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Fostering excellence and scholarship to enrich society, e. 1785.

Home to the RIA Library, 8 research programmes & a publishing house.

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Not all meat alternatives are created equal.

The new @easac.bsky.social report shows: climate & health benefits depend on ingredients, processing, & production methods.

We’ll unpack the evidence at “Meat the Future?” — Dec 4, RIA: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalirishacademy/1917238
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 7, Annals of the Four Masters. Two full sets of the annals of Irish history from A.M. 2242 - A.D. 1616 were completed by Franciscan scholars, now known as the Four Masters.
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Jane Ohlmeyer is Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at @tcddublin.bsky.social

Learn more about her research here: https://www.ria.ie/blog/jane-ohlmeyer-mria-historian/

#RoyalIrishAcademy #RIAGoldMedals
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Panel alert!

At the 'Meat the Future?' event we’ll hear from scientists, industry folks, policy makers & civil society.

We'll ask: can meat alternatives really help Europe meet its climate and health goals — or is the hype ahead of the evidence?
November 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Join us on 25 November at the RIA for the second Discourse Series event, ‘Cyber resilience, trust and digital security’. This discussion will examine how trust, security and resilience are built and tested in our interconnected digital world.

Book now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Congratulations to Dublin and Belfast on hosting iPRES 2030! We are delighted to see this leading digital preservation conference coming to Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Read more: www.ria.ie/2025/11/06/b...
We are thrilled to announce that Dublin and Belfast will host iPRES (the International Conference on Digital Preservation) in 2030🎉
We're delighted with this opportunity and look forward to collaborating with our partners to create a fantastic iPRES 2030!
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Dublin and Belfast to host iPRES 2030 - Digital Repository of Ireland
We are delighted to announce that iPRES (the International Conference on Digital Preservation) will be held in Belfast and Dublin in September 2030. Following an open call for global hosts for the yea...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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"The stories of sex and surveillance that are captured in Presbyterian church records reveal much about how communities attempted to monitor one another's behaviour."

In RTÉ Brainstorm, UL's Dr Leanne Calvert shares a selection of stories from her new book.

Read on: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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November 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Discover the 2025–26 Royal Irish Academy Discourse Series!

The Royal Irish Academy’s Discourse Series, the oldest and most renowned series of public talks in Ireland, returns with a powerful new theme: Resilience.

Explore all the upcoming dates and themes here: www.ria.ie/2025/10/29/d...
November 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Thank you to everyone who took part in today’s event
'The Troubles and the European Community: Exploring DIFP XIV (1969–73)'.
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Considering what 'meat' could mean in the future? Join us on 4 Dec 2025 at the Royal Irish Academy for 'Meat the Future?', a panel & conversation about how meat-alternatives might help Europe deliver on climate, health & food system goals.

Book your tickets now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...
November 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The MS of the week is RIA MS 23 E 25, Lebor na hUidre, also known as the Book of the Dun Cow. Written in Irish at Clonmacnoise before AD 1106, it contains the oldest version of the Táin Bó Cuailgne, the Voyage of Bran, the Feast of Bricriú, and other material from the Irish literary tradition.
November 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Thank you to everyone who joined us at the RIA on 30 October for the launch of Irish Historic Town Atlas no. 32 Ballyshannon/Béal Átha Seanaidh, along with the release of the Digital Atlas of Ballyshannon/Béal Átha Seanaidh.
November 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Happy Halloween!

In pre-Christian Ireland, Samhain marked the shift from summer’s light to winter’s dark. But it was also the time when the barrier between this world and the Otherworld was at its thinnest, allowing spirits to pass through to our realm, where they were appeased with food and drink
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Royal Irish Academy on 22 October 2025 to celebrate the launch of Deeds of the Guild of St Anne, 1237 – 1778, a new digital resource created in partnership with the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social and the @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Inside Sheridan Le Fanu's spooky world of Gothic ghosts and ghouls. The writer's early life in Dublin and reading material give valuable insights into his ghostly tales and supernatural horror stories, write @rothweeee.bsky.social & Ailbhe Rogers @ria.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Inside Sheridan Le Fanu's spooky world of Gothic ghosts & ghouls
The writer's early life in Dublin and reading material give valuable insights into his ghostly tales and supernatural horror stories
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October 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
RIA is partnering with Geographical Society of Ireland to present a panel event exploring Geography and Geosciences in the School Curriculum with keynote by @dhkaplanoh.bsky.social Kent State University

Book now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

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October 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
This Halloween, delve into the world of 'ghost words' with Dr Anthony Harvey, Editor of the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources (DMLCS).
Haunting Vocabulary and Celtic Lexicography: Towards a...
Most Humanities scholars probably have an intuitive sense of what is meant by a “ghost word” – it is a word that, in one way or another, exists as...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The RIA is pleased to share the report from last year’s genomics and AI policy workshop, held with the @acmedsci.bsky.social

We hope it helps policymakers, funders and researchers strengthen regional initiatives.

Read the full report here: acmedsci.ac.uk/file-downloa...
October 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
#BiographyoftheWeek from the Dictionary of Irish Biography.

To celebrate Hallowe'en, this week we are featuring some of the spookier entries in the DIB, starting with writer, barrister, and theatre manager Abraham 'Bram' Stoker, born in Clontarf.
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
On 16 October, we were honoured to welcome Nobel Laureate Professor Kip Thorne and Minister James Lawless to the 2025 Hamilton Prize Ceremony.

Sponsored by Ibec, this annual award celebrates Ireland’s top undergraduate mathematics students.

Read the full story here: www.ria.ie/2025/10/17/m...
October 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 O 48(b), Liber Flavus Fergusiorum. The contents of this Irish-language manuscript are mainly religious tracts, lives of the saints, passions and homilies and some legendary episodes from the Ulster cycle and the tale of Fortinbras (Stair Fierabhrais).
October 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Join us on 4 Nov at the RIA for a seminar on the latest volume of @difp-ria.bsky.social (1969-73), exploring Irish policy on Northern Ireland and Europe and how history can inform today’s foreign policy-making.

Book your tickets now: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalirishacademy/1887300
October 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Thanks to OMahonys in Limerick having me down yesterday to sign copies of my book ❤️ first time I've personally seen it in a bookshop! @ria.ie @ulhistory.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
#IrishBookWeek | Day 8: Share an Irish Book you discovered at a bookshop event

For the final day of Irish Book Week, The Royal Irish Academy and A Novel Idea are giving away 1 signed copy of Ballyshannon/Béal Átha Seanaidh: Irish Historic Towns Atlas, no. 32 by Angela Byrne, published by RIA.
October 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Check out the review of For and Against a united Ireland in this weekends @irishtimes.com:

"For and Against a United Ireland by Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride: Arguing to end apathy of ‘undecideds’ Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride demonstrate the importance of free and reasoned deliberation."
October 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM