Blogs

Discourse Series | The neuroscience of resilience: building brains to withstand life

Royal Irish Academy, 14 April 2026 This Royal Irish Academy Discourse considered resilience in the face of personal trauma. Discourse speakers: Professor George Bonanno, professor of…

The RIA’s fifteenth-century Euclid: a work of many hands

In this blog Dr Philip Beeley introduces the Royal Irish Academy’s copy of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry, printed in 1482 by the German printer Erhard…

Irish emigrants to the ‘Big Apple’

In the latest DIB blog, Turlough O’Riordan delves into fascinating Irish emigrants who settled in New York City.

Paul McSweeney MRIA, Science

Paul McSweeney is Full Professor of Food Chemistry in the School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University College Cork (UCC), where, for the last number…

The lost lives of prisoners in Grangegorman Female Penitentiary

In this article, Brian Crowley gives an insight into the lives of individual women imprisoned in Grangegorman Female Penitentiary, Britain and Ireland’s first female-only prison.…

The human face of nineteenth century Irish science: the diaries of Henry and Harriette Kinahan

Guest author Peadar McArdle describes what the Kinahan Collection at RIA Library has revealed about 19th century geologist Henry Kinahan MRIA, and his wife, Harriette,…

Discourse Series | ‘All-island infrastructure resilience: how prepared are we?’

Royal Irish Academy, 11 March 2026 This Royal Irish Academy Discourse grappled with the issue of infrastructure preparedness in a changing climate. Discourse speakers: Professor…

Ink & Innovation: A Royal Irish Academy Library Exhibition

A new exhibition of the earliest printed books in the collection of the Royal Irish Academy Library.