The Royal Irish Academy

The RIA Library held a lunchtime lecture to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of Cynthia Longfield's adventure on the St George Expedition. Cynthia set out on the St George Expedition travelling across the Atlantic and around the South Sea Islands. To talk about this voyage of discovery, Dr Angela Byrne gave a lunchtime lecture, on Tuesday 9 April 2024, entitled 'Cynthia Longfield and the St George expedition of 1924: the making of an entomologist'.

Image: Cynthia Longfield sitting in a palm-leaf shelter, Panama. June 1924 (RIA LRC/27/17)

Host Rory Montgomery is joined by Pat Leahy, Political Editor of the Irish Times and Mark Hennessy, Ireland and Britain Editor of the Irish Times. Their conversation focuses on how north-south and east-west relationships are covered in the media and the recently launched Irish Times initiative, 'Common Ground', which examines the constitutional issues facing Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

https://www.irishtimes.com/common-ground/

This is episode 32 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.

Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.

ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at ⁠⁠www.arinsproject.com⁠⁠.

ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.

Host Rory Montgomery is joined by Professor John Doyle, VP for research at DCU, Dr Esmond Birnie, senior economist, University of Ulster and Professor Edgar Morgenroth, professor of Economics at DCU to discuss the the UK financial ‘subvention’ to Northern Ireland. Their conversation is based around Doyle's paper arguing that the 'subvention' does not matter and Birnie's response arguing that it does.

Doyle's paper 'Why the ‘Subvention’ does not Matter: Northern Ireland and the All-Ireland Economy' can be read here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/810176/pdf

Birnie's response is here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913623/pdf

This is episode 31 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.

Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.

ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.

ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.

In this month’s ARINS Podcast host Rory Montgomery interviews Dr Andrea Mulligan, Trinity College Dublin, and Dr Clayton Ó Néill, Queens University Belfast, authors of Health Law: Convergence and Divergence on the Island of Ireland. The authors identify the formation of health law north and south across public and private law and the constitutional, policy, and legislative changes that have shaped and re-shaped healthcare in both jurisdictions. Specifically, the implementation of laws north and south regarding healthcare rights and capacity law, the ability to consent and refuse medical treatment, the specific requirements, and interpretations of conscientious objection to abortion, discrimination and disability, and the development of criminal negligence law in both jurisdictions.

This is episode 30 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.

Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.

ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.

ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.

In the January ARINS podcast on the ARINS/IrishTimes survey Rory Montgomery hosts Professors John Garry (QUB) and Brendan O’Leary (UPENN) authors of the survey along with Dr Jamie Pow (QUB).

Together they scrutinise the intriguing findings of the ARINS/Irish Times survey and disentangle the answers to seasoned questions asked in the ’22 Survey, while exploring the perceptions and expectations posed in the answers to innovative new questions about the short and long run costs of the economics of the status quo and unification.

Find out more about the survey: https://www.ria.ie/news/arins-analysis-and-research-ireland-north-and-south/initial-findings-new-arinsthe-irish-times

This is episode 29 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.

Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.

ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.

ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.

Anurag Dep is a PhD researcher in law at QUB and Ian Jeffers commissioner for Victims and Survivors in Northern Ireland, soon to be chief executive of Cooperation Ireland speak to our host Rory Montgomery about the legal framework of provision of rights and support to victims of crime in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

What legal frameworks support the rights for victims of crime? How have rights harmonised north and south? How has provision for victims and victims' rights on the island of Ireland changed? How did the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement support the position of victims? How have we changed to put victims at the heart of the justice process?

Read Deb's paper of the same name: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/article/909440

This is episode 28 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.

Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.

ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.

ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.

In this month’s ARINScast Paul Gosling author of 'A New Ireland' and 'Lessons from the Troubles and the Unsettled Peace', shares his insights regarding the quality of life, the standard and cost of living, and disparities in disposable income, (income inequality) in and across Northern Ireland, Ireland and Britain with Professor John Fitzgerald and our ARINS host Rory Montgomery. Drawing on Gosling’s regional comparisons, in educational attainment, technical skills, productivity, and housing they explore why the cost of living crisis impacts Northern Ireland more readily than the Republic and Great Britain.

https://www.ria.ie/news/arins-analysis-and-research-ireland-north-and-south/who-better-those-northern-ireland-ireland

This is episode 27 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.

Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.

ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.

ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.

This month’s ARINS podcast examines how the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement has functioned over the 25 years since it was signed, and how it is currently received. Host Rory Montgomery speaks with Professor Alan Renwick and Conor J. Kelly authors of the UCL constitution unit’s report on Perspectives on the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement: Examining Diverse Views, 1998-2003.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/publications/unit-reports

The report offers an array of perspectives shared in political party manifestos, in interviews and in focus groups for UCL’s constitution unit. The insights offered by politicians, academics, civil society representatives, from across the political spectrum in Northern Ireland, Britain and Ireland, show the impact and importance of the Agreement after twenty five years and identify the ways in which the different strands of the agreement have instituted a robust level of stability thus far weathering perceived vulnerabilities including wavering interest from London and Dublin and the ebb and flow of trust in and from political parties. The report’s findings demonstrate the success of the agreement as a peace treaty and the need for unwavering commitment from the parties to peace to listen to the needs, fears and anxieties of the constituencies and communities in Northern Ireland.

Professor Alan Renwick, Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit in UCL. He also chaired the Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland. He is an expert in the mechanisms through which citizens can participate in formal politics.

Conor J. Kelly is a PhD student at Birkbeck College, University of London. He previously worked for the Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland.

This is episode 26 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.

Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.

ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com.

ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.

In this ARINS Podcast hosted by Rory Montgomery, Professor Jennifer Todd from UCD and Professor John Doyle DCU discuss their recent article with co-author Dr Joanne McEvoy (University of Aberdeen) titled 'Time for Deliberation, not Decision, on the Shape of a New United Ireland: Evidence from the ARINS Survey focus groups.'

Together they explore the power of focus group findings for Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South. We understand the views of people who said they were undecided in how they might vote in a referendum on the future of Northern Ireland. We learn how important issues are identified from perceptions of identity to the understanding of the workings of power-sharing, public policy processes, and governance and institution preferences for people North and South. Based on their findings Professors Doyle and Todd share their insights into how to create sustained and systemic processes of discussion and deliberation processes in tandem with survey findings to help us address the need for greater information and knowledge transfer, across the island.

This is episode 25 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south.

Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research.

ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com

ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.

Discover the ARINS podcast through the clips you hear here. If you want to hear more from any of the podcast episodes included find the episode names below:

In order of appearance:

Two labour markets - John FitzGerald and Tom McDonnell

Police governance, oversight and accountability in a united Ireland - Vicky Conway (RIP) and Roger MacGinty,

The ARINS/Irish Times survey: origins and outcomes - Brendan O'Leary and John Garry

One Good Day - Tim O'Donnell and David Donoghue

Irish and Ullan Language(s) - Roisin Costello and Brian O’Conchubhair