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We are shocked to hear of the death of Hon. MRIA Eavan Boland and our thoughts are with her family RIP. She was a pleasure to work with and is pictured below at the UN reading her poem about women's suffrage 'Our future will become the past of other women'

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Congratulations to our new Member Katy Hayward, professor of Political Sociology at @QUBelfast . She was awarded a Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize for her work improving public understanding of the impact of #Brexit on the island of Ireland. #AdmittanceDay

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Congratulations and welcome to our new Member Fintan O’Toole, respected internationally for his writing on politics, society and the arts. His journalism explores the systemic and cultural roots of political issues @fotoole @PrincetonHum @IrishTimes

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Congratulations to our new Member Margaret Kelleher, Prof of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama @ucddublin . She is an internationally renowned scholar in Irish literature in English and will be admitted today at our online ceremony @kellehmv @UCD_English

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One of our great women leaders at the march for science today! #ScienceMarchIE #womenonwalls

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Happy #StPatricksDay Today Micheál Martin, Taoiseach @MichaelMartinTD has launched the Dictionary of Irish Biography's new #OpenAccess website @DIB_RIA . Now its entire corpus of c.11,000 biographical entries are freely available to the public to explore

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Our Library and Meeting Room look a bit different this evening. Do you recognise the space #LateLateToyShow ? Enjoy the show 😊 #VirtualTour Learn more about the home of the Royal Irish Academy @rteLateLate @RTEOne @rte @Library_RIA @DIB_RIA @DIFP_RIA

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'Rarest fern in Europe' discovered in Ireland

'Rarest fern in Europe' discovered in Ireland

Variety has only ever been found in Caribbean more than 4,000 miles across Atlantic

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The #SummerSolstice marks the longest day of the year, and today we appreciate the detail of the megalithic art motifs carved on Kerbstone 72, Tomb 1 at #Knowth . The Knowth carvings constitute approximately 46% of all such art in Ireland. 📷 Image credit: Ken Williams

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To mark the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the world renowned Eastern Tomb at #Knowth , the Royal Irish Academy is publishing free online its 6 books on Excavations at Knowth #OpenAccess #DRI #BoyneValley #Archaeology

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2 years

What a wonderful day of celebration for our new Members. Welcome to the Royal Irish Academy #AdmittanceDay2022

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In the excitement about new Brú na Bóinne monuments, good to remember Knowth today: Eastern Tomb golden anniversary! George Eogan’s story follows #irisharchaeology #archaeology #IrelandsAncientEast #BoyneValley

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Ireland’s chief scientific adviser needs to be an independent office and not linked to the post of Director General of Science Foundation Ireland @scienceirel says Mary Canning, President of the Royal Irish Academy. Read more @IrishResearch @DeptofFHed

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Here are our 2019 new Members on the steps of the Royal Irish Academy. Congratulations to you all #AdmittanceDay @tcddublin @nuigalway @ucddublin @ESRIDublin @BBCnireland @ul @QUBelfast @MaynoothUni @UCC @RTERadio1 @ucl @UnivOxford @UMNews

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Congratulations @AnPostvox We just love these new stamps released today. @NMIreland @IrishTimes Find out more about the #100objects here:

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#ExploreTheObject A Flint Macehead c. 3300-2800BC, now part of @NMIreland 's collection. 🧐Found in the chamber of the eastern tomb beneath the great passage tomb at #Knowth it's one of the finest works of art to have survived from Neolithic Europe. 👉

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We are pleased to announce that we are reprinting Early Medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, by Aidan O'Sullivan @AidanOSulliva15 Finbar McCormick, Thomas Kerr and Lorcan Harney. The reprint will be available in early March and can be pre-ordered. More info here

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Congratulations to Irish born, world-renowned astrophysicist, Jocelyn Bell Burnell Hon. MRIA who has been awarded The Irish Presidential Distinguished Service Award in Science and Technology and indeed to all the other winners 👏

