, and some reworkings of biblical history. This two-day conference will explore the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac, this most impressive example of a predominantly religious manuscript compilation in the Irish vernacular.
Full title: The Flesh That Was Crucified In A Hideous Awful Death The Leabhar Breac and Crucifixion ImageryA two-day conference exploring the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac which ran from Thursday 27 April - Friday 28 April 2023 in the Royal Irish Academy.Royal Irish Academy Library in association with the Maynooth University Department of Early Irish, and the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.The Royal Irish Academy manuscript An Leabhar Breac/The Speckled Book was written in Irish by Murchadh Riabhach Ó Cuindlis (a scribe of the Book of Lecan), at Cluain Lethan in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary and at other locations, between the years 1408 and 1411. In the 16th century the manuscript was held by the Mac Egans of Duniry, the most prominent of the hereditary legal families of late medieval Ireland, whence it also received the title of Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre/The Book of the MacEgans. It is the largest Irish vellum manuscript created by one scribe and contains religious and biblical material derived from Latin, Irish literature and history, including the lives of St Patrick and St Brigid, the Litany of Our Lady, Félire Óengusso Céli Dé, the humorous saga Aisling Meic Conglinne, and some reworkings of biblical history. This two-day conference will explore the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac, this most impressive example of a predominantly religious manuscript compilation in the Irish vernacular.
A two-day conference exploring the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac which ran from Thursday 27 April - Friday 28 April 2023 in the Royal Irish Academy.Royal Irish Academy Library in association with the Maynooth University Department of Early Irish, and the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.The Royal Irish Academy manuscript An Leabhar Breac/The Speckled Book was written in Irish by Murchadh Riabhach Ó Cuindlis (a scribe of the Book of Lecan), at Cluain Lethan in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary and at other locations, between the years 1408 and 1411. In the 16th century the manuscript was held by the Mac Egans of Duniry, the most prominent of the hereditary legal families of late medieval Ireland, whence it also received the title of Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre/The Book of the MacEgans. It is the largest Irish vellum manuscript created by one scribe and contains religious and biblical material derived from Latin, Irish literature and history, including the lives of St Patrick and St Brigid, the Litany of Our Lady, Félire Óengusso Céli Dé, the humorous saga Aisling Meic Conglinne, and some reworkings of biblical history. This two-day conference will explore the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac, this most impressive example of a predominantly religious manuscript compilation in the Irish vernacular.
In this month’s ARINS podcast, our host Rory Montgomery is joined by Anne Devlin, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the ESRI, to unpuzzle the findings from the ISIA paper she co-authored with Seamus McGuinness, Adele Bergin and Emer Smyth: 'Education across the Island of Ireland: Examining Educational Outcomes, Earnings and Intergenerational Mobility' (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/884143). In this, our first episode exploring education north and south, Devlin explores how economic background impacts educational attainment and the way in which education in turn impacts the labour market north and south. In comparing levels of educational attainment, one measure, early school leaving for example, is known to have long-term ramifications for individuals shaping their labour market outcomes as well as their overall well-being. Other measures shaping education attainment include work status and the interaction between social background, measured by parental education and the impact on educational success or failure.Devlin and her colleagues explore why it is that in 2005 educational attainment north and south was broadly similar but by 2014 the mean wage gap was 27 percent in favour of Ireland, approximately 25 percent of this difference can be explained by lower levels of educational attainment in Northern Ireland.Anne Devlin is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Economic Analysis Division having joined the ESRI in December 2020. Her research interests include labour economics and the economics of disability as well as a particular interest in economic inactivity in Ireland, north and south.She completed her PhD in Economics at Queen’s University Belfast in June 2021. Her PhD research investigated the high levels of disability in Northern Ireland and whether there is a relationship with the ‘Troubles’. This is episode 22 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
On the 25-year anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, David Donoghue and Tim O’Connor discuss how it came about. In this month’s podcast, host Rory Montgomery—no stranger to the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement negotiations—is joined by two former colleagues from the Department of Foreign Affairs: David Donoghue and Tim O'Connor. Rory’s guests share their recollections of the negotiations that culminated in the signing of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement twenty-five years ago this week. They reflect on the foundation, formulation and implementation of the agreement, allowing us to glean an invaluable insight into the challenges faced by the civil servants involved, and their capacity and creativity in drafting and delivering the agreement and the peace process.David Donoghue was part of the Anglo Irish division at the Department of Foreign Affairs, joint secretary of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental conference and author of "One Good Day” (Gill Press) his account of the Good Friday talks. David was at different times, Ireland’s ambassador to Russia, Austria and Germany and from 2013-2017, Ireland’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and instrumental in the creation of the Strategic Development Goals. Tim O’Connor is a former official of the Department of Foreign Affairs, having served 28 years from 1979-2007 and was part of the Anglo-Irish team, inaugural Joint Secretary of the North/South Ministerial Council in Armagh from 1999-2005; Consul General of Ireland in New York from 2005-2007 and Secretary General to President McAleese from 2007-2010, and instrumental in getting the North South institutions launched in December 1999. He is currently part of the Irish government’s independent reporting commission on paramilitaries.This is episode 21 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In this month’s ARINS podcast Rory Montgomery speaks to Professor Pat Brereton from DCU’s School of Communication and Des O’Rawe from the School of Arts, English and Languages and the Mitchell Institute at QUB about the trouble with filming the Troubles and Northern Ireland. Drawing on Professor Brereton’s article on Troubles and Northern Ireland: Representations in Film of Belfast as a Site of Conflict and Dr. O’Rawe’s response addressing the smoke and mirrors approach to filming conflict. Brereton's 'Teases out the Allusions' takes our understanding further. Together Brereton and O’Rawe interrogate the ways in which we view and represent ourselves and each other in film. The discussion explores how three films, Belfast, 71, and Odd Man Out, exhibit the way in which film plays with innocence, representation, fractional identity, conflict, cliché, and nostalgia. By examining the way film can adopt and adapt historical narratives and often reimagine history, we can determine not only the ways in which cinema is propaganda but also the ways in which we process and understand conflict. Prof Brereton’s article on Troubles and Northern Ireland: Representations in Film of Belfast as a Site of Conflict: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/article/856565Dr O'Rawe's response, Smoke and Mirrors: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/article/859216Prof Brereton's reply, Teasing out Allusions: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/article/859217This is episode 20 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In this month’s podcast host Rory Montgomery explores the inspiration, creation, and collaboration behind the 2022 ARINS/Irish Times survey with John Garry, Professor of Political Behaviour at Queens University Belfast, and Brendan O’Leary Lauder Professor of Political Science at University of Pennsylvania. Together the authors of the survey discuss their division of labour, the importance of collaborative support from colleagues in ARINS and how marrying qualitative focus group findings with quantitative face-to-face polling research methods delivers the detailed insights into matters what most to us North and South when we consider our collective futures in a shared Ireland. --The Irish Times articles explaining the survey and the results can be found: arinsproject.com or on www.irishtimes.com/politics/2022/12/03/taking-the-pulse-of-ireland-north-and-south/This is episode 19 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In this month’s ARINS podcast, host Rory Montgomery is joined by Róisín Costello, Assistant Professor in Law at DCU and author of 'To be British, Irish, or Both: Understanding Language Rights as a Tool for Reconciliation in Northern Ireland' and Brian Ó’Conchubhair, Associate Professor of Irish Language and Literature at University of Notre Dame, author of the 'Politics of language in a (dis)United Ireland'. Together they explore the history of Irish language policy and navigate the modern and every-day language challenges of symbols, rights, politics and policies surrounding the use, the visibility and the protection of Irish and Ullan on our shared island.Brian Ó’Conchubhair's article 'Politics of Language in a (Dis)United Ireland' can be read here https://muse.jhu.edu/article/846817Róisín Costello's article ‘To Be British, Irish, or Both’:Understanding Language Rights as a Tool for Reconciliation in Northern Ireland' can be read here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/850802This is episode 18 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.comARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
The Island Praeger Found is a lecture given by John Feehan, editor of the book Clare Island, in the Royal Irish Academy on Wednesday, 16 November 2022 to a live and online audience. This lecture was organised to celebrate the completion of the New Survey of Clare Island, a series that is built on the pioneering work of the first Clare Island Survey (1909–11), one of the first geographically specific multi-disciplinary studies in the world, masterminded by Robert Lloyd Praeger for the Royal Irish Academy. To learn more about the New Survey of Clare Island, please take a look at our website: https://www.ria.ie/research-projects/new-survey-clare-islandVideo recording, including John's slides, is available on the Royal Irish Academy's Youtube channel
In this month’s podcast host Rory Montgomery discusses John FitzGerald’s article, one island two labour markets with the author, and respondent and Nevin Economic Research Institute's Tom McDonnell, investigating how divergent paths taken by Ireland and the United Kingdom have shaped two distinct labour markets north and south connected through Britain.Historically few people loved north to south, with one exception, L/Derry men marrying Donegal women, whereas great numbers moved to Britain from both jurisdictions. Today the picture is different. After a century of emigration the Republic of Ireland is experiencing the return of educated homing pigeons returning to Ireland to raise families with educated professional partners from elsewhere in tow. In Northern Ireland large numbers of graduates leave, but the returnees are not yet in evidence. To entice returning graduates, Ireland north and south must direct their respective electorates to support a great investment in education, and the environment for the next generation. You can read John FitzGerald's article here https://muse.jhu.edu/article/863357, and Tom McDonnell's response https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/article/867415John FitzGerald, MRIA, is the former Head of the Macroeconomics and Resource Economics Division at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI.)Tom McDonnell is co-director of the Nevin Economic Research Institute and is based in the Dublin office.This is episode 17 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com(link is external)ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
The final evening lecture of this second series held on 10 November 2022 and delivered by Claire Connolly MRIA, Professor of Modern English at University College Cork, on the lives and writings of Miss Sydney and Miss Olivia Owenson.
Claire Connolly is Professor of Modern English at University College Cork. A cultural history of the Irish novel, 1790–1829 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) won the Donald J. Murphy Prize. With Marjorie Howes (Boston College), Professor Connolly is General Editor of Irish literature in transition, 1700– 2020 (Cambridge University Press, 2020); and editor of Volume 2 of the series, Irish literature in transition, 1780–1830.
- The seventeenth-century Boyle sisters and their letters
- Kate O'Brien and her sisters: archives, fictions and families?
- Reassessing Anna and Fanny Parnell
- The lives and writings of the Owenson sisters
In this month’s podcast, Mike Tomlinson and Seamus McGuinness explore Social Security provision models in a United Ireland with host Rory Montgomery. Tomlinson outlines the differences and similarities in tax systems, public expenditure, pension provision, poverty and welfare rates, child benefit, and long-term sickness and disability benefits in Ireland north and south. Going beyond comparison, the discussion examines the impact of the experience of conflict in Northern Ireland on the health of the population, on social welfare provision, and long-term sickness and disability benefits. Tomlinson deftly accounts for British Treasury decisions and anticipates the power of precedent in pension provision in a United Ireland.
You can read Mike Tomlinson's paper, as it appears in Irish Studies in International Affairs, doi.org/10.1353/isia.2022.0011
This is episode 16 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
The third lunchtime lecture of this series held on 19 October 2022 and delivered by Dr Diane Urquhart, Professor of Gender History at Queen’s University Belfast, on Anna and Fanny Parnell.
Diane Urquhart is Professor of Gender History in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics (HAPP) of Queen’s University Belfast and President of the Women’s History Association of Ireland (WHAI). Her publications include Irish divorce: a history (Cambridge, 2020); The ladies of Londonderry: women and political patronage, 1800–1959 (London & New York, 2007); Women in Ulster politics, 1890–1940: a history not yet told (Dublin, 2000); and, with Lindsey Earner-Byrne, she co-authored Irish abortion journey, 1920–2018 (London, 2019).
As part of the Dublin Festival of History 2022, the National Archives invited Diarmaid Ferriter to meet with Michael Collins biographers William Murphy and Anne Dolan in the Royal Irish Academy. As this was recorded with a live audience there is some background noise and the sound quality is not perfect, nevertheless, we hope you enjoy the discussion.
From 1918 to 1922 Michael Collins kept working diaries of his busy revolutionary life. They are a collection of hurried notes, necessary lists, names and appointments, things to do, and things not done. They are a record of his long working days, and they got him to where he needed to be on time. Though these diaries do not contain conventional lengthy entries in which Collins finally reveals his innermost thoughts, they still tell us much about this extraordinary man. Anne and Will have captured this new source in a book published by the Royal Irish Academy in collaboration with the National Archives, entitled : Days in the life reading the Michael Collins Diaries 1918 to 1922
The first talk of this second series held on 17 August 2022 and delivered by Dr Ann-Maria Walsh, Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Queen’s University Belfast. She explores the lives of the seventeenth-century Boyle sisters writing family and voicing the female through their letters.
Sisters II, hosted by the Royal Irish Academy Library, continues the celebration of sisterhood. The first talk of this second series will be delivered by Dr Ann-Maria Walsh, School of English, Drama & Film, UCD. She will explore the lives of the seventeenth-century Boyle sisters writing family and voicing the female through their letters.
Ann-Maria studied English at University College Dublin and was awarded her PhD in 2017; the thesis was titled, ‘Writing Women’s Lives: The Epistolary Cultures of the Daughters of the First Earl of Cork. She teaches in the School of English at UCD as well as working as a researcher in the University’s cultural heritage collections area.
Her monograph, The Daughters of the First Earl of Cork: Writing Family, Faith, Politics, and Place was published by Four Courts Press in early 2020. She has an essay on the Boyle women in Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland eds. Julie Eckerle and Naomi McAreavey (University of Nebraska Press, 2019). Ann-Maria is currently working on an edition of the Boyle women’s extant letters for the Irish Manuscripts Commission. Ann-Maria’s main research interests include seventeenth-century women’s letters, diaries, and other autobiographical writings, as well as early modern literature, material culture, and Irish and British history of that period.
The second lunchtime lecture of this series held on 28 September 2022 and delivered by Gerardine Meaney MRIA, Professor of Cultural Theory in the School of English, Drama & Film at University College Dublin, on Kate O'Brien and her sisters.
Gerardine Meaney is Professor of Cultural Theory in the School of English, Drama and Film. Her current research interests are in gender, ethnic and national identities in literature and culture and the application of new digital methodologies to humanities research. Her current research projects include an exploration of Victorian anxieties around public health and migration in the British Library’s Nineteenth Century Corpus and a Decade of Centenaries project presenting the diaries of novelist and revolutionary, Rosamond Jacob, in blog form. She is the author of Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change (Routledge, 2010) intro online; Nora, Ireland into Film Series (Cork University Press); (Un)like Subjects: Women, Theory, Fiction (Routledge, 1993; reissued Routledge Library Editions, 2012) and numerous articles and book chapters on gender and culture, from Joyce to The Wire. She co-authored Reading the Irish Woman: Cultural Encounter and Exchange, 1714-1960, with Bernadette Whelan and Mary O'Dowd (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013). She was one of the major co-editors of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Women's Writing and Traditions, volumes 4 and 5 (Cork: Cork University Press, 2002). Digital projects include a centenary multimedia exploration of an iPad app of James Joyce's short story 'The Dead' and the 17 research demonstrator projects of the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive. She was Chairperson of the Irish Humanities Alliance (2016-17) and Vice-Chair (2015-16). She was also previously Director of the UCD Humanities Institute, Vice-Principal for Research and Innovation in the College of Arts and Celtic Studies and Directors of the Centres for the Study of Gender, Culture and Identities and Film Studies at UCD.
‘Instituting Grangegorman’ is the second in the Grangegorman Histories podcast series exploring the histories of the Grangegorman area of north, inner-city Dublin. Over the past 250 years, Grangegorman has been the site of a workhouse, a prison and a large psychiatric hospital and now this site is being redeveloped as a health and education campus for the HSE, TU Dublin and the local community. This podcast explores the history of the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, now the recently restored TU Dublin Lower House. Join architectural historian, Patrick Quinlan, as he explores the chequered career of this landmark building: a story of optimistic conception and utilitarian service, of neglect, decline and demise, culminating in the latest chapter of rebirth as a valued architectural and historical landmark. The architect of the original asylum building was Francis Johnston, most noted as the architect of the General Post Office on O’Connell Street, Dublin and the Chapel Royal in Dublin Castle. He designed and constructed the building, which opened in 1814, in a spirit of optimism as a national solution to the shameful conditions in which people with mental illnesses were confined in prisons, bridewells and houses of industry all over Ireland. The original design and construction included architectural innovations and features that were informed by moral treatment: a progressive and humane approach to the care of people with mental illness popular during the early 19th century. However, by the later 20th century, the building became synonymous with the worst aspects of institutionalisation. Its closure in 1989 was heralded as ‘symbolic of a revolution in healthcare’; its ‘dungeon-like architecture’ fit only for demolition. Three quarters of the building was levelled but Johnston’s entrance front survived. It endured two further decades of decay and dereliction before it was identified as a building of architectural, social and historical importance and worthy of protection. It has become part of the regeneration of the Grangegorman site, transforming this former hospital complex. The building reopened in 2021, ready to write its next chapter as a key centre for student services on the new TU Dublin Grangegorman campus. About the podcaster: Patrick Quinlan, B.Arch, ARB, MUBC Patrick holds a Masters in Urban and Building Conservation from UCD and is a practicing architect with professional experience spanning from modern healthcare to the conservation and reuse of a range of historic structures. His recently published Walls of Containment, the Architecture and Landscapes of Lunacy explores the history of Ireland’s legacy asylum sites through the lens of architectural history. Patrick is a past recipient of the RIBA Dissertation Commendation and is currently undertaking a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London.
Before you listen to the podcast, please note that some of the language that will be used in describing these histories is contemporaneous language of that historical period. This terminology is no longer acceptable. However, to give truth to these difficult histories, it is important to use the terminology of that time. It’s use is applied strictly within context.
The ARINS podcast theme this month considers the benefits of cross-border cooperation in the Arts.
Drawing on a report commissioned by ARINS, produced by the Audience Agency and co-funded by Department of Foreign Affairs, the lead author of the report Dr. Steven Hadley Research Fellow Trinity College Dublin, and Darren Ferguson, CEO of Belfast based organization, Beyond Skin that harnesses the arts as a mechanism for dialogue to develop a society free from racism and sectarianism, join our host Rory Montgomery to discuss the future of cross-border cooperation in the arts.
You can read the report and more ARINS research: https://www.ria.ie/read-arins-research Beyond Skin: https://www.beyondskin.net/history Audience Agency: https://www.theaudienceagency.org/
* This is episode 15 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In this month’s episode, host Rory Montgomery and Brendan O’Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science, at the University of Pennsylvania, discuss Brendan’s latest book Making Sense of a United Ireland, Should it Happen, How Might it Happen? (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/448578/making-sense-of-a-united-ireland-by-oleary-brendan/9781844886050) published today. O’Leary makes sense of it all from government ministries to ideological mindsets.
The discussion explores demographic, electoral, and political changes, slowly and steadily shaping Northern Ireland. Should these slow, steady changes accelerate referenda on the future of Northern Ireland? O’Leary counsels against premature calls for referenda arguing that it would be inappropriate to hold a referendum in Northern Ireland where there is not sufficient evidence that a majority in Northern Ireland would be likely to vote for a united Ireland. Referenda should not be called until such point that it is clear that there has been a shift in opinion.
O'Leary calls for timely preparation and detailed deliberation by the Irish government in the event of successful referendums north and south. He advocates for a series of processes including a standing constitutional all party forum and for systematic evaluation of difficult questions by way of deliberative forums on small dimensions of the momentous questions of Irish reunification. To avoid being unprepared in advance of a British government decision to initiate a referendum at any time O'Leary champions the case for the Irish government to create a ministry for unification. A ministry would support efforts seeking to shape arrangements and create models and mechanisms to better determine how a united Ireland might successfully operate.
What happens when you merge two distinct legal, administrative and judicial systems with legacy concerns? The reunification of Germany is arguably the closest and most recent example of the systemic complexities faced should referenda on both sides of the Irish border allow for the processes of Irish unification to begin. In this ARINS podcast Tobias Lock and Aoife O’Donoghue discuss the lessons learned from German Unification and how we might best apply them.
You can read the article by Tobias Lock, as it appears in Irish Studies in International Affairs, at doi.org/10.1353/isia.2022.0010.
Tobias Lock, is Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law School of Law and Criminology Maynooth University. Aoife O’Donoghue is Professor of Law, Queen’s University Belfast.
This is episode 13 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In this month's episode of the ARINS podcast, Joanne McEvoy and Fidelma Ashe explore the ways in which including and encouraging popular engagement can not only enrich constitutional discussion but critically can shape constitutional change.
You can read the article by Joanne McEvoy, Jennifer Todd and Dawn Walsh, as it appears in Irish Studies in International Affairs, at doi.org/10.1353/isia.2022.0008
Joanne McEvoy is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Science at the University of Aberdeen. Fidelma Ashe is Professor of Politics at the Ulster University.
This is episode 12 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In this month's episode, Katie Liston, Joseph Maguire and Bruce Kidd explore the role of sports in crafting identities and shaping politics on the island of Ireland.
You can read Katie Liston and Joseph Maguire's paper, as it appears in Irish Studies in International Affairs, at doi.org/10.1353/isia.2022.0005. Bruce Kidd's response is available at doi.org/10.1353/isia.2022.0007.
Katie Liston is Senior Lecturer School of Sport, University of Ulster. Joseph Maguire is Professor Emeritus of Sociology of Sport, Loughborough University. Bruce Kidd is Professor Emeritus Sport and Public Policy University of Toronto.
This is episode 11 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
Policing has been complicated and contentious on both sides of the island of Ireland. The prospect of a united Ireland raises profound and even jarring questions with regards to policing, questions which will require a depth of consideration, analysis and consultation if the issue is ever to be addressed effectively. In this episode, Vicky Conway and Roger Mac Ginty examine how policing in a united Ireland might coordinate questions of governance, oversight and accountability.
You can read Vicky Conway's paper, as it appears in Irish Studies in International Affairs, at doi.org/10.1353/isia.2022.0006
Vicky Conway is Associate Professor of Law, Convenor of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at DCU Law School. Roger Mac Ginty is Professor of Defence, Development and Diplomacy in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University.
This is episode 10 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
The Good Friday Agreement and the Dayton Peace Agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina have often been compared as the two best-known and longest-lasting power-sharing or consociational agreements from the 1990s. The post-Brexit debate on possible referenda on a united Ireland has added a new dimension to this comparison. If referenda lead to the creation of a united Ireland, what does the experience of Bosnia and Herzegovina offer to the debate on the political structures of a united Ireland? In this episode, Tajma Kapic and John Doyle consider how the experience of the DPA may help shape future political arrangements in a united Ireland.
You can read Tajma Kapic's paper, as it appears in Irish Studies in International Affairs, at doi:10.1353/isia.2022.0001
Tajma Kapic is a doctoral researcher at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. John Doyle is Director of DCU Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction and Professor of International Conflict Resolution in DCU School of Law and Government.
This is episode 9 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
Ireland's Ambassador to the United States, Daniel Mulhall, invites you to the American launch of 'Irish Lives in America' (Royal Irish Academy, 2021), a St Brigid’s Day celebration of the lives and achievements of Irish women who made America their home over the last 300 years.
We'll meet characters such as Margaret Maher, one of the multitude of 'Bridgets' in America (a collective name given to Irish domestic servants) who is credited with preserving the poetry of Emily Dickinson; Belinda Mulrooney, a Sligo native who became the richest woman in the Klondike, ran her own bank, then lost it all; Gertrude Brice Kelly, a respected New York surgeon and political radical calling for an independent Ireland; Kay McNulty, a pioneering ‘human computer’ whose work went unrecognized for many years, and many other extraordinary women who made their mark on America.
Joining the Ambassador in conversation are Liz Evers and Niav Gallagher, editors of 'Irish Lives in America'.
The book is available in all good bookshops or online at https://www.ria.ie/irish-lives-america
One of the many perspectives from which the pros and cons of a united Ireland can be weighed is that of human rights protection. In a united Ireland how differently, if at all, would the human rights of people living in Northern Ireland or in Ireland be protected? In this month's episode of the ARINS podcast, Brice Dickson and Rory Montgomery look at the implications for the protection of human rights in a united Ireland.
You can read Brice Dickson's paper, as it appears in Irish Studies in International Affairs, at https://doi.org/10.3318/isia.2021.32b.48
Brice Dickson is Professor of International and Comparative Law at the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast. Rory Montgomery is a former diplomat and Honorary Professor in the George Mitchell Institute, Queen's University Belfast.
This is episode 8 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
Join us on Brigid's Day to commemorate the Women of 1922, in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs.
From the handover of Dublin Castle, to the dawning of a new border across the island, to the fateful divisions of the civil war, a new book 'Ireland 1922' provides a snapshot of a year of turmoil, tragedy and, amidst it all, state-building as the Irish revolution drew to a close.
Join Fionnuala Walsh, Lindsey Earner-Byrne and Mary McAuliffe chaired by Darragh Gannon to explore a turning point in Irish history; one whose legacy remains controversial a century on. They will discuss events during that year, how they impacted on the year and the creation of the new state, and consider what role gender has to play in this Decade of Centenaries.
The book is available in all good bookshops or online at www.ria.ie/Ireland1922
In this special episode of Shelfmarks for St Brigid’s Day, in association with the Department of Foreign Affairs, podcaster-in Residence Zoë Comyns explores the figure of Brigid. She imagines her origins in Irish folktale and story and delves into the Royal Irish Academy collection for traces of Brigid in the recordings of the Doegen archive.
In 1926 the Irish government asked Dr Wilheim Doegen (Director of the Sound Department at the Prussian State Library in Berlin) to make recordings of Irish speech in the Gaeltacht. The Department of Education asked the RIA to organise the project. Dr Doegen came to Ireland with his assistant, Karl Tempel in 1928. Speakers were asked to sing a song, tell a story, recite a version of the Parable of the Prodigal Son (based on a copy supplied to them in advance), count numbers or recite a prayer. The recordings were made on wax matrices which were then transported to Berlin where they were converted to shellac.
In this piece Zoë has interweaved recordings from:
Máire McDaid: Máire counts in Irish.
Anna Feely: this doesn’t directly mention Brigid but instead refers to a girl gathering rushes, often associated with Brigid and her distinctive cross. A chailín deas na luachra ‘A young man meets a beautiful young woman gathering rushes, which were traditionally used for making bedding. He tries to seduce her with various promises, and in the final verses the young woman reproaches him for the trouble he has caused her.’
Mícheál Mac Gearailt from Co. Kerry who recites a prayer to Brigid for her protection: Coigilt na tine 'The practice of banking the fire for the night was one of daily necessity in former times, whereby glowing coals would be smothered with ash to keep them smouldering until the next day, when they could be rekindled. It was usually one of the last things to be done at night, and was often accompanied by protective prayers.'
Also included is: Brat agus teagasc Bhríde - by Seán Ó Colláin ‘This account of St Brigid appears to combine legends from a number of sources. The motif of Brigid's cloak is found in early hagiographies concerning the saint.’ This recording points to Brigid’s charity and her magical cloak that spread out over the lands of Kildare.
Elaine Feeney joins Zoë for a walk in Renville Park in Galway to chat about Elaine’s early life on a farm, superstition, women’s safety in nature and what Brigid means to her. Elaine has written two specially commissioned pieces for the episode of Shelfmarks. Elaine is a poet and writer whose most recent book is As You Were. In the past year she has won the Kate O’Brien and the Dalkey 'emerging writer' awards. Elaine’s writing examines how history and national identity structure the everyday lives of Irish women. For this episode of Shelfmarks Elaine has written an essay and a short story prompted by the figure of Brigit, the coming of Spring and the lives of women. She also takes inspiration from the Tom Murphy Mommo trilogy - the plays, Bailegangaire and A Thief of a Christmas and of course Brigit.
Her essay A Fine Roll of Cloud from the west brings us back to her early years growing up on a farm in Athenry. She describes the work she and her siblings did to keep the farm going and the brutality of working with animals. In spite of this, Elaine founds moments of beauty and escape that lay the foundations for her writing life. In The Stranger, Elaine writes an origin story for the inspiration for Seamus’ statue of Brigit in Tom Murphy’s play Brigit. Seamus carves a statue of Brigit from bog oak and in Elaine’s account, he takes inspiration from a woman in a cafe.
Elaine Feeney’s book As You Were is published by Harvill Secker.
Thanks to the Department of Foreign Affairs for their support of this specially commissioned episode.
The Brexit referendum precipitated an era of tension and distrust between the British and Irish governments. In this month's episode of the ARINS podcast, Etain Tannam and Rory Montgomery reflect on the British-Irish Relationship and the Centrality of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference.
You can read Etain Tannam's paper, as it appears in Irish Studies in International Affairs, at https://doi.org/10.3318/isia.2021.32b.29 Rory Montgomery's response can be found at https://doi.org/10.3318/isia.2021.32b.35
Etain Tannam is Associate Professor in the School of Religion, Trinity College Dublin. Rory Montgomery is a former diplomat and Honorary Professor in the George Mitchell Institute, Queen's University Belfast.
This is episode 7 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
The sixth and final podcast in the series of the History of Emotions Podcasts 'From grief to wonder: Exploring emotions in Irish History' by Ciarán Wallace takes a surprisingly positive look at a cultural tragedy - the destruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland at the outbreak of the Irish Civil War. Peering behind the cloud of smoke which billowed up on 30 June 1922, he describes the sense of wonder associated with the establishment of the PROI in 1867 and its fifty-five years preserving Ireland's most precious records. The building, its staff and the national archive they created were marvels of 19th century Irish skill and scholarship. Despite the losses of 1922, their work is now enabling the virtual recreation of the record treasury - opening the door for a new generation to feel that same sense of wonder and excitement at the historical discoveries ahead.
Dr Ciarán Wallace Ciarán Wallace is Deputy Director of Beyond 2022. He completed his PhD on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century municipal politics in Dublin at Trinity College Dublin (2010). Having lectured in Modern Irish History at Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University and Liverpool John Moore’s University Ciarán returned to Dublin to join the initial scoping phase for Beyond 2022: Ireland's Virtual Record Treasury. Ciarán’s publications include ‘Civil society in search of a state: Dublin 1898–1922’ Urban History, August 2018; Curry, J., Wallace C., (2015) Thomas Fitzpatrick and the Lepracaun Cartoon Monthly 1905-1915; Griffith L.M., Wallace, C. (eds) (2016) Grave Matters: death and dying in Dublin 1500 to the present and Wallace, C., Gallagher, S. E., (2016) ‘A Far Cry from School History: Massive Online Open Courses as a Generative Source for Historical Research.’ The International Review of Open and Distributed Learning, 2016.
In this new series of four podcasts host Gill Plunkett explores the long view of climate change by interviewing the authors of 'Climate and Society in Ireland'. We talk about hunter gatherers, disease, poetry, weather events and consider our future vulnerabilities.
In this final episode, Graeme Warren (UCD)reviews evidence for the potential impact of climate change on the earliest human settlement of Ireland.
Graeme Warren is a Professor in the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin.
'Climate and Society in Ireland' is a collection of essays, commissioned by the Royal Irish Academy, that provides a multi-period, interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most important challenges currently facing humanity. Combining syntheses of existing knowledge with new insights and approaches, contributors explore the varied environmental, climatic and social changes that occurred in Ireland from early prehistory to the early 21st century. The essays in the volume engage with a diversity of pertinent themes, including the impact of climate change on the earliest human settlement of Ireland; weather-related food scarcities during medieval times that led to violence and plague outbreaks; changing representations of weather in poetry written in Ireland between 1600 and 1820; and how Ireland is now on the threshold of taking the radical steps necessary to shed its ‘climate laggard’ status and embark on the road to a post-carbon society. The book is available from our website: www.ria.ie/climate-and-society-ireland
In this new series of four podcasts host Gill Plunkett explores the long view of climate change by interviewing the authors of 'Climate and Society in Ireland'. We talk about hunter gatherers, disease, poetry, weather events and consider our future vulnerabilities.
In epidode 3, Bruce Campbell (QUB) and Francis Ludlow (TCD) consider the effects that climate had on the lives and livelihoods of ordinary people in late medieval Ireland.
Bruce Campbell is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Economic History at The Queen’s University of Belfast. Francis Ludlow is Assistant Professor of Medieval Environmental History, Trinity College Dublin .
