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Rozmowa Piotra Szczepańskiego z prof. Przemysławem Urbańczykiem w ramach cyklu #rozmowyWszechnicy [7 lutego 2025 r.] Tysiąc lat temu, w roku 1025, w czerwcu, Bolesław Chrobry został koronowanym władcą Polski. Zapowiadane są obchody, konkursy, planowane wydarzenia "patriotyzmy przyszłości i przeszłości". Wszechnica zajmie się tym, dlaczego ten akt (koronacji) był ważny, wszak ojciec Bolesława, Mieszko I stworzył to państwo, a koronowany nie był. A w ogóle to dlaczego Chrobry? I kto go tak nazwał? Jak do tego doszło, co się wydarzyło, skąd się wzięli ludzie, którzy wynieśli Mieszka i Bolesława do tych godności? Z czym musieli się mierzyć? Jakich mieli sąsiadów i jak się z nimi układali. Czy już wtedy istniały interesy strategiczne? Jak je widziano i jak je realizowano?Będzie o naszych przodkach i ojcach założycielach naszego państwa. O tym, czy Chrobry to odpowiedni symbol dla nacjonalistycznych organizacji. O tym jak obchodzić te tysiąc lat w naszym sołectwie czy miasteczku..., i o kontaktach z wikingami... i o małżeństwach dynastycznych w całej Europie... i o wyprawie na Kijów (nie, nie Marszałka Piłsudskiego)... i o współpracy z Niemcami, Węgrami, Rusinami... i o kłótniach z nimi... I jak o tym wszystkim opowiadać dzieciom też będzie.Zapraszamy na rozmowę (albo rozmowy, bo trudno sobie wyobrazić, że ten pasjonujący temat da się omówić w czasie jednego spotkania) Wszechnicy z prof. Przemysławem Urbańczykiem, autorem wielu książek (o nich też będzie), archeologiem i mediewistą. Prof. dr hab. Przemysław Urbańczyk – mediewista i archeolog, profesor zwyczajny Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie oraz Instytutu Archeologii i Etnologii PAN. W latach 2017–2023 pełnił funkcję dyrektora Polish Institute of Advanced Studies (PIASt) PAN. Członek Komitetu Nauk Pra- i Protohistorycznych PAN wszystkich kadencji, reprezentował Polskę w European Science Foundation, Europa Nostra, ALLEA i ESFRI. Uczestniczył w licznych panelach recenzyjnych, m.in. European Research Council, Irish Research Council oraz Narodowego Centrum Nauki. Współpracował z programem „Horizon 2020” jako ekspert doradczy oraz brał udział w interdyscyplinarnych projektach badawczych. Autor ponad 550 publikacji z zakresu historii i archeologii wczesnego średniowiecza, koncentrujących się na Polsce, Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej, Skandynawii i wyspach północnego Atlantyku. Prowadził badania terenowe m.in. w Polsce, Anglii, Norwegii, Peru, Kuwejcie, na Barbudzie i Islandii. Wypromował 12 doktorów. Odznaczony m.in. Medalem Komisji Edukacji Narodowej (1991), Złotym Krzyżem Zasługi (1993), Krzyżem Kawalerskim (2015) i Oficerskim (2022) Orderu Odrodzenia Polski. Laureat nagród, w tym Medalu im. Księżnej Aleksandry Ogińskiej (2008) i Nagrody Lednickiego Orła Piastowskiego (2021).Jeśli chcesz wspierać Wszechnicę w dalszym tworzeniu treści, organizowaniu kolejnych #rozmówWszechnicy, możesz:1. Zostać Patronem Wszechnicy FWW w serwisie https://patronite.pl/wszechnicafww2. Możesz wspierać nas, robiąc zakupy za pomocą serwisu Fanimani.pl - https://tiny.pl/wkwpk3. Możesz przekazać nam darowiznę na cele statutowe tradycyjnym przelewemDarowizny dla Fundacji Wspomagania Wsi można przekazywać na konto nr:33 1600 1462 1808 7033 4000 0001Fundacja Wspomagania WsiZnajdź nas: https://www.youtube.com/c/WszechnicaFWW/https://www.facebook.com/WszechnicaFWW1/https://anchor.fm/wszechnicaorgpl---historiahttps://anchor.fm/wszechnica-fww-naukahttps://wszechnica.org.pl/#historia #mediewista #1025 #chrobry #mieszko #piastowie

In this special feature length episode we dive into the enchanting history of Christmas lights. We are joined by two incredibly distinguished guests: Dr. Niamh Wycherley, a medieval historian and Principal Investigator of a major Irish Research Council project on medieval Ireland, and Jamie Malanowski, a celebrated writer and editor with contributions to The New Yorker, Time, and Vanity Fair. Together, they explore the cultural, historical, and technological journey of Christmas lights—from their medieval symbolism to their transformation into dazzling modern displays. With expert insights, humour, and holiday charm, this episode promises a festive exploration of the lights that brighten our winters. Join our host David McGovern for this fun, Christmas special.

The 1st episode of our 6th season features a conversation between Irish author and 2024 Heimbold Chair Emilie Pine, Villanova creative writing professor Adrienne Perry, Villanova student Charlotte Ralston and Center Director Joseph Lennon. They have a wide-ranging discussion about the writing process, flow and the role of the reader. - - - Emilie Pine is an award-winning Irish creative writer and scholar. Dr. Pine is professor of Modern Drama in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. She has published widely as an academic and critic, including The Politics of Irish Memory: Performing Remembrance in Contemporary Irish Culture (Palgrave, 2011), and most recently The Memory Marketplace: Witnessing Pain in Contemporary Theatre (Indiana University Press, 2020). Dr. Pine served as editor of the Irish University Review from 2017 to 2021. Widely regarded as a leading scholar of Irish cultural memory, Dr. Pine led Industrial Memories, an Irish Research Council funded project to witness Ireland's historic institutional abuse. She continues to run the ongoing oral-history project Survivors Stories with the National Folklore Collection. As a writer, Dr. Pine collaborated with ANU Productions on the Ulysses 2.2 project in 2023, creating All Hardest of Woman at the National Maternity Hospital. Her first play, Good Sex, was a collaboration with Dead Centre Theatre Company, and was shortlisted for Best New Play and Best Production at the 2023 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards. She is the author of the bestselling essay collection, Notes to Self, which won the 2018 Irish Book of the Year award and has been translated into 15 languages. Her novel Ruth & Pen (2022) won the 2023 Kate O'Brien First Novel Award. Adrienne Perry, earned her MFA from Warren Wilson College, and her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. From 2014-2016 she served as the Editor of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. In 2020, Adrienne received the inaugural Elizabeth Alexander Prize in Creative Writing from Meridians journal. Adrienne's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Professor of literature and creative writing at Villanova University. Charlotte Ralston recently graduated in 2024 with a BA English and Psychology with minor in Irish Studies.

Filling in for Anton this weekend, Dermot Whelan was joined by Dr. Katy Brown, a Postdoctoral fellow at Maynooth University through the Irish Research Council. In recent months, there had been a troubling surge in riot activity across Ireland, Northern Ireland, and the UK, sparking widespread concern and debate. Dr. Brown discussed her research into far-right discourse in the media and whether media coverage could be contributing to the unrest.

Was Brigit a true feminist icon? Was she even real? Or merely made up by a man to exploit the veneration of a 'pagan' goddess? All this and more in our special St Brigit's Day episode with Prof. Catherine McKenna (Harvard University) to celebrate the Brigit 1500 commemorations in 2024. Happy St Brigit's Day! Hosted by Dr Niamh Wycherley. Regular episodes every two weeks (on a Friday). Email: medievalirishhistory@gmail.com Twitter X: @EarlyIrishPod Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University, & the Irish Research Council. Views expressed are the speakers' own. Production: Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva. Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa Music: Lexin_Music --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/medievalirishhistory/message

In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Ann Marie Durkan will introduce the maps she prepared, which locate animals and animal-related businesses in Dublin City in 1911. It provides an insight into how in 1901, 803 Dubliners worked as cattle dealers, drovers, farriers and vets, yet over the course of the 20th century most of these animals, and most of these jobs, disappeared. Ann Marie Durkan is an Irish Research Council funded PhD candidate in Dublin City University.This episode was recorded at the Central Library, on October 3, 2023.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Were towns introduced by vikings? Were the Irish settled around monastic centres? What actually is a 'town' and what is 'monastic'? In this episode, Dr. Niamh Wycherley invites Dr. Michael Potterton, lecturer in the Department of History at Maynooth University, to discuss some key aspects and intersections between medieval history and archaeology. One of the subjects discussed here is the ongoing 'monastic town' debate, which has been around for decades in academic circles. (Disclaimer: No, you haven't gone back in time. It is 2024. We recorded before Christmas and weren't clever enough to say 2024 instead of 2023 when mentioning the year!) Regular episodes every two weeks (on a Friday). Email: medievalirishhistory@gmail.com Twitter X: @EarlyIrishPod Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University, & the Irish Research Council. Views expressed are the speakers' own. Production: Tiago de Oliveiro Veloso Silva. Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa Music: Lexin_Music --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/medievalirishhistory/message

This episode explores the networks and social relations involving arguably the most famous woman of the Irish Middle Ages, Ireland's 'Helen of Troy' — Queen Derbforgaill of Bréifne. Host Dr Niamh Wycherley chats with Dr Seán Ó Hoireabhárd of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies about her independent wealth and status, whether she caused the English invasion of Ireland, and whether she and her husband Tigernán Ua Ruairc were the hot power couple of 12th century Ireland. Regular episodes every two weeks (on a Friday). Email: medievalirishhistory@gmail.com Twitter X: @EarlyIrishPod Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University, & the Irish Research Council. Views expressed are the speakers' own. Production: Tiago de Oliveiro Veloso Silva. Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa Music: Lexin_Music --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/medievalirishhistory/message