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🎉Congratulations to chemist, Professor Pat Guiry @ucddublin who has been voted by the Members of the RIA today as their 58th President for a three-year term, replacing Dr Mary Canning effective immediately👏 ➡

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Congratulations to our new Honorary Member Kate Fitzgerald, Worcester Foundation Chair in Biomedical Sciences at @UMassMedical . She is one of the world’s leading immunologists and will be admitted today at our online ceremony @FitzgeraldKate

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Our cohort of newly admitted Members (MRIA) beaming in the sunshine this afternoon, with RIA President Pat Guiry for #AdmittanceDay 2023. The 28 new Members of the Royal Irish Academy are:

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Our esteemed colleague Dr Bernadette Cunningham is retiring today after over twenty years at the Academy Library @Library_RIA . 🙏Thank you for being such a great colleague and we wish you well on your next adventures 👋

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Lets have a big shoutout for @DickAhlstrom who retires as @irishtimes science ed. today.Huge contribution to Irl's understanding of science

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Congratulations to Diarmaid Ferriter, historian was admitted as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy on 24 May 2019 @ucddublin @UCDHistory

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The Royal Irish Academy, following its virtual Stated General Meeting today, has a new President, Dr Mary Canning, only the second female PRIA in 235 years. Sincere thanks to Peter Kennedy outgoing President for his work over the past 3 years

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The Irish Humanities Alliance is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Sonja Tiernan as its new Co-ordinator. Welcoming her to the Academy today were @IrishHumanities Chair Dr Maxim Fomin and Vice-Chair, Prof Marie-Louise Coolahan. @sonjatiernan

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#OTD 180 yrs ago William Rowan Hamilton etched his #quaternions formula into the bridge at Broome Bridge, Cabra. This equation would become significant in the development of modern abstract algebra & remains important for satellite navigation & video game programming #HamiltonDay

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2 years

All prepared and ready to welcome our new Members to the Royal Irish Academy later today #AdmittanceDay #celebration

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Congrats to Prof @janeohlmeyer MRIA 2023 RIA Gold Medalist in the Humanities who was presented with her Gold Medal by Dr Mary Canning, President of the RIA at a special ceremony in the Academy this evening. 🏅 #RIAGoldMedals are sponsored by @AIBIreland .

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Congratulations to our new Member Monica McWilliams @MonicaBelfast Emeritus Professor of Women's Studies at @UlsterUni , Women's Coalition signatory to the #GoodFridayAgreement and former chief commissioner of the @NIHRC #RIAAdmittanceDay @TJI_

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The Ulster Settlers database created by Richard Fitzpatrick under the Hunter Digital Fellowship with @QUBelfast & @MaynoothUni is now available to researchers & all who are interested in this period of #IrishHistory See here: #RIAgrants #Ulsterplantation

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We're greatly saddened by the death of Peter Harbison MRIA Professor of Archaeology Royal Hibernian Academy earlier this week. Elected as Member of the Academy in 1979, Peter was Honorary Academic Editor #RIApublications . Peter will be sorely missed by the RIA. Rest in Peace🕊

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Learn more about the Dictionary of Irish Biography - 'The DIB is now entering a new phase. It is the RIA’s hope to make the dictionary fully and freely available online, a national resource that the general public can enjoy'

‘A unique history of our island through its people, warts and all’

How the Dictionary of Irish Biography is evolving and moving with the times

www.irishtimes.com

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Welcome to our new Member Orla Muldoon @orlamuldoon , founding professor of Psychology @UL . She is one of the first two women in Ireland to hold a @ERC_Research Advanced Award. She is the current editor @Journal_PoPs & op-ed contributor @IrishTimes .