'Climate and Society in Ireland' is a collection of essays, commissioned by the Royal Irish Academy, that provides a multi-period, interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most important challenges currently facing humanity. Combining syntheses of existing knowledge with new insights and approaches, contributors explore the varied environmental, climatic and social changes that occurred in Ireland from early prehistory to the early 21st century. The essays in the volume engage with a diversity of pertinent themes, including the impact of climate change on the earliest human settlement of Ireland; weather-related food scarcities during medieval times that led to violence and plague outbreaks; changing representations of weather in poetry written in Ireland between 1600 and 1820; and how Ireland is now on the threshold of taking the radical steps necessary to shed its ‘climate laggard’ status and embark on the road to a post-carbon society. The book is available from our website: www.ria.ie/climate-and-society-ireland
In this final episode of Shelfmarks, Zoë explores the life and work of chemist Richard Kirwan (President of the RIA 1790-1812). Richard Kirwan is often remembered for his peculiar habits but should be remembered as the first person to record accurate meteorological records taken in his garden in Dublin in the 1790/1800s. His study of the weather paved the way for more scientific studies of climate and the weather. He had grave personal concern about the weather and an overwhelming fear of the cold.
The guest writer on this week’s podcast is Neil Hegarty. Neil grew up in Derry. His novels include The Jewel, published in 2019; and Inch Levels, which was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Novel of the Year award in 2017. Other titles include Frost: That Was the Life That Was, a biography of David Frost; and The Story of Ireland, which accompanies a BBC-RTE television history of Ireland. His essays and short fiction have appeared in the Dublin Review, Stinging Fly, Tangerine and elsewhere; and he is a regular literary reviewer for the Irish Times and Dublin Review of Books.
Zoe and Neil chat about his garden, the human imprint on the planet (the Anthropocene) and how the weather has a significant part to play in our everyday. Neil writes about a visit to Derry with his father and getting caught up in a band of rain. ‘When I was last in Derry – in my home place – for the weekend, I spent a good deal of time watching the weather. Nothing strange about this, of course – it’s the Irish way, of a piece with checking what we should wear, pack, bring with us as we venture forth. An umbrella, a coat with a hood, light shoes or heavier shoes: glance up and out at the weather, and work with the grain of the day.’
He takes us on a trip to the Lough Foyle Sloblands and explores the ways in which we the current climate crisis has created an urgency in his writing.
'These landscapes were enclosed by the Victorians: the water is held back by high sea walls, turfed on one side and stone on the other: on one side, the wide and shallow and silver-grey waters of the lough; on the other, rich, black soil, and flat polder lands threaded by drainage channels. A Dutch landscape, expansive and unexpected in Ireland.'
In this episode, Colin Harvey and Jennifer Kavanagh pick through the political uncertainties surrounding the anticipated referendums, north and south. How will the referendums work? How do we formulate the appropriate question to capture what the people should decide on? In episode 6 of the ARINS podcast, Colin Harvey and Jennifer Kavanagh discuss the intensifying conversation about constitutional change on the island of Ireland.
You can read Colin Harvey's paper, as it appears in Irish Studies in International Affairs, at https://doi.org/10.3318/isia.2021.32b.37. Jennifer Kavanagh's response can be found at https://doi.org/10.3318/isia.2021.32b.39. Colin Harvey is Professor of Human Rights Law in the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast, Jennifer Kavanagh is a Law Lecturer in Waterford Institute of Technology.
This is episode 6 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In this new series of four podcasts host Gill Plunkett explores the long view of climate change by interviewing the authors of 'Climate and Society in Ireland'. We talk about hunter gatherers, disease, poetry, weather events and consider our future vulnerabilities.
In episode 2, Lucy Collins explores the changing representation of weather in poetry written in Ireland between 1600 and 1820 and examines the relationship between literary convention and political and intellectual transformation in these texts.
Lucy Collins is Associate Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin.
'Climate and Society in Ireland' is a collection of essays, commissioned by the Royal Irish Academy, that provides a multi-period, interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most important challenges currently facing humanity. Combining syntheses of existing knowledge with new insights and approaches, contributors explore the varied environmental, climatic and social changes that occurred in Ireland from early prehistory to the early 21st century. The essays in the volume engage with a diversity of pertinent themes, including the impact of climate change on the earliest human settlement of Ireland; weather-related food scarcities during medieval times that led to violence and plague outbreaks; changing representations of weather in poetry written in Ireland between 1600 and 1820; and how Ireland is now on the threshold of taking the radical steps necessary to shed its ‘climate laggard’ status and embark on the road to a post-carbon society. The book is available from our website: www.ria.ie/climate-and-society-ireland
'Irish Lives in America', edited by Liz Evers and Niav Gallagher, documents fifty Irish people featured in the Dictionary of Irish Biography who made an indelible mark on American society, politics and culture.
The book was launched by Neville Isdell on 24 November at 6.30 p.m. at EPIC the Irish Emigration Museum. The launch is followed by a panel discussion 'Irish Lives in America: underdogs or overlords?' chaired by Patrick Geoghegan and featuring Miriam Nyhan Grey, Diane Negra, Neville Isdell and Liz Evers.
The book is available in all good bookshops or online at https://www.ria.ie/irish-lives-america
In this new series of four podcasts host Gill Plunkett explores the long view of climate change by interviewing the authors of 'Climate and Society in Ireland'. We talk about hunter gatherers, disease, poetry, weather events and consider our future vulnerabilities.
In episode 1, John Sweeney considers the challenging interaction between climate and society from the nineteenth century to the present, arguing that while throughout most of its history, Irish society was a prisoner of climate as mediated through the necessity of a harvest surplus, the relationship is now reversed: in a global context, climate is now the prisoner of people.
John Sweeney is Emeritus Professor in the Geography Department at Maynooth University.
'Climate and Society in Ireland' is a collection of essays, commissioned by the Royal Irish Academy, that provides a multi-period, interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most important challenges currently facing humanity. Combining syntheses of existing knowledge with new insights and approaches, contributors explore the varied environmental, climatic and social changes that occurred in Ireland from early prehistory to the early 21st century. The essays in the volume engage with a diversity of pertinent themes, including the impact of climate change on the earliest human settlement of Ireland; weather-related food scarcities during medieval times that led to violence and plague outbreaks; changing representations of weather in poetry written in Ireland between 1600 and 1820; and how Ireland is now on the threshold of taking the radical steps necessary to shed its ‘climate laggard’ status and embark on the road to a post-carbon society. The book is available from our website: www.ria.ie/climate-and-society-ireland
In episode 5 of Shelfmarks Zoë explores the myth of Cessair and Fintan mac Bochra from the Leabhar Gabhála (The Book of Invasions / The Book of the Taking of Ireland).
In the myth Cessair is the grand-daughter of Noah and daughter of Bith. Bith is refused passage on The Ark and so Cessair builds three ships to seek out a new land. Each ship is crewed by fifty women. During the seven year journey two of the ships sink but the third containing Cessair, fifty women, her husband Fintan, her father Bith and her brother Ladra arrive in Ireland. She takes the first step on Irish soil. Zoë explores this myth, the taking of Ireland and how becoming at one with the natural world becomes essential to survival.
As part of this podcast writer Siobhán Mannion writes a fictional account of this first step and what Ireland might have looked like to Cessair and her crew.
Zoë also takes a walk across Dublin city with Siobán to discuss her relationship with nature, walking, writing and routine.
Siobhán Mannion’s stories and essays have appeared in Irish and international publications including Granta, Winter Papers, Banshee, Eighteen Bridges, Stand, The Moth, The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers and Galway Stories: 2020. She has written plays and non-fiction pieces for radio, and her work has appeared in translation. Her honours include an Arts Council Literature Bursary, a MacDowell fellowship, two Hennessy Awards, and two New York Festivals Radio Awards. She lives in Dublin, where she worked for many years as a radio producer in RTÉ and is now completing a collection of stories.
'The Book of Invasions’ (‘Leabhar Gabhála’) is not the name of a specific manuscript. Rather it is an origin legend of the Irish people that exists in many variant versions, in poetry and prose. The origins of the tradition can be traced to the seventh century, although the earliest surviving manuscripts are much later. The story was extensively reworked in verse form in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Over time, prose versions were derived from the poetry, and additional historical material was added. It was revised again in the seventeenth century by the team of historians known as the Four Masters. It continued to be accepted as a plausible story of the settlement of people on the island of Ireland long after that.' Find out more at https://www.ria.ie/leabhar-gabhala-book-invasions
Host Gill Plunkett introduces a new series of four podcasts exploring the long view of climate change by interviewing the authors of 'Climate and Society in Ireland', a collection of essays commissioned by the Royal Irish Academy.
'Climate and Society in Ireland' provides a multi-period, interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most important challenges currently facing humanity. Combining syntheses of existing knowledge with new insights and approaches, contributors explore the varied environmental, climatic and social changes that occurred in Ireland from early prehistory to the early 21st century. The essays in the volume engage with a diversity of pertinent themes, including the impact of climate change on the earliest human settlement of Ireland; weather-related food scarcities during medieval times that led to violence and plague outbreaks; changing representations of weather in poetry written in Ireland between 1600 and 1820; and how Ireland is now on the threshold of taking the radical steps necessary to shed its ‘climate laggard’ status and embark on the road to a post-carbon society. The book is available from our website: https://www.ria.ie/climate-and-society-ireland
This week on Shelfmarks imaginary islands, real books and Manchán Magan on the magical in betweenness of Irish.
The Royal Irish Academy holds the most important collection of Irish language manuscripts in the country and more specifically it holds medical manuscripts - 6000 thousand pages across 30 different textbooks. One of these medical books is called the Book of O’Lees or Book of Hybrasil. This week Zoë relays the origin of the book of O’Less and Manchán Magan reads two specially commissioned essays prompted by the Book of O’Lees. One about Bog Plants and the medicinal cures found in Irish plants and the other about the nebulousness of the island of Hy-brasil:
“I’ve never been to Valentia Island in my life, but I don’t doubt it exists. I’ve sat in Portmagee in a thick mist and looked out on nothing, on a miasma of white vapour, but still I accept Valentia Island as part of reality. That’s how it was for people with regard to Hy Brasil. Many, many people throughout history claimed to have seen it, and there are still some alive today who have told me directly they’ve seen the allusive, mystical island. But, there are far more people living along the west coast of Ireland at points from which it is supposed to be visible who’ve never once even caught a glimpse of it. It both exists and doesn’t exist. Má thuigeann tú leat me (if you get what I mean).”
Tune in to hear more of Manchán essays on Shelfmarks Episode 4. Zoë and Manchán also discuss how Irish holds many clues to how we can understand the natural world, what we can do collectively in this time of crisis and why as a travel writer Manchán no longer flies around the world.
Manchán Magan most recent two books are Thirty-Two Words for Field and Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature - both are published by Gill Books.
In this episode, Gladys Ganiel and Philip McDonagh discuss church leaders' contributions to public debates about a post-Brexit island. You can read Gladys Ganiel's paper, as it appears in Irish Studies in International Affairs, at https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3318/isia.2021.32b.47 Philip McDonagh's response can be found at https://doi.org/10.3318/isia.2021.32b.52 Gladys Ganiel is reader in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work at Queen's University Belfast. Philip McDonagh is the director of the DCU Centre for Religion, Human Values, and International Relations. * This is episode 5 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In this bonus episode of Shelfmarks, guest writer Conor W. O'Brien reads a short piece on the wolf in Ireland.
Shelfmarks is a podcast by the Royal Irish Academy podcaster-in-residence Zoë Comyns. Every other week Zoë will sift through the Academy collection for Shelfmarks (biographies, manuscripts, books and reference from the collection) and invite a guest writer to discuss their own relationship with the natural world. Each writer has been specially commissioned to write pieces exploring their own relationship with nature. Shelfmarks goes live every other Sunday.
In this bonus episode of Shelfmarks, Zoë meets with Conor W. O'Brien. Conor is the author of two books: 'Ireland Through Birds', a journey around Ireland and through the four seasons in search of 12 of our rarest and most elusive birds, and 'Life in Ireland: a Short History of a Long Time', both published by Merrion Press.
Conor joined us for our Culture Night special episode of Shelfmarks to talk about writing and the natural world. One of the aims of this series is to commission new writing about the natural world and for this bonus episode Conor has written a short piece on the wolf in Ireland.
A full episode of Shelfmarks will be back next week with Manchán Magan. This series is funded by the Arts Council Literature Project Award.
This week on Shelfmarks Zoë Comyns tries to get a sense of the immense work done by Robert Lloyd Praeger. From his early days in Co. Down, tramping through the Mourne Mountains to the thousands of miles he walked across Ireland studying botanics, to his contribution to 800 publications and his 24 books RL Praeger is probably considered Ireland’s most influential naturalist.
Zoë’s guest this week on Shelfmarks is poet Jane Clarke. Jane grew up in Co Roscommon and came to writing after a career in psychotherapy. She moved to Wicklow almost 25 years ago and Zoë visited her there in her home and took a walk up a lane known as Fairy Lane or Lousy Land and listeners will hear two specially commissioned poems about her neighbour and quarrymen.
You can read more about Jane Clarke on her website: http://www.janeclarkepoetry.ie/
To write this episode Zoë read The Way that I Went and A Populous Solitude by Robet Lloyd Praeger, Irish Topographical Botany and the Clare Island Survey, as well as the invaluable biography of Praeger The Life of a Naturalist by Sean Lysaght published by Four Courts Press. She also read A Farrington's obituary of Praeger in the Irish Naturalist Journal, Vol 11 (1954).
The readings in this episode are by Declan Brennan.
In this bonus episode of Shelfmarks, Zoë Comyns chats to guest writers Niall and Christine about their own relationship with their garden and nature.
Shelfmarks is a podcast by the Royal Irish Academy podcaster-in-residence Zoë Comyns. Every other week Zoë will sift through the Academy collection for Shelfmarks (biographies, manuscripts, books and reference from the collection) and invite a guest writer to discuss their own relationship with the natural world. Each writer has been specially commissioned to write pieces exploring their own relationship with nature. Shelfmarks goes live every other Sunday.
In this bonus episode of Shelfmarks, Zoë meets with Niall Williams and Christine Breen. Niall and Christine are the authors of numerous books. Niall has been longlisted for the Man Booker for History of the Rain and his most recent novel is This is Happiness. Chrstine Breen’s first novel is Her Name is Rose. Together, their most recent book is In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Niall and Christine joined us for our Culture Night special episode of Shelfmarks to talk about writing and the natural world. One of the aims of this series is to commission new writing about the natural world and both Niall and Chrstine have a short piece for this episode in the same style as their entries for In Kiltumper - they explore their own relationship with their garden and nature.
A full episode of Shelfmarks will be back next week with poet Jane Clarke and an exploration of the uplands and walking through the work of Robert Lloyd Praeger.
This series is funded by the Arts Council Literature Project Award. Special thanks to Matt Purcelll for the recording.
In this week's episode, podcaster-in-residence Zoë Comyns delves into the life of Cynthia Longfield and spends time with writer Amanda Bell in her Mayo garden.
Cynthia Longfield (1896–1991) was an entomologist, specialising in dragonflies (Odonata). She was part of the St George Expedition that sailed to the Pacific in 1924. Her collection of memorabilia from the 1924 St George expedition is held by the Academy Library, and includes personal diaries, news-cuttings, albums of photographs and her killing jar used for collecting insect samples. She subsequently went on a variety of other research expeditions in Asia, Africa, Canada and South America. Cynthia Longfield worked in the British Museum as an unpaid associate for over 30 years. She was the Museum’s Odonata expert. She retired to her family’s Cloyne in 1956. In 1979 she donated her library (books, notes and ephemera) to the Royal Irish Academy. The collection is known as the ‘Longfield-Roberts’ collection.
In this episode Zoë invites poet and writer Amanda Bell to explore some themes around Cynthia Longfield’s life and research – Amanda has written for the podcast about collecting, iridescence and poison – Zoë visits her in her Mayo garden to chat about tending the site and her understanding of nature and how it influences her writing life.
Amanda Bell’s most recent collection is Riptide (Doire Press). Riptide explores the zeitgeist using the art of Edvard Munch as a counterpoint, delving into the ecological and spiritual anguish informing his paintings, finding parallels in the world we live in today.
Amanda's awards include: Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary 2020; Harold’s Cross inaugural Writer in Residence; Poetry Ireland Introductions Series 2016; Winner of Allingham Prize and Merit Book Award; shortlisted for Irish Poem of the Year, Shine Strong Award, Touchstone Distinguished Books Award
The readings in this episode are by Jennifer O’Dea. Additional Music Credits: Through the Tunnel by DoKashiteru (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Truth and Fact (with Piano) by Siobhan Dakay (c) copyright 2021 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/SiobhanD/63942 Ft: Kara Square
In this Podcast, Megan Brien, historian of design and interior architecture, explores the history of the turret clock in the Clocktower building at Grangegorman on the northside of Dublin’s city centre. With horologists Julian Cosby and David Boles, Megan reveals the unique features of this extraordinary timepiece: the oldest known flat-bed clock in the world.
Grangegorman Histories is a public history project of Dublin City Council, Grangegorman Development Agency, HSE, Local Communities, National Archives, Royal Irish Academy and TU Dublin. To learn more see www.grangegormanhistories.ie
In this episode, John Doyle and John FitzGerald discuss the subject of the UK financial ‘subvention’ to Northern Ireland, which has been dominating the public debate on the economics of a united Ireland. You can read John Doyle's paper, as it appears in Irish Studies in International Affairs, at https://doi.org/10.3318/isia.2021.32b.30 John Doyle is the Director of the Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction at Dublin City University. John FitzGerald, MRIA, is the former Head of the Macroeconomics and Resource Economics Division at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI.) * This is episode 4 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In this first episode of Shelfmarks Zoë Comyns looks at an expedition to Rockall off the north-east coast of Donegal funded by the Royal Irish Academy in 1896.
The island is extremely remote and poor weather conditions meant it was impossible to land on Rockall. The crew of geologists, naturalists and biologists did collect dredge samples and bird specimens. This programme evokes his journey and the sense of discovery.
One of those on board was RIA member R.M. Barrington, whose interest in birds led to him to publish The Migration of Birds as Observed at Irish Lighthouses and Lightships (1900). Barrington asked lighthouse keepers all around the country to record information on all birds that died by striking the light stations. He asked that they: “cut off and label the wing and leg of every common bird which is killed at their station…All species can then be identified with certainty.’ He also requested that ‘Rare birds should be sent entire”.
He gathered more than 2000 specimens, legs and wings and whole birds arrive by post every week, from all over Ireland to his home in Wicklow allowing him to identify patterns and compile his book.
Zoe’s guest on Shelfmarks is Kerri ní Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places. Kerri brings Zoë to Baltray beach in Co. Louth where they discuss Kerri’s relationship with the natural world and she reads new pieces specially commissioned for the Shelfmarks.
Kerri chats about how being prompted by the notion of discovery and expedition she observes her baby son taking in the world for the first time.
She also writes about a dream that she often returns to in which she is observing a bird in a forest and has to choose between experiencing this moment and rushing home to document it.
Kerri has been writing for a number of years and she explores in her final piece one of her very first pieces of writing about a bird strike. Barrington’s studies resonant with her as she has come across numerous dead birds during her walks.
Kerri ní Dochartaigh is the author of Thin Places which was highly commended by the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2021. She has written for the Guardian, the Irish Times, the BBC, Winter Papers, and others. She lives in an old railway cottage in the heart of Ireland with her family.
Shelfmarks is a podcast by our podcaster-in-residence Zoë Comyns. Zoë has spent time looking through the collections and library holdings in the Academy to explore how people have written about and observed our natural world over the centuries.
In this Culture Night special to start the series Zoë explores nature writing as it was when the Royal Irish Academy opened in 1785 to now, and how its focus has changed over the centuries.
We’re going to hear a little history about some of the texts in the RIA, about some of the naturalists and members who have been part of the Academy but also get a sense of the arc of writing about the natural world. We’ll also hear how the landscape and wildlife of Ireland itself has changed over the centuries.
Guests: Lucy Collins (co-ed The Irish Poet and the Natural World) Conor W. O'Brien (Ireland Through Birds, Life in Ireland) and Booker longlisted writer Niall Williams (Four Letters of Love, A History of Rain, This is Happiness) and Christine Breen (Her Name Is Rose) who have co-authored a memoir about their garden, illness and the natural world - In Kiltumper. Readings by Derbhle Crotty and Declan Brennan.
This project is funded by the Arts Council Literature Project Award.
In this episode, Christopher McCrudden and Oran Doyle explore the legal constraints or soft-law guidelines that are relevant to the franchise in the north and in the south, potential issues that arise from tensions between the two franchises, and possible resolutions. You can read their paper, co-authored with David Kenny, as it appeared in Irish Studies in International Affairs, at https://doi.org/10.3318/isia.2021.32b.18 Christopher McCrudden is Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law at Queen’s University Belfast and William W. Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Oran Doyle is Professor in law at Trinity College Dublin. * This is episode 3 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In the final episode of this series, Professor of Immunology Christine Loscher discusses the vaccine rollout and answers questions on vaccines for teens, booster shots and more.
As we reach 70 percent of the population of Ireland vaccinated against COVID-19, host Dick Ahlstrom chats to immunologist Professor Christine Loscher about how Ireland has performed in terms of its vaccination programme, what we have learned about the virus and about vaccines over the last year and what’s new in terms of vaccine development. She also answers questions on the vaccination of children and teens and on the start of vaccine booster shots. Christine is a Full Professor of Immunology and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Science & Health at DCU. In 2020 she established the DCU Covid-19 Research & Innovation Hub which currently has 16 funded projects aimed at novel solutions in the fight against Covid-19.
More information on COVID-19 vaccines
The RIA's Life and Medical Sciences Committee has published a revised expert statement on vaccines. The statement is written in plain English and provides accurate information on vaccines. ‘Vaccines: a life-saving choice expert statement’ by Kingston Mills MRIA, Bert Rima MRIA and Dick Ahlstrom [link to https://www.ria.ie/sites/default/files/vaccines_expert_statement_july_2021.pdf ]
You can find more information on vaccines and vaccination at: http://gov.ie/covid19vaccine http://hse.ie http://immunisation.ie
This series is organised by the Life and Medical Sciences Committee in partnership with the Health Research Board
In Vaccine Questions Ep 7 behavioural economist, Professor Pete Lunn shares expert insights on how our behaviour impacts the spread of the COVI19 and what drives this behaviour.
Pete is head of the Economic and Social Research Institute's Behavioural Research Unit and a member of a subgroup that advises NPHET on public response to the pandemic. He tells Dick what questions this group has asked about public behaviour in the pandemic, and shares some of the surprising answers this research has revealed about how we balance risks and make decisions.
This series is organised by the RIA Life and Medical Sciences Committee
In this episode Adele Bergin and Seamus McGuinness reflect on cross-border differences in living standards, opportunities and quality of life on the island of Ireland. So, who is better off? You can read their paper, as it appeared in Irish Studies in International Affairs, at https://doi.org/10.3318/isia.2021.32b.12 Adele Bergin is Associate Research Professor at the Economic & Social Research Institute, Dublin. Seamus McGuinness is Research Professor at the Economic & Social Research Institute, Dublin. He is also a research fellow in the Institute of Labour Studies (IZA) in the University of Bonn and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National Institute for Labour Studies in Flinders University Australia. * This is episode 2 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
Chief Bioethics Officer at the Department of Health, Dr Siobhán O’Sullivan talks about the difficult decisions officials and individuals must grapple with in this pandemic and the values and principles which underpin them.
While science plays a vital role in informing decisions such as prioritisation for vaccination, these decisions are not made in a vacuum. They impact on all our lives and require assessment of legal, socio-economic factors, and judgements about what is right and wrong and what kind of society we want to live in. Siobhán explains how bioethics provides a framework that helps guide this decision making and Dick asks for her thoughts on complicated questions like should vaccination ever be mandatory, are vaccine passports fair, and are rich countries doing enough to ensure people in poorer countries have access to vaccines.
This series is organised by the Life and Medical Sciences Committee in partnership with the Health Research Board
In this episode, Deirdre Heenan and Anne Matthews delve into how cross-border cooperation relating to health between Ireland and Northern Ireland really works. What collaborations are working? How did health co-operation really work during the COVID-19 pandemic? What are the best parts of each system? Does politics stand in the way of citizens' health? How could health outcomes for everyone on the island be improved? You can read Deirdre Heenan's paper at https://doi.org/10.3318/isia.2021.32b.10 Anne Matthew's response is available at https://doi.org/10.3318/isia.2021.32b.11. These were both published by ARINS in Irish Studies in International Affairs. Deirdre Heenan is Professor of Social Policy in the School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences at Ulster University. Anne Matthews is a Professor in the School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health at Dublin City University. * This is episode 1 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
In this podcast series host Rory Montgomery talks to ARINS authors about their analysis of the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south, post-Brexit.
ARINS, Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.
In episode five Dick chats to Professor Jane Suiter, Director of the Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society at DCU about what drives the spread of disinformation and how it can undermine vaccination programmes.
What is the difference between misinformation and disinformation and are they the same thing as fake news? Dick asks Jane to explain what these terms mean and they discuss the evolution of disinformation, what drives it, and what makes people susceptible to it. Jane also outlines some ways it can be tackled, by those who own or regulate social media and by us as everyday users of digital media.
Emer Cooke, Head of the European Medicines Agency explains its role in assessing and authorising COVID19 vaccines, and Dick asks why should we trust the EMA to ensure that all the vaccines we receive are safe and reliable?
COVID19 vaccines can only become available to us here in Ireland once they are authorised by the European Commission following evaluation by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). In this episode, host Dick Ahlstrom talks to Emer Cooke, an Irish pharmacist who took on the role of Executive Director of the EMA in November 2020. She explains the role of the EMA and the steps they take in evaluating vaccines to ensure they are safe and effective and that the information they base that assessment on is robust and reliable. She also describes what the EMA does to be transparent and engage with the public, and she shares her perspective on the benefits of vaccines.
The fifth in the series of the History of Emotions Podcasts 'From grief to wonder: Exploring emotions in Irish History' examines the intersection between emotions, space and place in the context of Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. Established in 1832 Glasnevin Cemetery is still in operation today and has always been committed to burying the dead of ‘all religions and none’. As Ireland’s first non-sectarian burial site, it has emerged to become an iconic commemorative and heritage space at the outskirts of the capital city. The variety of emotions elicited in this site range from grief and sadness to love and anger. And the visitors who come to Glasnevin stand in a longer tradition of using cemetery spaces for recreational purposes. But how can a cemetery reconcile its primary purpose in caring for the dead and their families, while conserving and making accessible the heritage of the site?
Dr Georgina Laragy is Glasnevin Trust Assistant Prof of Public History and Cultural Heritage M. Phil in the School of Histories and Humanities Trinity College, Dublin. She has written about poverty, workhouses and suicide in Irish history in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The final podcast in the series will be released next Friday, 23 April 2021. Listen to the other podcasts in the series here.
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This the forth of six podcast explores revolutionary solidarity among Irish and other international radicals as a feeling of belonging: 'Belonging: feeling solidarity in the interwar world', Dr Maurice Casey
This emotional experience is traced through a series of radical spaces that shaped the lives of socialists and communists in the 1920s and 1930s; the border between Soviet Russia and the wider world, the public meeting and the prison cell. Paying attention to the feeling of belonging that activists gained through their revolutionary work provides an insight into how ordinary people sustained their faith in social transformation amid moments of upheaval and catastrophe. Dr Maurice J Casey is the current DFA Historian in Residence at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. His research interests include histories of transnational radicalism and the history of social movements in modern Ireland.
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History of Emotions Podcasts. No.3 in the Series 'From grief to wonder: Exploring emotions in Irish History'
Illan works on questions of protest, public order and critical legal theory. His latest book is Law & Disorder: Sovereignty, Protest, Atmosphere is published by Routledge. The book focuses on the moment when social unrest takes hold of a populace, bringing the state structures of government and sovereignty into question. It develops the idea that moods, atmospheres, affects and public feelings are crucial to understand the way in which sovereignty and protest work for the populace.
He has published on critical legal theory, affective dynamics of policing, theories of constituent power, the Arab Spring, protest and transitional justice in Colombia, theories of human rights and revolt, and new Andean constitutional apparatuses.
The fourth podcast in the series will be released on Friday, 9 April 2021.
Dr Lucy Jessop is Director of Public Health at the National Immunisation Office. In this episode she explains when, where and how people will get their vaccination shots, and answers lots of your questions around what side effects to expect.
Here's the link to a factsheet on vaccination for pregnant and breastfeeding women: https://www.hse.ie/eng/health/immunisation/hcpinfo/covid19vaccineinfo4hps/qaiogniac.pdf
This series is organised by the Life and Medical Sciences Committee in partnership with the Health Research Board
This, the second of six podcasts deals with the emotion of detachment. 'Detachment: The Bellfield Plantation', Finola O'Kane Crimmins MRIA.
Finola O’Kane-Crimmins is Professor in Architecture at University College Dublin. Her research interests include History of Designed Landscape, Architectural and Landscape Conservation, Architectural History & Theory, Irish Social History, Architectural and Spatial Pedagogy.
The first podcast introducing the series is by Associate Professor Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide whose brief keynote provides an overview of the study of the history of emotions. Each week we will be releasing a new podcast covering a range of emotions from detachment through anger, solidarity, grief and finishing with wonder and excitement.
Katie Barclay is Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions and Associate Professor and Head of Department in History at the University of Adelaide. She is a graduate in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow, where she completed her undergraduate degree, Masters and PhD. Before joining the University of Adelaide, she held a Research Fellowship in the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast. Between 2008 and 2010, she worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Warwick on a project, run jointly with Queen’s, ‘Marriage in Ireland, 1660-1925’. In 2007-8, Dr Barclay was the Economic History Society Anniversary Fellow, held through the Institute of Historical Research, London. She went to Australia as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for the History of Emotions (2011-2014), and subsequently held a Discovery Early Career Award (2014-2017). In 2017-18, Barclay was a EURIAS Marie Curie Fellow at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus Universitet. She is currently working on a project on how accounting practices shape the self during the industrial revolution, funded by an ARC Discovery Project.
An introduction to the series. The first podcast introducing the series is by Associate Professor Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide whose brief keynote provides an overview of the study of the history of emotions. Each week we will be releasing a new podcast covering a range of emotions from detachment through anger, solidarity, grief and finishing with wonder and excitement.
Katie Barclay is Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions and Associate Professor and Head of Department in History at the University of Adelaide. She is a graduate in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow, where she completed her undergraduate degree, Masters and PhD. Before joining the University of Adelaide, she held a Research Fellowship in the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast. Between 2008 and 2010, she worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Warwick on a project, run jointly with Queen’s, ‘Marriage in Ireland, 1660-1925’. In 2007-8, Dr Barclay was the Economic History Society Anniversary Fellow, held through the Institute of Historical Research, London. She went to Australia as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for the History of Emotions (2011-2014), and subsequently held a Discovery Early Career Award (2014-2017). In 2017-18, Barclay was a EURIAS Marie Curie Fellow at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus Universitet. She is currently working on a project on how accounting practices shape the self during the industrial revolution, funded by an ARC Discovery Project.
Professor Philip Nolan explains the numbers we hear on the news and virologist Dr Gerald Barry answers your questions on vaccines.
News coverage of the pandemic is full of numbers and statistics. Daily figures of new COVID19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths are provided alongside other numbers like 7-day average case number, incidence of disease per hundred thousand, positivity rate and growth rate. Where do these figures come from and what can they tell us?
In this episode Dick talks to Professor Philip Nolan, Chair of the Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group to NPHET about the work being done behind the scenes to bring us the most accurate and up-to-date numbers and projections and Dick asks him whether mathematical models can be used to predict when vaccination will allow life to get back to normal. UCD based virologist Dr Gerald Barry answers your questions on vaccines; how well they halt transmission, how long they are effective for, and are they as affective in people with comprised immune systems.
This series is organised by the Life and Medical Sciences Committee in partnership with the Health Research Board
Listen to Members Fintan O'Toole and William Crawley who discussed the future of Northern Ireland in this conversation style Discourse sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran LLP.
This event also marked the launch of ARINS -- Analysing and Researching Ireland, North and South, a joint project led by the Royal Irish Academy and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs and introduced by Professor Cathy Gormley-Heenan.
Luke O'Neil, MRIA speaks to Dick Ahlstrom, in the first episode of our new Vaccine podcast series, about the first COVID-19 vaccine given on the Island of Ireland, why this is such exciting news and why it is such an amazing achievement for science.
