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7 January 1922: The Ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty

Read Richard Bourke’s essay ‘Political Thought in Revolutionary Ireland’ on Century Ireland.

‘Ireland 1922’ on RTÉ’s Century Ireland

50 essays exploring a year that transformed Ireland available for online reading.

Watch: The Centenary of the Anglo Irish Debates

If you missed the recent conference on the Centenary of the Anglo Irish Debates, you can watch it now online.

Climate and Society in Ireland podcast ep. 4: Graeme Warren

In the final episode of Climate and Society in Ireland, Gill Plunkett talks to Graeme Warren about the impact of climate change on the earliest…

Watch Ireland’s Grasslands and Carbon

In the sixth in this series of Climate Conversations held on 24 November 2021, Professor Matthew Saunders gave a talk on Ireland’s Grasslands and Carbon.

Climate and Society in Ireland podcast ep. 3: Bruce Campbell and Francis Ludlow

In episode 3, host Gill Plunkett talks to Bruce Campbell and Francis Ludlow about climate change as a major but neglected grand theme of late…

Climate and Society in Ireland podcast ep. 2: Lucy Collins

In episode 2 of our new podcast, host Gill Plunkett talks to Lucy Collins about representations of climate change in Irish poetry between 1600 and…

Blogpost: IAP 2021 Young Physicians Leaders Programme

Dr Eimear Duff recently represented the Academy at the IAP 2021 Young Physicians Leaders Programme.

Climate and Society in Ireland podcast ep. 1: John Sweeney

In this first episode of our new podcast, host Gill Plunkett talks to John Sweeney about the challenges posed by climate change over the past…

Higher Education Futures Series

The Higher Education Futures Taskforce has developed a series of discussion papers on the future of higher education.

Rathmines now published

Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Dublin suburbs series, no. 2 Rathmines by Séamas Ó Maitiú is now available.

Thirty new entries added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography

The Dictionary of Irish Biography has added thirty new entries to its corpus of nearly 11,000 entries. These include stage school founder Billie Barry (1927–2014);…