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Congratulations and welcome to our new Member Afshin Samali, Prof of Cancer Biology & director of the Apoptosis Research Centre @nuigalway . He's an int'l leader in the field of endoplasmic reticulum stress & cell death signaling in cancer @ResearchatNUIG

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Excitement is building here in Academy House. Tomorrow we welcome these eminent scholars as new members to the Royal Irish Academy #AdmittanceDay @tcddublin @nuigalway @ucddublin @ESRIDublin @BBCnireland @ul @QUBelfast @MaynoothUni @UCC @RTERadio1 @ucl @UnivOxford @UMNews

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Congrats Jane Ohlmeyer MRIA 2023 RIA Gold Medallist in the Humanities & Jonathan Coleman MRIA 2023 RIA Gold Medallist in the Physical & Mathematical Sciences! #RIAGoldMedals recognise world-class researchers in Ireland making a global impact 🙏 @AIBIreland

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📣Released today: #RIApublication 📚‘How linguistics can help the historian’ by Anthony Harvey. Through curious examples going back to the Middle Ages, this short book shows that linguistics doesn’t have to be complicated and boring.

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Congratulations to our new Member Joanna Brúck, Prof in the School of Archaeology @ucddublin . She leads a €2.5-million @ERC_Research project on human/animal relations in Bronze Age Europe. #AdmittanceDay @ucdarchaeology @ucdsocscilaw

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Welcome to our new Member David Stifter, professor of Old and Middle Irish @MaynoothUni . He is an established scholar & researcher with international standing & leadership in the field of Celtic Studies and Medieval Irish Philology. @ChronHib @EarlyIrishMU

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5 years

Nicola Sturgeon and ⁦ @DearbhailDibs ⁩ in discussion this morning in Academy House

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Congratulations and welcome to our new Member Cecily Kelleher, principal of @UCD_CHAS and one of Ireland’s most eminent and influential public health researchers who has delivered breakthroughs in public health research & practice @ucddublin

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Following this evening's ceremony we're delighted to announce that @sallyhayd is the 2022 winner of the #MichelD éon non-fiction prize, for her debut book 'My Fourth Time, We Drowned' published by @4thEstateBooks @HarperCollinsUK . Supported by @dfatirl .

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We wish @RMcMnow well as she embarks on her #DecadeofCentenaries project @DeptCultureIRL 'Housing the people, building the state - the community legacy of 1920s Free State housing policy' which will entail a public exhibition, public talks & publication.

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For 235 years New Members of the Royal Irish Academy were admitted with a handshake but this afternoon Dr Mary Canning, President will admit 29 recently elected Members in an online ceremony #AdmittanceDay . Congratulations and welcome to you all 👏👏

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@RIAdawson

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It was a pleasure to have her visit the Royal Irish Academy

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From her meeting with the Taoiseach @LeoVaradkar to a Q&A on Brexit and women in leadership at the @RIADawson - check out the highlights from @NicolaSturgeon 's trip to Dublin earlier this week. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪👇

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Ireland's national biographical dictionary @DIB_RIA became #OpenAccess #OTD in 2021. An authoritative reference work of nearly 11,000 lives telling the island's life story, is now freely accessible to all online: #DIBlives #StPatricksDay

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#RIApublication 'The Handover' by @gibneyjfp and @KOM_acc illustrates the 1922 handover of power by the outgoing British administration to the Provisional Government of Ireland. Coming in mid-January. Pre-order your copy at #IrishBookWeek #twitterstorians

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Welcome to our new Member Siobhan Mullally @smullallylaw established professor of Human Rights Law and director @IrishCentreHR @NUIGLaw . She is the @UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons and a member of @PCA_CPA The Hague @nuigalway

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Born #OTD in 1918 Sheila Tinney was a pioneering academic in mathematical physics - 1 of 8 girls to complete honours maths in Leaving Cert - 1st Irish women to receive a PhD in field of mathematics - 1 of 1st female members of RIA #WomenOnWalls #Pioneer #rolemodel @Accenture_Irl

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Welcome to our new Member @LindaDoyle who was appointed as the 45th provost of @tcddublin in 2021, the first woman in the College’s history to hold that position. She is a fellow of the College and holds a personal chair of Engineering and The Arts

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#NollaignamBan shona daoibh go léir! While you put your feet up why not listen to the #RIASisters lecture series produced by @Library_RIA : 📚 Get your copy of the book of essays: 📷 Image: Eva and Constance Gore-Booth, c. 1898.