The first COVID-19 vaccine on the island of Ireland was given to a nurse in Belfast on 8 December 2020, and with the European Medicines Agency due to make a decision on the Pfizer vaccine on Monday, the Government of Ireland has also said its Covid-19 vaccination programme could begin before the new year.
Speaking to host Dick Ahlstrom, immunologist Professor Luke O’Neil, MRIA explains why this is such exciting news and why it is such an amazing achievement for science. He responds to some general concerns that people may have around vaccination, explaining the scientific and regulatory process in involved in vaccine approval. And he answers some specific questions sent in by people about vaccination for them or their loved ones. This series is organised by the RIA Life and Medical Sciences Committee
Interview with John Martin, author Irish Historic Towns Atlas, no. 30, Dungarvan/Dún Garbhán.
John commenced research on the atlas in 2012 and has been helped along the way by many, including William Fraher, Bernadette Guest, Joanne Rothwell, Dave Pollock, Prionnsias Breathnach, Sr Gertrude Howley, Frank and John Daly to name a few in Dungarvan people, along with David Kelly from Youghal and author of IHTA no. 27, Youghal (2015). John also thanked staff from other repositories such as the National Library of Ireland, National Archives of Ireland, the Royal Irish Academy Library, Representative Church Body Library, Valuation office, University College Cork Library in gathering source material for Dungarvan and Chatsworth House for access to the Devonshire estate papers.
Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 30, Dungarvan/Dún Garbhán by John Martin is published by the Royal Irish Academy with support from Waterford City and County Council and in association with Ordnance Survey Ireland. It is available to buy online here for €30.
Locations: WLRFM Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Sarah Gearty is interviewed by Damien Tiernan from WLRFM on the recent launch of the Digital Atlas of Dungarvan, which is part of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series in the Royal Irish Academy.
For more on the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series see www.ihta.ie
Panel discussion on the topic of the US Elections chaired by broadcaster Áine Lawlor as part of the 2020-21 Discourse Series sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran.
Panellists Desmond King, Hon. MRIA - Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government, University of Oxford Karlin Lillington - Irish Times journalist David O’Sullivan - formerly Ambassador of the European Union to the United States Robert Schmuhl - Professor Emeritus of American Studies and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Áine Lawlor (Chair) - RTÉ broadcaster
Conference produced in partnership with the Church of Ireland as part of the Church’s National Programme commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland on Thursday 27 February 2020 in Academy House.
Welcome
Michael Peter Kennedy, PRIA [time code 00:00] Most Revd Michael Jackson, Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough [time code 04:12]
Panel One Concept
An outline of the concepts of establishment and its meaning, disestablishment and its implications, and the transition between the two. Chair: James Kelly, MRIA (DCU) Panellists:
Jacqueline Hill, MRIA (Maynooth University) Professor Vincent Comerford (Maynooth University)
Panel Two Consequences: The First Hundred Years, 1869–1969
While the legislative act of Disestablishment was an event, the process of adapting the newly Disestablished Church to the social, political and cultural changes of late 19th century Ireland was much more complex. This panel discussion deals with that process. Chair: Revd Trevor Sargent (Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise) Panellists:
Dr Marie Coleman (Queen’s University Belfast) Dr Ian d’Alton (Trinity College Dublin) Professor Alan Ford (The University of Nottingham) Dr Miriam Moffitt (St Patrick’s College, Maynooth)
Panel Three Challenges: Since 1969
1969 marked a century of Disestablishment. This session will assess developments since 1969 and the Church’s role in and contribution to the island’s future. Chair: Ms Áine Lawlor, journalist and broadcaster Panellists:
Senator Ivana Bacik Revd Professor Anne Lodge (Dublin City University) Martin Mansergh, MRIA Dr Andrew Pierce (Trinity College Dublin)
Closing
Most Revd Michael Jackson, Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough [time code 03:39:40]
Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Nollaig Ó Muraíle, MRIA. First lecture in our series on The Books of Knockninny: the Maguires and their manuscripts in the early eighteenth century.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 29 January, 2020
The Book of Knockninny was compiled in 1718 for Brian Mág Uidhir of Knockninny, Co. Fermanagh. It contains a selection of historical poems and prose texts and is now usually referred to as the Book of Knockninny. It was presented as a reworking of an older compilation that had been made in 1638 for Brian Mac Cú Chonnacht Mág Uidhir. The older manuscript had fallen into disrepair and Brian Mág Uidhir of Knockninny invited scholars to assemble manuscript sources at Knockninny so that scribes could produce a new Book of Knockninny in 1718.
The contents include Gabháltas na hÉireann, Réim Ríoghraidhe na hÉireann, Seanchas na Naomh nÉireannach, Cath Mhaighe Léana, Teagasc Rí Solmain, the Ó Cléirigh recension of the Leabhar Gabhála, and a variety of historical poems. It also contains poems from the early seventeenth-century poetic dispute known as Iomarbhagh na bhFileadh.
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, DCU. The second lecture in our series on The Books of Knockninny: the Maguires and their manuscripts in the early eighteenth century.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 5 February, 2020
The Book of Knockninny was compiled in 1718 for Brian Mág Uidhir of Knockninny, Co. Fermanagh. It contains a selection of historical poems and prose texts and is now usually referred to as the Book of Knockninny. It was presented as a reworking of an older compilation that had been made in 1638 for Brian Mac Cú Chonnacht Mág Uidhir. The older manuscript had fallen into disrepair and Brian Mág Uidhir of Knockninny invited scholars to assemble manuscript sources at Knockninny so that scribes could produce a new Book of Knockninny in 1718.
The contents include Gabháltas na hÉireann, Réim Ríoghraidhe na hÉireann, Seanchas na Naomh nÉireannach, Cath Mhaighe Léana, Teagasc Rí Solmain, the Ó Cléirigh recension of the Leabhar Gabhála, and a variety of historical poems. It also contains poems from the early seventeenth-century poetic dispute known as Iomarbhagh na bhFileadh.
Disclaimer:
The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information contained in any of the materials. The views expressed are the authors’ own and not those of the Royal Irish Academy.
Philip Lane MRIA, European Central Bank in conversation with Alan Barrett MRIA, Director, ESRI.
This interview style conversation explores the priorities in European economic policy in the aftermath of Brexit; prospects for the European economy and implications for Ireland; the role of Central Banks in the context of an economic slowdown; the role of Central Banks in the context of climate change; and the Discipline of Economics ten years after the crisis.
Professor Nicholas Canny MRIA, distinguished historian, received the RIA's premier award the Cunningham Medal on 28 January 2020.
He is well known for his scholarship on both the History of Ireland and Atlantic History, and has also been an academic leader at the National University of Ireland, Galway where he was Vice President for Research, 2005-8. During this tenure he worked with his peers in six other universities to have Humanities and Social Studies opened up to the possibilities of major funding under the government’s PRTLI (Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions) scheme.
Professor Canny’s international standing as a historian has been recognised both through his election to fellowship in a number of other academies, including the British Academy and the American Philosophical Society, and his appointment as editor for the first volume of The Oxford History of the British Empire.
Professor Canny served as President of the Royal Irish Academy from 2008-2011, and subsequently was appointed by the European Commission as a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (2011-16). There he was elected by his peers to serve as Chair of the Open Access Committee where he succeeded in having the Commission’s Open Access rules made more hospitable for researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences.
Peter Kennedy, President of the Royal Irish Academy congratulated Professor Canny for his enormous contribution to scholarship, and for his work to further the objectives of the Academy where, since his election in 1981, he has served repeatedly both on Council and in Office most notably as President from 2008-2011.
On hearing the news that he was to be the 2020 Cunningham Medallist, Professor Canny said that association with the Royal Irish Academy had helped to guide and enrich his work throughout most of his career and that this award of the Academy’s highest honour had placed him further in its debt.
Listen to Professor Michael Peter Kennedy reflect on the role of a Learned Academy in the Royal Irish Academy Presidential Discourse.
About the Discourse
Since the foundation of the Royal Society in 1660, learned academies around the world have shared a common mission of fostering science, learning and academic research. Today, academies are independent self-governing bodies of distinguished scholars drawn from the fields of natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. They contain a unique human resource of intellectual excellence, experience and multidisciplinary knowledge dedicated to the advancement of science and scholarship. Some academies perform research, some are publishers, many are custodians of national cultural treasures, most recognise excellence through prizes and grants, all contribute to public debate in their home countries. This Discourse by the President of the Royal Irish Academy, Professor Michael Peter Kennedy explores the invaluable contributions that learned academies already make to society, opportunities for them to contribute more, and the challenges to their remaining vibrant and relevant in a world that needs but does not always understand evidence-based research.
About the speaker
Michael Peter Kennedy is Professor of Microelectronic Engineering at University College Dublin. (UCD) and Scientific Director of the Microelectronic Circuits Centre Ireland. He received the BE (Electronics) degree from UCD, the MSc and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, and the DEng from the National University of Ireland. He worked with Philips, UCC and UCD and has held visiting academic appointments in Hungary, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, the UK and the United States.
He has over 400 publications, including monographs and patents, ranging from “blue skies” to applied research, in the fields of chaos theory, neural networks, nonlinear dynamics, mixed-signal test, and frequency synthesis. He was made a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in 1998 “for contributions to the theory of neural networks and nonlinear dynamics and for leadership in nonlinear circuits research and education.”
He was elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy in 2004, served four years as Secretary for Policy and International Relations, and is currently serving as President.
Brendan O’Leary Hon. MRIA discusses his latest three volume book 'A Treatise on Northern Ireland' with Ben Lowry, Deputy Editor, News Letter .
Brendan O'Leary is an Irish, European Union, and US citizen, and since 2003 the Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author, co-author, and co-editor of twenty eight books and collections, and the author or co-author of hundreds of articles or chapters in peer-reviewed journals, university presses, encyclopedia articles, and other forms of publication, including op-eds. His latest production is a three-volume study called A Treatise on Northern Ireland, published by Oxford University Press, which has been positively reviewed in the Dublin Review of Books, the Irish News, and the Irish Times.
He recently co-authored a research report, Northern Ireland and the UK’s Exit from the EU: What Do People Think? Evidence from Two Investigations: A Survey and a Deliberative Forum (PI: Garry, J., McNicholl, K., O’Leary, B., & Pow, J., Queen’s University Belfast, 2018 sponsored by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council), and is currently researching the UK's secession from the EU, and possible models of Irish re-unification.
Ben Lowry is a distinguished journalist and political commentator from Northern Ireland. Inter alia he has articulated the view that Northern Ireland’s establishment was an essential part of the administration of the island of Ireland.
When: Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 19:30 - 21:00 Where: Benburb Priory Library and Museum, Main Street, Benburb, Co Tyrone BT 71 7JZ
Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Daniel Roberts, Queen’s University Belfast. The third lecture in our series on 'Discovering Thomas Moore.' This lecture series accompanied our exhibition 'Discovering Thomas Moore: Ireland in nineteenth-century Europe'. Curated by musicologist Dr Sarah McCleave, School of Arts, English & Languages, QUB, the exhibition and lecture series exposes the breadth of Moore’s research and writing about Ireland and explores Moore’s role as an Irish writer with an international reputation in positioning Ireland within Europe through cultural exchange. It also addresses contemporary European fascination with the orient and Moore’s influential role in depicting eastern culture, particularly via his hugely successful work, Lalla Rookh.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 6 November, 2019
Speaker: Daniel Sanjiv Roberts teaches Eighteenth-Century and Romantic-Period Literature at Queen’s University Belfast. He has edited Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey and written extensively on Romanticism and the East.
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Professor Harry White, MRIA, Professor of Music at University College Dublin. The first lecture in our series on 'Discovering Thomas Moore.' This lecture series accompanied our exhibition 'Discovering Thomas Moore: Ireland in nineteenth-century Europe'. Curated by musicologist Dr Sarah McCleave, School of Arts, English & Languages, QUB, the exhibition and lecture series exposes the breadth of Moore’s research and writing about Ireland and explores Moore’s role as an Irish writer with an international reputation in positioning Ireland within Europe through cultural exchange. It also addresses contemporary European fascination with the orient and Moore’s influential role in depicting eastern culture, particularly via his hugely successful work, Lalla Rookh. This lecture was part of the Dublin Festival of History programme.
Location: Academy House Date : Wednesday 9 October, 2019
Speaker: Harry White is Professor of Music at University College Dublin and a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy of Music. His publications include The Keeper's Recital (1998), The Progress of Music in Ireland (2005), Music and the Irish Literary Imagination (2008) and (with Barra Boydell) The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (2013). He was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2006 and to the Academy of Europe in 2015. In 2018, he became the first Irish person to be elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Sarah McCleave, senior lecturer in the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen’s University Belfast. The fourth lecture in our series on 'Discovering Thomas Moore.' This lecture series accompanied our exhibition 'Discovering Thomas Moore: Ireland in nineteenth-century Europe'. Curated by musicologist Dr Sarah McCleave, School of Arts, English & Languages, QUB, the exhibition and lecture series exposes the breadth of Moore’s research and writing about Ireland and explores Moore’s role as an Irish writer with an international reputation in positioning Ireland within Europe through cultural exchange. It also addresses contemporary European fascination with the orient and Moore’s influential role in depicting eastern culture, particularly via his hugely successful work, Lalla Rookh.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 13 November, 2019
Speaker: Sarah McCleave, a musicologist, is a senior lecturer in the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen’s University Belfast. A founding member of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen’s, her research on the Gibson-Massie Moore collection at Queen’s led to the Horizon 2020-funded project ERIN: Europe’s Reception of the Irish Melodies and National Airs: Thomas Moore in Europe. McCleave is co-editor of two volumes of essays on Thomas Moore (Routledge, 2017 and 2020); she considers Moore’s working methods in her chapter, “The genesis of Thomas Moore’s Irish Melodies”, for Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2017). She has also published on Moore and Irish song through the ‘Romantic National Song Network.'
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Tríona O'Hanlon, violinist and musicologist. The second lecture in our series on 'Discovering Thomas Moore.' This lecture series accompanied our exhibition 'Discovering Thomas Moore: Ireland in nineteenth-century Europe'. Curated by musicologist Dr Sarah McCleave, School of Arts, English & Languages, QUB, the exhibition and lecture series exposes the breadth of Moore’s research and writing about Ireland and explores Moore’s role as an Irish writer with an international reputation in positioning Ireland within Europe through cultural exchange. It also addresses contemporary European fascination with the orient and Moore’s influential role in depicting eastern culture, particularly via his hugely successful work, Lalla Rookh.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 30 October, 2019
Speaker: Tríona O’Hanlon is a violinist and musicologist. She received her PhD in Musicology in 2012 from the Technological University Dublin. Tríona was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow in Music at the School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen’s University Belfast for 2015–17 where she worked on the Horizon 2020 funded project ERIN: Europe’s Reception of the Irish Melodies and National Airs; Thomas Moore in Europe. She has held research fellowships at Marsh’s Library, Dublin (2014), The Royal Dublin Society Library and Archives (2015), and she was awarded a Royal Irish Academy Charlemont Grant for 2016. She is the first musicologist ever to receive the Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grant awarded by the Keats-Shelly Association of America (2017). Tríona’s research interests include the historiography of music in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Dublin; song culture and its dissemination; source studies and bibliography.
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Professor Úna Hunt, Professor of Music Performance Research at the TU Dublin Conservatory. The fifth lecture in our series on 'Discovering Thomas Moore.' This lecture series accompanied our exhibition 'Discovering Thomas Moore: Ireland in nineteenth-century Europe'. Curated by musicologist Dr Sarah McCleave, School of Arts, English & Languages, QUB, the exhibition and lecture series exposes the breadth of Moore’s research and writing about Ireland and explores Moore’s role as an Irish writer with an international reputation in positioning Ireland within Europe through cultural exchange. It also addresses contemporary European fascination with the orient and Moore’s influential role in depicting eastern culture, particularly via his hugely successful work, Lalla Rookh.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 20 November, 2019
Speaker: Una Hunt is Professor of Music Performance Research at the TU Dublin Conservatory and, as a prominent Moore scholar, has published widely on the subject. Her seminal book: ‘Sources and Style in Moore’s Irish Melodies’ is published by Routledge. Una also enjoys a flourishing career as an international pianist and curated a 38-venue national tour of Moore’s Irish Melodies in 2008 and has since performed Moore in many prestigious international venues including Carnegie Hall, New York. Her discography of world-premiere CDs on Irish music includes the first ever complete archive of the Irish Melodies (6CD box set: My Gentle Harp, 2008) and a collection of the songs performed with a period instrument – Moore’s Irish Melodies, the Square Piano Recordings (2009). She compiled the multi-media outputs for the exhibition first shown at the Royal Irish Academy: My Gentle Harp – Moore’s Irish Melodies, 1808-2008, which was subsequently toured across Ireland and viewed by 100,000 people.
Una is also an award-winning radio producer and presenter and has compiled numerous features for the BBC and RTE, including the 6-programme series: My Gentle Harp. She is presently collaborating with Wexford Festival Opera to mount a performance of The Veiled Prophet opera by Irish composer, Charles Villiers Stanford, based on Moore’s oriental romance, Lalla Rookh.
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On Tuesday 28 November 2018 neuroscientist Eleanor Maguire discussed memory failure as part of her Discourse.
Complaints of memory failure are among the most common in clinical settings and these will continue to rise as life expectancy increases. Accordingly, a desire to improve memory and temper the anxiety associated with its loss, represent significant societal concerns. A distributed set of brain regions supports memory and critical among them is the hippocampus, so-called because early anatomists likened it to a seahorse.
In this Discourse, Professor Maguire draws upon evidence from virtual reality, brain imaging and studies of amnesia to show that the consequences of hippocampal damage are even more far-reaching than suspected, not only robbing us of our past, but preventing us from inhabiting our imagination and contemplating the future, changing our sleep, as well as impairing the ability to navigate effectively in the environment, and even altering our perception of the world.
Professor Elizabeth FitzPatrick, School of Geography and Archaeology, NUI Galway and Professor Hugh Byrne, FOCAS Research Institute, TU Dublin. 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 grants administered by the Royal Irish Academy's Standing Committee for Archaeology.
Dr Susan Lyons, Environmental Archaeological Consultant and Mr Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Kilkenny Archaeology 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 grants administered by the Royal Irish Academy's Standing Committee for Archaeology.
Dr Jonny Geber, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh 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 grants administered by the Royal Irish Academy's Standing Committee for Archaeology.
Ian Doyle, Chair, Royal Irish Academy Standing Committee for Archaeology 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 grants administered by the Royal Irish Academy's Standing Committee for Archaeology.
Dr Tracy Collins, Aegis Archaeology Limited and Hermitage Archaeological Research Project 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 grants administered by the Royal Irish Academy's Standing Committee for Archaeology.
Dr Richard Jennings, Liverpool John Moores University, UK and Mr Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Kilkenny Archaeology. Presentated by Dr Richard Jennings. 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 grants administered by the Royal Irish Academy's Standing Committee for Archaeology.
Dr Clíodhna Ní Lionáin, Project Archaeologist, Devenish Lands at Dowth and Dr Stephen Davis, University College Dublin. 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 grants administered by the Royal Irish Academy's Standing Committee for Archaeology.
Maeve Sikora, Vice-chair, Royal Irish Academy Standing Committee for Archaeology 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 grants administered by the Royal Irish Academy's Standing Committee for Archaeology.
Dr Alan Hawkes, Consultant Archaeologist 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 grants administered by the Royal Irish Academy's Standing Committee for Archaeology.
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 grants administered by the Royal Irish Academy's Standing Committee for Archaeology.
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 choose either Berlin or Boston. Brexit and the election of Donald Trump as US President unsettled Ireland’s external environment and its geopolitical anchors.
In response, Ireland made a decisive choice for Europe. Membership of the European Union (EU) has become Ireland’s geopolitical anchor, its primary mooring in a world of rapid change. When faced with the UK’s choice to exit the EU, the reflex was to cleave to the political and economic framework of a rules based, sovereignty sharing political order.
The discourse will analyse three themes, narrative, Ireland’s presence in the EU and choices about our model of political economy. The address will begin with narrative because the framing of big political events influences how issues are processed and dealt with politically. Second, the focus is on how Ireland responds to an EU without the United Kingdom, a country with which Ireland shared significant preferences. The focus here is on how Ireland positions itself in Europe and the wider world. Third, we will go beyond Brexit to analyse the issues that might dominate Ireland’s membership of the Union in the decades ahead.
About the speaker
Brigid Laffan is Director and Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, an inter-disciplinary research centre at the European University Institute. The Centre’s mission is to contribute to research on the major issues facing contemporary European society. Previously she was Vice-President of UCD and Principal of the College of Human Sciences from 2004 to 2011.
Brigid Laffan is recipient of numerous awards: in 2005 she was elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy and in 2010 received the Ordre nationale du Mérite from the President of the French Republic. Her scholarship has been recognised by the THESEUS Award for Outstanding Research on European Integration in 2012 and the Lifetime Achievement Award for contribution to the development of European Studies in 2014 by UACES.
Brigid’s research focuses on the dynamic of European integration. Recent major publications include her co-edited book Core-periphery Relations in the European Union (London: Routledge, 2016, 311pp) and ‘Europe’s Union in Crisis: Tested and Contested’, Special Issue, West European Politics, 2016, 39:5.
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-of-the-art genomic technologies coupled with traditional field studies, can uncover how to live healthier longer and other secrets.
Part of the 2019/20 Discourse Series sponsored by Mason, Hayes and Curran
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 share them in the future.
Sara Day Thomson discusses the question ‘what is digital archiving?’ before moving on to choosing which files to keep, how to name digital files, and what file formats to use. She shares insights into how to capture web and social media content and useful tips on how to back up files for long-term archiving.
Location: Academy House Date: 26 September 2019
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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 development, social cohesion and sustainable communities in rural Ireland was recorded at each of the events. The findings from that feedback and suggestions for future rural policy by a broad range of rural stakeholders are presented in this report.
NUI Galway, Dundalk Institute of Technology and Waterford Institute of Technology hosted the series in their institutions, as cluster centres to accommodate a wide representation of stakeholders drawn from around the country.
Read more about the series and listen back to the individual events on our website: https://www.ria.ie/rural-conversations
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 to Save Thousands'.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 12 June 2019
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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.
Before entering the Scottish Parliament as a regional MSP for Glasgow in 1999 she worked as a solicitor in the Drumchapel Law and Money Advice Centre in Glasgow.
She is currently MSP for Glasgow Southside having been, before boundary changes, MSP for Govan between 2007 and 2011.
In government she served as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing between May 2007 and September 2012 and then Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities with responsibility for government strategy and the constitution until November 2014. Throughout this period she also served as Deputy First Minister of Scotland.
She became leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) on November 14, 2014 and was sworn in as First Minister on November 20, 2014. She lives in Glasgow with her husband Peter Murrell.
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 good? What is the balance of responsibilities of the Internet global companies behind social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook and how well is Ireland facing up to these challenges? The group of panelists brought together academics and practitioners who will contribute their expertise, insight and academic research to the discussion.
Dr Maria Helen Murphy, Lecturer in Law at Maynooth University. Professor Brian O'Neill, Director of Research and Dean of the Graduate Research School at TU Dublin, City Campus. Gavin Sheridan is CEO and co-founder of Vizlegal—a global API and intelligence tool for law. He is the former Director of Innovation at Storyful. Professor Eugenia Siapera is Professor of Information and Communication Studies and Head of the School of Information and Communication Studies, UCD.
The panel discussion was facilitated by Helen Shaw, CEO Athena Media and member of the RIA's Social Sciences Committee
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 historian of the eighteenth century with a particular interest in the history of childhood. She has published widely on topics relating to children’s health, and education. Her latest publication, The letters of Katherine Conolly 1707-1747, was published by the Irish Manuscripts Commission (ICM) in December 2018.
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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
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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 History at Queen’s University, Belfast. Amongst her many publications are Unmanageable Revolutionaries: women and Irish Nationalism (1983), biographies of Maud Gonne and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and edited works (with Louise Ryan), Irish Women and the Vote: Becoming Citizens and Irish Women and Nationalism. Her latest book is Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: suffragette and Sinn Feiner, her memoirs and political writings, UCD Press, 2017. Her updated biography Fearless Woman: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Feminism and the Irish Revolution is forthcoming UCD Press, 2019.
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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
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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 families of sisters who made their mark on Irish life.
Location: Academy House. Date: Wednesday 13 March, 2019.
Speaker: Sonja Tiernan is an Associate Professor of Modern History and Head of Department of History and Politics at Liverpool Hope University. Sonja has held fellowships at the National Library of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, Keogh-Naughton Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame and at the School of Irish Studies at Concordia University. Sonja has published extensively on modern Irish women’s history. Her most recent publication Eva Gore-Booth: Collected Poems (2018) includes a foreword by President Michael D. Higgins; Sonja’s other books include the biography of Eva Gore-Booth (2012) and a volume of Eva Gore-Booth’s political writings (2015) as well as articles on Constance Markievicz.
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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 University of Trento. He has authored books on Kierkegaard’s philosophy of subjectivity (1983), Carl Schmitt’s political theology (1990), Politics and the Evil (2000) and edited critical editions and translations of XIX and XX century philosophers like Rosmini, Stein, Guardini, Boeckenfoerde. His research interests focus on the intertwining between ethics, anthropology and political theory. Visiting fellow at several international universities (i.a. Freiburg i.B.. KU Leuven, Notre Dame, IN, USA), he has been the scientific coordinator of national and international research projects and is the chief editor of the scientific journal Politica e Religione. Annuario di Teologia politica. 2013-2018 he has been a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where he has led the Socialist, Democratic and Green Group. From January to June 2018 he has served as President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. During his mandate, he has launched the Council of Europe Academic Network initiative, which he is now developing: a project for the coordination of major universities and academic institutions in the field of human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
About the discourse
In his presentation, Professor Nicoletti will discuss how fear, intolerance, resentment, hatred, mistrust in the ruling classes are seriously affecting European countries. Representative democracies are showing an increasing weakness and lack of efficacy in governing the great contemporary challenges, such as climate changes, migrations or the protection of social rights. The overlapping of different democracy levels (local, national, international) does not help. These difficulties are not new, but it is clear that the meaning and practices of democracy in Europe require a new theoretical and practical effort to regain the trust of citizens. This effort should start with an in-depth analysis of the present situation. In this context, the fear of self-dispossession can be identified as a feature common to contemporary societies. This fear can either draw regressive responses, such as instable self-identification with charismatic leaders or populist movements, or can foster emancipation. The latter is possible through a vigorous re-proposal of the principle of ‘self-belonging’, understood as, on the one hand, the aspiration that one’s dignity is respected, and, on the other, that the irreducibility and inviolability of the Self be recognized. This principle can serve as the foundation for not only an existential perspective of the liberty and relationality of the individual, but also a vision of society based upon respect for basic universal rights and discursive and participatory procedures which extend from the local to the global level. This vision entails an idea of democracy which aims to be truth-sensitive, non-paternalistic, transparent and responsive, and can serve as a new conceptual basis for rethinking Europe as a community of peoples and States based on the recognition of diversity and mutual respect.
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 Sciences Committee, outlining the background to the series and making some observations on the theme of rural communities (timecode—5:33). Mr William Parnell, Assistant Secretary General spoke on behalf of the Department of Rural and Community Development(timecode—10:01).DrFelicity Kelliher, WIT, member of RIA Social Sciences Committee (timecode—16:20) gave an introductory presentation of the topic in advance of facilitating the two questions below. All of the stakeholder roundtables considered, discussed and fed back their suggestions on:
• What are the characteristics of vibrant and sustainable rural communities in Ireland? (timecode—26:42) • What policy actions need to be taken to ensure that rural communities are resilient, vibrant and inclusive, and better equipped for the challenges of the future? (timecode—46:30) In conclusion, Felicity Kelliher summarised the stakeholders’ feedback (timecode—1:17:25)
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, 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. It is an extraordinarily important manuscript for many reasons, but it is particularly significant because it contains tales which are amongst the oldest surviving literature in Irish. These tales would originally have been preserved in a now-lost manuscript called Cín Dromma Snechta. Aside from wonderful examples of Old Irish narrative literature, the manuscript also preserves legal texts, poetry and wisdom literature from early medieval Ireland. This two-day conference will explore all aspects of the production, survival and significance of the ‘Book of Ballycummin’ and the marvels of medieval Irish literature which are contained within it. Described in the nineteenth century as a ‘little remnant of the work of the ancients’, this manuscript is a remarkable witness to the earliest development of Irish literature.
Location: Academy House Date: 7 March, 2019
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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 literature.
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. It is an extraordinarily important manuscript for many reasons, but it is particularly significant because it contains tales which are amongst the oldest surviving literature in Irish. These tales would originally have been preserved in a now-lost manuscript called Cín Dromma Snechta. Aside from wonderful examples of Old Irish narrative literature, the manuscript also preserves legal texts, poetry and wisdom literature from early medieval Ireland. This two-day conference will explore all aspects of the production, survival and significance of the ‘Book of Ballycummin’ and the marvels of medieval Irish literature which are contained within it. Described in the nineteenth century as a ‘little remnant of the work of the ancients’, this manuscript is a remarkable witness to the earliest development of Irish literature.
Location: Academy House Date: 7 March, 2019
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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 Royal Irish Academy manuscript known by its shelfmark ‘23 N 10’ was produced in Ballycummin, Co. Roscommon, in the sixteenth century. It is an extraordinarily important manuscript for many reasons, but it is particularly significant because it contains tales which are amongst the oldest surviving literature in Irish. These tales would originally have been preserved in a now-lost manuscript called Cín Dromma Snechta. Aside from wonderful examples of Old Irish narrative literature, the manuscript also preserves legal texts, poetry and wisdom literature from early medieval Ireland. This two-day conference will explore all aspects of the production, survival and significance of the ‘Book of Ballycummin’ and the marvels of medieval Irish literature which are contained within it. Described in the nineteenth century as a ‘little remnant of the work of the ancients’, this manuscript is a remarkable witness to the earliest development of Irish literature.
Location: Academy House Date: 8 March, 2019
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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.
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. It is an extraordinarily important manuscript for many reasons, but it is particularly significant because it contains tales which are amongst the oldest surviving literature in Irish. These tales would originally have been preserved in a now-lost manuscript called Cín Dromma Snechta. Aside from wonderful examples of Old Irish narrative literature, the manuscript also preserves legal texts, poetry and wisdom literature from early medieval Ireland. This two-day conference will explore all aspects of the production, survival and significance of the ‘Book of Ballycummin’ and the marvels of medieval Irish literature which are contained within it. Described in the nineteenth century as a ‘little remnant of the work of the ancients’, this manuscript is a remarkable witness to the earliest development of Irish literature.
Location: Academy House Date: 8 March, 2019
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Dr David Stifter is Professor of Old and Middle Irish at Maynooth University. He is founder and editor of the interdisciplinary Celtic-studies journal Keltische Forschungen (Vienna 2006–), and founding member of the Societas Celtologica Europaea (European Association of Celtic Studies scholars). His research interests are language variation and change in Old Irish and comparative Celtic linguistics (esp. Old Irish and Continental Celtic). His research projects include a dictionary of the Old Irish glosses in the Milan manuscript Ambr. C301 infr, Lexicon Leponticum - an interactive etymological dictionary plus edition of texts of Lepontic, and, since 2015, the ERC-funded project Chronologicon Hibernicum. His introductory handbook Sengoídelc. Old Irish for Beginners (Syracuse University Press 2006) has been adopted for teaching Old Irish in universities world-wide.
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. It is an extraordinarily important manuscript for many reasons, but it is particularly significant because it contains tales which are amongst the oldest surviving literature in Irish. These tales would originally have been preserved in a now-lost manuscript called Cín Dromma Snechta. Aside from wonderful examples of Old Irish narrative literature, the manuscript also preserves legal texts, poetry and wisdom literature from early medieval Ireland. This two-day conference will explore all aspects of the production, survival and significance of the ‘Book of Ballycummin’ and the marvels of medieval Irish literature which are contained within it. Described in the nineteenth century as a ‘little remnant of the work of the ancients’, this manuscript is a remarkable witness to the earliest development of Irish literature.