Santa is not the only bearded guy bringing gifts around this time of year, the vikings are here! In this episode, Dr Niamh Wycherley explores the so-called viking age in medieval Ireland with Prof. Clare Downham, Professor of Medieval History at the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool. Regular episodes every two weeks (on a Friday). Email: medievalirishhistory@gmail.com Twitter X: @EarlyIrishPod Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University, & the Irish Research Council. Views expressed are the speakers' own. Production: Tiago de Oliveiro Veloso Silva. Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa Music: Lexin_Music --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/medievalirishhistory/message

Was Christmas a big deal in medieval Ireland? In this bonus episode host Dr Niamh Wycherley interviews some contributors to the recently launched Christmas and the Irish: a miscellany (Wordwell, 2023) edited by Salvador Ryan, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at St Patrick's College Maynooth. Featuring: Prof David Stifter (MU), Tara Shields (QUB), Dr Denis Casey (MU), Dr Siobhán Barrett (MU). Nollaig shona daoibh go léir! Regular episodes every two weeks (on a Friday). Email: medievalirishhistory@gmail.com Twitter X: @EarlyIrishPod Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University, & the Irish Research Council. Views expressed are the speakers' own. Production: Tiago de Oliveiro Veloso Silva. Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa Music: Lexin_Music --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/medievalirishhistory/message

An introduction to the Irish medieval world, including inequality, druids (or lack thereof), kings, and romantic notions of the past, with Dr. Elizabeth Boyle. This is a long one but stayed tuned to the end to hear Niamh and Lizzie chat about how medieval Ireland was just as exceptional as anywhere else and about how medieval Irish historians are an endangered species. Regular episodes every two weeks (on a Friday). Email: medievalirishhistory@gmail.com Twitter X: @EarlyIrishPod Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University, & the Irish Research Council. Views expressed are the speakers' own. Production: Tiago de Oliveiro Veloso Silva. Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa Music: Lexin_Music --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/medievalirishhistory/message

Welcome to The Medieval Irish History Podcast! In this trailer episode, Dr. Niamh Wycherley will introduce the podcast and we will give you a brief excerpt of the upcoming episode with Dr. Elizabeth Boyle. Enjoy! Regular episodes every two weeks (on a Friday). Email: medievalirishhistory@gmail.com Twitter X: @EarlyIrishPod Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University, & the Irish Research Council. Views expressed are the speakers' own. Production: Tiago de Oliveiro Veloso Silva. Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa Music: Lexin_Music --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/medievalirishhistory/message

Maynooth University congratulates Professor Aisling McMahon of the School of Law and Criminology on receiving the highly prestigious IRC Early Career Researcher of the Year Award for her work in health and intellectual property law. The Irish Research Council's Researcher of the Year Awards celebrate the very best IRC-funded researchers who are making highly significant and valuable contributions to knowledge, society, culture and innovation. The winners were announced at a ceremony yesterday evening, having been selected by an independent expert panel. The Early Career Researcher category recognises a current or previous IRC awardee, who is within eight years of award of their PhD, and who has demonstrated an exceptional level of achievement in their field at this stage in their career. Prof McMahon has led pioneering and internationally recognised research on the impact of intellectual property (IP) rights on people's access to healthcare and on the development and delivery of health technologies. A 2020 article by Prof McMahon examining the impact of patent rights on which countries could access Covid-19 vaccines, medicines and diagnostics first, and on what terms, was cited as an information source for a UK House of Commons Briefing in November 2020. In 2022, she was awarded a highly prestigious European Research Council Starting grant for the PatentsInHumans project. Prof McMahon's research is especially focussed on the regulation of emerging health-technologies and biotechnologies, and the relationship between intellectual property law and bioethics in the context of health-related technologies. Maynooth University received a total of three Researcher Awards, including two commendations, and nine 'Research Allies' honours in last night's ceremony, which recognises excellence and an exceptional track record in a field of research funded by the IRC. Accepting her award, Prof McMahon said: "Scientific research can have incredible benefits for human health. My research is driven by building understandings of the role that legal and regulatory mechanisms can play in fostering the development of cutting-edge ethically responsible health technologies; and alongside this, developing understandings of how legal tools can facilitate and ensure equitable access to such health technologies for all those who need them." Professor David Stifter of the Department of Early Irish was commended in the Researcher of the Year category and Dr Ian Marder of the School of Law and Criminology, received an Impact Award commendation for his research work in restorative justice. Professor Rachel Msetfi, Vice President Research and Innovation at Maynooth University congratulated all the recipients and paid tribute to their dedicated research: "These awards are a wonderful recognition of the excellent work being conducted by researchers at Maynooth University in the fields of law, criminology, education, and old Irish. Director of the Irish Research Council, Peter Brown, congratulated this year's awardees, saying, "It's important to shine a light on the remarkable achievements of our top researchers and on the leading-edge work they are spearheading at national, community, European and international level." Maynooth University was also recognised in the 'Research Allies' category marking the crucial role of mentors, supervisors, and research and technical support staff in supporting the academic research community across all career levels. The Research Allies are: Dr Anthony Malone, Dr Joe Oyler, Professor Sharon Todd and Dr Rose Dolan of the Department of Education; Dr David Murphy, Department of History; Dr Lorna Lopez, Department of Biology; Prof Sean Commins, Department of Psychology; Dr Eilish Lynch, Strategic Research Officer and Marie Carr, Research Support Officer. Globally-recognised research excellence is one of the pillars at the heart of MU's Strategic Plan 2023-2028, which was published in October. The plan focuses on priority resear...

Hello and welcome to The European Network's Ireland EU50 podcast. In this series we will be complementing our collection of articles that have been published over the last 18 months on The European Network website that celebrate 50 years of Ireland in the European Union. Today our guest is Martin O'Donoghue. Martin is a Historian and Author based in the University of Sheffield's Department of History since 2020. A Recipient of the National Library of Ireland Research Studentship, Martin holds a PhD in 2017 from the National University of Ireland, Galway where his research was funded by the Irish Research Council. Martin's research examines the dynamics of political thought and debate in modern Ireland and in his article for The European Network, Martin looks beyond the longer story of the Irish state and Europe, considering Irish links to the continent in a broad sense as well as development in the state's political, social and economic imperatives. You can access the article here. Martin is chatting with The European Network's Ken Sweeney. This series is presented in cooperation with the Irish Foreign Ministry as part of the Communicating Europe Initiative.

Our guest today is charming international relations-cum-military historian Huw Bennett! Huw is a Reader in International Relations in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University in Wales. He was previously a Reader and then Lecturer in International Politics and Intelligence Studies at Aberystwyth University and a Lecturer in Defence Studies at King's College London at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. He was educated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, earning a degree in International Politics and Strategic Studies, a Master's in Strategic Studies, and a PhD in International Politics. Huw has written two books. The first, Fighting the Mau Mau: the British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergency, was published by Cambridge in 2012, and his most recent book, Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975, will be released by Cambridge in October 2023. Huw also co-edited The Kenya Papers of General Sir George Erskine, June 1953 to May 1955, with David French (The History Press for the Army Records Society, 2013). Huw's articles have been published in War in History, the Journal of Strategic Studies, the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and Defense and Security Analysis, to name a few. His work has been supported by the British Academy, The Leverhulme Trust, the Irish Research Council, and the Economic and Social Research Council. Huw's involvement in the profession is considerable. He is an editorial board member at The British Journal for Military History, Studies in Contemporary Warfare, and War and the British Empire. He is also the Co-Editor in Chief of Critical Military Studies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and The Higher Education Academy and has appeared on BBC World News, Good Evening Wales, Radio France International, and many others. Join us for a fun but, at times, deep chat with Huw Bennett. We'll talk growing up half-Welsh in Surrey, living in Wales, the emotional toll of writing about atrocity, reading War and Peace, the delights of Spaghetti Ice, Barbi, Nirvana, and more! Shoutout to Joe's Ice Cream and Coco Gellato in Cardiff! Rec.: 07/20/2023

This episode of Lawpod features Professor Aoife O'Donoghue from QUB School of Law and Dr Meabh Harding from UCD Sutherland School of Law, discussing their burgeoning initiative, 'Doing Feminist Legal Work'. They share their plans for the future of the project, aiming to establish a multi-disciplinary network that reaches across Ireland and the UK. This network will involve academics, PhD students, artists, activists, practitioners, and members of civil society, all working together to delve into the extensive and vital field of feminist legal work. Doing Feminist Legal Work (DFLW) is a new network of Feminist Legal Scholars funded by the Irish Research Council of Ireland under the New Foundations Shared Island scheme. DFLW connects legal scholars across Ireland, Northern Ireland and Britain addressing emerging issues of gender and law. DFLW is a sustainable network of feminist scholars that builds on existing, but ad hoc, North/South and East/West collaborations. Our aim is to create a long-term sustainable community which offers support, experience sharing and mentoring, alongside advancing research projects, policy developments and feminist teaching innovation. The purpose of DFLW is to develop and share experience and practice as well as developing the substantive research and educational tools necessary to respond swiftly and effectively to societal challenges. The network seeks to equip members to engage directly with policy makers and media. We welcome all those interested in issues related to law and feminism to join. There is no necessity to have done any feminist teaching or research before and all career stages including post-graduate students are welcome. We also welcome those from across disciplines who have an interest in law and feminism, alongside those in practice. Website: www.dflw.ie Email: dfeministlw@gmail.com Aoife's Twitter: @aoifemod Maebh's Twitter: @maebh_harding

