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Public lecture by Sara Day Thomson of the Digital Preservation Coalition. This talk, co-organised by the Digital Repository of Ireland and the National Archives, Ireland, focuses on the power of a personal digital archive and the importance of determining a course of action for safeguarding that archive. It prompts us to start thinking about how we manage our digital files and how we may access or share them in the future.

Sara Day Thomson discusses the question ‘what is digital archiving?’ before moving on to choosing which files to keep, how to name digital files, and what file formats to use. She shares insights into how to capture web and social media content and useful tips on how to back up files for long-term archiving.

Location: Academy House

Date: 26 September 2019

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Mr Michael Ring T.D., Minister for Rural and Community Development, launched the Rural Conversations report on Wednesday, 4 September 2019 at the Royal Irish Academy.

Rural Conversations was a series of three rural stakeholder consultative events produced by the RIA’s Social Sciences Committee in association with the Department of Rural and Community Development. Stakeholders’ feedback on economic development, social cohesion and sustainable communities in rural Ireland was recorded at each of the events. The findings from that feedback and suggestions for future rural policy by a broad range of rural stakeholders are presented in this report.

NUI Galway, Dundalk Institute of Technology and Waterford Institute of Technology hosted the series in their institutions, as cluster centres to accommodate a wide representation of stakeholders drawn from around the country.

Read more about the series and listen back to the individual events on our website: https://www.ria.ie/rural-conversations

Speaker: Professor Peter Gray, Queens University Belfast, and Assoc. Professor Emily Mark-FitzGerald, University College Dublin,

A Library Lunchtime Lecture exploring the life of Count Strzelecki, a Polish humanitarian who saved over 200,000 children during the Great Irish Famine. This lecture accompanied the exhibition 'A Forgotten Polish Hero of the Great Irish Famine: Paul Strzelecki’s Struggle to Save Thousands'.

Location: Academy House

Date: Wednesday 12 June 2019

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Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon participated in a wide-ranging discussion with journalist Dearbhail McDonald including a short Q&A session to close in the Royal Irish Academy on 27 May 2019.

Nicola Sturgeon Biography

Born in Irvine in 1970 and educated at Greenwood Academy, she studied law at the University of Glasgow where she graduated with LLB (Hons) and Diploma in legal practice.

Before entering the Scottish Parliament as a regional MSP for Glasgow in 1999 she worked as a solicitor in the Drumchapel Law and Money Advice Centre in Glasgow.

She is currently MSP for Glasgow Southside having been, before boundary changes, MSP for Govan between 2007 and 2011.

In government she served as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing between May 2007 and September 2012 and then Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities with responsibility for government strategy and the constitution until November 2014. Throughout this period she also served as Deputy First Minister of Scotland.

She became leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) on November 14, 2014 and was sworn in as First Minister on November 20, 2014. She lives in Glasgow with her husband Peter Murrell.

This panel discussion took place on 1 May 2019 at the Royal Irish Academy.

Panellists explored the challenges and opportunities that digital and social media opens in our society and the growing case, across Europe, for online content regulation and controls.

Panelists discussed questions such as; How do we balance the civil freedom of expression that online provides while protecting the common good? What is the balance of responsibilities of the Internet global companies behind social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook and how well is Ireland facing up to these challenges?

The group of panelists brought together academics and practitioners who will contribute their expertise, insight and academic research to the discussion.

Dr Maria Helen Murphy, Lecturer in Law at Maynooth University.

Professor Brian O'Neill, Director of Research and Dean of the Graduate Research School at TU Dublin, City Campus.

Gavin Sheridan is CEO and co-founder of Vizlegal—a global API and intelligence tool for law. He is the former Director of Innovation at Storyful. Professor Eugenia Siapera is Professor of Information and Communication Studies and Head of the School of Information and Communication Studies, UCD.

The panel discussion was facilitated by Helen Shaw, CEO Athena Media and member of the RIA's Social Sciences Committee

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Gaye Ashford on three C18th sisters - Katherine Conolly, Jane Bonnell and Mary Jones. The fourth lecture in our series 'Sisters' celebrating the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who have made their mark on Irish life.

Location: Academy House

Date: Wednesday 10 April, 2019

Speaker:

Dr Gaye Ashford, a graduate of Dublin City University (DCU), is a historian of the eighteenth century with a particular interest in the history of childhood. She has published widely on topics relating to children’s health, and education. Her latest publication, The letters of Katherine Conolly 1707-1747, was published by the Irish Manuscripts Commission (ICM) in December 2018.

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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Lucy Collins, School of English, Drama & Film, UCD. The third lecture in our series 'Sisters', celebrating sisterhood and specifically the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who made their mark on Irish life.

Location: Academy House

Date: Wednesday 3 April, 2019

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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Margaret Ward, Honorary Senior Lecturer in History at Queen’s University, Belfast. The Second lecture in our series 'Sisters', celebrating sisterhood and specifically the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who made their mark on Irish life.

Location: Academy House

Date: Wednesday 27 March, 2019

Speaker:

Dr Margaret Ward is Honorary Senior Lecturer in History at Queen’s University, Belfast. Amongst her many publications are Unmanageable Revolutionaries: women and Irish Nationalism (1983), biographies of Maud Gonne and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and edited works (with Louise Ryan), Irish Women and the Vote: Becoming Citizens and Irish Women and Nationalism. Her latest book is Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: suffragette and Sinn Feiner, her memoirs and political writings, UCD Press, 2017. Her updated biography Fearless Woman: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Feminism and the Irish Revolution is forthcoming UCD Press, 2019.

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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Mary O'Dowd, MRIA, Queen's University of Belfast. The fifth lecture in our series 'Sisters' celebrating the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who have made their mark on Irish life.

Location: Academy House

Date: Wednesday 10 April, 2019

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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Sonja Tiernan, Associate Professor of Modern History and Head of Department of History and Politics at Liverpool Hope University. The first lecture in our series 'Sisters' celebrating the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who have made their mark on Irish life. series celebrating sisterhood and specifically the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who made their mark on Irish life.

Location: Academy House.

Date: Wednesday 13 March, 2019.

Speaker:

Sonja Tiernan is an Associate Professor of Modern History and Head of Department of History and Politics at Liverpool Hope University. Sonja has held fellowships at the National Library of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, Keogh-Naughton Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame and at the School of Irish Studies at Concordia University. Sonja has published extensively on modern Irish women’s history. Her most recent publication Eva Gore-Booth: Collected Poems (2018) includes a foreword by President Michael D. Higgins; Sonja’s other books include the biography of Eva Gore-Booth (2012) and a volume of Eva Gore-Booth’s political writings (2015) as well as articles on Constance Markievicz.

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