Location: Academy House Date: 8 March, 2019
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Dr Chantal Kobel is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
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. It is an extraordinarily important manuscript for many reasons, but it is particularly significant because it contains tales which are amongst the oldest surviving literature in Irish. These tales would originally have been preserved in a now-lost manuscript called Cín Dromma Snechta. Aside from wonderful examples of Old Irish narrative literature, the manuscript also preserves legal texts, poetry and wisdom literature from early medieval Ireland. This two-day conference will explore all aspects of the production, survival and significance of the ‘Book of Ballycummin’ and the marvels of medieval Irish literature which are contained within it. Described in the nineteenth century as a ‘little remnant of the work of the ancients’, this manuscript is a remarkable witness to the earliest development of Irish literature.
Location: Academy House Date: 8 March, 2019
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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.
The Royal Irish Academy manuscript known by its shelfmark ‘23 N 10’ was produced in Ballycummin, Co. Roscommon, in the sixteenth century. It is an extraordinarily important manuscript for many reasons, but it is particularly significant because it contains tales which are amongst the oldest surviving literature in Irish. These tales would originally have been preserved in a now-lost manuscript called Cín Dromma Snechta. Aside from wonderful examples of Old Irish narrative literature, the manuscript also preserves legal texts, poetry and wisdom literature from early medieval Ireland. This two-day conference will explore all aspects of the production, survival and significance of the ‘Book of Ballycummin’ and the marvels of medieval Irish literature which are contained within it. Described in the nineteenth century as a ‘little remnant of the work of the ancients’, this manuscript is a remarkable witness to the earliest development of Irish literature.
Location: Academy House Date: 8 March, 2019
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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.
The Royal Irish Academy manuscript known by its shelfmark ‘23 N 10’ was produced in Ballycummin, Co. Roscommon, in the sixteenth century. It is an extraordinarily important manuscript for many reasons, but it is particularly significant because it contains tales which are amongst the oldest surviving literature in Irish. These tales would originally have been preserved in a now-lost manuscript called Cín Dromma Snechta. Aside from wonderful examples of Old Irish narrative literature, the manuscript also preserves legal texts, poetry and wisdom literature from early medieval Ireland. This two-day conference will explore all aspects of the production, survival and significance of the ‘Book of Ballycummin’ and the marvels of medieval Irish literature which are contained within it. Described in the nineteenth century as a ‘little remnant of the work of the ancients’, this manuscript is a remarkable witness to the earliest development of Irish literature.
Location: Academy House Date: 7 March 2019
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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 and Welsh language, literature and textual culture, in particular the history of linguistic thought and education in classical and medieval tradition, Irish-language medical manuscripts and medieval Irish and Welsh law.
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. It is an extraordinarily important manuscript for many reasons, but it is particularly significant because it contains tales which are amongst the oldest surviving literature in Irish. These tales would originally have been preserved in a now-lost manuscript called Cín Dromma Snechta. Aside from wonderful examples of Old Irish narrative literature, the manuscript also preserves legal texts, poetry and wisdom literature from early medieval Ireland. This two-day conference will explore all aspects of the production, survival and significance of the ‘Book of Ballycummin’ and the marvels of medieval Irish literature which are contained within it. Described in the nineteenth century as a ‘little remnant of the work of the ancients’, this manuscript is a remarkable witness to the earliest development of Irish literature.
Location: Academy House Date: 7 March, 2019
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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. It is an extraordinarily important manuscript for many reasons, but it is particularly significant because it contains tales which are amongst the oldest surviving literature in Irish. These tales would originally have been preserved in a now-lost manuscript called Cín Dromma Snechta. Aside from wonderful examples of Old Irish narrative literature, the manuscript also preserves legal texts, poetry and wisdom literature from early medieval Ireland. This two-day conference will explore all aspects of the production, survival and significance of the ‘Book of Ballycummin’ and the marvels of medieval Irish literature which are contained within it. Described in the nineteenth century as a ‘little remnant of the work of the ancients’, this manuscript is a remarkable witness to the earliest development of Irish literature.
Location: Academy House Date: 8 March, 2019
Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information contained in any of the materials. The views expressed are the authors’ own and not those of the Royal Irish Academy.
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 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. It is an extraordinarily important manuscript for many reasons, but it is particularly significant because it contains tales which are amongst the oldest surviving literature in Irish. These tales would originally have been preserved in a now-lost manuscript called Cín Dromma Snechta. Aside from wonderful examples of Old Irish narrative literature, the manuscript also preserves legal texts, poetry and wisdom literature from early medieval Ireland. This two-day conference will explore all aspects of the production, survival and significance of the ‘Book of Ballycummin’ and the marvels of medieval Irish literature which are contained within it. Described in the nineteenth century as a ‘little remnant of the work of the ancients’, this manuscript is a remarkable witness to the earliest development of Irish literature.
Location: Academy House Date: 8 March, 2019
Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information contained in any of the materials. The views expressed are the authors’ own and not those of the Royal Irish Academy.
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 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. It is an extraordinarily important manuscript for many reasons, but it is particularly significant because it contains tales which are amongst the oldest surviving literature in Irish. These tales would originally have been preserved in a now-lost manuscript called Cín Dromma Snechta. Aside from wonderful examples of Old Irish narrative literature, the manuscript also preserves legal texts, poetry and wisdom literature from early medieval Ireland. This two-day conference will explore all aspects of the production, survival and significance of the ‘Book of Ballycummin’ and the marvels of medieval Irish literature which are contained within it. Described in the nineteenth century as a ‘little remnant of the work of the ancients’, this manuscript is a remarkable witness to the earliest development of Irish literature.
Location: Academy House Date: 8 March, 2019
Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information contained in any of the materials. The views expressed are the authors’ own and not those of the Royal Irish Academy.
Rural Conversation No. 2: ‘Enhancing social cohesion among communities in rural Ireland’ was held on 28 February 2019. It was the second in this series of consultative rural stakeholder events and was held in Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT)
This consultative rural stakeholder event was opened by Dr Michael Mulvey, President, DkIT (timecode— 1:00) who hosted this event. Professor Áine Hyland, MRIA spoke on behalf of the Royal Irish Academy's Social Sciences Committee, outlining the background to the series (timecode—4:28). Mr William Parnell, Assistant Secretary General spoke on behalf of the Department of Rural and Community Development (timecode—6:40). Professor Colette Henry, DkIT (timecode—15:15) gave an introductory presentation of the topic in advance of facilitating the three questions below. Each of the stakeholder roundtables considered, discussed and fed back their recommendations on enhancing social cohesion among communities in rural Ireland under these three questions: • What are the key positive and negative factors impacting social cohesion in rural communities? Listen to the feedback on this question at this timecode on the recording—29:50 • Which cohorts within rural communities are most affected by a lack of cohesion among and between community segments (e.g. youth, elderly, new citizens, etc.), and how are they impacted? Listen to the feedback on this question at this timecode on the recording—45:00 • What actions need to be taken in order to enhance cohesion and strengthen social support structures for all rural dwellers? Listen to the feedback on this question at this timecode on the recording—59:25 In conclusion, Colette Henry summarised the stakeholders’ feedback (timecode—1:10:05)
Supported by the Department of Rural and Community Development, and DkIT.
Wednesday 12 December 2018 Discourse marking the centenary of the 1918 parliamentary elections when women voted and stood for election to parliament for the first time, the Royal Irish Academy presented the four female former Tánaistí: Joan Burton, T.D., Mary Coughlan, Frances Fitzgerald, T.D. and Mary Harney in conversation with David McCullagh to share their experiences of governing and gender in Ireland, particularly their experiences of holding the second highest role in government: Tánaiste. Separately, in advance of the event, Joan Burton, T.D., Mary Coughlan, Frances Fitzgerald, T.D. shared their views on the impact of gender quotas and their thoughts the need for the Academy to mark this centenary.
Each of the Tánaistí spoke briefly before the discourse about their views on gender quotas and the importance of commenmorating and reflecting on the progress in our democracy, see the individual interviews below.
Discourse with Professor Chris Bean in which he discusses predictability and uncertainty in forecasting volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, landslides.
On 25 September 2018, Professor Chris Bean's discourse 'Recent insights into how the Earth works: embracing uncertainty' took place in Academy House. In the following interview, he outlines...
• How the Earth interacts in its totality and how Earth’s components interact in the Earth’s system.
• The difference between prediction and forecasting where he explains that science cannot always predict with precision what is going to happen in particular circumstances, for example, we cannot answer questions like ‘will there be an earthquake here tomorrow at 3.00 o’clock?'. However, we are able to forecast complicated things that are likely to happen in the Earth, such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, landslides but not exact predictions.
Wednesday 7 November 2018
This Academy Discourse by Professor Máire O'Neill, Queen's University Belfast, is the eighth in the series sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran.
With the rapid proliferation of pervasive electronic devices in our lives, the internet of things (IoT) has become a reality and its influence on our day to day activities is set to further increase with a projected 125 Billion connected devices by 2030. However, this poses serious security and privacy issues as we will no longer have direct control over with whom and what our devices communicate. Counterfeit, hacked, or cloned devices acting on a network are a significant threat. In addition, IoT devices are often low-cost in area, low-power and typically are restricted in both memory and computing power.
Professor O'Neill outlines the challenges in addressing security for resource-constrained IoT devices and some of the solutions currently being considered. The impact of quantum computers on security will also be discussed.
About the speaker
Professor Máire O’Neill (FIAE, MRIA) has a strong international reputation for her research in hardware security and applied cryptography. She is currently PI of the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), QUB, and Research Director of the £5M UK Research Institute in Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE), funded by EPSRC and the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). She also leads an EU H2020 SAFEcrypto project in the area of practical quantum-safe cryptography. She previously held an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship (2008-2014) and was a former holder of a UK Royal Academy of Engineering research fellowship (2003-2008). She has received numerous awards for her research work which include a 2014 Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal and British Female Inventor of the Year 2007. She has authored two research books and has over 140 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications.
Academy Discourse Series sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran Tuesday 15 January 2019, Academy House Sir David Cannadine, President of the British Academy and Dodge Professor of History, Princeton University, addresses the key issues in Irish history within the context of British history from the early 1800s and the Act of Union, through to the current Brexit situation.
R. J. Hunter was a highly respected (and much loved) historian of the Ulster plantation, who spent the bulk of his academic career teaching at the University of Ulster. His varied research interests included the role of the English settler in the Ulster plantation, the history of Ulster trade and migration from and to Britain and North America and development of towns, and the cultural and intellectual history of Ulster from 1580 to 1660.
The R. J. Hunter Grants Scheme was established in 2014 using funding generously made available by his daughter, Ms Laura Hunter Houghton, through the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland.
The Royal Irish Academy was delighted to host a very successful event marking the end of phase one of the R.J. Hunter Postdoctoral Fellowships on 13th September 2018. The event, which was Chaired by Professor Mary O’Dowd MRIA, Queens University Belfast included presentations on the outcomes of their completed research projects by recipients Dr Gerard Farrell, Trinity College Dublin and Dr David Heffernan, Queen’s University Belfast. These projects, entitled ‘An ethnohistory of Gaelic Ulster, 1500–1700’ (Dr Gerard Farrell) and ‘The Goldsmiths Company of London and the Londonderry Plantation under James I’ (Dr David Heffernan) were fully funded through the scheme.
Dr Gerard Farrell gave a lecture entitled ‘An ethnohistory of Gaelic Ulster, 1500-1700’. This talk represented the core output of Dr Farrell’s fellowship, which will be a monograph entitled An Ethnohistory of Gaelic Ulster, 1500–1700.
Dr David Heffernan spoke on ‘The Goldsmiths Company of London and the Londonderry Plantation under James I, c. 1609–25’.
Professor David Dickson MRIA, Trinity College Dublin, also gave an insightful and engaging talk on remembering Bob Hunter and his legacy. Other speakers included Professor Mary E. Daly MRIA.
To access an audio file of the day’s lectures and proceedings please click here.
Phase one of the R.J. Hunter scheme saw the funding of a number of bursaries, as well as the aforementioned two postdoctoral fellowships.
The next phase of the R.J. Hunter scheme will be announced in 2019. All details will be available on the RIA website. If you are interested in receiving the latest details and up to date information on the Royal Irish Academy’s grants please join the Academy’s grants mailing list.
Can the above information be used for the news summary on the Academy website Yes List all lectures/talks here with further details (titles, institutions etc.) of speaker/s (keynote speaker, respondent, chair, etc.): Dr Gerard Farrell: ‘An ethnohistory of Gaelic Ulster, 1500-1700’.
Dr David Heffernan: ‘The Goldsmiths Company of London and the Londonderry Plantation under James I, c. 1609–25’.
Professor David Dickson, MRIA 'Remembering Bob Hunter and his legacy'.
A panel discussion with four Irish women writers to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Maria (1768–1849), held in Academy House on Thursday, December 06, 2018
The event commenced with a brief talk on Maria Edgeworth's life as a professional writer by Claire Connolly MRIA, School of English, UCC.
Margaret Kelleher, Professor and Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at UCD, then chaired a panel of Irish women writers who discussed Edgeworth's legacy:
Marina Carr Claire Kilroy Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
A recording of a rural stakeholder event on economic development in rural Ireland, hosted by NUIG on 8 November 2018 as part of a series of three rural stakeholder events, organised by the RIA Social Sciences Committee in collaboration with the Department of Rural and Community Development and being hosted in three separate HEIs around the island of Ireland.
Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Marie Bourke, former Keeper-Head of Education at the National Gallery of Ireland. The fourth lecture in our series 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century.' Margaret Stokes was a pioneering figure in Irish antiquarian studies. This lecture explore Stokes as a woman who only reached her potential when she was over fifty, resulting in a creative output in art, art history and archaeology, in addition to her skills as an editor and writer. She was extraordinarily hardworking and singular in her enthusiasm and dedication to Celtic Art. Recognition came to Stokes in the form of honorary membership of the Royal Irish Academy, the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, and the Antiquarian Society of Scotland
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 28 November, 2018
Speaker: Marie Bourke is an art and cultural historian and former Keeper-Head of Education at the National Gallery of Ireland. Author of The story of Irish museums 1790-200 (Cork University Press, 2011, 2013), she curated the Gallery's recent exhibition, 'Frederic William Burton: for the love of art.' A former Adjunct Professor in University College Dublin, she is currently on the board of the Heritage Council.
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Professor Claire Connolly, Professor of Modern English at University College Cork. The third lecture in our series 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century.' Throughout her life, Maria Edgeworth took an interest in questions of women’s education, always connected in her writing to such issues as political economy, population and nationality. The lecture offers a consideration of Edgeworth's contributions to learning and knowledge in the nineteenth century, bearing in mind the capacities of her impressive novels as well as cultural constraints on her imaginative range.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 21 November, 2018
Speaker Claire Connolly is Professor of Modern English at University College Cork in Ireland, a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Her book A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) won the Donald J. Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Monograph, awarded by the American Conference for Irish Studies. She has edited Theorizing Ireland (Palgrave, 2002) and, with Joe Cleary, the Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Scholarly editions include two volumes in The Works of Maria Edgeworth (Pickering and Chatto, 1999-2003) and Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl (Pickering and Chatto, 2000). She has been visiting Associate Professor of Irish Studies and English at Boston College as well as O’Brien Professor at Concordia University in Montreal. With Marjorie Howes (Boston College), she is General Editor of a new six volume series, Irish Literature in Transition, 1700-2015, under contract to Cambridge University Press; as well as editor for Volume 2 of the series, Irish Literature in Transition, 1780-1830. Her current project is a book on Irish Romanticism for Cambridge UP. She is the Parnell Fellow in Irish Studies at Magdalene College Cambridge for 2018-19.
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Angela Byrne, DFAT Historian-in-Residence at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. The second lecture in our series 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century'
Princess Dashkova was one of the leading lights of the Enlightenment, a multilingual traveller, writer and early confidante of Catherine the Great. In 1783-94, she directed two Russian academies, and in 1791 was elected honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy. This talk will cover her considerable academic achievements, her tumultuous personal life, and her friendship with Cork sisters Martha and Katherine Wilmot.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 14 November, 2018
Speaker: Dr Angela Byrne is DFAT Historian-in-Residence at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. She has published and taught histories of migration, travel and exploration, and women in the sciences.
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Michael MacDonagh is Chief Archaeologist in the National Monuments Service of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. In this podcast he talks of the opportunities and challenges of preserving Ireland’s past and managing our archaeological heritage. Against the 150th anniversary of the first legislation that led to the state assuming responsibility for our most iconic national monuments, he discusses plans for a new national heritage plan ‘Heritage Ireland 2030’, to build a shared vision for our heritage and how it will be valued and protected for future generations so that the authentic tale of Ireland’s past can be cherished and enjoyed by all.
About the speaker
Michael MacDonagh took up the post of Chief Archaeologist in the National Monument Service of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in 2018. Following graduation from UCD and an early career in commercial and public sector archaeology across Ireland, Northern Ireland and Berlin, he joined the Department from Transport Infrastructure Ireland, having spent the previous four years on secondment with Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the North South Ministerial Council Joint Secretariat. He is a former Chair of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland, the professional body representing archaeologists working in Ireland.
To Preserve and Protect: Contemporary Issues in Irish Cultural Heritage
This is a series of eight 20 minute podcasts by academic researchers and leaders of major Irish heritage institutions. The series addresses questions of critical importance in Irish heritage. Opportunities and challenges of preservation and protection of Irish cultural heritage are addressed. It also provides a valuable and educational resource recorded by experts in heritage and preservation, which is publicly accessible to prompt thought and discussion.
Developed and produced by the Historical Studies Committee of the Royal Irish Academy. Supported by The Heritage Council as part of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage. Recorded by Real Smart Media.
Podcasts released weekly - listen to the latest episodes here: www.ria.ie/heritagepodcast
Dr Natalie Harrower is the Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland. In this podcast she talks about the challenges of preserving heritage that is ‘born digital’ and how best to collect and safeguard our digital cultural heritage.
Thirty years after the World Heritage Convention was created to identify and protect outstanding natural and cultural heritage of universal value across the world, UNESCO adopted the Charter on the Preservation of Digital Heritage, highlight the pressing need to address the preservation of our digital legacy. Spanning Kerry to Palmyra, and discussing art, archaeology, Frankfurt school philosophy and 3D scanning, this podcast examines the challenges and solutions for preserving - and providing long-term access to - our digital cultural heritage.
About the speaker
Dr. Natalie Harrower is the Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland. She is the Principal Investigator for Inspiring Ireland, a collaborative platform for preserving, exhibiting, and promoting Ireland's digital cultural heritage. Based at the Royal Irish Academy, Dr. Harrower is a member of the European Commission's Expert Group on FAIR data, a judge for the International Digital Preservation awards, a member of Ireland's National Archives Advisory Council, and Chair of ALLEA's E-Humanities working group.
https://www.dri.ie/dri-team/natalie-harrower About the Heritage Podcast series
The Heritage Podcast series is a collection of eight 20 minute podcasts by academic researchers and leaders of major Irish heritage institutions. The series addresses questions of critical importance in Irish heritage. Opportunities and challenges of preservation and protection of Irish cultural heritage are addressed. It also provides a valuable and educational resource recorded by experts in heritage and preservation, which is publicly accessible to prompt thought and discussion.
Developed and produced by the Historical Studies Committee of the Royal Irish Academy. Supported by The Heritage Council as part of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage. Recorded by Real Smart Media.
Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Clare O'Halloran, lecturer in History at University College Cork. The first lecture in our series 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century.' Until recently, learned societies, which were set up by men for men, have found it difficult to know how to react to the figure of the learned woman. Should she be ignored or welcomed into their midst? This lecture looks at some of the ways in which these societies resolved the issue over the course of the period 1800-1950, paying particular attention to the Royal Irish Academy itself.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 7 November, 2018
Speaker: Clare O’Halloran is Chair of the Board of Women’s Studies and Lecturer in History in University College Cork. She did her doctorate on Irish antiquarianism in the eighteenth century and spent many happy hours working on it in the library of the RIA, where she also became interested in the topic of her lecture in this series.
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Katherine O'Donnell, director of an Irish Research Council project on recording the archival and oral history of the Irish Magdalenes, reveals how she came to undertake the project. She describes how she learned to deal with vicarious trauma and how the Magdalene oral history collection has an added significance given the imposed silence on the survivors of residential institutional abuse who participated in the Residential Institutions Redress Board. She closes with a description of how the Magdalene Oral history is aligned with the processes of Transitional Justice and proposes that the Republic of Ireland might adopt the central principles of Truth-Telling, Accountability, Reparations and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence.
About the speaker
Dr Katherine O'Donnell is Associate Professor, History of Ideas, UCD School of Philosophy and one of the five members of Justice for Magdalenes Research. For ten years she was the Director of UCD Women's Studies Centre and she has published widely on the History of Ideas in Eighteenth Century Ireland, on the history of sexuality and Irish literature.
About the Heritage Podcast Series
To Preserve and Protect: Contemporary Issues in Irish Cultural Heritage
This is a series of eight 20 minute podcasts by academic researchers and leaders of major Irish heritage institutions. The series addresses questions of critical importance in Irish heritage. Opportunities and challenges of preservation and protection of Irish cultural heritage are addressed. It also provides a valuable and educational resource recorded by experts in heritage and preservation, which is publicly accessible to prompt thought and discussion.
Developed and produced by the Historical Studies Committee of the Royal Irish Academy. Supported by The Heritage Council as part of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage. Recorded by Real Smart Media.
Podcasts released weekly - listen to the latest episodes here: www.ria.ie/heritagepodcast
...In A Volatile State - Laura McAtackney
This podcast aims to re-focus our attention away from the personal narratives of oral testimonies as well as the documents of government archives in terms of how we understand the Northern Ireland Troubles and its continuing presence. Instead, it will examine the aftermath of the conflict in terms of what has happened to its material remains since the Good Friday Agreement (1998). Focusing on the fates of so-called ‘peace walls’ in Belfast and the enduring remnants of Long Kesh / Maze prison, this podcast explores the biographies of things and how they may continue to ‘trouble’ our present in expected and unexpected ways.
About the speaker
Dr Laura McAtackney is an Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology & Heritage Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is originally from Belfast, and has studied at Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. An archaeologist by training, her current research uses contemporary and historical approaches to material culture while examining its heritage implications. To dates she has explored areas as diverse as material barriers in post-conflict Northern Ireland, female experiences of political imprisonment during the Irish Civil War and race/social relations on early modern Montserrat in the Caribbean (the latter is as a member of the SLAM project at Wayne State University and Brown University in the US).
About the Heritage Podcast Series
To Preserve and Protect: Contemporary Issues in Irish Cultural Heritage
This is a series of eight 20 minute podcasts by academic researchers and leaders of major Irish heritage institutions. The series addresses questions of critical importance in Irish heritage. Opportunities and challenges of preservation and protection of Irish cultural heritage are addressed. It also provides a valuable and educational resource recorded by experts in heritage and preservation, which is publicly accessible to prompt thought and discussion.
Developed and produced by the Historical Studies Committee of the Royal Irish Academy. Supported by The Heritage Council as part of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage. Recorded by Real Smart Media.
Podcasts released weekly - listen to the latest episodes here: www.ria.ie/heritagepodcast
From splendid Georgian beginnings to squalid tenement dwellings, the 14 Henrietta street museum seeks to interpret and exhibit Dublin’s rich and chequered social history through the stories and shifting fortunes of its residents. Built as a townhouse for the members of Dublin’s ruling elite, 14 Henrietta Street was divided into 19 tenement flats in 1877, with some 100 people living under its roof by 1911. It remained a tenement house until the last families left in the late 1970s.
About the Speaker
Charles Duggan is heritage officer for Dublin City Council where his work is focused on collaborative practice to devise and implement cultural heritage infrastructure projects, new research and surveys on aspects of Dublin’s architectural, social and cultural histories, and dissemination of this work to a broad audience. Most recently Charles has led the development of the Tenement Museum Dublin, which brings to a conclusion a ten-year long project to rescue, conserve and reuse 14 Henrietta Street. Other current projects include the conservation of Saint Luke’s Graveyard, the Coombe, which opens later this year, and Dublin-focused research projects on 20th century architecture, Decorative Plasterwork, and the Wide Streets Commissioners. Recently completed projects include the County Dublin Archaeological GIS project and the Medieval Dublin Online project.
About the Heritage Podcast Series
To Preserve and Protect: Contemporary Issues in Irish Cultural Heritage
This is a series of eight 20 minute podcasts by academic researchers and leaders of major Irish heritage institutions. The series addresses questions of critical importance in Irish heritage. Opportunities and challenges of preservation and protection of Irish cultural heritage are addressed. It also provides a valuable and educational resource recorded by experts in heritage and preservation, which is publicly accessible to prompt thought and discussion.
Developed and produced by the Historical Studies Committee of the Royal Irish Academy. Supported by The Heritage Council as part of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage. Recorded by Real Smart Media.
Podcasts released weekly - listen to the latest episodes here: www.ria.ie/heritagepodcast
John McCafferty, UCD discusses the importance of the archives of Catholic religious congregations and dioceses for writing the history of Ireland.
It looks beyond the practical matters of conservation, preservation and dissemination of these unique records to examine some of the cultural and intellectual anxieties of both the owners and would-be readers. It suggests that it is worth considering the attitude of the State to its records alongside the attitudes of church bodies to theirs. It also stresses the importance of a basic literacy in theology and canon law as a pre-requisite for engagement with archives laid down by religious bodies for pastoral purposes.
About the speaker
John McCafferty is a professor of History at University College Dublin. His work and publications are concerned with religious change in Ireland between 1500 & 1700. He is Director of the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute - a collaboration between the Irish Franciscans (OFM) and UCD. He is currently Chair of the Irish Manuscripts Commission and Praeses of the Consiglio Dei Reggenti of the Collegio San Bonaventura Frati Editori Quaracchi based at St. Isidore’s College, Rome
About the Heritage Podcast Series
To Preserve and Protect: Contemporary Issues in Irish Cultural Heritage
This is a series of eight 20 minute podcasts by academic researchers and leaders of major Irish heritage institutions. The series addresses questions of critical importance in Irish heritage. Opportunities and challenges of preservation and protection of Irish cultural heritage are addressed. It also provides a valuable and educational resource recorded by experts in heritage and preservation, which is publicly accessible to prompt thought and discussion.
Developed and produced by the Historical Studies Committee of the Royal Irish Academy. Supported by The Heritage Council as part of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage. Recorded by Real Smart Media.
Podcasts released weekly - listen to the latest episodes here: www.ria.ie/heritagepodcast
Dr. Sandra Collins, Director of the National Library of Ireland, discusses how national libraries are memory keepers for their countries, collecting and keeping safe memories that share the culture, heritage and story of their nation.
The interpretation of memory may change over time, and it’s important to preserve the authentic source materials. Memory objects include photographs, manuscripts, ephemera - but contemporary memory objects are increasingly ‘born digital’ and they can be challenging to collect and keep safe as digital technologies become obsolete quickly. The National Library of Ireland collects and makes available the recorded memory of Ireland. We care for more than 10 million items, including books, newspapers, manuscripts, prints and drawings, ephemera, photographs, digital content and the National Web Archive.
About the speaker
Dr Sandra Collins is the Director of the National Library of Ireland. Originally a mathematician, she has worked in digital innovation and cultural heritage over 20 years in the public and private sectors. She was previously the founding Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland in the Royal Irish Academy and a Scientific Programme Manager in Science Foundation Ireland. She is a member of the Council of the Research Data Alliance, the Irish Government's Open Data Governance Board, the Irish National Open Research Forum, the Consortium of National and University Libraries, and the Irish Government’s Expert Advisory Group for Commemorations. She has served on a number of European Commission Expert Advisory Groups including Research Infrastructures and FAIR data, and is a member of the Irish Manuscripts Commission and a Trustee of the Chester Beatty Library.
About the Heritage Podcast Series
To Preserve and Protect: Contemporary Issues in Irish Cultural Heritage
This is a series of eight 20 minute podcasts by academic researchers and leaders of major Irish heritage institutions. The series addresses questions of critical importance in Irish heritage. Opportunities and challenges of preservation and protection of Irish cultural heritage are addressed. It also provides a valuable and educational resource recorded by experts in heritage and preservation, which is publicly accessible to prompt thought and discussion.
Developed and produced by the Historical Studies Committee of the Royal Irish Academy. Supported by The Heritage Council as part of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage. Recorded by Real Smart Media.
Podcasts released weekly - listen to the latest episodes here: www.ria.ie/heritagepodcast
... at the National Museum of Ireland
A crucial element of the museum is the human connection it offers. For both visitors and researchers, the museum has potentially a very different interaction with our history. It is a place of conversations, of shared experience and knowledge, and of shared narrative. Contemporary collecting and the broader policy around thoughts for the future requires some different thinking. Particularly in relation to the kind of museum we want to be, one that is open, accessible and diverse - a place of excellent research and compelling visitor experiences. A place that tells the many stories of our country and its people in a global context.
About the speaker
Lynn Scarff is the newly appointed Director of the National Museum of Ireland, taking up her position in May 2018.
Initially, working in environmental education across a diversity of projects including the Ballymun Regeneration, Lynn’s work is embedded in collaborative practice. As part of the initial development team of Science Gallery Dublin at Trinity College Dublin, she developed a programme of compelling cultural experiences that explored the boundaries of art and science and connected with a target audience of 15 – 25 year olds. In 2012, she was part of the leadership team that established the Global Science Gallery Network bringing the vision of Science Gallery to eight cities globally by 2020. In 2014, she was appointed Director leading Science Gallery Dublin through a process of organisational change, strategic planning and development.
Lynn is an advocate for the participative museum. Her research work focuses on non formal learning settings and the opportunities presented by museums and cultural spaces to engage young people, with a particular focus on under represented audiences. She has presented and written on these themes both in education, museum practice and communication journals globally. Her research and practice work has been funded through competitive grants awarded by Science Foundation Ireland, the Wellcome Trust in the UK and the European Commission through Horizon 2020 and Creative Europe calls.
She studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin, specialising in zoology and natural history and holds an MSc in Science Communications. In 2016 she was awarded a National Arts Strategies Kresge Fellowship completed over one year at Harvard, Michigan Ross and Berkeley Business Schools in the USA, which focused on the critical elements of sustainable business development in the cultural sector. Lynn served on the board of the National Museum of Ireland for 18 months through 2016/2017 and is on expert panels for a number of public engagement trusts and awarding bodies including the Wellcome Trust. She additionally serves on the board of the Rediscovery Centre in Ballymun.
About the Heritage Podcast Series
To Preserve and Protect: Contemporary Issues in Irish Cultural Heritage
This is a series of eight 20 minute podcasts by academic researchers and leaders of major Irish heritage institutions. The series addresses questions of critical importance in Irish heritage. Opportunities and challenges of preservation and protection of Irish cultural heritage are addressed. It also provides a valuable and educational resource recorded by experts in heritage and preservation, which is publicly accessible to prompt thought and discussion.
Developed and produced by the Historical Studies Committee of the Royal Irish Academy. Supported by The Heritage Council as part of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage. Recorded by Real Smart Media.
Podcasts released weekly - listen to the latest episodes here: www.ria.ie/heritagepodcast
A Royal Irish Academy Library Lunchtime Lecture on archaeologist and Irish art historian Françoise Henry, MRIA.
Speaker: Dr Eileen Kane Born in Dublin, Dr. Eileen Kane was educated at the Dominican College, Eccles Street and at University College Dublin, from which she graduated with a B.A. in Latin and French, M.A. in French, and Higher Diploma in Education. After some years teaching at Secondary level, and two years in the Irish Diplomatic Service, she was invited by Dr. Françoise Henry to join the Department of the History of European Painting, in 1967, as Assistant, tasked with delivering the Purser-Griffith Lectures. Along with lectures and seminars in the Degree courses, she continued to deliver and direct the Purser-Griffith Lectures until her retirement in 2000. Eileen was the first student to complete a doctoral thesis in the History of European Painting under the direction of Françoise Henry. Her research interests and publications have centred around late mediaeval art in Avignon and Rome, and religious art in Dublin in the nineteenth century. Since retiring from University teaching, she has specialized and published widely on Christian art.
Location: Academy House Date: 18 April 2018
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On Thursday 26 April 2018, the Royal Irish Academy Life and Medical Sciences Committee presented a one-day conference addressing the wide-ranging implications of gene editing techniques for all of life and medical science. Gene editing is a ground-breaking technology that is affording opportunities to make precise, small changes to an organism’s DNA. Using a series of proteins that act in effect as a molecular scissors, the potential of gene editing to address many challenges in biological systems is being realised across human, animal and crop research programmes around the world.