Get Recharged! In this episode, Lucy Costello talks about The Arts & Culture Collective - a Ticketsolve initiative - that explores the main challenges facing arts organisations. She takes us through what they have learnt so far. The initiative looked to understand how the arts and culture industry uses data in times of great uncertainty, and how data helps to inform innovative practices. The aim is to see how these practices can lead to greater sustainability throughout the sector.  Lucy reveals how challenges such as fundraising, changing tastes, relevance, leadership, diversity and technology have shifted from 2016, through the pandemic to now. And how the Arts and Culture Collective, questioned really questioned their data, their data practices and what they really wanted and needed data for to help make positive organisational changes that stick. This is part one of a two part series, in the second part, you will hear from the participants of the study and hear, in their own words, their experiences and insights around data, data driven organisations and decision making.  A big thank you to the Irish Research Council for their collaboration! ----------------------------------------  THE ARTS AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN PODCAST It's tough but rewarding working in the arts and often so busy you have little time to share with your peers and investigate new ideas. Every couple weeks join the team at Ticketsolve as they interview arts industry experts getting their take on the biggest issues facing the arts world today. There will be ideas to try, practical tips, lots of learning and of course - lots of laughs. If you work in theatres, venues, festivals or the arts and cultural sector this podcast is what you need!  ----------------------------------------  WANT TO BE ON THE PODCAST  If you have some great tips and tricks or have an idea for a topic you'd like to learn more about or share with the arts industry, drop us an email on podcast@ticketsolve.com ----------------------------------------  RESOURCES  Interested in learning how to use your data better? Want to work with organisations who are looking for better ways to do things and safeguard our industry? Join us! The Arts & Culture Collective is a cohort of organisations across the UK and Ireland, looking at the biggest challenges facing the arts and how we can tackle them together.  https://www.ticketsolve.com/with-you/the-arts-culture-collective/ Irish Research Council ----------------------------------------  FOLLOW TICKETSOLVE  Facebook - www.facebook.com/Ticketsolving Twitter - twitter.com/ticketsolvers LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/company/ticketsolve  Instagram - www.instagram.com/ticketsolve/

A lunchtime 'in conversation' event on April 4th, 2023, featuring Rooney Writer Fellow Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe in conversation with Dr Sean Hewitt (School of English, TCD), organized by Trinity Long Room Hub. Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe is a poet, pacifist and fabulist. Auguries of a Minor God, her first collection, was published by Faber & Faber in 2021. A finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize and the Butler Literary Award, it was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, National Poetry Day Recommendation, Shakespeare & Co. Year of Reading Selection, and a Book of the Year by both The Irish Times and The Irish Independent. Seán Hewitt is a poet, writer and literary critic. Before joining Trinity, he held postdoctoral positions at University College Cork and at TCD, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the Irish Research Council, respectively. His teaching and research interests are mainly focused on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and Irish literature. He also has an ongoing interest in the environmental humanities, and in studies of literature and science.

Esther Tippmann is Professor of Strategy, Leadership and Change at NUI Galway, Ireland. Before joining NUI Galway, she was a faculty member at University College Dublin and Research Fellow at Grenoble Ecole de Management, France. Esther's research and teaching interests revolve around the strategic challenges of internationally operating organizations. She has worked closely with several scaling firms and multinational corporations in Ireland, France, U.K. and the U.S. on case studies and research projects. She has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Management Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review, among others. Her research received several honours, including awards and nominations from the Academy of Management, Academy of International Business and Strategic Management Society. Esther currently serves as Senior Editor for the Journal of World Business and on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Business Studies and Long Range Planning. She held a Marie-Curie Fellowship, funded by the European Commission and Irish Research Council. Esther has taught in the areas of Strategic Management, Global Strategy, International Business, and Qualitative Research across all levels, including executives, in Ireland, Germany and France. Visit https://www.aib.world/frontline-ib/esther-tippmann/ for the original video interview.

An investment of almost €24 million in ‘curiosity-driven' frontier research was announced today (10.10.22) by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris, T.D. The investment will fund 48 ground-breaking research projects under the Irish Research Council's Starting and Consolidator Laureate Awards Programme. Under the scheme, researchers will receive funding for cutting-edge projects equally divided across the fields of humanities; physical sciences and engineering; life sciences; and social sciences. Their research areas range from new approaches to treatment for diseases such as cancers and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 6G technology development, interculturalism in rural Ireland, changing storm patterns and the communication of climate science. The Laureate programme encompasses two streams of funding, namely ‘starting' funding for early-career researchers who are to receive €400,000 each and ‘consolidator' funding for mid-career researchers who are to receive €600,000 each. A Ukrainian researcher will collaborate on one of the newly awarded projects in UCD as part of the IRC's Ukrainian Researcher Scheme. The scheme was established so that researchers from Ukraine who are arriving in Ireland due to the war could be supported by the Irish research system. Announcing the awards, Minister Harris said: “I am delighted to announce the winners of the second round of the Irish Research Council's Starting and Consolidator Laureate Awards Programme and I congratulate each of the awardees. It is a pleasure to also welcome the Ukrainian researcher who came to Ireland from the war in Ukraine, and who will collaborate on one of the newly funded projects through the IRC's innovative Ukrainian Researchers Scheme. “These talented researchers will no doubt contribute hugely towards the world-class excellence that is the bedrock of our research system in Ireland, pushing the boundaries of research knowledge and finding new discoveries that deepen our understanding of the world around us, by looking to the past, questioning the present, and unlocking our future potential.” Also commenting, Dr Louise Callinan, Director of the Irish Research Council, said: “The 48 researchers who will receive funding under the Starting and Consolidator Laureate Awards Programme have the potential to make ground-breaking advances in their respective fields and to bolster Ireland's competitiveness in European research funding. “This is the second round of Laureate funding and many of the first-round awardees will be completing their research next year. It is testament to the success of the programme that three of the first-round awardees have already gone on to receive European Research Council funding, one as part of Ireland's first ERC Synergy grant worth €10 million. The winning projects were awarded on the basis solely of excellence, and applications were assessed through a rigorous and independent international peer-review process.” Successful Projects Among the research projects receiving funding are: ‘Non-communicable diseases including cancer (and except disorders of the nervous system and immunity-related diseases)', Dr Tríona Ní Chonghaile, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences: Taking age as being the biggest risk factor for cancer, this project will investigate the dynamic effect that age has on tumour biology and treatment responses, in an effort to make this risk factor better understood. ‘Imaginative Literature and Social Trust, 1990-2025', Dr Adam Kelly, UCD: By comparing contemporary imaginative literature from the US, Russia and Ireland, this project will look at how social trust functions and how it fails, with a view to identifying better, more justified, and more sustainable forms of trust. ‘Rural Villages, Migration, and Intercultural Communication', Dr Andrea Ciribuco, University of Galway: This project will work with rural communities in Ireland to understand how different...

In this extract from the 2020 Brainstorm Radio programme, we go on a journey beyond the sink and the drain to find out what happens next. With presenter Ella McSweeney and guests Jean O'Dwyer (UCC and Irish Research Council) and Tom Curran (UCD).

Cheap money is gold for private housing investors, and central banks have a big role to play in directing money flows. This is one of the key messages from our previous podcast episode that focused on how central banks are affecting our access to decent, affordable housing. Of course, we know that many more players are involved and responsible for the housing situation we observe in different locations. Today, we will be getting closer to the action and zeroing in on the role of mortgage banks and how these financial institutions are regulated in a way that influences housing affordability – for better or worse. Has there been too much reliance on debt? Does the easier access to mortgages mean that more people have become homeowners? What can regulators do and what has been the role of investment flows? Many interesting questions to which we are providing the answers today. You are with ‘Making a house a home' and the 3rd episode of our “Tools to tame financialisation” podcast season which is part of the #Housing2030 initiative led by the European Federation of public, cooperative, and social housing providers known as Housing Europe, UNECE and UN-Habitat. I am Diana Yordanova and these new episodes are kindly supported by the Irish Research Council and the Irish Council of Social Housing. Once again, I will be joined by the lead writer of the #Housing2030 report, Dr Julie Lawson from RMIT University and Professor Michelle Norris from University College Dublin who was the main mind behind the chapter about sustainable finance. You will hear many of the seasoned experts from episode 2 who also have a say on how we could ensure that mortgages are not hampering access to affordable homes. Our next discussion on the topic will be in real life. On 15th June, Housing Europe, UNECE, and UN-Habitat will be at the third International Social Housing Festival in Helsinki, Finland. We are hoping to see some of you, our listeners at Helsinki City Hall and to hear your view on how we could tackle the commodification of housing collectively. You can still register for the event at the official website of the Festival - www.socialhousingfestival.eu Tell us if you are coming via the #Housing2030 hashtag.

Over the past 2 months, more than 5 million people have left Ukraine, and another 6-and-a-half-million have fled their homes and are now displaced elsewhere within their own country, making this Europe's largest humanitarian crisis since World War II. Neighboring countries are struggling to keep up with the exodus, but they've generally been fairly welcoming, which many critics have pointed out is a markedly different approach from how they've treated African and Middle Eastern refugees in the past. With so much of the world's attention now focused on Ukraine, I thought I'd spend some time this episode featuring the voices of refugees from other parts of the world, since their stories are of course equally important. The recordings come from the Sound Seekers Audio Festival and were produced by refugee, asylum, and migrant communities in partnership with community radio stations, the Irish Research Council, and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.