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@SimonHarrisTD @DeptofFHed @hea_irl @UCDHistory @UCDHumanities @UCD_Research @historians_ie @HistIreHedge @HistFest @RTEArchives @NARIreland @IrishHumanities @IrishResearch @HistoryHub_ie @Library_RIA Congratulations to Professor Daniel Bradley, MRIA @brad_dan of @tcdgenmicro receiving his 2020 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Life Sciences in a virtual ceremony with @SimonHarrisTD @DeptofFHed this evening, with special thanks to our sponsors @hea_irl

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Congratulations to Mary McAleese MRIA on her election to chancellor of @TCDdublin Dublin via @IrishTimes

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Today, An Taoiseach, @MichealMartinTD presented two @tcddublin Professors with Royal Irish Academy Gold Medals. Ruth Byrne received the RIA Gold Medal in the Social Sciences and Jennifer McElwain received the RIA Gold Medal in the Environmental Sciences and Geosciences 👏👏

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Looking for a new podcast series to get stuck into over the holidays? Listen to 'Sisters' lectures produced by @Library_RIA : The series celebrates sisterhood and the achievements of 9 families of sisters who made their mark on Irish life. #RIASisters

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Today the Royal Irish Academy mourns the passing of academician Tom Brazil, MRIA. He gave of himself tirelessly to the Academy as a Member from 2005 and was an outstanding Secretary 2009-13. Above all he was a gentleman and a joy to know. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

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'HER-ald: HER archives, literature, documents', a seminar organised by @Library_RIA to increase the visibility of Irish women in archives, will take place in the Royal Irish Academy, 14 December at 9am. Book your tickets: #HERald #Mn á100 @DeptCultureIRL

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Congratulations to the @ambercentre team @tcddublin of Valeria Nicolosi MRIA and Jonathan Coleman MRIA whose Irish battery breakthrough could help save the planet via @IrishTimesBiz

Irish battery breakthrough could help save the planet

Academics find way to make batteries with 250 per cent more energy density

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#Archaeology The RIA is delighted to announce #RIAgrants funding for 8 projects under the new Archaeology Legacy Grants scheme and the annual Archaeology Research Grants scheme. The schemes are supported by @NationalMons @CommunitiesNI @DeptHousingIRL

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Congratulations and welcome to our new Member Chris Elliott, Prof of Food Safety at @QUBelfast who leads the use of analytical methods to inform food authenticity, integrity and safety, and to prevent food fraud globally @QUBFoodProf @QUBIGFS

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👏Congratulations to our six shortlisted authors for the 2022 Michel Déon prize #nonfiction Nicholas Canny, Sally Hayden, Rosaleen McDonagh, Susan McKay, Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Sophie White

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Congratulations and welcome to our new Member Joseph Keane, Professor of Medicine at @tcddublin . He is a leading figure internationally in tuberculosis research and author of numerous high-profile and very highly cited publications.

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The Dictionary of Irish Biography @DIB_RIA is now open access meaning that you can read the lives of Ireland's 'great and good' from the comfort of your own home at via @IrishTimesBooks

Read all about us: The Dictionary of Irish Biography is now open access

Almost 11,000 biographies, spanning 1,500 years of Irish history, now freely available

www.irishtimes.com

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Margaret Skinnider smuggled detonators in her hat to Dublin & was a sniper in the Rising #womenof1916 #Ireland2016

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Kathleen Lonsdale born in Newbridge, Co Kildare #OTD 1903. She began to work in x-ray crystallography and became a leading scientist in this field. Read more about her in this thread. We have renamed our former Young Chemist prize in her honour

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Kathleen Lonsdale, Irish crystallographer, peace activist, prison reformer, campaigner for women's rights; who determined the ring structure of benzene by XRD and became the first woman physicist elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, was born #OTD 1903