Not surprisingly, public interest in the impact of gene editing has grown steadily in recent years as emerging developments continue to appear in the scientific literature. Offering a unique opportunity for an open, impartial societal discussion on the impact of gene editing technologies, the Royal Irish Academy was delighted to present a conference that highlighted the advances that gene editing can make in tackling societal challenges and also the need for a rational debate driven by science-based reasoning.
The keynote address was delivered by Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, one of the key experts who help society navigate the increasingly complex terrain of the new gene editing technologies. Lovell-Badge was first thrust into the public limelight in the early 1990s when he co-discovered the Y-chromosome gene that orchestrates male development. He then used this gene to make a genetically female mouse develop as a male. As stem-cell sciences took off at the turn of the century, the British Parliament called upon him for advice in revising the Human Fertilisation and Embryonic Act. Since then he has regularly given scientific counsel in areas of public engagement and policy.
Ahead of the event, Lovell-Badge commented on the importance of properly regulating clinical use of gene editing technologies, “it could only be a matter of a few years before we actually see people who have had genetic ‘corrections’. However, it certainly should not be just a free-for-all because that would be horrible”. He is Head of the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics at the Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom. He is an author of almost 200 publications cited more than 20,000 times
Speaking at the event, Dr Ewen Mullins, member of the RIA Life and Medical Science committee stated, “given the rapid developments in plant breeding the conference was timely. Recent studies have detailed the impact gene editing can make in regards to developing mildew resistant tomato and wheat, merely by editing one single gene. With the technology applicable to all major crop and horticultural species, ‘gene editing’ is in itself an umbrella term. In its simplest form, it is in effect a more precise way to breed a crop that does not require the insertion of artificial DNA. As our cropping systems face significant legislative and environmental challenges, this new breeding process could be key to delivering low input crops to satisfy consumer and policy demands.”
On behalf of the Royal Irish Academy, Professor Michael Peter Kennedy, the president of the Royal Irish Academy RIA’s, remarked, “this conference on gene editing is specifically designed to be thought-provoking, enhance debate and to facilitate a societal discussion around the parameters in which gene editing should be applied.” He concluded by thanking the Health Research Board for generously sponsoring the event and providing delegates with an opportunity to hear from major national and international figures, as they offer their views on the advantages and challenges facing emerging gene editing technologies both at home and abroad.
Academy Discourse by Professor William C. Campbell, Hon. MRIA is the third in the series sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran. Ivermectin is a medication used in the treatment and control of parasitic diseases. In veterinary medicine, it is widely used in livestock and pets. It has several applications in human medicine, and has been notably successful in the prevention of River Blindness in the tropics. The discovery of ivermectin required innovation, yet rested on simple empirical science. It was a process from which lessons could be learned . . . but will they?
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 influences while others remain resistant. Similarly, it would be helpful to have a better insight into the mechanises whereby some seriously obese people completely avoid the metabolic consequences of over-nutrition while others succumb to the disabling complications of metabolic derangement despite being only modestly obese. In this lecture, Professor O'Rahilly will describe how human genetics has helped to enhance our understanding of our susceptibility or resistance to obesity and its adverse metabolic consequences. The findings have broad-ranging implications for the management of individual patients, for drug development and for public health strategies. About the speaker
Stephen O’Rahilly is Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Consultant Physician at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. He led the establishment of the Institute of Metabolic Science, which he now co-directs. He is Scientific Director of the Cambridge NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. He qualified in Medicine from University College Dublin and undertook post-graduate training in London, Oxford and Boston before setting up his laboratory in Cambridge in 1991. He has sought to better understand the molecular mechanisms leading to diabetes, obesity and related metabolic and endocrine disorders. He remains active in clinical practice and in the teaching of medical students. He has won many national and international awards including the Heinrich Wieland Prize, the Inbev Baillet Latour Prize, and the Zülch Prize. He was elected to the Royal Society in 2003, a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences USA in 2011 and is an Honorary Member of the German Society for Internal Medicine and the Royal Irish Academy. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in 2013.
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 publications are several articles on Jonathan Swift and a co-edited collection, Locating Swift: papers from Dublin on the 250th anniversary of the death of Jonathan Swift (Dublin: Four Courts Press). Her most recent book is Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690-1840 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017). In June 2017 she co-organized the Swift350 conference at TCD to mark the 350th anniversary of the birth of Jonathan Swift.
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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 the social, economic and cultural history of Ireland in the long eighteenth century. Among his major publications are Old world colony: Cork and South Munster 1630-1830 (Cork & Madison, 2005), and Dublin: The making of a capital city (London & Cambridge MA, 2014), and he has co-edited 11 books, including 1798: a bicentenary perspective (Dublin, 2003); Refiguring Ireland: Essays in honour of L.M. Cullen (Dublin, 2003); Irish and Scottish mercantile networks in Europe and overseas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Gent, 2007); and Irish classrooms and British Empire: Imperial contexts in the origins of modern education (Dublin, 2012).
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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
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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 Dobrzyński, the first Polish diplomatic to serve in Ireland and one of the longest-serving diplomats in the history of the state.
The exhibition commences with Dobrzyński’s early life in Kiev (1885-1914), his service in the Great War, the post-war period in Free Warsaw and his first diplomatic posting, to Tallinn, where he served from 1922 to 1925. Dobrzyński spent the following 33 years in Dublin, firstly as consul from 1929 to 1931. In 1931 the consulate was closed by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but Dobrzyński returned later that year as Hon. Consul-General ─ an unsalaried position.
Dobrzyński immersed himself in Irish life and culture, in his turn promoting Polish cultural activities and reporting on Irish political affairs for the Kurier Warszawski/Warsaw Daily. The occasion of the first ever Ireland-Poland soccer match, in 1938, to which Dobrzyński invited the President, Douglas Hyde and Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera, led to uproar in the press ─ Hyde was removed as patron of the GAA owing to the ban on foreign games.
The unfolding of the second World War, as seen from Dublin and from a Polish perspective, and the ravage of Poland are examined as well as the Dublin consulate’s relationship with the Polish government in exile (London, 1940-57). Dobrzyński gradually withdrew from the diplomatic service, moving to the countryside but maintaining an active interest in political affairs until his death in 1962. His daughter Krystyna continued her father’s work in the promotion of Polish culture in Ireland.
Location: Academy House Date: 10 May 2017
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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 subsequently associated closely with the O’Kelly family, it is a veritable treasure trove of traditional Irish history and learning. In addition to lengthy genealogical tracts on the Uí Mhaine in South Galway and on many notable Irish families, it contains versions of the Bansheanchas, the Dindsheanchas, Cóir Anmann, wisdom texts, glossaries, poetry and many other compositions.
Following highly successful conferences on Lebor na hUidre (2012) and the Book of Ballymote (2015), speakers at the conference on the Book of Uí Mhaine discussed its background and structure, its artistic illumination, its place in Irish intellectual life of the time and its subsequent history.
Location: Academy House Date: 2 March, 2017
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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 Ceallaigh (†1407) Lord-Bishop of Clonfert, and subsequently associated closely with the O’Kelly family, it is a veritable treasure trove of traditional Irish history and learning. In addition to lengthy genealogical tracts on the Uí Mhaine in South Galway and on many notable Irish families, it contains versions of the Bansheanchas, the Dindsheanchas, Cóir Anmann, wisdom texts, glossaries, poetry and many other compositions.
Following highly successful conferences on Lebor na hUidre (2012) and the Book of Ballymote (2015), speakers at the conference on the Book of Uí Mhaine discussed its background and structure, its artistic illumination, its place in Irish intellectual life of the time and its subsequent history.
Location: Academy House Date: 2 March 2017
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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) Lord-Bishop of Clonfert, and subsequently associated closely with the O’Kelly family, it is a veritable treasure trove of traditional Irish history and learning. In addition to lengthy genealogical tracts on the Uí Mhaine in South Galway and on many notable Irish families, it contains versions of the Bansheanchas, the Dindsheanchas, Cóir Anmann, wisdom texts, glossaries, poetry and many other compositions.
Following highly successful conferences on Lebor na hUidre (2012) and the Book of Ballymote (2015), speakers at the conference on the Book of Uí Mhaine discussed its background and structure, its artistic illumination, its place in Irish intellectual life of the time and its subsequent history.
Location: Academy House Date: 3 March, 2017
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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, and subsequently associated closely with the O’Kelly family, it is a veritable treasure trove of traditional Irish history and learning. In addition to lengthy genealogical tracts on the Uí Mhaine in South Galway and on many notable Irish families, it contains versions of the Bansheanchas, the Dindsheanchas, Cóir Anmann, wisdom texts, glossaries, poetry and many other compositions.
Following highly successful conferences on Lebor na hUidre (2012) and the Book of Ballymote (2015), speakers at the conference on the Book of Uí Mhaine discussed its background and structure, its artistic illumination, its place in Irish intellectual life of the time and its subsequent history.
Location: Academy House Date: 3 March, 2017
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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 subsequently associated closely with the O’Kelly family, it is a veritable treasure trove of traditional Irish history and learning. In addition to lengthy genealogical tracts on the Uí Mhaine in South Galway and on many notable Irish families, it contains versions of the Bansheanchas, the Dindsheanchas, Cóir Anmann, wisdom texts, glossaries, poetry and many other compositions.
Following highly successful conferences on Lebor na hUidre (2012) and the Book of Ballymote (2015), speakers at the conference on the Book of Uí Mhaine discussed its background and structure, its artistic illumination, its place in Irish intellectual life of the time and its subsequent history.
Location: Academy House Date: 3 March, 2017
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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 subsequently associated closely with the O’Kelly family, it is a veritable treasure trove of traditional Irish history and learning. In addition to lengthy genealogical tracts on the Uí Mhaine in South Galway and on many notable Irish families, it contains versions of the Bansheanchas, the Dindsheanchas, Cóir Anmann, wisdom texts, glossaries, poetry and many other compositions.
Following highly successful conferences on Lebor na hUidre (2012) and the Book of Ballymote (2015), speakers at the conference on the Book of Uí Mhaine discussed its background and structure, its artistic illumination, its place in Irish intellectual life of the time and its subsequent history.
Location: Academy House Date: 3 March, 2017
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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 Clonfert, and subsequently associated closely with the O’Kelly family, it is a veritable treasure trove of traditional Irish history and learning. In addition to lengthy genealogical tracts on the Uí Mhaine in South Galway and on many notable Irish families, it contains versions of the Bansheanchas, the Dindsheanchas, Cóir Anmann, wisdom texts, glossaries, poetry and many other compositions.
Following highly successful conferences on Lebor na hUidre (2012) and the Book of Ballymote (2015), speakers at the conference on the Book of Uí Mhaine discussed its background and structure, its artistic illumination, its place in Irish intellectual life of the time and its subsequent history.
Location: Academy House Date: 3 March, 2017
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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 of Clonfert, and subsequently associated closely with the O’Kelly family, it is a veritable treasure trove of traditional Irish history and learning. In addition to lengthy genealogical tracts on the Uí Mhaine in South Galway and on many notable Irish families, it contains versions of the Bansheanchas, the Dindsheanchas, Cóir Anmann, wisdom texts, glossaries, poetry and many other compositions.
Following highly successful conferences on Lebor na hUidre (2012) and the Book of Ballymote (2015), speakers at the conference on the Book of Uí Mhaine discussed its background and structure, its artistic illumination, its place in Irish intellectual life of the time and its subsequent history.
Location: Academy House Date: 2 March, 2017
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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 subsequently associated closely with the O’Kelly family, it is a veritable treasure trove of traditional Irish history and learning. In addition to lengthy genealogical tracts on the Uí Mhaine in South Galway and on many notable Irish families, it contains versions of the Bansheanchas, the Dindsheanchas, Cóir Anmann, wisdom texts, glossaries, poetry and many other compositions.
Following highly successful conferences on Lebor na hUidre (2012) and the Book of Ballymote (2015), speakers at the conference on the Book of Uí Mhaine discussed its background and structure, its artistic illumination, its place in Irish intellectual life of the time and its subsequent history.
Location: Academy House Date: 3 March, 2017
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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, and subsequently associated closely with the O’Kelly family, it is a veritable treasure trove of traditional Irish history and learning. In addition to lengthy genealogical tracts on the Uí Mhaine in South Galway and on many notable Irish families, it contains versions of the Bansheanchas, the Dindsheanchas, Cóir Anmann, wisdom texts, glossaries, poetry and many other compositions.
Following highly successful conferences on Lebor na hUidre (2012) and the Book of Ballymote (2015), speakers at the conference on the Book of Uí Mhaine discussed its background and structure, its artistic illumination, its place in Irish intellectual life of the time and its subsequent history.
Location: Academy House Date: 3 March, 2017
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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, and subsequently associated closely with the O’Kelly family, it is a veritable treasure trove of traditional Irish history and learning. In addition to lengthy genealogical tracts on the Uí Mhaine in South Galway and on many notable Irish families, it contains versions of the Bansheanchas, the Dindsheanchas, Cóir Anmann, wisdom texts, glossaries, poetry and many other compositions.
Following highly successful conferences on Lebor na hUidre (2012) and the Book of Ballymote (2015), speakers at the conference on the Book of Uí Mhaine discussed its background and structure, its artistic illumination, its place in Irish intellectual life of the time and its subsequent history.
Location: Academy House Date: 2 March, 2017
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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 maintenance of the chapel. Through donations and bequests from well to do members and benefactors, the guild became very wealthy. The Haliday collection includes over 200 documents relating to the Guild. A selection of deeds and documents are currently on display as part of the Library's exhibition 'Dublin Documents: highlights from Charles Haliday's manuscript collection'
Online exhibition: https://www.ria.ie/dublin-documents-highlights-charles-halidays-manuscript-collection-0
Location: Academy House Date: January 9, 2017
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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 Cork. Over 300 people attended the lectures. The lecture focused on the ways in which we generate data through our interactions with Wi-Fi enabled devices, and how this data can be utilised by third parties to predict our behaviours and preferences. Brian is a lecturer in the School of Computer Science in UCD, a principal researcher at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, and a funded researcher at the Centre for Applied Data Analytics Research.
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 Stranger's Child (2011). His acclaimed novel The Folding Star (1994) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction). His novel, The Line of Beauty (2004), traces a decade of change and tragedy and won the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. His new novel, The Sparsholt Affair, will be published in 2017. He lives in London. Carlo Gébler
Carlo Gébler was born Dublin in 1954, the eldest son of writer parents, Ernest Gébler and Edna O'Brien. He has a PhD from Queen's University, Belfast. Gébler has made a number of documentary films and is also the author of several novels, children’s novels, plays for both radio and the stage, and librettos. He has also worked as a teacher and academic. In the early nineties he was the creative writing tutor at the Maze prison and since 1997 he has been the writer-in-residence in HMP Maghaberry. In addition he has taught creative writing at Trinity College, Dublin, where he has been a visiting fellow four times, and at Queen’s University, Belfast. Carlo Gebler was elected a member of the Aosdána in 1990.
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 portrayal of Jewishness through an exhibition, laectures and publications which include a selection of key Irish-Jewish writing and Irish literature about Jews. Adopting a thematic and chronological approach, it investigates the depiction of Jews and Jewishness in Ireland from the Annals of Inisfallen in the medieval period, then through to centuries of poetry, prose and drama to the present day. Exploring the relationship between Jews and Ireland as found in the literary record, it reveals both the prejudices of writers who often had little or no direct contact with Jews and, later, an emerging Irish-Jewish literary sphere that shows a vibrant, vocal community at ease with its hyphenated sense of identity and culture. It also acknowledges the fraught past faced by a minority culture in Ireland and how this culture sought recognition and found accommodation on this island, and ultimately, found its place in the pantheon of Irish history, writing, and society.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 20 July, 2016
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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 Ireland, Galway. It examines the portrayal of Jewishness through an exhibition, laectures and publications which include a selection of key Irish-Jewish writing and Irish literature about Jews. Adopting a thematic and chronological approach, it investigates the depiction of Jews and Jewishness in Ireland from the Annals of Inisfallen in the medieval period, then through to centuries of poetry, prose and drama to the present day. Exploring the relationship between Jews and Ireland as found in the literary record, it reveals both the prejudices of writers who often had little or no direct contact with Jews and, later, an emerging Irish-Jewish literary sphere that shows a vibrant, vocal community at ease with its hyphenated sense of identity and culture. It also acknowledges the fraught past faced by a minority culture in Ireland and how this culture sought recognition and found accommodation on this island, and ultimately, found its place in the pantheon of Irish history, writing, and society.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 6 July, 2016
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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 modern age. He asks what lessons history has to offer to a craft under pressure from bewilderingly rapid changes of media platforms and the proliferation of new media outlets.
This lecture is supported by the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Marsh’s Library and the Irish Research Council-funded ‘Mapping readers and readership in Dublin: 1826-1926: a new cultural geography’ (UCD Schools of History and Computer Science: http://marshreaders.ucd.ie/people/ )
Professor 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 modern age.
Location: Academy House Date: 23 November 2016
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Speaker: Professor Ciarán Brady, MRIA
Fostered in the Pale after his father’s murder on Shane O’Neill’s orders, Hugh O’Neill, c. 1550-1616, 2nd earl of Tyrone, is portrayed alternately as charismatic, Machiavellian, a ruthless opponent, a skilled negotiator, a power seeker par excellence, an innovator. He died at Rome on 20 July 1616. On the four-hundredth anniversary of the passing of the last of the earls, our seminar assessed O’Neill ─ the man, his milieu, Ulster in the 1600s, his many battles and his ultimate capitulation.
Location: Academy House Date: 1 December 2016
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Speaker: Dr Hiram Morgan
Fostered in the Pale after his father’s murder on Shane O’Neill’s orders, Hugh O’Neill, c. 1550-1616, 2nd earl of Tyrone, is portrayed alternately as charismatic, Machiavellian, a ruthless opponent, a skilled negotiator, a power seeker par excellence, an innovator. He died at Rome on 20 July 1616. On the four-hundredth anniversary of the passing of the last of the earls, our seminar assessed O’Neill ─ the man, his milieu, Ulster in the 1600s, his many battles and his ultimate capitulation.
Location: Academy House Date: 1 December 2016
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Speaker: Dr Marc Caball
Fostered in the Pale after his father’s murder on Shane O’Neill’s orders, Hugh O’Neill, c. 1550-1616, 2nd earl of Tyrone, is portrayed alternately as charismatic, Machiavellian, a ruthless opponent, a skilled negotiator, a power seeker par excellence, an innovator. He died at Rome on 20 July 1616. On the four-hundredth anniversary of the passing of the last of the earls, our seminar assessed O’Neill ─ the man, his milieu, Ulster in the 1600s, his many battles and his ultimate capitulation.
Location: Academy House Date: 1 December 2016
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Speaker: Dr Ruth A. Canning Fostered in the Pale after his father’s murder on Shane O’Neill’s orders, Hugh O’Neill, c. 1550-1616, 2nd earl of Tyrone, is portrayed alternately as charismatic, Machiavellian, a ruthless opponent, a skilled negotiator, a power seeker par excellence, an innovator. He died at Rome on 20 July 1616. On the four-hundredth anniversary of the passing of the last of the earls, our seminar assessed O’Neill ─ the man, his milieu, Ulster in the 1600s, his many battles and his ultimate capitulation.
Location: Academy House Date: 1 December 2016
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Speaker: Professor Nicholas Canny, MRIA
Royal Irish Academy Library Seminar In association with the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Remembering Hugh O'Neill, 1616-2016. Fostered in the Pale after his father’s murder on Shane O’Neill’s orders, Hugh O’Neill, c. 1550-1616, 2nd earl of Tyrone, is portrayed alternately as charismatic, Machiavellian, a ruthless opponent, a skilled negotiator, a power seeker par excellence, an innovator. He died at Rome on 20 July 1616. On the four-hundredth anniversary of the passing of the last of the earls, our seminar assessed O’Neill ─ the man, his milieu, Ulster in the 1600s, his many battles and his ultimate capitulation.
Location: Academy House Date: 1 December 2016
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Paul Mullarkey, National Museum of Ireland. Second lecture in a series on topics related to the Book of Fenagh exhibition 'Book of Fenagh 500th anniversary' The Book of Fenagh (RIA MS 23 P 26), an Irish manuscript commissioned in 1516, tells the story of the life of St Caillín, founder of the early Christian monastic community at Fenagh. The manuscript reflects the politics of early sixteenth-century north Connacht, with the saint’s life being used for propaganda purposes. It is the work of an expert scribe, Muirgheas Ó Maoilchonaire, and is an excellent example of late medieval Irish manuscript production. In August of 2016 the Academy Library organised an exhibition (now available online)and lecture series to celebrate the the 500th anniversary of the Book of Fenagh.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 21 September, 2016
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Pádraig Ó Riain, MRIA, Professor Emeritus, UCC. First lecture in a series on topics related to the Book of Fenagh exhibition 'Book of Fenagh 500th anniversary' The Book of Fenagh (RIA MS 23 P 26), an Irish manuscript commissioned in 1516, tells the story of the life of St Caillín, founder of the early Christian monastic community at Fenagh. The manuscript reflects the politics of early sixteenth-century north Connacht, with the saint’s life being used for propaganda purposes. It is the work of an expert scribe, Muirgheas Ó Maoilchonaire, and is an excellent example of late medieval Irish manuscript production. In August of 2016 the Academy Library organised an exhibition (now available online)and lecture series to celebrate the the 500th anniversary of the Book of Fenagh.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 14 September, 2016
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Speaker: Dr Bairbre Ní Fhloinn
Library Lunchtime Lecture organised in association with the Irish Texts Society as part of Heritage Week.
Bairbre Ní Fhloinn lectures and is Head of Subject in Irish Folklore, in the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore at University College Dublin. Her research interests include folk medicine, occupational belief and practice, the role of tradition in contemporary popular culture, folk belief and associated narratives, and the work and history of the UCD National Folklore Collection and its predecessors. She has published widely on a range of topics, and has been a frequent contributor to radio and television programmes over the years. She has also studied folklore abroad, in Helsinki and in Sardinia.
Location: Academy House Date: 24 August 2016
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Speaker: Uáitéar Mac Gearailt is Head of the Irish Department at St Patrick's College Drumcondra, Dublin. His research focuses on the language and literature of the Middle Irish period. He has published numerous papers on texts such as Recension 2 of Táin Bó Cúailnge, the Recension 3 Táin, Cath Ruis na Ríg, Mesca Ulad, Scéla Laí Brátha, Sex Aetates Mundi, and Togail Troí. He is joint-editor of Studia Hibernica.
The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of the most remarkable Irish manuscripts we have. Its size and extent, the range of material it contains and its striking illumination all mark it out as an important work of late medieval learning. Its 251 folios contain, among many other works, texts such as Lebor Gabála Érenn, Lebor na Cert, Dindshenchas Érenn, Banshenchas Érenn, Cóir Anmann, extensive genealogical tracts listing the pedigrees of some of the most prominent Irish population groups and families, lists of saints, biblical texts and adaptations of classical material. There are many questions that can be asked about this remarkable codex and the society in which it came into being. What was the intent of the scribes and scholars who compiled it? Why were the texts found in the BB so chosen? What sources were used in its compilation? Why was it so extensively and richly decorated? How does BB relate to other medieval manuscripts, in particular, the slightly later Great Book of Lecan? What do we know of the later history of BB? The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii II: Book of Ballymoteis available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 5 February, 2015
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Speaker: Elizabeth Duncan's research interests cover palaeography, codicology and manuscript production in the Celtic world. She was awarded her PhD. at the University of Aberdeen in 2010 for her dissertation on the development of Gaelic script in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of the most remarkable Irish manuscripts we have. Its size and extent, the range of material it contains and its striking illumination all mark it out as an important work of late medieval learning. Its 251 folios contain, among many other works, texts such as Lebor Gabála Érenn, Lebor na Cert, Dindshenchas Érenn, Banshenchas Érenn, Cóir Anmann, extensive genealogical tracts listing the pedigrees of some of the most prominent Irish population groups and families, lists of saints, biblical texts and adaptations of classical material. There are many questions that can be asked about this remarkable codex and the society in which it came into being. What was the intent of the scribes and scholars who compiled it? Why were the texts found in the BB so chosen? What sources were used in its compilation? Why was it so extensively and richly decorated? How does BB relate to other medieval manuscripts, in particular, the slightly later Great Book of Lecan? What do we know of the later history of BB? The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii II: Book of Ballymoteis available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 6 February, 2015
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Speaker: Karen Ralph received her PhD. in medieval art history from Trinity College Dublin last year. Her doctoral research focused on the patronage of Irish illuminated manuscripts during the late Middle Ages. For the past year she has been living in Paris working as a museum educator and will shortly begin a teaching role at the American University of Paris.
The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of the most remarkable Irish manuscripts we have. Its size and extent, the range of material it contains and its striking illumination all mark it out as an important work of late medieval learning. Its 251 folios contain, among many other works, texts such as Lebor Gabála Érenn, Lebor na Cert, Dindshenchas Érenn, Banshenchas Érenn, Cóir Anmann, extensive genealogical tracts listing the pedigrees of some of the most prominent Irish population groups and families, lists of saints, biblical texts and adaptations of classical material. There are many questions that can be asked about this remarkable codex and the society in which it came into being. What was the intent of the scribes and scholars who compiled it? Why were the texts found in the BB so chosen? What sources were used in its compilation? Why was it so extensively and richly decorated? How does BB relate to other medieval manuscripts, in particular, the slightly later Great Book of Lecan? What do we know of the later history of BB? The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii II: Book of Ballymoteis available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 6 February, 2015
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Speaker: Deborah Hayden is a postdoctoral O'Donovan Scholar at the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of the most remarkable Irish manuscripts we have. Its size and extent, the range of material it contains and its striking illumination all mark it out as an important work of late medieval learning. Its 251 folios contain, among many other works, texts such as Lebor Gabála Érenn, Lebor na Cert, Dindshenchas Érenn, Banshenchas Érenn, Cóir Anmann, extensive genealogical tracts listing the pedigrees of some of the most prominent Irish population groups and families, lists of saints, biblical texts and adaptations of classical material. There are many questions that can be asked about this remarkable codex and the society in which it came into being. What was the intent of the scribes and scholars who compiled it? Why were the texts found in the BB so chosen? What sources were used in its compilation? Why was it so extensively and richly decorated? How does BB relate to other medieval manuscripts, in particular, the slightly later Great Book of Lecan? What do we know of the later history of BB? The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii II: Book of Ballymoteis available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 6 February, 2015
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Speaker: Pádraig Ó Macháin is Professor of Modern Irish, and Head of the School of Irish Learning, University College Cork. Formerly director of Irish Script on Screen, his publications (in Irish and English) include manuscript catalogues, textual editions, and local history studies.
The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of the most remarkable Irish manuscripts we have. Its size and extent, the range of material it contains and its striking illumination all mark it out as an important work of late medieval learning. Its 251 folios contain, among many other works, texts such as Lebor Gabála Érenn, Lebor na Cert, Dindshenchas Érenn, Banshenchas Érenn, Cóir Anmann, extensive genealogical tracts listing the pedigrees of some of the most prominent Irish population groups and families, lists of saints, biblical texts and adaptations of classical material. There are many questions that can be asked about this remarkable codex and the society in which it came into being. What was the intent of the scribes and scholars who compiled it? Why were the texts found in the BB so chosen? What sources were used in its compilation? Why was it so extensively and richly decorated? How does BB relate to other medieval manuscripts, in particular, the slightly later Great Book of Lecan? What do we know of the later history of BB? The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii II: Book of Ballymoteis available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 6 February, 2015
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Speaker: Raymond Gillespie, MRIA, teaches history at Maynooth University. He is author of Reading Ireland: print, reading and social change in early modern Ireland (Manchester, 2005) co-author of Stories from Gaelic Ireland: microhistories from the sixteenth-century Irish annals (Dublin, 2003). Dr Bernadette Cunningham is author of The world of Geoffrey Keating (Dublin, 2000), and The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century (Dublin, 2010). She is Deputy Librarian at the Royal Irish Academy.
The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of the most remarkable Irish manuscripts we have. Its size and extent, the range of material it contains and its striking illumination all mark it out as an important work of late medieval learning. Its 251 folios contain, among many other works, texts such as Lebor Gabála Érenn, Lebor na Cert, Dindshenchas Érenn, Banshenchas Érenn, Cóir Anmann, extensive genealogical tracts listing the pedigrees of some of the most prominent Irish population groups and families, lists of saints, biblical texts and adaptations of classical material. There are many questions that can be asked about this remarkable codex and the society in which it came into being. What was the intent of the scribes and scholars who compiled it? Why were the texts found in the BB so chosen? What sources were used in its compilation? Why was it so extensively and richly decorated? How does BB relate to other medieval manuscripts, in particular, the slightly later Great Book of Lecan? What do we know of the later history of BB? The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii II: Book of Ballymoteis available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 6 February, 2015
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Speaker: Donnchadh Ó Corráin, MRIA, is emeritus Professor of Medieval History at University College Cork. He has published on many aspects of medieval Irish history: genealogy, law, literature, politics, institutions, and the Viking wars. His Clavis litterarum Hiberniae will appear shortly.
The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of the most remarkable Irish manuscripts we have. Its size and extent, the range of material it contains and its striking illumination all mark it out as an important work of late medieval learning. Its 251 folios contain, among many other works, texts such as Lebor Gabála Érenn, Lebor na Cert, Dindshenchas Érenn, Banshenchas Érenn, Cóir Anmann, extensive genealogical tracts listing the pedigrees of some of the most prominent Irish population groups and families, lists of saints, biblical texts and adaptations of classical material. There are many questions that can be asked about this remarkable codex and the society in which it came into being. What was the intent of the scribes and scholars who compiled it? Why were the texts found in the BB so chosen? What sources were used in its compilation? Why was it so extensively and richly decorated? How does BB relate to other medieval manuscripts, in particular, the slightly later Great Book of Lecan? What do we know of the later history of BB? The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii II: Book of Ballymoteis available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 6 February, 2015
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Speaker: Nollaig Ó Muraíle, MRIA, has recently retired as senior lecturer in Irish at NUI Galway. Among his publications is an edition of Dubhaltach Mac Fhir Bhisigh’s Great Book of Genealogies.
The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of the most remarkable Irish manuscripts we have. Its size and extent, the range of material it contains and its striking illumination all mark it out as an important work of late medieval learning. Its 251 folios contain, among many other works, texts such as Lebor Gabála Érenn, Lebor na Cert, Dindshenchas Érenn, Banshenchas Érenn, Cóir Anmann, extensive genealogical tracts listing the pedigrees of some of the most prominent Irish population groups and families, lists of saints, biblical texts and adaptations of classical material. There are many questions that can be asked about this remarkable codex and the society in which it came into being. What was the intent of the scribes and scholars who compiled it? Why were the texts found in the BB so chosen? What sources were used in its compilation? Why was it so extensively and richly decorated? How does BB relate to other medieval manuscripts, in particular, the slightly later Great Book of Lecan? What do we know of the later history of BB? The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii II: Book of Ballymoteis available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 6 February, 2015
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Speaker: Máire Ní Mhaonaigh is a Reader in Celtic in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College.
The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of the most remarkable Irish manuscripts we have. Its size and extent, the range of material it contains and its striking illumination all mark it out as an important work of late medieval learning. Its 251 folios contain, among many other works, texts such as Lebor Gabála Érenn, Lebor na Cert, Dindshenchas Érenn, Banshenchas Érenn, Cóir Anmann, extensive genealogical tracts listing the pedigrees of some of the most prominent Irish population groups and families, lists of saints, biblical texts and adaptations of classical material. There are many questions that can be asked about this remarkable codex and the society in which it came into being. What was the intent of the scribes and scholars who compiled it? Why were the texts found in the BB so chosen? What sources were used in its compilation? Why was it so extensively and richly decorated? How does BB relate to other medieval manuscripts, in particular, the slightly later Great Book of Lecan? What do we know of the later history of BB? The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii II: Book of Ballymoteis available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 5 February, 2015
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Speaker: Elizabeth Duncan's research interests cover palaeography, codicology and manuscript production in the Celtic world. She was awarded her PhD. at the University of Aberdeen in 2010 for her dissertation on the development of Gaelic script in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of the most remarkable Irish manuscripts we have. Its size and extent, the range of material it contains and its striking illumination all mark it out as an important work of late medieval learning. Its 251 folios contain, among many other works, texts such as Lebor Gabála Érenn, Lebor na Cert, Dindshenchas Érenn, Banshenchas Érenn, Cóir Anmann, extensive genealogical tracts listing the pedigrees of some of the most prominent Irish population groups and families, lists of saints, biblical texts and adaptations of classical material. There are many questions that can be asked about this remarkable codex and the society in which it came into being. What was the intent of the scribes and scholars who compiled it? Why were the texts found in the BB so chosen? What sources were used in its compilation? Why was it so extensively and richly decorated? How does BB relate to other medieval manuscripts, in particular, the slightly later Great Book of Lecan? What do we know of the later history of BB? The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii II: Book of Ballymoteis available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 5 February, 2015
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Speaker: Ruairí Ó hUiginn MRIA is professor of Modern Irish at Maynooth University and Head of its School of Celtic Studies. He has published on many different aspects of Irish language and literature and is currently Chair of the Management and Editorial Committees of the Royal Irish Academy’s Foclóir na Nua-Ghaeilge.