Money makes the world go around and central banks supposedly keep it flowing. However, should they also ensure it flows in the right direction? Central banks aim at promoting financial stability and could promote sustainable development that includes investment in affordable, inclusive, decarbonised housing. They could also create the perfect storm and promote borrowing, indebtedness, offering cheap money to big investors, creating real estate inflation, unaffordability, and as recent history remembers create housing booms and busts. You are with ‘Making a house a home', I am your host, Diana Yordanova and this is the second podcast episode of #Housing2030 – the initiative led by the European Federation of public, cooperative, and social housing providers, UNECE, and UN-Habitat. This new season is kindly supported by the Irish Research Council and the Irish Council of Social Housing. We continue to dismantle financialisation and to search for tools that could tame it together with the lead writer of the #Housing2030 report, Dr Julie Lawson from RMIT University, and Professor Michelle Norris from University College Dublin who also wrote the chapter on better, sustainable finance that results in more affordable housing. To discuss the role of central banks, we have met with seasoned experts, advocates, decision-makers literally from all around the world – Brussels, London, Strasbourg, Groningen, Auckland, Ottawa, and Hong Kong. Professor Laurence Murphy, Human Geography at the University of Auckland, New Zealand Professor Dirk Bezemer, Finance, monetary economics, growth and development at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands Alicia Garcia Herrero, Chief economist for Asia Pacific and Bruegel Institute, formerly European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund Dr Josh Ryan-Collins, a Senior Research Fellow in Economics and Finance at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose in London Stefan Zeugner, macroeconomist expert, Directorate‑General of the European Commission for Economic and Financial Affairs Kim van Sparrentak, Member of the European Parliament, the Greens (Netherlands) Leilani Farha, Founder of 'The Shift' and former UN Rapporteur on the Right to Housing Enjoy! As usual, we invite you to keep in touch with us at communications@housingeurope.eu or via the #Housing2030 hashtag. Make sure to come back to our channel in a few weeks from now when we will take a deep dive into the world of mortgage market regulation and how we can make it better.

Where did we leave the conversation last time? After our 12 #Housing2030 podcast episodes about affordable housing that is mindful of climate sustainability, responsible land policy, better governance and finance were listened about 2,400 times, we launched the long-awaited “#Housing2030: Effective policies for affordable housing in the UNECE region”. The study that was led by Housing Europe, UNECE, and UN-Habitat draws on the experience of over 100 researchers, policymakers and housing providers from across the UNECE region and beyond, to define useful approaches, outline their advantages and disadvantages, and illustrate how smart affordable housing solutions can be applied locally. A compilation of over 160 tried and tested practices were in the hands of UNECE Housing Ministers on 6th October 2021 in the UN Headquarters in Geneva and just a month later, the publication made it to COP26 in Glasgow. However, the work is far from being done. The #Housing2030 report set just the beginning of very big questions that we felt obliged to come back to. So, we are embarking on a real journey to address the elephant in the room when it comes to housing affordability – the financialisation of housing and what are the tools that could tame it. Why are we choosing exactly this topic? The facts speak for themselves. Home ownership in many countries is declining and so is social housing. More are being forced to rent. Home prices and rent have risen dramatically throughout the pandemic and the IMF cautions that private investors are increasingly active in the real estate market. This podcast is a joint effort with the UNECE and UN Habitat, we are also grateful for the support from Irish Research Council and Irish Council for Social Housing who is a member of Housing Europe. I am Diana Yordanova, and in this new season of our #Housing2030 podcasts, I would like to do things a bit more differently. I am welcoming back two extremely knowledgeable researchers, the lead writer of the #Housing2030 report, Dr Julie Lawson who is an international researcher in housing systems at RMIT University Australia and Dr Michelle Norris, Professor of Social Policy at University College Dublin, who played a key role in the Housing2030 report, especially chapters on finance and governance. This time, they will be back-to-back with me addressing questions to influential decision makers about how can housing be looked not as a commodity but as a human right. We must build more effective critical capacities to address the harmful causes of financialisaton. This is why, we will do our best to enhance knowledge about the policy design, implementation outcomes and how different financial flows and housing outcomes can be achieved. Tune in for this new season of #Housing2030 podcasts.

Rania Muhareb and Yousef Munayyer discuss the Amnesty International report on Israeli apartheid from a Palestinian point of view. Muhareb is an Irish Research Council and Hardiman PhD Scholar at the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Munayyer is a Non-resident Senior Fellow at Arab Center Washington DC.

This podcast marks the launch of a policy paper from Alcohol Action Ireland | University College Cork, which draws attention to the rich store of alcohol related data in the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) database.The podcast features speakers from public health research and advocacy including Dr Zubair Kabir (UCC School of Public Health), Anne Doyle (Health Research Board) and Dr Lesley Graham and Ms Elinor Jayne, Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP).This podcast and the research on the alcohol burden in Ireland as demonstrated by GBD data have been supported by the Irish Research Council under a New Foundations Grant. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hold on to your receipts! In this episode of PhD Pending, we chat to Dr Trisha O'Connor about her experience with travelling abroad to to do archival research for her PhD project. We dive deeper into how she prepared for the trip, what challenges she ran into, and Trisha shares her tips on how to make the most of your time with historical sources, and what to watch out for when dealing with funding money. About Trisha: Trisha is a Digital Humanities researcher from Cork, Ireland. She is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at CLASP: A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, an EU-funded project based at the Oxford Faculty of English Language and Literature. She is also the Communications Officer for the Text Encoding Initiative, a consortium which collectively develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form. She completed her PhD in Digital Humanities at University College Cork (UCC), fully funded by the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences in UCC (2014-16), and by the Irish Research Council (2016-2018). Her PhD research involved encoding the scribal practices, palaeographical and codicological features, and the complex mise-en-page of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 41 (CCCC41) in Text Encoding Initiative Extensible Markup Language (TEI-XML). She is currently creating a digital documentary edition of CCCC41, which cogently combines the text and digital facsimiles of CCCC41 to enable researchers to study the manuscript's marginalia within their textual environment. When she is not encoding Old English and Anglo-Latin manuscripts she enjoys hiking, rockclimbing, bodyboarding and kayaking. Trisha's Twitter: @trishaoconnor88 If you like our content, support PhD Pending by heading to our Buy Me A Coffee page and donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/phdpendingpod. This episode of PhD Pending was written and produced by Anne Mahler. Get in contact with PhD Pending on Twitter and Instagram @phdpendingpod or via email to phdpendingpod@gmail.com. Jingle by Scott Holmes ("Our Big Adventure," licensed CC BY-NC 4, available at www.scottholmesmusic.com, free for use, copy and redistribute in any medium or format, under Creative Commons).

Faced with unprecedented challenges we never expected, Arts professionals have been under immense pressure for over two years and it's making us all reflect and think differently. While we might have assumed that it would all get easier with the easing of lockdown, we are more aware of the current challenges impacting creative teams and feel pretty certain that we'll be facing more as we move into the next stages of recovery. The pressure you feel to make tough decisions won't go away unless we can find better solutions to problem-solving and critically reflect on how we inform our organisational strategies, and the solutions need to be heavily trialled and tested.  This episode of The Arts and Everything in Between is hosted by Lucy Costelloe and provides an insight into a new project which Ticketsolve is focusing on for the next three years. In collaboration with the Irish Research Council, this project will identify resilient methods and agile practices around decision-making in times of crisis and in the re-opening of the arts sector in the UK and Ireland. This new knowledge can then be translated into methods to inform business model innovation and sustainability across the sector and you can find out more in this episode!  ----------------------------------------  TOPICS AND RESOURCES COVERED IN THIS EPISODE: Why it's time to solidify the use of data within your organisation  Our plans for this project  Building new frameworks around agile practices and sustainable models  Farnham Maltings podcast episode More information about the Ticketsolve Transformative Change Project  ----------------------------------------  THE ARTS AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN PODCAST It's tough but rewarding working in the arts and often so busy you have little time to share with your peers and investigate new ideas. Every couple weeks join the team at Ticketsolve as they interview arts industry experts getting their take on the biggest issues facing the arts world today. There will be ideas to try, practical tips, lots of learning and of course - lots of laughs. If you work in theatres, venues, festivals or the arts and cultural sector this podcast is what you need!  ----------------------------------------  WANT TO BE ON THE PODCAST  If you have some great tips and tricks or have an idea for a topic you'd like to learn more about or share with the arts industry, drop us an email on podcast@ticketsolve.com ----------------------------------------  FOLLOW TICKETSOLVE Facebook - www.facebook.com/Ticketsolving Twitter - twitter.com/ticketsolvers LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/company/ticketsolve  Instagram - www.instagram.com/ticketsolve/

The Conference on the Future of Europe is a joint undertaking by the European Parliament, Commission and Council which aims to open a new space for debate and engagement with citizens from all corners of Europe on the future of the EU and incorporate their views on key economic, environmental and geopolitical issues into EU policymaking and strategy. This webinar explores the role of the European Parliament and of national parliaments like the Oireachtas in shaping Europe's future, and what it may mean for Ireland and the EU. This event is part of a series co-organised with the European Parliament Liaison Office in Dublin ahead of the European Citizens' Panel. About the Speakers: Guy Verhofstadt has served as an MEP since 2009, and is a former Belgian Prime Minister and a former president of the Alliance of Liberal Democrats for Europe group (ALDE) in the European Parliament. He is a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) and the Delegation for relations with the United States, and was the chair of the European Parliament's Brexit Steering Group. Deirdre Clune is an MEP representing Ireland South for Fine Gael and currently serves on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), as well as the Delegations for relations with the countries of Central America (DCAM) and to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (DLAT). Before joining the European Parliament, she served as Lord Mayor of Cork, T.D. for Cork South-Central and a Senator for the Cultural and Educational Panel. Senator Alice-Mary Higgins was elected as an Independent on the NUI panel in 2016 to Seanad Éireann, and re-elected in 2020, where she leads the Civil Engagement Group, and is a member of the Committees on Environment and Climate Action, Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, and on Disability Matters. Before her election to the Seanad, she was policy coordinator at the National Women's Council of Ireland, a member of the Executive of the European Women's Lobby in Brussels, and has worked for NGOs including the Older and Bolder alliance, Trócaire and Comhlámh on homecare, climate change, peace-building and anti-racism. Jane Suiter is a Professor in the School of Communications at Dublin City University (DCU), Director fo the DCU Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society, and is an expert on the information environment in the public sphere, scaling up deliberation and tackling disinformation. She is the senior Research Fellow on the Irish Citizens' Assembly on gender equality, a founding member of We the Citizens, Ireland's first deliberative experiment and a member of the Stewarding Group on the Scottish Citizens' Assembly and of the OECD's FutureDemocracy network. Professor Suiter was named the Irish Research Council's Researcher of the Year in 2020.

