Listen to President McAleese’s speech on the significance of the Clare Island surveys and the Royal Irish Academy’s work on Clare Island. www.ria.ie Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website 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.
Jul 22, 2013
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. www.ria.ie Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website 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’...
Jun 21, 2013
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. www.ria.ie Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information contained in any of the ma...
Jun 20, 2013
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 Micropalaeontologic...
Jun 14, 2013
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 excavati...
Jun 14, 2013
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 ...
Jun 14, 2013
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 Honorar...
Jun 14, 2013
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 Chairp...
Jun 14, 2013
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 g...
Jun 12, 2013
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 inc...
Jun 12, 2013
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 ...
Jun 12, 2013
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...
Jun 12, 2013
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 fo...
May 03, 2013
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 . www.ria.ie Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information...
May 03, 2013
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...
Mar 08, 2013
Weather: Meteorology and Metereological Collections at the Royal Irish Academy and Met Eireann - Mairead Treanor, Librarian, Met Eireann 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. Details of the exhibition are available at: http://ria.ie/library/exhibitions.aspx An accompanying publication may be purchased...
Jan 02, 2013
Scientific Collections of the Edward Worth Library - Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian, Edward Worth Library 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. Details of the exhibition are available at: http://ria.ie/library/exhibitions.aspx An accompanying publication may be purchased online at http://ria.ie/Public...
Jan 02, 2013
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. Details of the exhibition are available at: http://ria.ie/library/exhibitions.aspx An accompanying publication may be purchased online at http://ria.ie/Publications.aspx or at the Academy. We hope you will enjoy these presentations which engage with the exhibition...
Jan 02, 2013
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. Details of the exhibition are available at: http://ria.ie/library/exhibitions.aspx An accompanying publication may be purchased online at http://ria.ie/Publications.aspx or at the Academy. We hope you will enjoy these presentations which engage with the exhibition...
Jan 02, 2013
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. Details of the exhibition are available at: http://ria.ie/library/exhibitions.aspx An accompanying publication may be purchased online at http://ria.ie/Publications.aspx or at the Academy. We hope you will enjoy these presentations which engage with the exhibition...
Jan 02, 2013