The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of the most remarkable Irish manuscripts we have. Its size and extent, the range of material it contains and its striking illumination all mark it out as an important work of late medieval learning. Its 251 folios contain, among many other works, texts such as Lebor Gabála Érenn, Lebor na Cert, Dindshenchas Érenn, Banshenchas Érenn, Cóir Anmann, extensive genealogical tracts listing the pedigrees of some of the most prominent Irish population groups and families, lists of saints, biblical texts and adaptations of classical material. There are many questions that can be asked about this remarkable codex and the society in which it came into being. What was the intent of the scribes and scholars who compiled it? Why were the texts found in the BB so chosen? What sources were used in its compilation? Why was it so extensively and richly decorated? How does BB relate to other medieval manuscripts, in particular, the slightly later Great Book of Lecan? What do we know of the later history of BB? The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii II: Book of Ballymoteis available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 5 February, 2015
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Professor Mary Daly, MRIA. Fourth lecture in a series on ‘Intellectual life in Ireland 1910-1920.' Professor Daly’s lecture looks at the membership of the Academy c.1910, its current research projects and intellectual interests and how this evolved over the decade. She also discusses the decision to expel Eoin MacNeill from the Academy and his reinstatement.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 4 May, 2016
Speaker: Professor Daly is one of Ireland’s most prominent senior historians and is a member of the government’s Expert Advisory Group on Commemorations. She is emeritus professor of history at UCD and served for seven years as Principal of UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies; she has also held visiting positions at Harvard and Boston College. She is the first female President of the Royal Irish Academy in its 229-year history and was elected in March 2014. From 2000 to 2004 she was Secretary of the Royal Irish Academy and vice-chair of the Academy’s Working Group on Higher Education. She has served on the National Archives Advisory Council and the Irish Manuscripts Commission. Professor Daly was involved in the commemoration of the sesquicentenary of the great famine 1995-97, and with Dr Margaret O’Callaghan she directed a research project on the Golden Jubilee of the 1916 Rising, resulting in the publication of a major edited work: 1916 in 1966: commemorating the Easter Rising (2007). Over the course of her distinguished career, Professor Daly has researched widely and published prolifically, notably: Dublin, the Deposed Capital: A Social and Economic History, 1860-1914 (1984); Women and Work in Ireland (1997); The Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920-1973 (2006); and, with Theo Hoppen, Gladstone: Ireland and Beyond (2011).
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Lawrence White, Research Assistant and Copy Editor on the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography project. Third lecture in a series on ‘Intellectual life in Ireland 1910-1920.' The writings of Desmond Ryan (1893-1964) were particularly influential in shaping the story of the Easter rising and its participants through the first half of the twentieth century. This talk explores the historiography of the rising through the work of Desmond Ryan.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 27 April, 2016
Speaker: Lawrence White is Research Assistant and Copy Editor on the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography project. He is co-editor (with James Quinn) of 1916: portraits and lives (2015), a selection of DIB articles pertinent to the Easter rising.
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Regina Uí Chollatáin, Senior Lecturer and Head of the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore in University College Dublin. Second lecture in a series on ‘Intellectual life in Ireland 1910-1920.' The title of this lecture refers to an article written in 1909 which reflects the orthographical challenges of this period which dictated much debate in language usage in the public sphere of the media. This talk will present an overview of the themes, content and Irish language journals between 1910-1920, examining the impact of developments in Irish language print media on the intellectual life and on the understanding of culture and identity. This is particularly relevant in the context of Intellectual life in Ireland during this period where Revivalist ideology and the language movement helped to make new developments a reality. New writing practices and processes which evolved as a result of new writing styles and print forums were central to the creation of an Irish reading public and a modern Irish literature.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 6 April, 2016
Speaker: Regina Uí Chollatáin is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore in University College Dublin. Her main areas of research are Irish language media, print culture and language revival. She has published widely in academic journals nationally and internationally. Her monograph on the first Irish language newspaper An Claidheamh Soluis agus Fáinne an Lae 1899-1932 (2004) was awarded the Donnchadh Ó Súilleabháin Oireachtas award. Recent publications include co-editor of Litríocht na Gaeilge ar fud an domhain (2015) the first comprehensive study of Irish language literature in a global context, Cnuasach Comhar 1982-2012 (2014), An Greann sa Ghaeilge (2013). She was the recipient of the Senior Visiting Professor award from the Ireland-Canada University Foundation om 2011-12 and she is currently the Chair of the National Irish Language Development Forum.
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Chantal Kobel. First lecture in a series on ‘Intellectual life in Ireland 1910-1920.' This lecture reflects on the influential career of Prof. Eleanor Knott, one of the first women to be made a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and her important contributions to scholarship in the area of Celtic Studies.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 9 March, 2016
Speaker: Chantal Kobel obtained her B.A. in Old and Modern Irish in TCD and went on to achieve a Masters in Archives and Records Management in UCD. She recently completed her PhD in Early Irish at Trinity College Dublin. She lectures at the Department of Irish and Celtic Languages at Trinity College Dublin and the Department of Early Irish at National University of Ireland Maynooth. Her research interests centre on Old and Middle Irish language, the development of the language, early Irish literature and poetry, and textual editing.
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Lesa Ní Mhunghaile, NUI Galway. In Spring 2015 the Library, in collaboration with the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) and Foclóir Na Nua-Ghaeilge (FNG), organised a series of lectures entitled ‘‘1815, 1915: Centenaries and bicentenaries: Celticists, lexicographers and antiquarian scholars.’ The series looks at the contributions made by some nineteenth-century scholars to the development of Celtic Studies, the Irish language, lexicography, archaeology and antiquarian research, textual studies and Irish history.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 1 April, 2015
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Library Lunchtime Lecture series by Dr Liam Mac Amhlaigh, Maynooth University. Introduced by Dr Deirdre D'Auria, Eagarthóir Cúnta, Foclóir na Nua-Ghaeilge. In Spring 2015 the Library, in collaboration with the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) and Foclóir Na Nua-Ghaeilge (FNG), organised a series of lectures entitled ‘‘1815, 1915: Centenaries and bicentenaries: Celticists, lexicographers and antiquarian scholars.’ The series looks at the contributions made by some nineteenth-century scholars to the development of Celtic Studies, the Irish language, lexicography, archaeology and antiquarian research, textual studies and Irish history.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 25 March, 2015
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Library Lunchtime Lecture series by Dr Linde Lunney, Dictionary of Irish Biography. In Spring 2015 the Library, in collaboration with the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) and Foclóir Na Nua-Ghaeilge (FNG), organised a series of lectures entitled ‘‘1815, 1915: Centenaries and bicentenaries: Celticists, lexicographers and antiquarian scholars.’ The series looks at the contributions made by some nineteenth-century scholars to the development of Celtic Studies, the Irish language, lexicography, archaeology and antiquarian research, textual studies and Irish history.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 11 March, 2015
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by RIA Librarian Siobhán Fitzpatrick. Third lecture in a series organised in association with Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, University College Cork, to accompany the exhibition ‘Scribing for Ireland: the Ó Longáin family and the Royal Irish Academy.'
Location: Academy House Date: October 2015
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Tim O’Neill, artist, scribe and historian. Second lecture in a series organised in association with Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, University College Cork, to accompany the exhibition ‘Scribing for Ireland: the Ó Longáin family and the Royal Irish Academy.'
Location: Academy House Date: October 2015
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail, UCD. First lecture in a series organised in association with Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, University College Cork, to accompany the exhibition ‘Scribing for Ireland: the Ó Longáin family and the Royal Irish Academy.'
Location: Academy House Date: October 2015
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Speaker: Professor Tom Dunne Library Lunchtime Lecture organised in conjunction with an exhibition curated by the Royal Irish Academy Library 'Views of Dublin: original watercolours by George Petrie, MRIA, 1790-1866'. This exhibition, to mark the 150th anniversary of the death of George Petrie, ran from 19 January – 15 February, 2016. Online exhibition: https://www.ria.ie/news/library/views-dublin-online-exhibition
Location: Academy House Date: 15 February 2016
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Professor Partha Chatterjee's lecture as part of UCD's 1916 as a Global Event series of lectures
The Launch of 'Trinity in War and Revolution 1912-1923' was preceded by an expert panel discussion in the Printing House, Trinity College Dublin, at 6.30pm on Monday December 7th 2015.
This book situates the history of Trinity College Dublin within the great upheavals and changes that were taking place in Ireland and the wider world in the transformative period between 1912 and 1923. The period saw Trinity and its environs profoundly changed. The book uses Trinity as a way of exploring some of the central themes and tensions of these years, themes that are usually examined separately: Irish involvement in the First World War; the Easter Rising of 1916; the violent struggle for Irish independence; the end of the Civil War; and the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. It views these events through the prism of the university’s development, arguing that these contexts cannot be divorced from one another. Trinity was at the centre— physically, intellectually, symbolically—of these seismic events in local, national and international history, and each had a great impact upon the institution and its development in the twentieth century.
Speakers: Ciaran Brady (chair), Professor of Early Modern History and Historiography, Trinity College Dublin Eunan O’Halpin, Professor of Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin Ronan Fanning, Professor of Modern History, University College Dublin Dr Tomás Irish (author), lecturer in Modern History, Swansea University Dr Catriona Crowe, National Archives of Ireland Dr Anne Dolan, Associate Professor in Modern Irish History, Trinity College Dublin Dr Caitriona Clear, lecturer in Modern History, National University of Ireland Galway
Trinity in War and Revolution was launched by the Chief Justice, Susan Denham, in Trinity College Dublin on Monday, 7 December.
This book situates the history of Trinity College Dublin within the great upheavals and changes that were taking place in Ireland and the wider world in the transformative period between 1912 and 1923. The period saw Trinity and its environs profoundly changed. The book uses Trinity as a way of exploring some of the central themes and tensions of these years, themes that are usually examined separately: Irish involvement in the First World War; the Easter Rising of 1916; the violent struggle for Irish independence; the end of the Civil War; and the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. It views these events through the prism of the university’s development, arguing that these contexts cannot be divorced from one another. Trinity was at the centre— physically, intellectually, symbolically—of these seismic events in local, national and international history, and each had a great impact upon the institution and its development in the twentieth century.
Speakers: Dr Patrick Prendergast, Provost of Trinity College Dublin Prof. Mary E. Daly, President of the Royal Irish Academy Susan Denham, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland Dr Tomás Irish (author), lecturer in Modern History, Swansea University
Austerity may be defined as a large fiscal contraction that causes a substantial increase in unemployment. If the government has a budget deficit that is unsustainable, or a debt level that is too high, it is sometimes suggested that austerity is inevitable. For an economy with a flexible exchange rate and debt in its own currency, which includes the Eurozone as a whole, this is simply false. Fiscal contraction can always be delayed until monetary policy can offset the deflationary impact of any fiscal contraction. Unfortunately this is not true for a member of a currency union that requires a greater fiscal contraction than the union as a whole. Even in this case, however, a sharp and deep fiscal contraction will be an inefficient waste of resources. As the macroeconomic theory behind these propositions is simple and widely accepted, the interesting question about the current global austerity is why it has happened.
Simon Wren-Lewis is currently Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, having previously been a professor in the Economic Department at Oxford. He is also an Emeritus Fellow of Merton College. He began his career as an economist in H.M.Treasury, and then moved to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, where he ended up as Head of Macroeconomic Research. In 1990 he became a professor at Strathclyde University, and from 1995 to 2006 he was a professor at Exeter University. He has published papers on macroeconomics in a wide range of academic journals including the Economic Journal, European Economic Review, and American Economic Review. Since becoming an academic he has advised H.M.Treasury, the Bank of England and the Office for Budget Responsibility. In September 2015 he was appointed to the British Labour Party’s Economic Advisory Committee. He writes on economic policy issues in various publications and at his blog: mainlymacro.blogspot.com.
Academic work has often had a strong policy focus. In 1989 he published, with colleagues at the National Institute, a study suggesting that an entry rate of 1.95 DM/£ into the ERM was too high, which at the time was a minority view. In 2002 he wrote one of the background papers for the Treasury's 2003 assessment of its five economic tests for joining EMU. He was also the principal external advisor to the Bank of England on the development of its core macroeconomic models. A long time advocate of Fiscal Councils, his 2007 proposal was influential in the formation of the UK‘s Office of Budget Responsibility. Since starting his blog at the end of 2011, he has written extensively about macroeconomic policy in the UK and the Eurozone.
Panel discussion, chaired by Catriona Crowe with Margaret O’Callaghan, Margaret MacCurtain and author Lucy McDiarmid.
The discussion is followed by the launch of At home in the revolution - what women said and did in 1916.
At Home in the Revolution as a publication derives its material from women’s own accounts of the Easter Rising, interpreted broadly to include also the Howth gun-running and events that took place over the summer of 1916 in Ireland. These eye-witness narratives -- diaries, memoirs, letters, autobiographies, and official witness statements -- were written by nationalists and unionists, Catholics and Protestants, women who felt completely at home in the garrisons, cooking for the men and treating their wounds, and women who stayed at home during the Rising. The book’s focus is on the kind of episode usually ignored by traditional historians: cooking with bayonets, arguing with priests, resisting sexual harassment, soothing a female prostitute, doing sixteen-hand reels in Kilmainham Gaol, or disagreeing with Prime Minister Asquith about the effect of the Rising on Dublin’s architecture. The women’s ‘small behaviours’, to use Erving Goffman’s term, reveal social change in process, not the official history of manifestoes and legislation, but the unofficial history of access to a door or a leap through a window; they show how issues of gender were negotiated at a time of revolution.
Speakers: -Mary E. Daly, President of the Royal Irish Academy -Lucy McDiarmid, Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English -Catriona Crowe MRIA, National Archives of Ireland -Dr Margaret O'Callaghan, Queen's University Belfast -Dr Margaret Mac Curtain, historian
Inaugural John Bell Day lecture to commemorate Bell's Theorem which was first submitted for publication on 4th November 1964
1916 Portraits and Lives was launched at the Royal Irish Academy on 2nd November 2015.
In her opening speech, An Tánaiste Joan Burton praised the multifaceted nature of the book: “Portraits and Lives is like a prism that reflects all shades of contemporary thought on 1916 across the spectrum. It is fair, partial and balanced representing the prevailing political ideologies that fed into its planning and its outcome.The biographies are clear and concise, and the stories themselves show that regardless of background, life experiences and shared philosophies can forge a single ideology and identity that yields irrevocable change.The different perspectives reveal a great deal about the social, cultural and political complexities that served as the backdrop to Easter Week.They illustrate that a full appraisal of 1916 is only possible by examining the lives of a cross-section of those at its core.They themselves were open to and nurtured by the seeds of international ideologies that swept Europe and the globe in the 19th and early 20th centuries".
1916 Portraits and Lives is available online, on our website www.ria.ie/publications, and in your local bookshop.
1916 Portraits and Lives was launched at the Royal Irish Academy on 2nd November 2015.
In her opening speech, An Tánaiste Joan Burton praised the multifaceted nature of the book: “Portraits and Lives is like a prism that reflects all shades of contemporary thought on 1916 across the spectrum. It is fair, partial and balanced representing the prevailing political ideologies that fed into its planning and its outcome.The biographies are clear and concise, and the stories themselves show that regardless of background, life experiences and shared philosophies can forge a single ideology and identity that yields irrevocable change.The different perspectives reveal a great deal about the social, cultural and political complexities that served as the backdrop to Easter Week.They illustrate that a full appraisal of 1916 is only possible by examining the lives of a cross-section of those at its core.They themselves were open to and nurtured by the seeds of international ideologies that swept Europe and the globe in the 19th and early 20th centuries".
1916 Portraits and Lives is available online, on our website www.ria.ie/publications, and in your local bookshop.
1916 Portraits and Lives was launched at the Royal Irish Academy on 2nd November 2015.
In her opening speech, An Tánaiste Joan Burton praised the multifaceted nature of the book: “Portraits and Lives is like a prism that reflects all shades of contemporary thought on 1916 across the spectrum. It is fair, partial and balanced representing the prevailing political ideologies that fed into its planning and its outcome.The biographies are clear and concise, and the stories themselves show that regardless of background, life experiences and shared philosophies can forge a single ideology and identity that yields irrevocable change.The different perspectives reveal a great deal about the social, cultural and political complexities that served as the backdrop to Easter Week.They illustrate that a full appraisal of 1916 is only possible by examining the lives of a cross-section of those at its core.They themselves were open to and nurtured by the seeds of international ideologies that swept Europe and the globe in the 19th and early 20th centuries".
1916 Portraits and Lives is available online, on our website www.ria.ie/publications, and in your local bookshop.
1916 Portraits and Lives was launched at the Royal Irish Academy on 2nd November 2015.
In her opening speech, An Tánaiste Joan Burton praised the multifaceted nature of the book: “Portraits and Lives is like a prism that reflects all shades of contemporary thought on 1916 across the spectrum. It is fair, partial and balanced representing the prevailing political ideologies that fed into its planning and its outcome.The biographies are clear and concise, and the stories themselves show that regardless of background, life experiences and shared philosophies can forge a single ideology and identity that yields irrevocable change.The different perspectives reveal a great deal about the social, cultural and political complexities that served as the backdrop to Easter Week.They illustrate that a full appraisal of 1916 is only possible by examining the lives of a cross-section of those at its core.They themselves were open to and nurtured by the seeds of international ideologies that swept Europe and the globe in the 19th and early 20th centuries".
1916 Portraits and Lives is available online, on our website www.ria.ie/publications, and in your local bookshop.
1916 Portraits and Lives was launched at the Royal Irish Academy on 2nd November 2015.
In her opening speech, An Tánaiste Joan Burton praised the multifaceted nature of the book: “Portraits and Lives is like a prism that reflects all shades of contemporary thought on 1916 across the spectrum. It is fair, partial and balanced representing the prevailing political ideologies that fed into its planning and its outcome.The biographies are clear and concise, and the stories themselves show that regardless of background, life experiences and shared philosophies can forge a single ideology and identity that yields irrevocable change.The different perspectives reveal a great deal about the social, cultural and political complexities that served as the backdrop to Easter Week.They illustrate that a full appraisal of 1916 is only possible by examining the lives of a cross-section of those at its core.They themselves were open to and nurtured by the seeds of international ideologies that swept Europe and the globe in the 19th and early 20th centuries".
1916 Portraits and Lives is available online, on our website www.ria.ie/publications, and in your local bookshop.
1916 Portraits and Lives was launched at the Royal Irish Academy on 2nd November 2015.
In her opening speech, An Tánaiste Joan Burton praised the multifaceted nature of the book: “Portraits and Lives is like a prism that reflects all shades of contemporary thought on 1916 across the spectrum. It is fair, partial and balanced representing the prevailing political ideologies that fed into its planning and its outcome.The biographies are clear and concise, and the stories themselves show that regardless of background, life experiences and shared philosophies can forge a single ideology and identity that yields irrevocable change.The different perspectives reveal a great deal about the social, cultural and political complexities that served as the backdrop to Easter Week.They illustrate that a full appraisal of 1916 is only possible by examining the lives of a cross-section of those at its core.They themselves were open to and nurtured by the seeds of international ideologies that swept Europe and the globe in the 19th and early 20th centuries".
1916 Portraits and Lives is available online, on our website www.ria.ie/publications, and in your local bookshop.
Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Jacinta Prunty. Lunchtime Lecture series organised by the Royal Irish Academy Library and the Irish Historic Towns Atlas 'Mapping city, town and country since 1824: the Ordnance Survey in Ireland.' This was the Academy's Heritage Week lecture 2014, introduced by Prof. Mary E. Daly, Academy President.
The speaker contextualises the surveying of Ireland on the 6" scale: the survey was attempting to define boundaries for taxation purposes and to portray the country on an unprecedented scale, using scientific methods, rigorous standards and a highly systematised approach. The maps were to provide a full record of the living landscape. The maps would be authoritative and have legal standing. Colby drew up a Code of Instructions for the military and civilian surveyors; these were amended over time to cater for unforeseen issues. Larcom was responsible for the recruitment of linguists and antiquarian scholars for the Memoir and Placenames work. There was a clear chain of command and strong discipline. Training was to a high standard. The latest instruments were purchased and problems with triangulation, particularly of the Great Central Plain, were resolved. New instruments were developed. Contour lines were used. Placenames were recorded even if they were not to be used. Every piece of information was allocated a source. Issues arose of what should be included or omitted on the map, e.g. gravestones (omitted). How would the railways be superimposed on the maps? How should water-land boundaries be shown? (the Crown had foreshore rights, thus this was a key decision). How do you define a footpath? Revisions proved difficult, budgeting was very tight, there was pressure from various groups, e.g. industrialists, the railways, the Memoir group. Printing brought its own set of problems, and sales were necessary to enable the project to continue. These and many other issues facing the Survey are discussed in the course of this lecture.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 27 August, 2014
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Lunchtime Lecture by Prof. William Smith, MRIA. Lunchtime Lecture series organised by the Royal Irish Academy Library and the Irish Historic Towns Atlas 'Mapping city, town and country since 1824: the Ordnance Survey in Ireland.'
Lecture on the genesis and thrust of the great 6" Survey of Ireland by the Ordnance Survey: the maps, memoirs, letters and technical innovations which resulted. The subsequent applications of the maps for Griffith's Valuation, electoral boundary maps and other surveys; the heritage for academic research. http://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/the-ordnance-survey-sixinch-mapping-project-political-and-cultural-agendas
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 1 October, 2014
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Lunchtime Lecture by Paul Walsh. Lunchtime Lecture series organised by the Royal Irish Academy Library and the Irish Historic Towns Atlas 'Mapping city, town and country since 1824: the Ordnance Survey in Ireland.'
Walsh explains the context for the Memoirs, an intrinsic element of the 6" mapping project. Larcom had described the connection between the maps and the Memoir as a 'Portrait of the island of Ireland ... accompanied by a biography'. He examines Larcom's utilitarian perspective, the role of the OS engineers and their mathematical skills and the focus on the parish as the unit for surveying and description. The sections of what became known as the Topographical Dept. are described as well as the reporting systems in place. The pressures caused by budgetary overruns etc. and the ensuing political decisions re the Memoir scheme and its demise are discussed. In conclusion, the work of the 19th-century surveyors is connected to the current work of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Please see accompanying powerpoint. http://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/paul-walsh-george-petries-topographical-department-183542-15102014
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 15 October, 2014
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Lunchtime Lecture by Professor Nollaig Ó Muraíle, MRIA. (Lecture delivered by Paul Walsh on behalf of Prof. Ó Muraíle). Lunchtime Lecture series organised by the Royal Irish Academy Library and the Irish Historic Towns Atlas 'Mapping city, town and country since 1824: the Ordnance Survey in Ireland.'
This paper addresses the difficulties of naming places in Ireland, the work done by the OS Topographical Dept. and especially John O'Donovan to ensure that names used on the 6" maps were as accurate as possible. The difficulties presented by the Irish language, the methodologies used by Placenames staff and the tensions between accommodating the Irish language origins or versions of names and later Anglicised forms are discussed, as are the compromises which were made. The accuracy of O'Donovan's method is assessed. Handout - http://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/handout-murale when following this lecture and see accompanying powerpoint presentation. http://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/n-murale-8-oct
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 8 October, 2014
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Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Frank Cullen. Lunchtime Lecture series organised by the Royal Irish Academy Library and the Irish Historic Towns Atlas 'Mapping city, town and country since 1824: the Ordnance Survey in Ireland.'
Cullen discusses the OS map of Dublin (1847) which casts a 'window on the city'. This map was made by military surveyors with civil assistants. They were empowered to enter and survey private property, this ensuring that the backs of buildings could be more accurately plotted on the map. Flower beds, sewers and water mains all feature on the map; the detail is astonishing. The methodology employed and the detailed processes of verification of drafts, revisiting sites and correcting the originals are discussed. The map was hugely popular, so many members of the public turned up at Mountjoy House, HQ of the Ordnance Survey, to make tracings that an order had to be made to stop them!
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 12 November, 2014
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Lunchtime Lecture by Rob Goodbody. Lunchtime Lecture series organised by the Royal Irish Academy Library and the Irish Historic Towns Atlas 'Mapping city, town and country since 1824: the Ordnance Survey in Ireland.'
This paper addresses the mapping of Dublin city from John Rocque's map of 1756 down to the OS mapping of the city 1830-40s, all within the canal ring. Outlining the limitations and exigencies of mapping in different periods, the various types of map, from estate maps, street directories, administrative maps etc., Goodbody surveys the mapping heritage of the city interpreting the maps under discussion, highlighting idiosyncracies and pointing to the developments in mapping the city. Please see accompanying powerpoint. http://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/rob-goodbody-from-rocque-to-the-ordnance-survey-mapping-dublin-17561847-05112014 For more information see Rob Goodbody, 'Dublin: part III: 1756-1847 (Irish Historic Towns Atlas, 26) (Dublin, 2014)
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 5 November, 2014
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Lunchtime Lecture by Professor Michael Herity, MRIA. Lunchtime Lecture series organised by the Royal Irish Academy Library and the Irish Historic Towns Atlas 'Mapping city, town and country since 1824: the Ordnance Survey in Ireland.'
Herity focusses on the period 1830-61 and O'Donovan's involvement with the OS 6" mapping project and the centrality of his role. His expertise in the Irish language and grasp of etymology, as well as his intimate knowledge of the history and antiquities of Ireland, resulted in the connection of 'placenames with history... raising them above mere words'. The importance of O'Donovan's fieldwork, keen ear, in-depth knowledge and forensic research are described, as are the treks he engaged in on a daily basis throughout the country. His connection with Petrie's work on Tara is adverted to. Betham's vituperative criticisms and the consequent scrutiny of the Memoir scheme and the OS work is discussed. Examples are provided of O'Donovan's linguistic prowess and his acerbic wit. Please see accompanying powerpoint. http://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/prof-michael-herity-mria-john-odonovans-work-for-the-os-29102014
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 29 October, 2014
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Professor Sean Duffy, TCD. Second lecture in a series on the momentous events of 1014, Brian Boru, the Vikings in Ireland and much more.
Location: Academy House Date: Tuesday 4 March , 2014
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Professor Jon Vidar Sigurdsson, University of Oslo. Part of a series of lectures on the momentous events of 1014, Brian Boru, the Vikings in Ireland and much more. Hosted respectively by the Embassies of Denmark and Norway in Ireland
Location: Academy House Date: Thursday 22 May, 2014
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Library Lunchtime Lecture byDr Anne Pedersen, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. Part of a series of lectures on the momentous events of 1014, Brian Boru, the Vikings in Ireland and much more. Hosted respectively by the Embassies of Denmark and Norway in Ireland
Location: Academy House Date: Thursday 22 May, 2014
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Lunchtime Lecture by Colin Bray, CE, OSi. Lunchtime Lecture series organised by the Royal Irish Academy Library and the Irish Historic Towns Atlas 'Mapping city, town and country since 1824: the Ordnance Survey in Ireland.'
In the concluding lecture in the series, Colin Bray reviews the history of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland, the developments during the 20th and 21st centuries and looks ahead to the future of the Survey. http://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/colin-bray-ce-osi-ordnance-survey-ireland-mapping-our-future-19112014
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 19 November, 2014
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Professor Jon Vidar Sigurdsson, University of Oslo 'Ireland, Norway and Iceland in the second half of the thirteenth century' Lecture sponsored by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ireland
Dr Anne Pedersen, National Museum of Denmark ‘ Power and Politics in late Viking-Age Denmark’ Lecture sponsored by the Royal Danish Embassy in Ireland
Library Lunchtime Lecture by Professor Colm Lennon, MRIA. Third lecture in a series on the momentous events of 1014, Brian Boru, the Vikings in Ireland and much more. Discussion of the Battle of Clontarf in the context of the historical and literary transmission of the story of the battle up to the present time.
Location: Academy House Date: Tuesday 11 March, 2014
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Professor Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, MRIA, NUIG. First lecture in a series on the momentous events of 1014, Brian Boru, the Vikings in Ireland and much more.
Location: Academy House Date: Tuesday 25 February, 2014
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail. Fourth lecture in a series on the momentous events of 1014, Brian Boru, the Vikings in Ireland and much more.
Location: Academy House Date: Tuesday 18 March, 2014
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Stephen Harrison. Fifth lecture in a series on the momentous events of 1014, Brian Boru, the Vikings in Ireland and much more.
In light of the fact that there is practically no archaeological evidence for the site of the Battle of Clontarf, the speaker outlines the possible scenarios in which the battle may have unfolded, based on topographical and other evidence.
Location: Academy House Date: Tuesday 8 April, 2014
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A series of lectures on the momentous events of 1014, Brian Boru, the Vikings in Ireland and much more, also the focus of an exhibition which was based on the Library collections
Roy Foster's book 'Vivid Faces' investigates the world of the revolutionary generation 1890-1923 and the extraordinary people who occupied it.
Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Raymond Gillespie, NUI Maynooth. Part of a series of lectures ‘Aon amharc ar Éirinn’: Irish families and their manuscripts.
Behind every manuscript in the Academy collection lie the very real people from the past, the scribes, compilers and patrons of those manuscripts with all their varied interests, ambitions, and their particular view of the world and their place in it. The manuscripts in our collection are the principal tools for understanding the world of those scribes, scholars, patrons, keepers and readers of manuscripts, the leading families of medieval Ireland.
The learned class formed part of the court of the native elite and they were accorded prominence in Irish society and were rewarded with hereditary tenure of land and other forms of wealth in return for their services. They maintained important schools of learning, where students were trained and manuscripts were copied. Many of them retained their privileged status down to the end of the sixteenth century.
From July 2013 to February 2014, the Academy Library curated an exhibition which explored the themes of Seanchas ─ ‘the memory and narrative of Irish history as preserved and written from the early medieval period to the writing of histories of Ireland in the seventeenth century’; Filíocht ─ poetry; Reacht ─ law; Leaghas ─ medicine; and Creideamh ─ religion, as well as the stories of those who made these great books of Ireland. Publication available for purchase at: http://ria.ie/Publications/Books/History/Aon-amharc-ar-Eirinn--Gaelic-families-and-their-ma
Location: Academy House Date: Tuesday 22 October, 2013
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Elizabeth FitzPatrick, NUI Galway.
Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 211 August, 2013
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Edel Bhreathnach. Part of a series of lectures ‘Aon amharc ar Éirinn’: Irish families and their manuscripts
Behind every manuscript in the Academy collection lie the very real people from the past, the scribes, compilers and patrons of those manuscripts with all their varied interests, ambitions, and their particular view of the world and their place in it. The manuscripts in our collection are the principal tools for understanding the world of those scribes, scholars, patrons, keepers and readers of manuscripts, the leading families of medieval Ireland.
The learned class formed part of the court of the native elite and they were accorded prominence in Irish society and were rewarded with hereditary tenure of land and other forms of wealth in return for their services. They maintained important schools of learning, where students were trained and manuscripts were copied. Many of them retained their privileged status down to the end of the sixteenth century.
From July 2013 to February 2014, the Academy Library curated an exhibition which explored the themes of Seanchas ─ ‘the memory and narrative of Irish history as preserved and written from the early medieval period to the writing of histories of Ireland in the seventeenth century’; Filíocht ─ poetry; Reacht ─ law; Leaghas ─ medicine; and Creideamh ─ religion, as well as the stories of those who made these great books of Ireland. Publication available for purchase at: ria.ie/Publications/Books/Hi…families-and-their-ma
Location: Academy House Date: Tuesday 12 November, 2013
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Liam Breatnach, DIAS.