Today I welcome social psychologist Orla Muldoon exploring the value of social solidarity for public adherence to health messaging during COVID19. Orla Muldoon is a professor of social psychology at the University of Limerick.  She studies ways that social contexts and in particular social systems and structures can shape behaviour, attitudes and health. She regularly contribute to the new media and in particular offer opinion editorials in the Irish Times.  She is a current member of the Irish Research Council and serve on the Behaviour and communications committee advising the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET).  She is currently managing an ERC Advanced grant that explores whether adversity, trauma and its psychological consequences are driven by social identity change; and a HRB-IRC funded project that is exploring the value of social solidarity to public adherence to health messaging during COVID19.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1691 peace treaty that ended the Williamite War in Ireland, between supporters of the deposed King James II and the forces of William III and his allies. It followed the battles at Aughrim and the Boyne and sieges at Limerick, and led to the disbanding of the Jacobite army in Ireland, with troops free to follow James to France for his Irish Brigade. The Catholic landed gentry were guaranteed rights on condition of swearing loyalty to William and Mary yet, while some Protestants thought the terms too lenient, it was said the victors broke those terms before the ink was dry. The image above is from British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. I, by James Grant, 1880, and is meant to show Irish troops leaving Limerick as part of The Flight of the Wild Geese - a term used for soldiers joining continental European armies from C16th-C18th. With Jane Ohlmeyer Chair of the Irish Research Council and Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin Dr Clare Jackson Senior Tutor, Trinity Hall, and Faculty of History, University of Cambridge and Thomas O'Connor Professor of History at Maynooth University Producer: Simon Tillotson

Tara Bedi is a Marie Curie Irish Research Council Research Fellow in the Economics Department at Trinity College Dublin. She has previously worked with the World Bank in the Poverty Reduction Group. She has followed in the footsteps of her parents who moved from the US to India to serve the community. Tara has joined us from Dublin while she shares her research work with us in multiple countries like India, Mauritania, Malawi, Ethiopia, and Nigeria. Tara explains her research work for our viewers and shares her work done at Malawi on gender and social protection. Tara has helped women in Malawi stand on their feet and encouraged Malawian men to support their wives by contributing to the household work. She talks about her personal challenges and shares her experience of completing her Ph.D. in her mid-thirties. Tune in and get inspired by the work done by Tara! Find us on: Facebook - http://facebook.com/followtbcy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/followtbcy/ Instagram - http://instagram.com/followtbcy/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tbcy/support

Tuesday, 11 May 2021, 4 – 5pm Research presentations by Jason Marrott, Tom Hedley, and Conor Brennan as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Speaking to the Mirror: A Brief Cultural History of Solitude JASON MARROTT There is an inherently paradoxical aspect to the mediation of solitude, for to express it entails a betrayal of its core principal: the seclusion of the individual from the many. When an audience learns of an experience of solitude, it necessarily ceases to truly be a solitary one. The choice to practice solitude is often taken directly in reaction to society. Indeed, the cognitive framework, barriers, ideologies, and cultural practices of the society a solitary figure purports to have left, still guide his or her experience of solitude and understanding of self. Historically, the discourse of ‘solitude' has tended to posit the categories of ‘solitary' and ‘community' as opposed, but an examination of the cultural history of solitude as an embodied experience (in the West) shows us that the two both reciprocally define, and are defined by one another. The very act of mediating solitude back to a community is an act of bridging the gap, so to speak, between the community and its other. This presentation will briefly present and explore a survey of episodes of Solitude which exemplify this complementary relationship with the ultimate goal of offering an answer to the question: can one ever truly be alone? Jason Marrott is a PhD student in the Department of Germanic Studies at TCD. He has a background in Comparative Literature and Applied Linguistics. Spatial Reckonings: 'Das Raumproblem' in Modern Mathematics & German Modernism TOM HEDLEY Despite the ascent of academic ‘interdisciplinarity', mathematics and the arts continue to be viewed as ‘two cultures' that have divergent origins, influences and aims — an enduring perception that this research seeks to undermine. By examining the the problem of space in the transformative era of the late 19th Century to the early 20th Century, this paper aims to show how modern mathematics can be integrated into the wider modernist epoch. Specifically, this paper will use the historical context and common philosophical as a springboard to propose a more meaningful comparison of the two fields. Tom Hedley is a PhD candidate in the Department of Germanic Studies at TCD and is supervised by Dr Caitríona Leahy. A graduate of German and Mathematics at TCD, Tom completed an MA in German Literature at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena with the support of a DAAD scholarship. His PhD research is funded by the Irish Research Council. Out of the cage, into the echo chamber: Finding forms for the Anthropocene CONOR BRENNAN The talk will consider some of the interactions between ecocritical discourse and literary form, drawing on examples from contemporary writers Christoph Ransmayr, Olga Tokarczuk and Richard Flanagan. As a literary reference point shared by all three writers, the talk will also touch on texts by Franz Kafka. One of the questions this comparison raises is how exactly the contemporary hopes to catch up with itself—to catch itself ‘in the act'. Conor Brennan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Germanic Studies, under the supervision of Dr Caitríona Leahy. He holds a BA in English & German from TCD and an MSt from the University of Oxford, where he was an Ertegun Scholar. His doctoral research is funded by the Irish Research Council and a TCD Foundation Scholarship.

Wednesday, 19 May 2021, 1 – 2pm May 2021 marks the publication of a major new intellectual biography of Bishop George Berkeley by Tom Jones (University of St Andrews), George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life (Princeton University Press, 2021). Trinity Long Room Hub is pleased to host a conversation with Dr Jones that will centre on Berkeley's life, connections to Trinity and Ireland, and his relationship to colonialism as he moved between the ‘new' world and the ‘old'. The event is free and all are welcome. The event will be chaired by Dr Clare Moriarty. Speakers Tom Jones (St Andrews) is Reader in the School of English at the University of St Andrews. His books include Pope and Berkeley: The Language of Poetry and Philosophy and an edition of Pope's Essay on Man (Princeton). He lives in Dundee, Scotland. Kenneth Pearce (TCD) is Ussher Assistant Professor and a historian of modern philosophy and philosopher of religion at Trinity College Dublin. His historical work focuses on issues at the intersection of metaphysics, theology, and philosophy of science in 17th and 18th century philosophy, especially the work of George Berkeley Clare Moriarty (TCD) is an Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Philosophy Department and The Long Room Hub. Her work focuses on early modern philosophy and mathematics.

The Great Famine Voices Roadshow is inspired by the search for the 1,490 former tenants who were forced to emigrate to North America from the estate of Major Denis Mahon at Strokestown Park,

The Great Famine Voices Roadshow is inspired by the search for the 1,490 former tenants who were forced to emigrate to North America from the estate of Major Denis Mahon at Strokestown Park,

What does it mean to be a citizen of Abkhazia, South Ossetia or any other de facto state? Are the people living in such territories stateless? What are some of the precarious situations they are faced with? In this episode, Ramesh Ganohariti, a PhD student from Dublin City University, shares his research on Citizenship in post-Soviet de facto States. Ramesh's research is funded by the Irish Research Council.

In this episode of the podcast, David is joined by PhD researcher Tim Smithies.  Tim is a researcher based at the University of Limerick in the E-sports research lab and is completing a PhD in conjunction with the Irish Research Council and Logitech.  In this episode, the pair discuss:   - What is E-Sports? - What roles do S&C and sports science play in E-sports? - What is the future of sports science research in E-Sports? - What influence does E-Sports have on health and sleep?   Full show-notes available at: www.synapseperformance.ie/podcasts/episode128

Thursday, 10 December 2020, 12 – 1:15pm A panel discussion as part of the SHAPE-ID webinar series Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. SHAPE-ID has found that a clear and well-defined process is needed for inter- and transdisciplinary research projects in order to manage such innovative interactions and ensure long-lasting results. This webinar will invite experts in inter- and transdisciplinary integration to consider how expertise can be fostered in academic and professional environments. What is integration expertise and why is it needed in order to develop strong collaborative research projects with diverse participants? What is the profile of the inter- or transdisciplinary scientist or researcher? What tools and methods are available to build this profile? Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin), Principal Investigator of the SHAPE-ID project and Chair of the Irish Research Council, will chair the discussion. Panellists Dr Sabine Hoffman | Eawag – Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology Dr Nikki Brand | Technische Universiteit Delft Dr Petra Biberhofer | Participatory Science Academy, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich Find out more https://www.shapeid.eu/

In our introductory episode, we speak with Dr. David Deane about his Leading from the Inside Out session, Questioning Toxic Assumptions, exploring some of the most damaging assumptions that underpin our western society and perpetuate human crises, such as climate change and social injustice. Dr. Deane helps us understand how we can see and confront these assumptions in a way that can inform our decisions, as leaders and as humans. David Deane has a PhD in Theology from the University of Dublin, Trinity college. A former Research Fellow at the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, he is currently associate Professor of Theology at Atlantic School of Theology, where he directs the the MA program and the Diploma in the New Evangelization Program. David's books include Nietzsche and Theology, Still Unhealed: Treating the Pathology in the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis and the forthcoming Resisting the Tyranny of the Banal. You can learn more and register for the Leading from the Inside Out series here.

