The Royal Irish Academy

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.

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-19 vaccination programme could begin before the new year.

Speaking to host Dick Ahlstrom, immunologist Professor Luke O’Neil, MRIA explains why this is such exciting news and why it is such an amazing achievement for science. He responds to some general concerns that people may have around vaccination, explaining the scientific and regulatory process in involved in vaccine approval. And he answers some specific questions sent in by people about vaccination for them or their loved ones.

 

This series is organised by the RIA Life and Medical Sciences Committee

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 National Library of Ireland, National Archives of Ireland, the Royal Irish Academy Library, Representative Church Body Library, Valuation office, University College Cork Library in gathering source material for Dungarvan and Chatsworth House for access to the Devonshire estate papers.

Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 30, Dungarvan/Dún Garbhán by John Martin is published by the Royal Irish Academy with support from Waterford City and County Council and in association with Ordnance Survey Ireland. It is available to buy online here for €30.

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

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 Lawlor (Chair) - RTÉ broadcaster

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, and the transition between the two.

Chair: James Kelly, MRIA (DCU)

Panellists:

Jacqueline Hill, MRIA (Maynooth University)

Professor Vincent Comerford (Maynooth University)

Panel Two

Consequences: The First Hundred Years, 1869–1969

While the legislative act of Disestablishment was an event, the process of adapting the newly Disestablished Church to the social, political and cultural changes of late 19th century Ireland was much more complex. This panel discussion deals with that process.

Chair: Revd Trevor Sargent (Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise)

Panellists:

Dr Marie Coleman (Queen’s University Belfast)

Dr Ian d’Alton (Trinity College Dublin)

Professor Alan Ford (The University of Nottingham)

Dr Miriam Moffitt (St Patrick’s College, Maynooth)

Panel Three

Challenges: Since 1969

1969 marked a century of Disestablishment. This session will assess developments since 1969 and the Church’s role in and contribution to the island’s future.

Chair: Ms Áine Lawlor, journalist and broadcaster

Panellists:

Senator Ivana Bacik

Revd Professor Anne Lodge (Dublin City University)

Martin Mansergh, MRIA

Dr Andrew Pierce (Trinity College Dublin)

Closing

Most Revd Michael Jackson, Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough [time code 03:39:40]

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 compilation that had been made in 1638 for Brian Mac Cú Chonnacht Mág Uidhir. The older manuscript had fallen into disrepair and Brian Mág Uidhir of Knockninny invited scholars to assemble manuscript sources at Knockninny so that scribes could produce a new Book of Knockninny in 1718.

The contents include Gabháltas na hÉireann, Réim Ríoghraidhe na hÉireann, Seanchas na Naomh nÉireannach, Cath Mhaighe Léana, Teagasc Rí Solmain, the Ó Cléirigh recension of the Leabhar Gabhála, and a variety of historical poems. It also contains poems from the early seventeenth-century poetic dispute known as Iomarbhagh na bhFileadh.

Disclaimer:

The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information contained in any of the materials. The views expressed are the authors’ own and not those of the Royal Irish Academy.

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 older compilation that had been made in 1638 for Brian Mac Cú Chonnacht Mág Uidhir. The older manuscript had fallen into disrepair and Brian Mág Uidhir of Knockninny invited scholars to assemble manuscript sources at Knockninny so that scribes could produce a new Book of Knockninny in 1718.

The contents include Gabháltas na hÉireann, Réim Ríoghraidhe na hÉireann, Seanchas na Naomh nÉireannach, Cath Mhaighe Léana, Teagasc Rí Solmain, the Ó Cléirigh recension of the Leabhar Gabhála, and a variety of historical poems. It also contains poems from the early seventeenth-century poetic dispute known as Iomarbhagh na bhFileadh.

Disclaimer:

The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information contained in any of the materials. The views expressed are the authors’ own and not those of the Royal Irish Academy.

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.

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 funding under the government’s PRTLI (Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions) scheme.

Professor Canny’s international standing as a historian has been recognised both through his election to fellowship in a number of other academies, including the British Academy and the American Philosophical Society, and his appointment as editor for the first volume of The Oxford History of the British Empire.

Professor Canny served as President of the Royal Irish Academy from 2008-2011, and subsequently was appointed by the European Commission as a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (2011-16). There he was elected by his peers to serve as Chair of the Open Access Committee where he succeeded in having the Commission’s Open Access rules made more hospitable for researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences.

Peter Kennedy, President of the Royal Irish Academy congratulated Professor Canny for his enormous contribution to scholarship, and for his work to further the objectives of the Academy where, since his election in 1981, he has served repeatedly both on Council and in Office most notably as President from 2008-2011.

On hearing the news that he was to be the 2020 Cunningham Medallist, Professor Canny said that association with the Royal Irish Academy had helped to guide and enrich his work throughout most of his career and that this award of the Academy’s highest honour had placed him further in its debt.