Part of a series of lectures ‘Aon amharc ar Éirinn’: Irish families and their manuscripts
Behind every manuscript in the Academy collection lie the very real people from the past, the scribes, compilers and patrons of those manuscripts with all their varied interests, ambitions, and their particular view of the world and their place in it. The manuscripts in our collection are the principal tools for understanding the world of those scribes, scholars, patrons, keepers and readers of manuscripts, the leading families of medieval Ireland.
The learned class formed part of the court of the native elite and they were accorded prominence in Irish society and were rewarded with hereditary tenure of land and other forms of wealth in return for their services. They maintained important schools of learning, where students were trained and manuscripts were copied. Many of them retained their privileged status down to the end of the sixteenth century.
From July 2013 to February 2014, the Academy Library curated an exhibition which explored the themes of Seanchas ─ ‘the memory and narrative of Irish history as preserved and written from the early medieval period to the writing of histories of Ireland in the seventeenth century’; Filíocht ─ poetry; Reacht ─ law; Leaghas ─ medicine; and Creideamh ─ religion, as well as the stories of those who made these great books of Ireland. Publication available for purchase at: ria.ie/Publications/Books/Hi…families-and-their-ma
Location: Academy House Date: Tuesday 5 November, 2013
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Public Lecture: A Hundred Objects, A Hundred Stories Plainchant - Choristers Of Christchurch Cathedral Date: 19 July, 2013 at 7.30pm Venue: Medieval Museum, Cathedral Square, Viking Triangle, Waterford RIAHUM
Fintan O’Toole explores why the physical, tangible actual objects beats a digital version anytime in this lecture which explores ‘A hundred objects – a hundred stories’. To see the images of the objects he is talking about visit www.100objects.ie or download the app here - itunes.apple.com/ie/app/history-i…id605767721?mt=8. The book can also be purchased here - www.ria.ie/Publications/Books/…in-100-Objects.aspx.
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Public Lecture: A Hundred Objects, A Hundred Stories Speaker: Eamonn McEnearney, Curator of Waterford Museum of Treasures Date: 19 July, 2013 at 7.30pm Venue: Medieval Museum, Cathedral Square, Viking Triangle, Waterford RIAHUM
Fintan O’Toole explores why the physical, tangible actual objects beats a digital version anytime in this lecture which explores ‘A hundred objects – a hundred stories’. To see the images of the objects he is talking about visit www.100objects.ie or download the app here - itunes.apple.com/ie/app/history-i…id605767721?mt=8. The book can also be purchased here - www.ria.ie/Publications/Books/…in-100-Objects.aspx.
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Public Lecture: A Hundred Objects, A Hundred Stories Speaker: Mr Brian Crowley, Irish Museums Association, Chair, Pearse Museum, Director Date: 19 July, 2013 at 7.30pm Venue: Medieval Museum, Cathedral Square, Viking Triangle, Waterford RIAHUM
Fintan O’Toole explores why the physical, tangible actual objects beats a digital version anytime in this lecture which explores ‘A hundred objects – a hundred stories’. To see the images of the objects he is talking about visit www.100objects.ie or download the app here - itunes.apple.com/ie/app/history-i…id605767721?mt=8. The book can also be purchased here - www.ria.ie/Publications/Books/…in-100-Objects.aspx.
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Public Lecture: A Hundred Objects, A Hundred Stories Keynote Lecture Speaker: Dr Michael Ryan, International Council of Museums, Irish branch, Chair Date: 19 July, 2013 at 7.30pm Venue: Medieval Museum, Cathedral Square, Viking Triangle, Waterford RIAHUM
Fintan O’Toole explores why the physical, tangible actual objects beats a digital version anytime in this lecture which explores ‘A hundred objects – a hundred stories’. To see the images of the objects he is talking about visit www.100objects.ie or download the app here - itunes.apple.com/ie/app/history-i…id605767721?mt=8. The book can also be purchased here - www.ria.ie/Publications/Books/…in-100-Objects.aspx.
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Public Lecture: A Hundred Objects, A Hundred Stories Eamonn McEnearney Introduces Fintan O'Toole Speaker: Chair: Eamon McEneaney, Curator of Waterford Museum of Treasures Date: 19 July, 2013 at 7.30pm Venue: Medieval Museum, Cathedral Square, Viking Triangle, Waterford RIAHUM
Fintan O’Toole explores why the physical, tangible actual objects beats a digital version anytime in this lecture which explores ‘A hundred objects – a hundred stories’. To see the images of the objects he is talking about visit www.100objects.ie or download the app here - https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/history-ireland-in-100-objects/id605767721?mt=8. The book can also be purchased here - https://www.ria.ie/Publications/Books/History/A-History-of-Ireland-in-100-Objects.aspx.
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Public Lecture: A Hundred Objects, A Hundred Stories Keynote Lecture Introduction Speaker: Fintan O'Toole, Author of A history of Ireland in 100 objects Date: 19 July, 2013 at 7.30pm Venue: Medieval Museum, Cathedral Square, Viking Triangle, Waterford RIAHUM
Fintan O’Toole explores why the physical, tangible actual objects beats a digital version anytime in this lecture which explores ‘A hundred objects – a hundred stories’. To see the images of the objects he is talking about visit www.100objects.ie or download the app here - https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/history-ireland-in-100-objects/id605767721?mt=8. The book can also be purchased here - https://www.ria.ie/Publications/Books/History/A-History-of-Ireland-in-100-Objects.aspx.
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Public Lecture: A Hundred Objects, A Hundred Stories Keynote Lecture Speaker: Fintan O'Toole, Author of A history of Ireland in 100 objects Date: 19 July, 2013 at 7.30pm Venue: Medieval Museum, Cathedral Square, Viking Triangle, Waterford RIAHUM
Fintan O’Toole explores why the physical, tangible actual objects beats a digital version anytime in this lecture which explores ‘A hundred objects – a hundred stories’. To see the images of the objects he is talking about visit www.100objects.ie or download the app here - https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/history-ireland-in-100-objects/id605767721?mt=8. The book can also be purchased here - https://www.ria.ie/Publications/Books/History/A-History-of-Ireland-in-100-Objects.aspx.
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Listen to President McAleese’s speech on the significance of the Clare Island surveys and the Royal Irish Academy’s work on Clare Island.
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Academy Discourse: Terrorism, Torture And Memory Speakers: Professors Richard English ( St. Andrews University) and Shane O’Mara (Trinity College, Dublin) Response: Adrian Hardiman Wednesday, 26 June, 2013 in Academy House RIASCI RIASOC
The views of a political scientist and a neuroscientist. Professors Richard English ( St. Andrews University) and Shane O’Mara (Trinity College, Dublin). A joint interdisciplinary discourse to recognise United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
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Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact Panel Discussion: University Values Over Time Professor Roger Downer, President Emeritus, University of Limerick & Vice-President, Royal Irish Academy RIASOC
Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin
Keynote: Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate
Speakers: Dr Michael Doherty, Secretary of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/Department of Law & Government Dublin City University Professor Paddy Prendergast, Provost Trinity College Dublin Mr Thomas Estermann, European University Association Mr Declan Kirrane, Managing Director, Intelligence in Science
Panel Discussion: Professor Sally Wheeler, Head, School of Law, Queens University Belfast Professor Paul McCutcheon, Vice President Academic & Registrar, University of Limerick Professor Roger Downer, President Emeritus, University of Limerick & Vice-President, Royal Irish Academy Professor Linda Hogan, Vice Provost/Chief Academic Officer, Trinity College Dublin Dr Tom Collins, President Emeritus, National University of Ireland, Maynooth & Former President, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Bahrain
Closing Remarks: Professor Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy
Monday, 10 June 2013, Academy House
On Monday 10 June at 1pm the Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences committee organised a half day seminar. The event explored shifting principles, aims and values in higher education, such as academic freedom, impact, peer review and open innovation, against the backdrop of current economic challenges. Speakers considered the effective 're-visioning' of education and the values–open and hidden–at play. Contributions included a look at higher education in Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe.
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Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact Panel Discussion: University Values Over Time The Future Professor Linda Hogan, Vice Provost/Chief Academic Officer, Trinity College Dublin RIASOC
Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin
Keynote: Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate
Speakers: Dr Michael Doherty, Secretary of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/Department of Law & Government Dublin City University Professor Paddy Prendergast, Provost Trinity College Dublin Mr Thomas Estermann, European University Association Mr Declan Kirrane, Managing Director, Intelligence in Science
Panel Discussion: Professor Sally Wheeler, Head, School of Law, Queens University Belfast Professor Paul McCutcheon, Vice President Academic & Registrar, University of Limerick Professor Roger Downer, President Emeritus, University of Limerick & Vice-President, Royal Irish Academy Professor Linda Hogan, Vice Provost/Chief Academic Officer, Trinity College Dublin Dr Tom Collins, President Emeritus, National University of Ireland, Maynooth & Former President, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Bahrain
Closing Remarks: Professor Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy
Monday, 10 June 2013, Academy House
On Monday 10 June at 1pm the Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences committee organised a half day seminar. The event explored shifting principles, aims and values in higher education, such as academic freedom, impact, peer review and open innovation, against the backdrop of current economic challenges. Speakers considered the effective 're-visioning' of education and the values–open and hidden–at play. Contributions included a look at higher education in Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe.
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Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact Closing Remarks Professor Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy RIASOC
Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin
Keynote: Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate
Speakers: Dr Michael Doherty, Secretary of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/Department of Law & Government Dublin City University Professor Paddy Prendergast, Provost Trinity College Dublin Mr Thomas Estermann, European University Association Mr Declan Kirrane, Managing Director, Intelligence in Science
Panel Discussion: Professor Sally Wheeler, Head, School of Law, Queens University Belfast Professor Paul McCutcheon, Vice President Academic & Registrar, University of Limerick Professor Roger Downer, President Emeritus, University of Limerick & Vice-President, Royal Irish Academy Professor Linda Hogan, Vice Provost/Chief Academic Officer, Trinity College Dublin Dr Tom Collins, President Emeritus, National University of Ireland, Maynooth & Former President, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Bahrain
Closing Remarks: Professor Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy
Monday, 10 June 2013, Academy House
On Monday 10 June at 1pm the Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences committee organised a half day seminar. The event explored shifting principles, aims and values in higher education, such as academic freedom, impact, peer review and open innovation, against the backdrop of current economic challenges. Speakers considered the effective 're-visioning' of education and the values–open and hidden–at play. Contributions included a look at higher education in Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe.
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Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact Panel Discussion: University Values Over Time Institutional Role Professor Paul McCutcheon, Vice President Academic & Registrar, University of Limerick RIASOC
Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin
Keynote: Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate
Speakers: Dr Michael Doherty, Secretary of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/Department of Law & Government Dublin City University Professor Paddy Prendergast, Provost Trinity College Dublin Mr Thomas Estermann, European University Association Mr Declan Kirrane, Managing Director, Intelligence in Science
Panel Discussion: Professor Sally Wheeler, Head, School of Law, Queens University Belfast Professor Paul McCutcheon, Vice President Academic & Registrar, University of Limerick Professor Roger Downer, President Emeritus, University of Limerick & Vice-President, Royal Irish Academy Professor Linda Hogan, Vice Provost/Chief Academic Officer, Trinity College Dublin Dr Tom Collins, President Emeritus, National University of Ireland, Maynooth & Former President, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Bahrain
Closing Remarks: Professor Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy
Monday, 10 June 2013, Academy House
On Monday 10 June at 1pm the Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences committee organised a half day seminar. The event explored shifting principles, aims and values in higher education, such as academic freedom, impact, peer review and open innovation, against the backdrop of current economic challenges. Speakers considered the effective 're-visioning' of education and the values–open and hidden–at play. Contributions included a look at higher education in Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe.
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Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact Panel Discussion: University Values Over Time Academic Freedom Dr Tom Collins, President Emeritus, National University of Ireland, Maynooth & Former President, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Bahrain RIASOC
Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin
Keynote: Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate
Speakers: Dr Michael Doherty, Secretary of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/Department of Law & Government Dublin City University Professor Paddy Prendergast, Provost Trinity College Dublin Mr Thomas Estermann, European University Association Mr Declan Kirrane, Managing Director, Intelligence in Science
Panel Discussion: Professor Sally Wheeler, Head, School of Law, Queens University Belfast Professor Paul McCutcheon, Vice President Academic & Registrar, University of Limerick Professor Roger Downer, President Emeritus, University of Limerick & Vice-President, Royal Irish Academy Professor Linda Hogan, Vice Provost/Chief Academic Officer, Trinity College Dublin Dr Tom Collins, President Emeritus, National University of Ireland, Maynooth & Former President, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Bahrain
Closing Remarks: Professor Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy
Monday, 10 June 2013, Academy House
On Monday 10 June at 1pm the Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences committee organised a half day seminar. The event explored shifting principles, aims and values in higher education, such as academic freedom, impact, peer review and open innovation, against the backdrop of current economic challenges. Speakers considered the effective 're-visioning' of education and the values–open and hidden–at play. Contributions included a look at higher education in Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe.
More details: http://www.ria.ie/about/our-work/committees/committees-for-the-humanities-and-social-sciences/social-sciences-committtee/news.aspx
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Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact Panel Discussion: University Values Over Time Impact On Gender Professor Sally Wheeler, Head, School of Law, Queens University Belfast RIASOC
Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin
Keynote: Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate
Speakers: Dr Michael Doherty, Secretary of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/Department of Law & Government Dublin City University Professor Paddy Prendergast, Provost Trinity College Dublin Mr Thomas Estermann, European University Association Mr Declan Kirrane, Managing Director, Intelligence in Science
Panel Discussion: Professor Sally Wheeler, Head, School of Law, Queens University Belfast Professor Paul McCutcheon, Vice President Academic & Registrar, University of Limerick Professor Roger Downer, President Emeritus, University of Limerick & Vice-President, Royal Irish Academy Professor Linda Hogan, Vice Provost/Chief Academic Officer, Trinity College Dublin Dr Tom Collins, President Emeritus, National University of Ireland, Maynooth & Former President, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Bahrain
Closing Remarks: Professor Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy
Monday, 10 June 2013, Academy House
On Monday 10 June at 1pm the Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences committee organised a half day seminar. The event explored shifting principles, aims and values in higher education, such as academic freedom, impact, peer review and open innovation, against the backdrop of current economic challenges. Speakers considered the effective 're-visioning' of education and the values–open and hidden–at play. Contributions included a look at higher education in Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe.
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Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact University Autonomy in Europe – Impact and Trends Mr Thomas Estermann, European University Association RIASOC
Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin
Keynote: Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate
Speakers: Dr Michael Doherty, Secretary of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/Department of Law & Government Dublin City University Professor Paddy Prendergast, Provost Trinity College Dublin Mr Thomas Estermann, European University Association Mr Declan Kirrane, Managing Director, Intelligence in Science
Panel Discussion: Professor Sally Wheeler, Head, School of Law, Queens University Belfast Professor Paul McCutcheon, Vice President Academic & Registrar, University of Limerick Professor Roger Downer, President Emeritus, University of Limerick & Vice-President, Royal Irish Academy Professor Linda Hogan, Vice Provost/Chief Academic Officer, Trinity College Dublin Dr Tom Collins, President Emeritus, National University of Ireland, Maynooth & Former President, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Bahrain
Closing Remarks: Professor Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy
Monday, 10 June 2013, Academy House
On Monday 10 June at 1pm the Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences committee organised a half day seminar. The event explored shifting principles, aims and values in higher education, such as academic freedom, impact, peer review and open innovation, against the backdrop of current economic challenges. Speakers considered the effective 're-visioning' of education and the values–open and hidden–at play. Contributions included a look at higher education in Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe.
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Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact Academic Freedom: A Provocation? Professor Paddy Prendergast, Provost Trinity College Dublin RIASOC
Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin
Keynote: Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate
Speakers: Dr Michael Doherty, Secretary of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/Department of Law & Government Dublin City University Professor Paddy Prendergast, Provost Trinity College Dublin Mr Thomas Estermann, European University Association Mr Declan Kirrane, Managing Director, Intelligence in Science
Panel Discussion: Professor Sally Wheeler, Head, School of Law, Queens University Belfast Professor Paul McCutcheon, Vice President Academic & Registrar, University of Limerick Professor Roger Downer, President Emeritus, University of Limerick & Vice-President, Royal Irish Academy Professor Linda Hogan, Vice Provost/Chief Academic Officer, Trinity College Dublin Dr Tom Collins, President Emeritus, National University of Ireland, Maynooth & Former President, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Bahrain
Closing Remarks: Professor Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy
Monday, 10 June 2013, Academy House
On Monday 10 June at 1pm the Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences committee organised a half day seminar. The event explored shifting principles, aims and values in higher education, such as academic freedom, impact, peer review and open innovation, against the backdrop of current economic challenges. Speakers considered the effective 're-visioning' of education and the values–open and hidden–at play. Contributions included a look at higher education in Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe.
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Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact From Practice Into Policy - Inscribing Educational Values Into The Horizon Programme Mr Declan Kirrane, Managing Director, Intelligence in Science RIASOC
Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin
Keynote: Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate
Speakers: Dr Michael Doherty, Secretary of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/Department of Law & Government Dublin City University Professor Paddy Prendergast, Provost Trinity College Dublin Mr Thomas Estermann, European University Association Mr Declan Kirrane, Managing Director, Intelligence in Science
Panel Discussion: Professor Sally Wheeler, Head, School of Law, Queens University Belfast Professor Paul McCutcheon, Vice President Academic & Registrar, University of Limerick Professor Roger Downer, President Emeritus, University of Limerick & Vice-President, Royal Irish Academy Professor Linda Hogan, Vice Provost/Chief Academic Officer, Trinity College Dublin Dr Tom Collins, President Emeritus, National University of Ireland, Maynooth & Former President, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Bahrain
Closing Remarks: Professor Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy
Monday, 10 June 2013, Academy House
On Monday 10 June at 1pm the Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences committee organised a half day seminar. The event explored shifting principles, aims and values in higher education, such as academic freedom, impact, peer review and open innovation, against the backdrop of current economic challenges. Speakers considered the effective 're-visioning' of education and the values–open and hidden–at play. Contributions included a look at higher education in Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe.
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Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact The Universities Amendment Bill - A Brief Introduction Dr Michael Doherty, Secretary of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/Department of Law & Government Dublin City University RIASOC
Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin
Keynote: Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate
Speakers: Dr Michael Doherty, Secretary of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/Department of Law & Government Dublin City University Professor Paddy Prendergast, Provost Trinity College Dublin Mr Thomas Estermann, European University Association Mr Declan Kirrane, Managing Director, Intelligence in Science
Panel Discussion: Professor Sally Wheeler, Head, School of Law, Queens University Belfast Professor Paul McCutcheon, Vice President Academic & Registrar, University of Limerick Professor Roger Downer, President Emeritus, University of Limerick & Vice-President, Royal Irish Academy Professor Linda Hogan, Vice Provost/Chief Academic Officer, Trinity College Dublin Dr Tom Collins, President Emeritus, National University of Ireland, Maynooth & Former President, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Bahrain
Closing Remarks: Professor Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy
Monday, 10 June 2013, Academy House
On Monday 10 June at 1pm the Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences committee organised a half day seminar. The event explored shifting principles, aims and values in higher education, such as academic freedom, impact, peer review and open innovation, against the backdrop of current economic challenges. Speakers considered the effective 're-visioning' of education and the values–open and hidden–at play. Contributions included a look at higher education in Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe.
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Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact Welcome and Overview on Values in Education: A Roadmap to Responsbile Open Innovation Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin RIASOC
Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin
Keynote: Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate
Speakers: Dr Michael Doherty, Secretary of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/Department of Law & Government Dublin City University Professor Paddy Prendergast, Provost Trinity College Dublin Mr Thomas Estermann, European University Association Mr Declan Kirrane, Managing Director, Intelligence in Science
Panel Discussion: Professor Sally Wheeler, Head, School of Law, Queens University Belfast Professor Paul McCutcheon, Vice President Academic & Registrar, University of Limerick Professor Roger Downer, President Emeritus, University of Limerick & Vice-President, Royal Irish Academy Professor Linda Hogan, Vice Provost/Chief Academic Officer, Trinity College Dublin Dr Tom Collins, President Emeritus, National University of Ireland, Maynooth & Former President, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Bahrain
Closing Remarks: Professor Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy
Monday, 10 June 2013, Academy House
On Monday 10 June at 1pm the Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences committee organised a half day seminar. The event explored shifting principles, aims and values in higher education, such as academic freedom, impact, peer review and open innovation, against the backdrop of current economic challenges. Speakers considered the effective 're-visioning' of education and the values–open and hidden–at play. Contributions included a look at higher education in Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe.
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RIA Library Lunchtime Lecture: ‘Ruaidhri Ó Flaithbheartaigh through his letters: a learned Gaelic chief and his Oxford friend in 1700’. Dr Richard Sharpe
Wednesday, 12 June, 1-2 p.m., Academy House
Dr Richard Sharpe, Professor of Diplomatic at Oxford and author of Roderick O’Flaherty’s letters 1696-1709 (RIA, 2013):
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Public Lecture - Making Science Work Sir Paul Nurse Friday, 14 June 2013, Academy House
Sir Paul Nurse, President, The Royal Society, gives a lecture on Making Science Work.
The photo of Sir Paul Nurse is courtesy of the BBC.
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Robert Lloyd Praeger and the Darwinian Revolution Greta Jones, University of Ulster
Ulster naturalists long sought to gain an insight into the nature of God through the study of nature. Greta Jones looks at how Darwin's theories affected Praeger and influenced his work.
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Talks from the Heron-Allen Society Edward Heron-Allen Edward Heron-Allen gives a lively first-hand account of his time working on the Clare Island Survey in his journals. John Whittaker of the Heron-Allen Society discusses the journals and the memorabilia that Heron-Allen collected during his work on the Survey.
John Whittaker, former head of micropalaeontology at the Natural History Museum, is a member of the The Heron-Allen Society Committee. He is an honorary member of the Micropalaeontological Society (awarded to members who have made an outstanding contribution to The Society) and is one of the world's leading micropalaeontologists.
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Clare Island Abbey and it's Paintings Conleth Manning
Conleth Manning speaks about Clare Island Abbey and its magnificent wall paintings - a very rare, intriguing and charming example of an Irish medieval painted church interior.
Conleth Manning studied Archaeology and Early Irish History at UCD, where he also did an MA in Archaeology. He is a senior archaeologist in the National Monuments Service, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. He has studied and directed excavations at many national monuments in Ireland, including Cashel, Clonmacnoise, Dublin Castle, Roscrea Castle and Glanworth Castle and has written and lectured on many aspects of Ireland's archaeological heritage. Conleth Manning is co-editor of two volumes in the New Survey of Clare Island Series: New Survey of Clare Island Volume 4: The Abbey and New Survey of Clare Island Volume 5: Archaeology. He is a past president of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Mr Manning is Secretary of the New Survey of Clare Island Committee.
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Assembling the Home team: from A.G. More to R.I.I. Praeger Declan Doogue
Declan Doogue unravels the influences and players in Irish natural history field studies from A.G. More to the present day.
Declan Doogue is the Honorary Vice-President of the Dublin Natuiralists' Field Club and has served as its President for three separate periods. He is also an Honorary Life Member of the Botanical Society of the British Isles and a Fellow of the Linnean Society and has recently been appointed an Honorary Research Fellow of the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. His main botanical interests include the Flora of Kildare project, where he is BSBI recorder ,and he is currently working, with others, on the revision of H. C. Hart's 1887 work, The Flora of Howth. More recently he has commenced research on several critical genera particularly Rosa, Rubus and Taraxacum. His PhD thesis was concerned with the botanical composition of Leinster hedgerows. He has been deeply involved with the promotion of distribution studies on the Irish flora and fauna and the subsequent interpretation of these distributions patterns in historical and geographical contexts. To this end he has organised a number of botanical recording projects on behalf of the DNFC and also coordinated the Republic of Ireland section of the recent BSBI survey of the New Atlas of the British and Irish Flora. He has an on-going involvement with training and encouraging many of the expert bona-fide naturalists who generate these major data sets. More recently he worked to advance the skills of the biological recording community to the point where its accumulated knowledge and experience can find recognition and relevance in modern Ireland in areas such as habitat conservation and species protection. To this end he is fronting a project to foster identification and fieldwork skills in the study of Bryophytes and continues to be associated with a number of the biological distribution recording schemes initiated by the original Irish Biological Records Centre of An Foras Forbartha. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy's Praeger Committee.
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Clare Island: Ice ages and Climate Change Peter Coxon
Peter Coxon brilliantly outlines the effects of ice ages and climate change on Clare Island and describes how these have shaped its remarkably diverse landscape.
Peter Coxon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography. a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is currently the Secretary-General of the International Union of Quaternary Research (INQUA - http://www.inqua.tcd.ie/ ) and the Chairperson of the Irish Quaternary Association (IQUA - http://www.tcd.ie/Geography/IQUA/ ). After completing a PhD on 'Pleistocene environmental history in East Anglia' at the Sub-Department of Quaternary Research at the University of Cambridge, he took up a lectureship at TCD in 1979. His interests in the Irish landscape were strongly influenced by a close working relationship with the late Frank Mitchell. His current research includes analysing Irish landscape evolution during the Tertiary and Quaternary, Tertiary and Quaternary biostratigraphy, vegetational history and biogeography of Ireland, glacial and periglacial geomorphology and the analysis of flood events and mass movements in Ireland. In addition to an active interest in the geomorphology and vegetational history of western Ireland, his recent research has included mapping large-scale Pleistocene flood events and glacial limits in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh and in Ladakh, northern India. He has published on a range of Quaternary topics and has reviewed much of his Irish work in Charles Holland and Ian Sanders' 2nd edition of The Geology of Ireland (2009). Peter Coxon was author of the chapter "The Quaternary history of Clare Island" in New Survey of Clare Island Volume 2: Geology and is co-author of a chapter on the Holocene vegetation of the island in the forthcoming volume in the series New Survey of Clare Island Volume 7: Vegetation.
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Clare Island - The Record of a 600-Million Year Assembly Line John Graham
Clare Island's dramatic and diverse landscape shows the evidence of 6000 million years of climate change. John Graham tells this fascinating story.
John R. Graham is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Geology at Trinity College, Dublin. He was educated at the University of Manchester and the University of Exeter and lectured for five years at Plymouth Polytechnic (now the University of Plymouth before joining TCD in 1978. He was elected Fellow of the college in 1985 and currently lectures in sedimentology, stratigraphy and aspects of Irish geology. He has worked on sedimentological aspects of rocks varying from Ordovician to Carboniferous age in many parts of western Ireland from West Cork to Donegal. Professor Graham is the editor of New Survey of Clare Island Volume 2: Geology.
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Competitiveness Craig Barrett Monday, 8 February 2010, Mansion House
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The Role of the University in a Changing World Drew Faust 30 June 2010, Trinity College Dublin
In a speech to the Royal Irish Academy at Trinity College Dublin on Wednesday 30 June, Harvard president Drew Faust surveyed "the role of the university in a changing world." While she celebrated the expansion of education globally, she warned of the rising pressures threatening to undercut that trend. She lauded the career-defining role of higher education and defended the ongoing importance of the humanities. The event was co-sponsored by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS).
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Learning From One Another - Us and European Policies Toward University-Industry Technology Transfer Professor David C. Mowery, Chair of New Enterprise Development, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley Tuesday, 20 September 2011, Academy House
On the 20 of September David C. Mowery delivered a public lecture jointly orgainised by the Royal Irish Academy and the ESRI entitled Learning from one another? US and European policies toward university-industry technology transfer.
Professor Mowery discussed institutional models for technology transfer and challenges for implementing these in small open economies. Efforts by European governments to emulate US policies in relation to technology transfer [such as the Bayh-Dole policy] are likely to have only modest success unless greater attention is given to the underlying structural differences among the higher education systems of these nations.
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Academy Discourse - Biographies and the Biographer's Task Professor Hermione Lee, CBE Friday, 7 October 2011, 6pm, Academy House
Hermione Lee's previous books include biographical studies Elizabeth Bowen and Willa Cather, the internationally acclaimed biography Virginia Woolf, and Edith Wharton, long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She is a well-known reviewer and broadcaster, and, in 2006, Chair of the judges for the Man Booker Prize. She is the first woman Goldsmiths' Professor of English at Oxford University, a Fellow of New College, Oxford, of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. She was awarded a CBE in 2003 for services to literature.
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Academy Discourse - Molecules That Changed the World Professor K. C. Nicolaou, University of California, San Diego Thursday, 3 November 2011, Academy House
Professor K.C. Nicolaou is a Cypriot-American chemist known for the total synthesis of natural products.
His research is focused on a specialized field of organic chemistry called total synthesis, which involves the creation of organic molecules from scratch in the laboratory. This process allows rare molecules found in nature to be made in great numbers for study or to serve as the basis for drugs. Or, completely new types of complex organic molecules can be made from simpler precursor molecules. Through his work Nicolaou is developing new synthetic technologies and strategies that will advance the fields of biology and medicine.
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Academy Discourse - The End of Ageing Professor Roseanne Kenny, Mercer's Institute for Successful Aging, St. James Hospital and Neurosciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin Monday, 12 December 2011, Academy House
In this discourse Professor Roseanne Kenny explained what is happening in age prevention, and shows how we can lengthen our own life spans. Professor Kenny also looked at how and why people are living longer than ever before; the social, biological and scientific changes that are increasing our life spans; and how Ireland is leading the way in the development of age prevention technologies.
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Academy Discourse - God and Sex - What the Bible Really Says Professor Michael Coogan, Director of Publications for the Harvard Semitic Museum and Lecturer on Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Harvard Divinity School Thursday, 16 February 2012, Academy House
Opposing sides on abortion, same-sex marriage, and other so-called “family values” often appeal to the Bible in support of their contradictory positions, as though the Bible were an authority beyond question. But the Bible speaks with many voices, not one, and some of its values are no longer ours. A close look at the story of David and Bathsheba, one of the most famous and most ambiguous biblical narratives, will illustrate these issues.
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Academy Discourse - Count Dracula and Bram Stoker Terry Eagleton Wednesday, 19 April 2012, Academy House
Terry Eagleton was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He has been a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and was formerly Thomas Warton Professor of English in the University of Oxford. He is presently Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Universities of Lancaster and Notre Dame, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of over forty works of literary, cultural and political criticism, which include studies of Irish history and culture such as Heathcliff and the Great Hunger. He has also written plays which have been staged in Ireland and Britain, including Saint Oscar, and a novel about Ireland entitled Saints and Scholars.
The lecture considered Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the context of some traditional notions of evil, including the very different presentation of the idea of evil in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman. It also raised the question of Stoker’s Irish Protestant background and its relevance to his fiction.
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The Isle is Full of Noises Seamus Heaney in Conversation with Olivia O'Leary Thursday, 2 February 2012, St. Ann's Church
On the 2nd of February the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Literatures in English hosted a public interview with Seamus Heaney and Olivia O’Leary in St. Ann’s Church Dawson Street. The interview opened a two day event run by the RIA entitled ‘Voices in the Ether: Irish Writing on the Radio’ and was attended by around 270 people.
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Marine Institute/Royal Irish Academy Lecture - Alien World - New Discoveries of Exotic Lifeforms & Volcanic Metal Chimneys in the Deep Ocean Dr. Andy Wheeler, UCC (Chief Scientist) & the Irish-British VENTuRE Survey Scientific Team Tuesday, 24 April 2012, Academy House
Andy Wheeler led a groundbreaking Irish-led marine research mission aboard the national research vessel RV Celtic Explorer investigating life at 3,000 metres below the surface of the sea on the ‘45o North MAR hydrothermal vent field’ using the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Holland 1. These vents, which spew mineral rich seawater heated to boiling point by volcanic material in the earth’s crust below, are home to a rich variety of marine life that thrives in complete darkness on bacteria fed by chemicals.
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RIA and Science Media Centre Event - Introduction to the News Media for Ireland's Geoscientists Thursday, 17 May 2012, 13:30 - 18:00, Academy House
Chair: Fiona Fox – Chief Executive, Science Media Centre
Speakers: Clive Mitchell – Press Officer, British Geological Survey Tom Sheldon – Press Officer, Science Media Centre
Journalist Panel: Dick Ahlstrom – The Irish Times David Derbyshire – Daily Mail Leo Enright – RTE Radio 1 Tom Kennedy – Science Spin Mike McKimm – Environment Correspondent, BBC NI
Geoscientist Panel: David Ball – Independent Hydrogeologist Garth Earls – Consulting Economic Geologist Ian Jackson – OneGeology Project Co-ordinator Dr. Deirdre Lewis – Technical Director, SLR Consulting Ireland Prof. John McCloskey – Seismologist, University of Ulster Prof. Pat Shannon – Petroleum Geologist, University College Dublin
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Humanities: Academy Discourse - Maria Edgeworth, Edmund Burke & the First Irish Ulysses Professor James Chandler, University of Chicago Friday, 22 June 2012, 6pm, Academy House
James Chandler is the director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities and holds the Barbara E. & Richard J. Franke Professorship in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of two books on English Romanticism: Wordsworth's Second Nature (1994) and England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism, which won the 2000 Gordon J. Laing Award for distinction in academic publishing.
