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, ...
May 05, 2016•43 min
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 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 ...
Apr 07, 2016•50 min
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 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 c...
Apr 07, 2016•38 min
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 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...
Apr 06, 2016•48 min
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 Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academ...
Feb 12, 2016•44 min
Professor Partha Chatterjee's lecture as part of UCD's 1916 as a Global Event series of lectures
Jan 27, 2016•56 min
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 t...
Dec 09, 2015•58 min
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 tha...
Dec 09, 2015•32 min
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...
Dec 03, 2015•57 min
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, mem...
Nov 19, 2015•58 min
Inaugural John Bell Day lecture to commemorate Bell's Theorem which was first submitted for publication on 4th November 1964
Nov 19, 2015•1 hr 5 min
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 regar...
Nov 18, 2015•3 min
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 regar...
Nov 18, 2015•1 min
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 regar...
Nov 18, 2015•4 min
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 regar...
Nov 18, 2015•6 min
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 regar...
Nov 18, 2015•16 min
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 regar...
Nov 18, 2015•2 min
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 unp...
May 27, 2015•46 min
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; ...
May 06, 2015•50 min
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 ro...
May 06, 2015•41 min
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...
May 06, 2015•32 min
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 ...
May 06, 2015•50 min
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 directo...
May 06, 2015•47 min
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,...
May 06, 2015•50 min
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 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 I...
Nov 19, 2014•54 min
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 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 containe...
Nov 19, 2014•1 hr 2 min
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 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 con...
Nov 19, 2014•47 min
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-ordnanc...
Nov 19, 2014•49 min
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
Nov 13, 2014•1 hr 44 min
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 Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or imp...
Nov 13, 2014•57 min
