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@Library_RIA
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'The Royal Irish Academy’s Strategic Plan 2024-28 outlines a bold and ambitious vision for the next five years, where we will leverage our role as an independent voice to shape a more inclusive, sustainable future.'
- Pat Guiry PRIA
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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'
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
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
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
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
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
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
#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.
👉
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
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 👏
🎉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👏
➡
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
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:
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 👋
#RIAAdmittanceDay
is a special day in our annual calendar. This afternoon, 28 newly elected Members were officially admitted to the Academy, for their exceptional contributions to the sciences, humanities and social sciences, as well as to public service.
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
#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
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
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
.
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🕊
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'
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
.
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
📣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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
🏴🇮🇪👇
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 👏👏
We are delighted to publish 'Knowth' this week.
Edited by Helena King of
#RIApublications
, this is a guide for
#Knowth
visitors as well as readers further afield!
Packed with information, photos, illustrations & site maps - order from or your local
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
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
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
#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.
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 👏👏
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
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.
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
'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
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
👏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
Our new Member
@EvePatten9
is professor of English
@tcddublin
, director of
@TLRHub
. Recognised internationally as an authority on 19th century Ireland & for her nuanced explorations of Irish-English cultural dialogue.
Learn about
#RIAAdmittanceDay
2024:
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.
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
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
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:
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
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
‘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
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:
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:
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
'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
🧐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:
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
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
Congratulations to our Members - elected in 2020 - representing the Sciences and Polite Literature and Antiquities, whom we celebrated in the Academy this morning.
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
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
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
)
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
)
#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
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.
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
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
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
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