A panel discussion as part of the SHAPE-ID webinar series Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. The SHAPE-ID Policy Brief recommends that funders and policy makers invite greater Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) participation in designing and evaluating inter- and transdisciplinary research funding calls and adapt funding instruments to acknowledge some of the unique features of inter- and transdisciplinarity, such as the time it takes to build mutually respectful collaborations. But what are the challenges for funding agencies on the ground, and how have they innovated in developing funding programmes? The webinar will invite representatives of funding agencies from different European countries to discuss their challenges and efforts to develop funding programmes with AHSS involvement in inter- and transdisciplinary research. Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin), Principal Investigator of the SHAPE-ID project and Chair of the Irish Research Council, will chair the discussion. Panellists Professor Milena Žic Fuchs | University of Zagreb Tobias Bade Strøm | The Research Council of Norway Peter Brown | Irish Research Council

In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Jenny O'Connor talks to Dr. Christa de Brun about being on the judging panel for the Global Undergraduate Awards, which receives approximately 4,000 entries each year from across the world. She is also joined by two former English, Aaron Kent and Alessia Zuccarelli, who discuss being highly commended in the Awards and how their time at WIT led to their current postgraduate opportunities. Aaron has recently won an Irish Research Council scholarship and has taken up a PhD position at WIT, working alongside Dr. Una Kealy and Dr. Kate McCarthy on the underrepresentation of Irish women playwrights following the War of Independence. Alessia is currently undertaking an MA in Creative Writing at Queen's University, Belfast.

Voices of the past, stories for the future: a Research Showcase from the 1641 Depositions Project How can we best tell our research stories and demonstrate the value of investing in Arts and Humanities projects? How can we be better prepared to capture a project's impact along the way? On the 10th anniversary of its launch, we example the legacy and impact of 1641 Depositions Project, a transdiciplinary digital humanities endeavour which transformed our understanding of how the controversial events of the mid-seventeenth century are recorded and remembered. Join Director Eve Patten in a lunchtime conversation with the Trinity lead PIs of the 1641 Depositions Project, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer and Professor Micheál Ó'Siochrú, Professor John Morrill from the University of Cambridge, and Dr Giovanna Lima, Trinity's Research Impact Officer for the Arts and Humanities, to understand the impact journey of a digital humanities project 10 years on. ‘Voices of the past, stories for the future: a Research Showcase from the 1641 Depositions Project' is supported by the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. The 1641 Depositions Project received funding from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Arts & Humanities Research Council in the UK and the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

A panel discussion as part of the SHAPE-ID webinar series Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. What can the experiences of researchers working in the emerging area of the Neurohumanities teach us about the challenges and potential of interdisciplinary research between the Arts and Humanities and STEM disciplines? Why engage in such research and how are researchers navigating the significant distances between their respective disciplines? This webinar will invite researchers working in the Neurohumanities to discuss best practices in interdisciplinary research from the perspective of their own experiences working at the interface of the Arts and Humanities and Neurosciences. The case studies will showcase the potential for interdisciplinary research with meaningful roles for Arts and Humanities researchers and inspire researchers to learn about and engage with interdisciplinarity. Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Principal Investigator of the SHAPE-ID project, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub and Chair of the Irish Research Council, will chair the discussion. Panellists Professor Sonja Smets | University of Amsterdam Professor Thomas J Carew | New York University Amelia McConville | Trinity College Dublin

Conversations on Dante is a new set of podcast episodes from the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies at the University of Leeds. In each episode, we sit down with researchers from a range of disciplines to discuss some of the work which is helping to shape our understanding of Dante, his context and works, and his place in the cultures of the world. In this episode, Dr Federica Coluzzi discusses her forthcoming book on the reception of Dante in Victorian culture. We discuss why the Victorian period saw such a significant change in how Dante was understood in Britain, and the ways in which Federica's approach to reception - which pays close attention to book history, material culture, and the social conditions in which reading took place - enables fresh insights into the Victorian encounter with Dante. We also discuss Federica's new research project, on women readers of Dante in the long nineteenth century. Federica's book, entitled Beyond Influence: Rethinking Dante Reception in Victorian Literary Culture, will be published in Spring 2021 by Manchester University Press, and was developed during her time as an Irish Research Council post-doctoral fellow at University College Cork. She is now a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Warwick University. The conversation is hosted by Matthew Treherne.

In this episode, Nina Cnockaert-Guillou talks to Professor Katherine Forsyth and Dr Geraldine Parsons, both from the Department of Celtic and Gaelic at the University of Glasgow, about women in Celtic Studies. Prof. Forsyth and Dr Parsons were the organisers of a panel at the XVIth International Congress of Celtic Studies in July 2019 entitled "A more equal way forward for women in academia: the view from Celtic Studies" [link to the Congress programme; this panel was held on Tuesday, 23rd July 2019]. They explain why they organised this event, what came of it, and they discuss the place of women in Celtic Studies and academia, finishing with exciting film and book recommendations. Links & notes: Link: Ériu 2017 special issue. AHRC Research Council Centre for Doctoral Training in Glasgow (link). Dr Elva Johnston, University College Dublin. The Aurora programme, run by Advance HE. Dr Abigail Burnyeat, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig. The Athena SWAN programme, by Advance HE too. Prof. Jerry Hunter, Bangor University. Prof. Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, NUI Galway. The Women's Classical Committee, founded in 2015 in the UK. Irish Research Council, “Gender Strategy & Actions document”; postgraduate scholarships (link). Questionnaire that was given at the session in Bangor: You know you are a female academic in Celtic Studies when… An opportunity to share any personal or observed experiences which are distinctive to female academics in Celtic Studies. What needs to change? Please share your views of ways in which women in Celtic Studies are currently disadvantaged — directly or indirectly (general, or specific, large or small, concrete or intangible). What are the most pressing issues? Article by The Guardian on the 2020 strike in Universities in the UK. Margaret Stokes & Eleanor Knott. Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, University of Cambridge. Arracht (2019) by Tomás Ó Súilleabháin (trailer) Prof. Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto (2017) Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (2019) Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism (2015) Prof. Angela Bourke, The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story This episode is in English. Host: Nina Cnockaert-Guillou. Guests: Prof. Katherine Forsyth & Dr Geraldine Parsons. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/celticstudents/message

We have an intriguing and entertaining guest this week in Colin Keogh, who is a Researcher in UCD University Dublin www.ucd.ie  When I looked up his range of achievements I  was bowled over: Colin is CEO & Founder at The Rapid Foundation PhD at UCD with Smartlab & the Inclusive Design Research Centre of Ireland supported by the Irish Research Council and Science Gallery International Forbes 30 Under 30 Science & Healthcare 2017 Junior Chamber International Top Outstanding Young Person 2017 Nissan Generation Next Ambassador 2017 Irish Early Career Awards IT & Tech Professional of the Year 2017  He's probably most well know as being one of the main drivers behind the Open Ventilator Project that had 6000 participants world wide to drive an open source ventilator design Colin is very accomplished as an Innovator and a natural leader, if any organisations are looking for an outstanding Innovator – Colin is the person to talk to. www.sapieninnovation.com  -------- The podcast is sponsored by Nettzer, digital onboarding  www.nettzer.com –   We provide digital onboarding and customer digital channel  management solutions to a wide range of verticals, including Mobile Operators MVNOs eSIM providers Financial Institutions Charities Please contact us at www.nettzer.com  or email pat.flynn@nettzer.com and we'd be glad to understand your business requirements and problems.    

Researchers at CRANN and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin have discovered that a new material can act as a super-fast magnetic switch. When struck by successive ultra-short laser pulses it exhibits “toggle switching” that could increase the capacity of the global fibre optic cable network by an order of magnitude. Expanding the capacity of the internet Switching between two states – 0 and 1 – is the basis of digital technology and the backbone of the internet. The vast majority of all the data we download is stored magnetically in huge data centres across the world, linked by a network of optical fibres. Obstacles to further progress with the internet are three-fold, specifically the speed and energy consumption of the semiconducting or magnetic switches that process and store our data and the capacity of the fibre optic network to handle it. The new discovery of ultra-fast toggle switching using laser light on mirror-like films of an alloy of manganese, ruthenium and gallium known as MRG could help with all three problems. Not only does light offer a great advantage when it comes to speed but magnetic switches need no power to maintain their state. More importantly, they now offer the prospect of rapid time-domain multiplexing of the existing fibre network, which could enable it to handle ten times as much data. The science behind magnetic switching Working in the photonics laboratory at CRANN, Trinity’s nanoscience research centre, Dr Chandrima Banerjee and Dr Jean Besbas used ultra-fast laser pulses lasting just a hundred femtoseconds (one ten thousand billionth of a second) to switch the magnetisation of thin films of MRG back and forth. The direction of magnetisation can point either in or out of the film. With every successive laser pulse, it abruptly flips its direction. Each pulse is thought to momentarily heat the electrons in MRG by about 1,000 degrees, which leads to a flip of its magnetisation. The discovery of ultra-fast toggle switching of MRG has just been published in leading international journal, Nature Communications. Dr Karsten Rode, Senior Research Fellow in the ‘Magnetism and Spin Electronics Group’ in Trinity’s School of Physics, suggests that the discovery just marks the beginning of an exciting new research direction. Dr Rode said: “We have a lot of work to do to fully understand the behaviour of the atoms and electrons in a solid that is far from equilibrium on a femtosecond timescale. In particular, how can magnetism change so quickly while obeying the fundamental law of physics that says that angular momentum must be conserved? “In the spirit of our spintronics team, we will now gather data from new pulsed-laser experiments on MRG, and other materials, to better understand these dynamics and link the ultra-fast optical response with electronic transport. We plan experiments with ultra-fast electronic pulses to test the hypothesis that the origin of the toggle switching is purely thermal.” Next year Chandrima will continue her work at the University of Haifa, Israel, with a group who can generate even shorter laser pulses. The Trinity researchers, led by Karsten, plan a new joint project with collaborators in the Netherlands, France, Norway and Switzerland, aimed at proving the concept of ultra-fast, time-domain multiplexing of fibre-optic channels. The work that made the discovery possible was supported by Science Foundation Ireland, the Irish Research Council and the European Commission.

