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 Profe...
Feb 03, 2021•42 min
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.
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 26 min
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-1...
Dec 17, 2020•24 min
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 Nation...
Dec 09, 2020•11 min
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
Sep 23, 2020•9 min
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 L...
Aug 31, 2020•1 hr 45 min
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,...
Mar 04, 2020•3 hr 44 min
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 compi...
Feb 17, 2020•38 min
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 olde...
Feb 17, 2020•39 min
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.
Feb 14, 2020•1 hr 13 min
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...
Feb 06, 2020•21 min
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...
Feb 05, 2020•1 hr 3 min
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, encyclopedi...
Jan 15, 2020•1 hr 35 min
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 intern...
Dec 05, 2019•39 min
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...
Dec 05, 2019•44 min
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 Ir...
Dec 05, 2019•29 min
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 inte...
Dec 05, 2019•49 min
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 Mo...
Dec 05, 2019•34 min
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 ana...
Dec 04, 2019•1 hr 7 min
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...
Nov 27, 2019•23 min
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...
Nov 27, 2019•27 min
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 Committ...
Nov 27, 2019•22 min
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 Archa...
Nov 27, 2019•4 min
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 Co...
Nov 27, 2019•21 min
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 ...
Nov 27, 2019•30 min
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 Roy...
Nov 27, 2019•26 min
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 f...
Nov 27, 2019•34 sec
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.
Nov 27, 2019•28 min
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.
Nov 27, 2019•26 min
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 Irela...
Nov 06, 2019•1 hr 16 min