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Global Perspectives of Open Access
Speakers: Prof Nicholas Canny, European Research Council's Working Group on Open Access Geraldine Clement Stoneham, Knowledge and Information Manager, Medical Research Council UK, and RCUK Research Outputs Network Dr Julia M Wallace, Manager, PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) Project
The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013.
Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet.
Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model’ of Open Access and the European Commission’s proposed ‘Green Model’.
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Open Access in Practice
Speakers: Niamh Brennan, Programme Manager, Research Informatics, Trinity College Dublin Dr Sandra Collins, Digital Repository of Ireland Ruth Hegarty, Publications Manager, Royal Irish Academy Dr Darius Whelan, Faculty of Law, University College Cork Dr John Howard, UCD Librarian & RIAN
The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013.
Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet.
Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model’ of Open Access and the European Commission’s proposed ‘Green Model’.
More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx
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Global Perspectives of Open Access
Speaker: Prof Nicholas Canny, European Research Council's Working Group on Open Access
The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013.
Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet.
Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model’ of Open Access and the European Commission’s proposed ‘Green Model’.
More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx
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Speaker: Professor Orla Feely, Chair, Irish Research Council
The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013.
Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet.
Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model’ of Open Access and the European Commission’s proposed ‘Green Model’.
More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx
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Open Access and the Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences
Speakers: Professor Keith Jeffery, School of History and Anthropology, Queens University Belfast Professor Ronan McNulty, School of Physics, University College Dublin Dr Kevin Lalor, School of Social Sciences and Law, Dublin Institute of Technology Professor Stefan Decker, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland Galway
The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013.
Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet.
Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model’ of Open Access and the European Commission’s proposed ‘Green Model’.
More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx
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Public Research in Ireland and Understanding Ireland’s National Guidelines: an overview and Open access policies of funding bodies & their implementation: a panel discussion
Speakers: Dr Patricia Clarke, Health Research Board Dr Manus Ward, Science Foundation Ireland Mr Joe Doyle, Enterprise Ireland Dr Eucharia Meehan, Irish Research Council
The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013.
Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet.
Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model’ of Open Access and the European Commission’s proposed ‘Green Model’.
More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx
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Speakers: RIA President, Professor Luke Drury Professor Orla Feely, Chair, Irish Research Council
The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013.
Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet.
Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model’ of Open Access and the European Commission’s proposed ‘Green Model’.
More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx
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Keynote Address: Open Access and the European Research Area Speaker: Dr Octavi Quintana-Trias, Director, European Research Area
The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013.
Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet.
Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model’ of Open Access and the European Commission’s proposed ‘Green Model’.
More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx
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A Conversation with Professor Peter Higgs and Colleagues Thursday, 2 May 2013, Academy House
On Thursday, 2 May 2013, in the Royal Irish Academy, Professor Peter Higgs was joined by University of Edinburgh colleagues, Professor Alan Walker, Dr Victoria Martin and Francisca Garay to explore four generations of research on the Higgs boson. Speakers explained how the Higgs boson fits into modern theories of particle physics, what it's like to work at the Large Hadron Collider and the Inspiration for the Higgs boson.
Finally, speakers looked at how the work of one scientist, Professor Peter Higgs, inspired generations of physicists to work in particle physics and how the Higgs boson was eventually discovered. The event was open to public. www.ria.ie
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Public Lecture - The Double Helix and Its Irish Forbearers Nobel Laureate James Watson (Response by David McConnell) Monday, 29 April 2013, 6pm, Academy House
A Public lecture by Nobel Laureate James Watson entitled “The Double Helix and Its Irish Forbearers” was held in the Royal Irish Academy .
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Academy Discourse - Spatial Justice, Housing and the Financial Crisis Professor Danny Dorling (Response by Mary Kelly) Monday, 22 April 2013, 6pm, Academy House RIASOC
In recent decades, across much of the affluent world, when there were economic good times some benefited much more than others. It may not have been fair but even though the gaps grew, few complained. When the bad times hit, they again hit some harder than others, usually much harder. People complained, but by then it was often too late. At the heart of the current financial crisis are issues of housing. Our fears over not being well-housed and our aspirations to move on up may have been milked by those most interested in making a short term profit; but when did those fears first grow and why were such impossible aspirations stoked? These are aspirations for so many to leap frog over so many others. Only 1% can ever be in the 1%. Using data, stories, and arguments drawn mainly from the UK and USA, but also from countries where many are better housed, this talk will suggest a few answers to what went so wrong and how our children’s generation need not repeat the folly of their parents. Professor Danny Dorling is professor of human geography in the University of Sheffield.
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Academy Lecture: The Role of the Literary Reviewer - Professor Linda Hutcheon Chair: Professor Eve Patten Addtional: Denis Staunton Respondent: Professor Terence Brown Thursday, 21 March 2013 at 6:30pm in Academy House
Professor Linda Hutcheon, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto gives a public lecture on the role of the literary reviewer.
This event was a tribute to the important legacy of Caroline Walsh, literary editor of the Irish Times and a valued member of the academy’s committee for literatures in English.
This lecture will consider the role of the literary reviewer as a gatekeeper or arbiter within literary culture and on the vital influence of reviewing for the success of the contemporary writer. Professor Hutcheon is a leading figure and a specialist in postmodernist culture and in critical theory, on which she has published The Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction (1988); The Politics of Postmodernism (1989); The Canadian Postmodern (1989).
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Academy Discourse - The Speed Gene Dr. Emmeline Hill (Response by Prof. Dan Bradley) Thursday, 7th March 2013, 6pm, Academy House
Dr Emmeline Hill is a co-founder and Chairman of Equinome. She is one of Ireland's most prominent genomics scientists and leads the Equine Exercise Genomics research group at the College of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, where she is a lecturer in Equine Science. She joined UCD in 2002 with a B.A. Genetics (1995) and a Ph.D. in Molecular Population Genetics (2000) from Trinity College, Dublin.
In 2000, Dr. Hill and Prof. Patrick Cunningham published one of the first molecular genetic research studies of Thoroughbreds that identified errors in The General Stud Book. Her publication record includes articles in the leading academic journals Nature, Science, PLoS ONE, BMC Genomics and Animal Genetics. In 2004 she received a Science Foundation Ireland President of Ireland Young Researcher Award, Ireland's most prestigious award for young scientists. In 2009 she published the first description of the genes that contribute to the Thoroughbred athletic physique.
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Academy Discourse - The Battle for Afghanistan - William Dalrymple William Dalrymple Wednesday, 13th February 2013, 6pm, Academy House
In the spring of 1839 British forces invaded Afghanistan for the first time, re-establishing Shah Shuja on the throne, in reality as their puppet, and ushering in a period of conflict over the territory still unresolved today. In 1842, the Afghan people rose in answer to the call for jihad against the foreign occupiers, and the country exploded into violent rebellion. In what is arguably the greatest military humiliation ever suffered by the West in the East, more than eighteen thousand cold and hungry British troops, Indian sepoys and camp followers retreated through the icy mountain passes, and of the last survivors who made their final stand at the village of Gandamak, only one man, Dr Brydon, made it through to the British garrison at Jellalabad. An entire army of what was then the most powerful military nation in the world was utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen.
The West's first disastrous entanglement in Afghanistan has clear and relevant parallels with the current deepening crisis today, with extraordinary similarities between what NATO faces in cities like Kabul and Kandahar, and that faced by the British in the very same cities, fighting the very same tribes, nearly two centuries ago.
William Dalrymple’s discourse, based on the work he did for his new book The Return of a King, is a compelling analysis of the first Afghan war. With access to a whole range of previously undiscovered sources, including crucial new material in Russian, Urdu and Persian, and contemporary Afghan accounts including the autobiography of Shah Shuja himself, prize-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple's masterful retelling of Britain's greatest imperial disaster is a powerful and important parable of neo-colonial ambition and cultural collision, folly and hubris, for our times.
William Dalrymple was born in Scotland and brought up on the shores of the Firth of Forth. He wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was twenty-two. City of Djinns won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. The Age of Kali won the French Prix D'Astrolabe and White Mughals won the Wolfson Prize for History 2003 and the Scottish Book of the Year Prize. The Last Mughal, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. Nine Lives, his most recent book, won the Asia House Award for Asian Literature. He lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi.
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Speaker: Dr Nollaig Ó Muraíle, MRIA, Dept. of Medieval Irish, NUI Galway Lebor na hUidre’s Sojourn in Íochtar Connacht, 1359–1470 Chair: Professor Liam Breatnach Handout: https://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/accompanying-handout-for-lebor-na-h-uidres-sojourn-in-ochtar-connacht-13591470-dr-nollaig-murale-mria-dept-of-medieval-irish-nui-galway?qid=30f47625-dcf6-4d12-99a7-73fde268b3ad&v=&b=&from_search=1
Lebor na hUidre (LU) is the oldest manuscript we have that is written entirely in the Irish language. It contains the earliest versions to have been transmitted to us of some of the most celebrated Old Irish sagas: Táin Bó Cuailnge, Togail Bruidne Da Derga, Fled Bricrenn, Mesca Ulad, Tochmarc Emere and several others, in addition to much material of a historical or religious nature. Included in the latter is Amra Choluim Chille, believed by many to have been written shortly after the saint’s death and therefore it would be the oldest continuous text we have in Irish.
Given LU’s unique position, it is not surprising that aspects of its content and composition have been the subject of research and discussion. One of the most important studies to be carried out was that of R.I. Best ‘Notes on the script of Lebor na hUidre’, which appeared in volume 6 of the Royal Irish Academy’s journal Ériu a hundred years ago. In this paper Best identified three separate scribal hands that were involved in writing the manuscript and his important findings were incorporated in the diplomatic edition of the text that he and O.J. Bergin published for the Academy in 1929.
As there have been few thorough studies of LU as a whole since that time, it was thought timely to look again at this important manuscript and it was felt that this would best be achieved through a conference.
The conference, organised jointly by the Library of the Academy and by NUI Maynooth, took place 22-3 November and proved to be an outstanding success with over 110 delegates in attendance. Several of those who attended travelled from institutes as far afield as Switzerland, The Netherlands, Germany and Russia. The conference was opened by Academy President, Luke O’Connor Drury.
Papers were read by 10 speakers representing 7 institutes of higher learning in Ireland and the UK: Cambridge, Edinburgh, UCC, NUIG, DIAS, QUB and NUI Maynooth, and they addressed issues such as the hands found in LU, the language of some of the texts, the background to its compilation and aspects of its later history. As a result of the conference, it can be stated with confidence that our thinking in relation to LU has undergone fundamental change – especially with regard to the hands identified in the MS, the objectives of its scribes, its date and its later history. The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii I: Lebor na hUidre is available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 23 November, 2012
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Speaker: Dr John Carey, MRIA, Dept. of Early & Medieval Irish, UCC H and his World Chair: Professor Liam Breatnach Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/h-and-his-world-dr-john-carey-mria-dept-of-early-medieval-irish-ucc?qid=5628c81a-cbda-41dc-9dc9-c64c6dbc31e8&v=&b=&from_search=4 Handouts: https://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/paper-with-references-for-h-and-his-world-dr-john-carey-mria-dept-of-early-medieval-irish-ucc?qid=5628c81a-cbda-41dc-9dc9-c64c6dbc31e8&v=&b=&from_search=1 https://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/accompanying-handout-for-h-and-his-world-dr-john-carey-mria-dept-of-early-medieval-irish-ucc?qid=5628c81a-cbda-41dc-9dc9-c64c6dbc31e8&v=&b=&from_search=2
Lebor na hUidre (LU) is the oldest manuscript we have that is written entirely in the Irish language. It contains the earliest versions to have been transmitted to us of some of the most celebrated Old Irish sagas: Táin Bó Cuailnge, Togail Bruidne Da Derga, Fled Bricrenn, Mesca Ulad, Tochmarc Emere and several others, in addition to much material of a historical or religious nature. Included in the latter is Amra Choluim Chille, believed by many to have been written shortly after the saint’s death and therefore it would be the oldest continuous text we have in Irish.
Given LU’s unique position, it is not surprising that aspects of its content and composition have been the subject of research and discussion. One of the most important studies to be carried out was that of R.I. Best ‘Notes on the script of Lebor na hUidre’, which appeared in volume 6 of the Royal Irish Academy’s journal Ériu a hundred years ago. In this paper Best identified three separate scribal hands that were involved in writing the manuscript and his important findings were incorporated in the diplomatic edition of the text that he and O.J. Bergin published for the Academy in 1929.
As there have been few thorough studies of LU as a whole since that time, it was thought timely to look again at this important manuscript and it was felt that this would best be achieved through a conference.
The conference, organised jointly by the Library of the Academy and by NUI Maynooth, took place 22-3 November and proved to be an outstanding success with over 110 delegates in attendance. Several of those who attended travelled from institutes as far afield as Switzerland, The Netherlands, Germany and Russia. The conference was opened by Academy President, Luke O’Connor Drury.
Papers were read by 10 speakers representing 7 institutes of higher learning in Ireland and the UK: Cambridge, Edinburgh, UCC, NUIG, DIAS, QUB and NUI Maynooth, and they addressed issues such as the hands found in LU, the language of some of the texts, the background to its compilation and aspects of its later history. As a result of the conference, it can be stated with confidence that our thinking in relation to LU has undergone fundamental change – especially with regard to the hands identified in the MS, the objectives of its scribes, its date and its later history. The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii I: Lebor na hUidre is available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 23 November, 2012
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Speaker: Dr Elizabeth Boyle, Dept. of Early & Middle Irish, UCC & St Edmund’s College, Univ. of Cambridge Chair: Dr Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, St John’s College, Univ. of Cambridge Handout: https://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/accompanying-handout-for-eschatological-themes-in-lebor-na-h-uidre-the-body-judgement-and-the-end-dr-elizabeth-boyle-dept-of-early-and-middle-irish-ucc-st-edmunds-college?qid=19f12c53-9af4-46f4-a8d3-3337d7564195&v=&b=&from_search=1
Lebor na hUidre (LU) is the oldest manuscript we have that is written entirely in the Irish language. It contains the earliest versions to have been transmitted to us of some of the most celebrated Old Irish sagas: Táin Bó Cuailnge, Togail Bruidne Da Derga, Fled Bricrenn, Mesca Ulad, Tochmarc Emere and several others, in addition to much material of a historical or religious nature. Included in the latter is Amra Choluim Chille, believed by many to have been written shortly after the saint’s death and therefore it would be the oldest continuous text we have in Irish.
Given LU’s unique position, it is not surprising that aspects of its content and composition have been the subject of research and discussion. One of the most important studies to be carried out was that of R.I. Best ‘Notes on the script of Lebor na hUidre’, which appeared in volume 6 of the Royal Irish Academy’s journal Ériu a hundred years ago. In this paper Best identified three separate scribal hands that were involved in writing the manuscript and his important findings were incorporated in the diplomatic edition of the text that he and O.J. Bergin published for the Academy in 1929.
As there have been few thorough studies of LU as a whole since that time, it was thought timely to look again at this important manuscript and it was felt that this would best be achieved through a conference.
The conference, organised jointly by the Library of the Academy and by NUI Maynooth, took place 22-3 November and proved to be an outstanding success with over 110 delegates in attendance. Several of those who attended travelled from institutes as far afield as Switzerland, The Netherlands, Germany and Russia. The conference was opened by Academy President, Luke O’Connor Drury.
Papers were read by 10 speakers representing 7 institutes of higher learning in Ireland and the UK: Cambridge, Edinburgh, UCC, NUIG, DIAS, QUB and NUI Maynooth, and they addressed issues such as the hands found in LU, the language of some of the texts, the background to its compilation and aspects of its later history. As a result of the conference, it can be stated with confidence that our thinking in relation to LU has undergone fundamental change – especially with regard to the hands identified in the MS, the objectives of its scribes, its date and its later history. The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii I: Lebor na hUidre is available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 23 November, 2012
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Speaker: Professor Liam Breatnach, MRIA, DIAS, School of Celtic Studies Lebor na hUidre: Some Linguistic Aspects Chair: Professor Donnchadh Ó Corráin Handout: https://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/accompanying-handout-for-lebor-na-h-uidre-some-linguistic-aspects-prof-liam-breatnach-mria-dias-school-of-celtic-studies?qid=ecfaf7d8-1201-413b-a6c2-42683d28db59&v=&b=&from_search=1
Lebor na hUidre (LU) is the oldest manuscript we have that is written entirely in the Irish language. It contains the earliest versions to have been transmitted to us of some of the most celebrated Old Irish sagas: Táin Bó Cuailnge, Togail Bruidne Da Derga, Fled Bricrenn, Mesca Ulad, Tochmarc Emere and several others, in addition to much material of a historical or religious nature. Included in the latter is Amra Choluim Chille, believed by many to have been written shortly after the saint’s death and therefore it would be the oldest continuous text we have in Irish.
Given LU’s unique position, it is not surprising that aspects of its content and composition have been the subject of research and discussion. One of the most important studies to be carried out was that of R.I. Best ‘Notes on the script of Lebor na hUidre’, which appeared in volume 6 of the Royal Irish Academy’s journal Ériu a hundred years ago. In this paper Best identified three separate scribal hands that were involved in writing the manuscript and his important findings were incorporated in the diplomatic edition of the text that he and O.J. Bergin published for the Academy in 1929.
As there have been few thorough studies of LU as a whole since that time, it was thought timely to look again at this important manuscript and it was felt that this would best be achieved through a conference.
The conference, organised jointly by the Library of the Academy and by NUI Maynooth, took place 22-3 November and proved to be an outstanding success with over 110 delegates in attendance. Several of those who attended travelled from institutes as far afield as Switzerland, The Netherlands, Germany and Russia. The conference was opened by Academy President, Luke O’Connor Drury.
Papers were read by 10 speakers representing 7 institutes of higher learning in Ireland and the UK: Cambridge, Edinburgh, UCC, NUIG, DIAS, QUB and NUI Maynooth, and they addressed issues such as the hands found in LU, the language of some of the texts, the background to its compilation and aspects of its later history. As a result of the conference, it can be stated with confidence that our thinking in relation to LU has undergone fundamental change – especially with regard to the hands identified in the MS, the objectives of its scribes, its date and its later history. The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii I: Lebor na hUidre is available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 23 November, 2012
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Speaker: An tOll. Ruairí Ó hUiginn, MRIA, School of Celtic Studies, NUI Maynooth Chair: Professor Fergus Kelly, MRIA, DIAS, School of Celtic Studies Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/lebor-na-h-uidre-some-early-connacht-associations-an-toll-ruair-huiginn-mria-school-of-celtic-studies-nui-maynooth
Lebor na hUidre (LU) is the oldest manuscript we have that is written entirely in the Irish language. It contains the earliest versions to have been transmitted to us of some of the most celebrated Old Irish sagas: Táin Bó Cuailnge, Togail Bruidne Da Derga, Fled Bricrenn, Mesca Ulad, Tochmarc Emere and several others, in addition to much material of a historical or religious nature. Included in the latter is Amra Choluim Chille, believed by many to have been written shortly after the saint’s death and therefore it would be the oldest continuous text we have in Irish.
Given LU’s unique position, it is not surprising that aspects of its content and composition have been the subject of research and discussion. One of the most important studies to be carried out was that of R.I. Best ‘Notes on the script of Lebor na hUidre’, which appeared in volume 6 of the Royal Irish Academy’s journal Ériu a hundred years ago. In this paper Best identified three separate scribal hands that were involved in writing the manuscript and his important findings were incorporated in the diplomatic edition of the text that he and O.J. Bergin published for the Academy in 1929.
As there have been few thorough studies of LU as a whole since that time, it was thought timely to look again at this important manuscript and it was felt that this would best be achieved through a conference.
The conference, organised jointly by the Library of the Academy and by NUI Maynooth, took place 22-3 November and proved to be an outstanding success with over 110 delegates in attendance. Several of those who attended travelled from institutes as far afield as Switzerland, The Netherlands, Germany and Russia. The conference was opened by Academy President, Luke O’Connor Drury.
Papers were read by 10 speakers representing 7 institutes of higher learning in Ireland and the UK: Cambridge, Edinburgh, UCC, NUIG, DIAS, QUB and NUI Maynooth, and they addressed issues such as the hands found in LU, the language of some of the texts, the background to its compilation and aspects of its later history. As a result of the conference, it can be stated with confidence that our thinking in relation to LU has undergone fundamental change – especially with regard to the hands identified in the MS, the objectives of its scribes, its date and its later history. The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii I: Lebor na hUidre is available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 23 November, 2012
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Speaker: Professor Luke Drury, President of the RIA.
Lebor na hUidre (LU) is the oldest manuscript we have that is written entirely in the Irish language. It contains the earliest versions to have been transmitted to us of some of the most celebrated Old Irish sagas: Táin Bó Cuailnge, Togail Bruidne Da Derga, Fled Bricrenn, Mesca Ulad, Tochmarc Emere and several others, in addition to much material of a historical or religious nature. Included in the latter is Amra Choluim Chille, believed by many to have been written shortly after the saint’s death and therefore it would be the oldest continuous text we have in Irish.
Given LU’s unique position, it is not surprising that aspects of its content and composition have been the subject of research and discussion. One of the most important studies to be carried out was that of R.I. Best ‘Notes on the script of Lebor na hUidre’, which appeared in volume 6 of the Royal Irish Academy’s journal Ériu a hundred years ago. In this paper Best identified three separate scribal hands that were involved in writing the manuscript and his important findings were incorporated in the diplomatic edition of the text that he and O.J. Bergin published for the Academy in 1929.
As there have been few thorough studies of LU as a whole since that time, it was thought timely to look again at this important manuscript and it was felt that this would best be achieved through a conference.
The conference, organised jointly by the Library of the Academy and by NUI Maynooth, took place 22-3 November and proved to be an outstanding success with over 110 delegates in attendance. Several of those who attended travelled from institutes as far afield as Switzerland, The Netherlands, Germany and Russia. The conference was opened by Academy President, Luke O’Connor Drury.
Papers were read by 10 speakers representing 7 institutes of higher learning in Ireland and the UK: Cambridge, Edinburgh, UCC, NUIG, DIAS, QUB and NUI Maynooth, and they addressed issues such as the hands found in LU, the language of some of the texts, the background to its compilation and aspects of its later history. As a result of the conference, it can be stated with confidence that our thinking in relation to LU has undergone fundamental change – especially with regard to the hands identified in the MS, the objectives of its scribes, its date and its later history. www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 22 November, 2012
Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information contained in any of the materials. The views expressed are the authors’ own and not those of the Royal Irish Academy.
Speaker: Professor Donnchadh Ó Corráin, MRIA, Emeritus Prof. of Medieval History, UCC Handout: https://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/accompanying-handout-for-clerics-lineage-and-literature-prof-donnchadh-corrin-mria-emeritus-prof-of-medieval-history-ucc
Lebor na hUidre (LU) is the oldest manuscript we have that is written entirely in the Irish language. It contains the earliest versions to have been transmitted to us of some of the most celebrated Old Irish sagas: Táin Bó Cuailnge, Togail Bruidne Da Derga, Fled Bricrenn, Mesca Ulad, Tochmarc Emere and several others, in addition to much material of a historical or religious nature. Included in the latter is Amra Choluim Chille, believed by many to have been written shortly after the saint’s death and therefore it would be the oldest continuous text we have in Irish.
Given LU’s unique position, it is not surprising that aspects of its content and composition have been the subject of research and discussion. One of the most important studies to be carried out was that of R.I. Best ‘Notes on the script of Lebor na hUidre’, which appeared in volume 6 of the Royal Irish Academy’s journal Ériu a hundred years ago. In this paper Best identified three separate scribal hands that were involved in writing the manuscript and his important findings were incorporated in the diplomatic edition of the text that he and O.J. Bergin published for the Academy in 1929.
As there have been few thorough studies of LU as a whole since that time, it was thought timely to look again at this important manuscript and it was felt that this would best be achieved through a conference.
The conference, organised jointly by the Library of the Academy and by NUI Maynooth, took place 22-3 November and proved to be an outstanding success with over 110 delegates in attendance. Several of those who attended travelled from institutes as far afield as Switzerland, The Netherlands, Germany and Russia. The conference was opened by Academy President, Luke O’Connor Drury.
Papers were read by 10 speakers representing 7 institutes of higher learning in Ireland and the UK: Cambridge, Edinburgh, UCC, NUIG, DIAS, QUB and NUI Maynooth, and they addressed issues such as the hands found in LU, the language of some of the texts, the background to its compilation and aspects of its later history. As a result of the conference, it can be stated with confidence that our thinking in relation to LU has undergone fundamental change – especially with regard to the hands identified in the MS, the objectives of its scribes, its date and its later history. The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii I: Lebor na hUidre is available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 22 November, 2012
Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information contained in any of the materials. The views expressed are the authors’ own and not those of the Royal Irish Academy.
Speaker: Dr Elizabeth Duncan, Department of Celtic & Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh Chair: An tOll. Pádraig Ó Macháin, Dept. of Modern Irish, UCC Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/the-palaeography-of-lebor-na-h-uidre-dr-elizabeth-duncan-dept-of-celtic-and-scottish-studies-univ-of-edinburgh?qid=c8dd02a6-f249-4842-b1cb-a8ec9d9e7c5d&v=&b=&from_search=1 Handout: https://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/accompanying-handout-for-the-palaeography-of-lebor-na-h-uidre-dr-elizabeth-duncan-dept-of-celtic-and-scottish-studies-univ-of-edinburgh?qid=c8dd02a6-f249-4842-b1cb-a8ec9d9e7c5d&v=&b=&from_search=2
Lebor na hUidre (LU) is the oldest manuscript we have that is written entirely in the Irish language. It contains the earliest versions to have been transmitted to us of some of the most celebrated Old Irish sagas: Táin Bó Cuailnge, Togail Bruidne Da Derga, Fled Bricrenn, Mesca Ulad, Tochmarc Emere and several others, in addition to much material of a historical or religious nature. Included in the latter is Amra Choluim Chille, believed by many to have been written shortly after the saint’s death and therefore it would be the oldest continuous text we have in Irish.
Given LU’s unique position, it is not surprising that aspects of its content and composition have been the subject of research and discussion. One of the most important studies to be carried out was that of R.I. Best ‘Notes on the script of Lebor na hUidre’, which appeared in volume 6 of the Royal Irish Academy’s journal Ériu a hundred years ago. In this paper Best identified three separate scribal hands that were involved in writing the manuscript and his important findings were incorporated in the diplomatic edition of the text that he and O.J. Bergin published for the Academy in 1929.
As there have been few thorough studies of LU as a whole since that time, it was thought timely to look again at this important manuscript and it was felt that this would best be achieved through a conference.
The conference, organised jointly by the Library of the Academy and by NUI Maynooth, took place 22-3 November and proved to be an outstanding success with over 110 delegates in attendance. Several of those who attended travelled from institutes as far afield as Switzerland, The Netherlands, Germany and Russia. The conference was opened by Academy President, Luke O’Connor Drury.
Papers were read by 10 speakers representing 7 institutes of higher learning in Ireland and the UK: Cambridge, Edinburgh, UCC, NUIG, DIAS, QUB and NUI Maynooth, and they addressed issues such as the hands found in LU, the language of some of the texts, the background to its compilation and aspects of its later history. As a result of the conference, it can be stated with confidence that our thinking in relation to LU has undergone fundamental change – especially with regard to the hands identified in the MS, the objectives of its scribes, its date and its later history. The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii I: Lebor na hUidre is available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 22 November, 2012
Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information contained in any of the materials. The views expressed are the authors’ own and not those of the Royal Irish Academy.
Speaker: Dr Abigail Burnyeat, Dept. of Celtic & Scottish Studies, Univ. of Edinburgh Chair: Professor Fergus Kelly, MRIA, DIAS, School of Celtic Studies Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/compilatio-and-the-creation-of-lebor-na-h-uidre-dr-abigail-burnyeat
Lebor na hUidre (LU) is the oldest manuscript we have that is written entirely in the Irish language. It contains the earliest versions to have been transmitted to us of some of the most celebrated Old Irish sagas: Táin Bó Cuailnge, Togail Bruidne Da Derga, Fled Bricrenn, Mesca Ulad, Tochmarc Emere and several others, in addition to much material of a historical or religious nature. Included in the latter is Amra Choluim Chille, believed by many to have been written shortly after the saint’s death and therefore it would be the oldest continuous text we have in Irish.
Given LU’s unique position, it is not surprising that aspects of its content and composition have been the subject of research and discussion. One of the most important studies to be carried out was that of R.I. Best ‘Notes on the script of Lebor na hUidre’, which appeared in volume 6 of the Royal Irish Academy’s journal Ériu a hundred years ago. In this paper Best identified three separate scribal hands that were involved in writing the manuscript and his important findings were incorporated in the diplomatic edition of the text that he and O.J. Bergin published for the Academy in 1929.
As there have been few thorough studies of LU as a whole since that time, it was thought timely to look again at this important manuscript and it was felt that this would best be achieved through a conference.
The conference, organised jointly by the Library of the Academy and by NUI Maynooth, took place 22-3 November and proved to be an outstanding success with over 110 delegates in attendance. Several of those who attended travelled from institutes as far afield as Switzerland, The Netherlands, Germany and Russia. The conference was opened by Academy President, Luke O’Connor Drury.
Papers were read by 10 speakers representing 7 institutes of higher learning in Ireland and the UK: Cambridge, Edinburgh, UCC, NUIG, DIAS, QUB and NUI Maynooth, and they addressed issues such as the hands found in LU, the language of some of the texts, the background to its compilation and aspects of its later history. As a result of the conference, it can be stated with confidence that our thinking in relation to LU has undergone fundamental change – especially with regard to the hands identified in the MS, the objectives of its scribes, its date and its later history. The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii I: Lebor na hUidre is available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre
Location: Academy House Date: 23 November, 2012
Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information contained in any of the materials. The views expressed are the authors’ own and not those of the Royal Irish Academy.
Library Lunchtime Lecture by Mairead Treanor.
The 2012 Science Lecture Series was organised by the Academy Library as an integral element of an exhibition Science at the Royal Irish Academy: ‘Uniting whatever is pleasing with whatever is useful’: an exhibition: July 2012-May 2013.
Location: Academy House Date: 28 November, 2012
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Elizabethanne Boran.
The 2012 Science Lecture Series was organised by the Academy Library as an integral element of an exhibition Science at the Royal Irish Academy: ‘Uniting whatever is pleasing with whatever is useful’: an exhibition: July 2012-May 2013.
Location: Academy House Date: 14 November, 2012
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by D.T. Burns, MRIA, FRSE. Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, QUB.
The 2012 Science Lecture Series was organised by the Academy Library as an integral element of an exhibition Science at the Royal Irish Academy: ‘Uniting whatever is pleasing with whatever is useful’: an exhibition: July 2012-May 2013.
Location: Academy House Date: 21 November, 2012
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Nigel Monaghan, Keeper, Natural History Museums.
The 2012 Science Lecture Series was organised by the Academy Library as an integral element of an exhibition Science at the Royal Irish Academy: ‘Uniting whatever is pleasing with whatever is useful’: an exhibition: July 2012-May 2013.
Location: Academy House Date: 7 November, 2012
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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Professor Luke Drury, MRIA.
The 2012 Science Lecture Series was organised by the Academy Library as an integral element of an exhibition Science at the Royal Irish Academy: ‘Uniting whatever is pleasing with whatever is useful’: an exhibition: July 2012-May 2013.
Location: Academy House Date: 31 October, 2012
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Paul Bew has been Professor of Irish Politics at Queen’s University Belfast since 1991. A historical advisor to the Bloody Sunday inquiry, he was appointed an independent cross-bench peer in 2007 and is a member of the British–Irish Parliamentary Assembly. Bew is the author of numerous books on Irish politics and history; most recently he has edited A Yankee in de Valera’s Ireland, the 1940 memoir of David Gray, the then US ambassador to Ireland. On the occasion of the book’s launch on 6 November 2012 at The Great Hall, Queen’s University Belfast, Liam Kennedy interviews Paul Bew about his life and work.