The SHAPE-ID project (Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe) is funded by the European Commission to develop recommendations and tools for policy makers, funders, researchers, Universities and others on improving interdisciplinary cooperation between the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) and STEMM (Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine) disciplines. Interdisciplinarity in Times of Crisis: Why the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Matter Immediate responses to the COVID-19 crisis have understandably tended to focus on funding research that can fight the virus. At the same time, our world and ways of living have changed suddenly and radically, and there is a widespread sense that we cannot return to the old “normal”. Panellists will discuss why it remains important to take seriously the perspectives coming from Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences research in times of crisis, and how we can work to ensure real collaboration between these and other scientific approaches in understanding the crisis and preparing for the post-crisis world. Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Principal Investigator of the SHAPE-ID project, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub and Chair of the Irish Research Council, will chair the discussion. Panellists Gabi Lombardo is the Director of the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (www.eassh.eu), the largest advocacy and science policy organisation for social sciences and humanities in Europe. She is an expert in both higher education and global research policy and has extensive high-level experience operating at the interface of strategy, science policy, research support and funding. Gabi has senior-level experience in strategic and ‘foresight' planning in elite higher education institutions, international research funders and associations, having worked with the London School of Economics (LSE), the European Research Council (ERC) and Science Europe (SE). David Budtz Pedersen is Professor of Science Communication and Director of the Humanomics Research Centre at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on science communication, impact assessment, and science and technology policy. He is the Principal Investigator of ‘Responsible Impact' (2016-2020), ‘Open Research Analytics' (2018-2021) and ‘Mapping the Public Value of Humanities' (2017-2021). He is the Chair of the EU Commission COST Expert Group on Science Communication. Alongside his research, David is adviser to the Danish Government and European Commission, dealing with Open Science, research impact and science advice. Daniel Carey, MRIA, is Director of the Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies at NUI Galway and Professor of English in the School of English and Creative Arts. He is a Vice-President of the Royal Irish Academy and a board member of the Irish Research Council. He was Chair of the Irish Humanities Alliance 2014-16. Overview of the discussions Mission Covid-19: Global problems need a portfolio approach Gabi Lombardo, European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities

I met with Katie in The Tara Building to chat and learn about Bee's and Wasps and other pollinators that are intrinsic to an eco systems health. Katie graduated from Wheaton College (USA) with a B.A. in Environmental Science, Biology concentration in 2015. From 2014-2017, she traveled around the United States to work with native insect pollinators as a research assistant and community outreach facilitator on five different conservation-focused research projects. She has worked most closely with Yellow-Faced Bumblebees (Bombus vosnesenskii) and Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus), but has participated in a number of general native pollinator and plant surveys as well. In 2016, while working at Archbold Biological Station in Florida, USA, she conducted an independent study entitled, “The multi-scaled habitat preferences of the Blue Calamintha Bee.” Katie is currently an Irish Research Council funded PhD student in the Stanley Ecology Lab at University College Dublin studying the importance of wild and managed pollinators to Irish natural capital. Her main research interests include, pollinator diversity effects on the pollination of native plants and crops. Interactions between managed and wild pollinators and native pollinator conservation With Being Earnest, I hope to create a space away from the noise of everyday life and distraction. I hope to offer a place, to listen, to share, to be engaged and hopefully inspired. Each week I'll be joined by sound people doing great things to have honest and genuine chats. I hope you enjoy Being Earnest. Thanks for Listening. Many more thanks go to the following people: Photography: Caitríona Muireann Music: Chef Brian- LATASHÁ/YouTube Audio Library Special Thanks to Jen Butler Go Raibh Míle Maith Agat agus Grá Mór

How can singing foster our relationships with strangers? And how can singing not just foster relationships, but be a powerful means of hospitality? Dr. Helen Phelan draws on her ethnographic work with a Congolese-Irish choir to show the potential of "sonic hospitality" through singing together. About Dr. Helen Phelan Helen Phelan is Professor of Arts Practice at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland. She is an Irish Research Council recipient for her work on singing, ritual and new migrant communities in Ireland. Her most recent book, Singing the Rite to Belong: Music, Ritual and the New Irish, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. As a singer, she specializes in chant from global religious ritual and is the co-founder of the female vocal group Cantoral who released the much acclaimed CD recording Let the Joyous Irish Sing Aloud! in 2014. She is also founder of the Singing and Social Inclusion research group at the University of Limerick. About Dr. Joshua Kalin Busman Thanks especially to Dr. Joshua Kalin Busman, this episode's guest interviewer! Josh has been on Music and the Church before discussing Virtuosity, Amateurism, and Amateurishness in Evangelical Worship. Joshua is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina - Pembroke. He teaches music history and music theory in the Department of Music and serves as Interim Assistant Dean of the Esther G. Maynor Honors College. Enjoying this podcast episode? Click here to find other Music and the Church episodes, or subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts. Transcript of Singing, Hospitality and the Sacred Stranger, with Helen Phelan, on Music and the Church with Sarah Bereza, Ep. 45 Helen Phelan: My name is Helen Phelan. I work in a place called the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. It's at the University of Limerick in Ireland. The Academy was set up in 1994. And it was quite experimental at the time because it was trying to create a space where you would bring together the academic study of performance with theory. And I came into that as a ritual scholar. And so the two areas that I work in mostly are medieval singing - medieval music and chant - and then the kind of work that I was presenting on this morning, which is music and migration. So what are the different kinds of ritual practices that have evolved around new migrant groups in Ireland, and what role is music playing in creating spaces of welcome or hospitality or the opposite? Joshua Busman: One of the themes of this conference has been the the study of religion - especially the study of congregational music - is already interdisciplinary right from the beginning. But I'm curious, what are your interdisciplinary backgrounds. Helen Phelan: I was I began my education as a musician. I am a pianist, I have a background in musicology and ethnomusicology, and I moved into liturgical music through ritual studies. I was teaching music, and I was really struck by how much the teaching of music relies on the theory about music, and the big divide between being a musician, making music, singing, playing an instrument - and the way we theorize about it. And at the same time, I was just, you know, earning my keep as a young student, as a church organist, and working in the church. And I really became fascinated by ritual because I think ritual has this kind of holistic sense. It uses the mind the body, it uses all of our senses, our sense of smell…. And I thought, that's a space that brings all of these together. And I wanted to try to understand that better. So that's what brought me into studying ritual, and the way in which music works in ritual to create these spaces where people interact in different ways from the way we do in our normal day to day life. Joshua Busman: Yeah, I think I remember when I was an undergrad, talking with the professor and talking about my certain interest in r...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1691 peace treaty that ended the Williamite War in Ireland, between supporters of the deposed King James II and the forces of William III and his allies. It followed the battles at Aughrim and the Boyne and sieges at Limerick, and led to the disbanding of the Jacobite army in Ireland, with troops free to follow James to France for his Irish Brigade. The Catholic landed gentry were guaranteed rights on condition of swearing loyalty to William and Mary yet, while some Protestants thought the terms too lenient, it was said the victors broke those terms before the ink was dry. The image above is from British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. I, by James Grant, 1880, and is meant to show Irish troops leaving Limerick as part of The Flight of the Wild Geese - a term used for soldiers joining continental European armies from C16th-C18th. With Jane Ohlmeyer Chair of the Irish Research Council and Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin Dr Clare Jackson Senior Tutor, Trinity Hall, and Faculty of History, University of Cambridge and Thomas O'Connor Professor of History at Maynooth University Producer: Simon Tillotson

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1691 peace treaty that ended the Williamite War in Ireland, between supporters of the deposed King James II and the forces of William III and his allies. It followed the battles at Aughrim and the Boyne and sieges at Limerick, and led to the disbanding of the Jacobite army in Ireland, with troops free to follow James to France for his Irish Brigade. The Catholic landed gentry were guaranteed rights on condition of swearing loyalty to William and Mary yet, while some Protestants thought the terms too lenient, it was said the victors broke those terms before the ink was dry. The image above is from British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. I, by James Grant, 1880, and is meant to show Irish troops leaving Limerick as part of The Flight of the Wild Geese - a term used for soldiers joining continental European armies from C16th-C18th. With Jane Ohlmeyer Chair of the Irish Research Council and Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin Dr Clare Jackson Senior Tutor, Trinity Hall, and Faculty of History, University of Cambridge and Thomas O'Connor Professor of History at Maynooth University Producer: Simon Tillotson

Where have all the bees gone? What are the invasive species we should look out for? Ella McSweeney discusses soprano bees, nightclubs for spiders and more with Dara Stanley and Michel Dugon. Brainstorm brings you ideas and insights about the world around us. From RTÉ in co-operation with Irish universities and the Irish Research Council.