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Congratulations to the 2024 #RIAGoldMedals recipients! Máire O’Neill MRIA @mairemcloone has been awarded the Gold Medal in the Engineering Sciences & Brigid Laffan MRIA @brigidlaffan the Gold Medal in the Social Sciences. Read about the ceremony:

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All prepped and ready to welcome our new Members to the Royal Irish Academy later today 🎉 #AdmittanceDay2023 #RoyalIrishAcademy

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Welcome to our new Member James O'Donnell @ProfJSODonnell Prof of Vascular Biology @RCSI_Irl and @stjamesdublin . He is a clinician scientist and an international opinion leader in the field of haematology. #AdmittanceDay @RCSI_Research

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It is time for a revitalised appreciation of Brigit as an actual woman, writes @ElvaBJohnston in her article 'Making St Brigit real in the early middle ages' published #OpenAccess in 'Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy' 📖 #RIAjournals

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Congratulations to our new Member David Collings, Prof of Human Resource Management at @BusinessDCU . He is an influential leader and publisher on global staffing and talent management and will be admitted today at our online ceremony @DCU

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‘Ireland 1922’ eds @DGannon2016 @FFearghal provides a snapshot of a year of turmoil, tragedy and, amidst it all, state-building as the Irish revolution drew to a close. Coming 1 Jan 2022. Look inside and pre-order at #RIApublication #IrishBookWeek

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Susan (Lily) Yeats d. #OTD in 1949 was an embroiderer associated with #CelticRevival , who worked for Morris & Co. She founded Dun Emer (later Cuala Press/Industries) in Dublin with her sister Elizabeth (Lollie) in 1902. 🔊 Listen to #RIASisters podcast:

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@SimonHarrisTD @DeptofFHed @hea_irl Congratulations to our former president Mary E. Daly MRIA and Emeritus Professor @UCDHistory @UCDHumanities receiving her 2020 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities in our virtual ceremony with @SimonHarrisTD @DeptofFHed Special thanks to our sponsors @hea_irl

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Congratulations to @IHTA_RIA who have launched the Digital Atlas of Cork/Corcaigh, a free online interactive map that invites everyone to discover the built heritage of #CorkCity ! This useful resource can be accessed via the Royal Irish Academy’s website:

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It's not too early is it?? #HappyChristmas and thank you to all our followers 🙏🎄We could all do with some cheering up this year.

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Congratulations to Olivia O’Leary, journalist, broadcaster, public commentator and writer of international standing who was recently admitted as a member of the Royal Irish Academy @RTERadio1 @drivetimerte @PoetryProgRTE

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'The megalithic art of the passage tombs at Knowth, County Meath' - now available #OpenAccess @dri_ireland 📖This volume in our Excavations at #Knowth series presents a complete catalogue of the 390 recorded carved stones at Knowth 👀 #WinterSolstice

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Congratulations and welcome to our new Member Janice Carruthers, Prof of French Linguistics @ModLangs_QUB @QUBelfast . She is internationally renowned for her research on the different varieties of oral French and their wider significance on French language

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Congratulations to our Member Philip Nolan appointed Director General of SFI👏 The RIA however welcomes a review by @DeptofFHed of the 'Dual Role' and recommends Ireland’s #ChiefScientificAdviser needs to be an independent office (via @thejournal_ie )

Professor Philip Nolan appointed Director General of Government’s science funding agency

SFI is the major funder of science research in Ireland.

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Numerous tributes have been paid to Tim Robinson following his death in London last week #RIP . #RIApublications will be collaborating with @nuigalway on the republication of his maps of Árainn, Burren and Connemara. Read more

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Congratulations to our Members - elected in 2020 - representing the Sciences and Polite Literature and Antiquities, whom we celebrated in the Academy this morning.

