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 m...
Mar 22, 2013•1 hr 10 min
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•52 min
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 rebel...
Mar 01, 2013•59 min
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 languag...
Jan 07, 2013•38 min
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=&...
Jan 07, 2013•33 min
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 en...
Jan 07, 2013•42 min
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-c64c...
Jan 07, 2013•40 min
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 th...
Jan 07, 2013•40 min
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...
Jan 07, 2013•35 min
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-...
Jan 07, 2013•36 min
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, Tog...
Jan 07, 2013•43 min
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 ma...
Jan 07, 2013•6 min
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 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 infor...
Jan 02, 2013•42 min
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 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 i...
Jan 02, 2013•45 min
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 Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, expres...
Jan 02, 2013•35 min
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 Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, ...
Jan 02, 2013•39 min
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 Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of...
Jan 02, 2013•47 min
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 Novembe...
Nov 16, 2012•1 hr 5 min
A lecture by Onora O'Neill on Accountability, Excellence and Success in Universities.
Oct 15, 2012•1 hr 8 min