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A lifelong interest in worms, his research into parasites at #Merck helped develop #invermectin and spared millions of people from #RiverBlindness and won him a #NobelPrize . Join us for the launch of his memoir #Catchingtheworm live at 8pm Sun 28 Jun via

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Letter from Crick and Watson to Erwin Schrodinger dated 12 Aug 1953 re: What is Life? & the impact on their careers http://t.co/egMBNcUyR5

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Full house tonight for the launch of 'Death in Irish Prehistory'. Now available to purchase from the RIA website: #RIApublications

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🧐THIS WEEK's #ExploreTheObject Coggalbeg Gold Hoard 2300-2000BC, now part of @NMIreland 's collection. 🌙This unique assemblage of objects include an Early Bronze Age lunula (a crescent-shaped collar, Latin for ‘little moon’) & two gold discs. Read more:

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Launched today: Suffrage Conference. 1 February 2018. Information & Booking here: #V ótáil100

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Today we also launched our strategic plan with the news that the Royal Irish Academy plans to establish a new academy for leading young researchers (via @IrishTimes )

Royal Irish Academy to establish a new academy for leading young researchers

RIA’s new five-year plan launched by Prof Peter Kennedy at admittance day ceremony

www.irishtimes.com

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Congratulations to our 18 Members - elected in 2021 - representing the Sciences and Polite Literature and Antiquities, who signed our historic roll book today in the Royal Irish Academy.

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Congratulations and welcome to our new Member Gerard McElvaney, Professor of Medicine at the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences @RCSI_Education . He is a leading figure internationally in the area of inflammatory lung disease. @RCSI_Irl

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Congratulations to our 27 new Members being admitted by our President Dr Mary Canning at a virtual ceremony now. They are recognised for their scholarly achievements, typically reflecting many years of research, or for significant contributions to Irish society

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#MRIAmonday ✍️ David Stifter @ChronHib "Over the past decade, I have been focusing on the evolution of Old Irish across time... We are still only at the beginning of understanding how a Celtic language came to be spoken all over Ireland." #OG_H_AM

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Welcome to our new Member Mairead Kiely @Kiely_Mairead prof in Human Nutrition @UCC . She is an international leader in the field of micronutrient research, in particular Vitamin D and its impact on health and child development @Infantcentre @NutritionSoc

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Congratulations to our new Hon. MRIA Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Prof of Celtic and Medieval Studies @Cambridge_Uni @Department_ASNC . A pioneer in the interdisciplinary study of medieval Irish literature, language and history @eDIL_Dictionary #AdmittanceDay

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Vaccination isn't a personal choice, it's a public one. The risk posed by not vaccinating is far greater than any risk associated with receiving a vaccine says the RIA's Life and Medical Sciences committee who released their Expert Statement today

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Congratulations to the 2020 winner of the Michel Déon Prize for #nonfiction Conor O'Clery for his book 'The Shoemaker and his Daughter' published by @PenguinIEBooks . Prize funded by @dfatirl

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6 years

#Harp Did you know that Ireland is the only country to use a musical instrument as its national emblem. We have a harp which belonged to Thomas Moore, Hon. MRIA, 1779-1852 on display in our Meeting Room? Pop in for a look.

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#OTD in 1918, the women of Ireland, Mná na hÉireann, were granted suffrage and first cast their ballots in the 1918 election. In 2018, Hon. MRIA Eavan Boland (1944-2020) wrote a poem to mark the centenary: (🖌️ Illustration by @PaulaMcGloin )

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2 years

Beautiful evening at Knowth celebrating the launch of “Excavations at Knowth Volume 7: The Megalithic Art of the Passage Tombs at Knowth, Co. Meath” by George Eogan and Elizabeth Shee Twohig published by @RIAdawson Image 1: Elizabeth Shee Twohig Image 2: Malcom Noonan TD

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📣We are delighted to announce the election of Catherine Godson, MRIA, as the new Secretary for Science and we look forward to working with her. 🙏Thanks and gratitude to Pat Guiry, MRIA, who now stands down from the role

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