Dr Deborah Hayden is a Lecturer in the Department of Early Irish at Maynooth University, where she is currently also working as Principal Investigator for the project Medieval Irish Medicine in its North-western European Context: A Case Study of Two Unpublished Texts, funded by a Laureate Award from the Irish Research Council. Her research interests and publications centre on medieval Irish, Latin and Welsh language, literature and textual culture, in particular the history of linguistic thought and education in classical and medieval tradition, Irish-language medical manuscripts and medieval Irish and Welsh law. Conference by the Royal Irish Academy Library in partnership with Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad. The Royal Irish Academy manuscript known by its shelfmark ‘23 N 10' was produced in Ballycummin, Co. Roscommon, in the sixteenth century. It is an extraordinarily important manuscript for many reasons, but it is particularly significant because it contains tales which are amongst the oldest surviving literature in Irish. These tales would originally have been preserved in a now-lost manuscript called Cín Dromma Snechta. Aside from wonderful examples of Old Irish narrative literature, the manuscript also preserves legal texts, poetry and wisdom literature from early medieval Ireland. This two-day conference will explore all aspects of the production, survival and significance of the ‘Book of Ballycummin' and the marvels of medieval Irish literature which are contained within it. Described in the nineteenth century as a ‘little remnant of the work of the ancients', this manuscript is a remarkable witness to the earliest development of Irish literature. Location: Academy House Date: 7 March, 2019 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.

Katherine O'Donnell, director of an Irish Research Council project on recording the archival and oral history of the Irish Magdalenes, reveals how she came to undertake the project.

Katherine O'Donnell, director of an Irish Research Council project on recording the archival and oral history of the Irish Magdalenes, reveals how she came to undertake the project.

Katherine O'Donnell, director of an Irish Research Council project on recording the archival and oral history of the Irish Magdalenes, reveals how she came to undertake the project. She describes how she learned to deal with vicarious trauma and how the Magdalene oral history collection has an added significance given the imposed silence on the survivors of residential institutional abuse who participated in the Residential Institutions Redress Board. She closes with a description of how the Magdalene Oral history is aligned with the processes of Transitional Justice and proposes that the Republic of Ireland might adopt the central principles of Truth-Telling, Accountability, Reparations and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence. About the speaker Dr Katherine O'Donnell is Associate Professor, History of Ideas, UCD School of Philosophy and one of the five members of Justice for Magdalenes Research. For ten years she was the Director of UCD Women's Studies Centre and she has published widely on the History of Ideas in Eighteenth Century Ireland, on the history of sexuality and Irish literature. About the Heritage Podcast Series To Preserve and Protect: Contemporary Issues in Irish Cultural Heritage This is a series of eight 20 minute podcasts by academic researchers and leaders of major Irish heritage institutions. The series addresses questions of critical importance in Irish heritage. Opportunities and challenges of preservation and protection of Irish cultural heritage are addressed. It also provides a valuable and educational resource recorded by experts in heritage and preservation, which is publicly accessible to prompt thought and discussion. Developed and produced by the Historical Studies Committee of the Royal Irish Academy. Supported by The Heritage Council as part of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage. Recorded by Real Smart Media. Podcasts released weekly - listen to the latest episodes here: www.ria.ie/heritagepodcast

Dr Dug Cubie tells Jane how the Irish Research Council funded International Disaster Law Project aims to develop a collaborative research agenda between academics and practitioners in order to strengthen global networks working on international disaster law.

Gudrun had two podcast conversations at the FEniCS18 workshop in Oxford (21.-23. March 2018). FEniCS is an open source computing platform for solving partial differential equations with Finite Element methods. This is the first of the two episodes from Oxford in 2018. Roisin Hill works at the National University of Ireland in Galway on the west coast of Ireland. The university has 19.000 students and 2.000 staff. Roisin is a PhD student in Numerical Analysis at the School of Mathematics, Statistics & Applied Mathematics. Gudrun met her at her poster about Balanced norms and mesh generation for singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problems. This is a collaboration with Niall Madden who is her supervisor in Galway. The name of the poster refers to three topics which are interlinked in their research. Firstly, water flow is modelled as a singularly perturbed equation in a one-dimensional channel. Due to the fact that at the fluid does not move at the boundary there has to be a boundary layer in which the flow properties change. This might occur very rapidly. So, the second topic is that depending on the boundary layer the problem is singularly perturbed and in the limit it is even ill-posed. When solving this equation numerically, it would be best, to have a fine mesh at places where the error is large. Roisin uses a posteriori information to see where the largest errors occur and changes the mesh accordingly. To choose the best norm for errors is the third topic in the mix and strongly depends on the type of singularity. More precisely as their prototypical test case they look for u(x) as the numerical solution of the problem for given functions b(x) and f(x). It is singularly perturbed in the sense that the positive real parameter ε may be arbitrarily small. If we formally set ε = 0, then it is ill-posed. The numercial schemes of choice are finite element methods - implemented in FEniCS with linear and quadratic elements. The numerical solution and its generalisations to higher-dimensional problems, and to the closely related convection-diffusion problem, presents numerous mathematical and computational challenges, particularly as ε → 0. The development of algorithms for robust solution is the subject of intense mathematical investigation. Here “robust” means two things: The algorithm should yield a “reasonable” solution for all ranges of ε, including resolving any layers present; The mathematical analysis of the method should be valid for all ranges of ε. In order to measure the error, the energy norm sounds like a good basis - but as ε^2 → 0 the norm → 0 with order ε . They were looking for an alternative which they found in the literature as the so-called balanced norm. That remains O(1) as ε → 0. Therefore, it turns out that the balanced norm is indeed a better basis for error measurement.After she finished school Roisin became an accountant. She believed what she was told: if you are good at mathematics, accountancy is the right career. Later her daughter became ill and had to be partially schooled at home. This was the moment when Roisin first encountered applied mathematics and fell in love with the topic. Inspired by her daughter - who did a degree in general science specialising in applied mathematics - Roisin studied mathematics and is a PhD student now (since Sept. 2017). Her enthusiasm has created impressive results: She won a prestigious Postgraduate Scholarship from the Irish Research Council for her four year PhD program. References R. Lin, M. Stynes: A balanced finite element method for singularly perturbed reaction diffusion problems. SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 50(5):2729–2743, 2012. T. Linß: Layer-adapted meshes for reaction-convection-diffusion problems, volume 1985 of Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2010. H.-G. Roos, M. Stynes, L. Tobiska: Robust Numerical Methods for Singularly Perturbed Differential Equations, volume 24 of Springer Series in Computational Mathematics. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2nd edition, 2008. Podcasts M. E. Rognes: Cerebral Fluid Flow, Gespräch mit G. Thäter im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 134, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2017.

Gudrun had two podcast conversations at the FEniCS18 workshop in Oxford (21.-23. March 2018). FEniCS is an open source computing platform for solving partial differential equations with Finite Element methods. This is the first of the two episodes from Oxford in 2018. Roisin Hill works at the National University of Ireland in Galway on the west coast of Ireland. The university has 19.000 students and 2.000 staff. Roisin is a PhD student in Numerical Analysis at the School of Mathematics, Statistics & Applied Mathematics. Gudrun met her at her poster about Balanced norms and mesh generation for singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problems. This is a collaboration with Niall Madden who is her supervisor in Galway. The name of the poster refers to three topics which are interlinked in their research. Firstly, water flow is modelled as a singularly perturbed equation in a one-dimensional channel. Due to the fact that at the fluid does not move at the boundary there has to be a boundary layer in which the flow properties change. This might occur very rapidly. So, the second topic is that depending on the boundary layer the problem is singularly perturbed and in the limit it is even ill-posed. When solving this equation numerically, it would be best, to have a fine mesh at places where the error is large. Roisin uses a posteriori information to see where the largest errors occur and changes the mesh accordingly. To choose the best norm for errors is the third topic in the mix and strongly depends on the type of singularity. More precisely as their prototypical test case they look for u(x) as the numerical solution of the problem for given functions b(x) and f(x). It is singularly perturbed in the sense that the positive real parameter ε may be arbitrarily small. If we formally set ε = 0, then it is ill-posed. The numercial schemes of choice are finite element methods - implemented in FEniCS with linear and quadratic elements. The numerical solution and its generalisations to higher-dimensional problems, and to the closely related convection-diffusion problem, presents numerous mathematical and computational challenges, particularly as ε → 0. The development of algorithms for robust solution is the subject of intense mathematical investigation. Here “robust” means two things: The algorithm should yield a “reasonable” solution for all ranges of ε, including resolving any layers present; The mathematical analysis of the method should be valid for all ranges of ε. In order to measure the error, the energy norm sounds like a good basis - but as ε^2 → 0 the norm → 0 with order ε . They were looking for an alternative which they found in the literature as the so-called balanced norm. That remains O(1) as ε → 0. Therefore, it turns out that the balanced norm is indeed a better basis for error measurement.After she finished school Roisin became an accountant. She believed what she was told: if you are good at mathematics, accountancy is the right career. Later her daughter became ill and had to be partially schooled at home. This was the moment when Roisin first encountered applied mathematics and fell in love with the topic. Inspired by her daughter - who did a degree in general science specialising in applied mathematics - Roisin studied mathematics and is a PhD student now (since Sept. 2017). Her enthusiasm has created impressive results: She won a prestigious Postgraduate Scholarship from the Irish Research Council for her four year PhD program. References R. Lin, M. Stynes: A balanced finite element method for singularly perturbed reaction diffusion problems. SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 50(5):2729–2743, 2012. T. Linß: Layer-adapted meshes for reaction-convection-diffusion problems, volume 1985 of Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2010. H.-G. Roos, M. Stynes, L. Tobiska: Robust Numerical Methods for Singularly Perturbed Differential Equations, volume 24 of Springer Series in Computational Mathematics. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2nd edition, 2008. Podcasts M. E. Rognes: Cerebral Fluid Flow, Gespräch mit G. Thäter im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 134, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2017.

During the First World War thousands of women in Ireland performed a parallel war service to that of men in the British Army. The women joined the Red Cross, St John Ambulance Association, the Irish War Hospital Supply Depot and many other voluntary organisations, offering their time and labour for free. They did so for a variety of motives: personal, political and associational. Many felt a strong identification with the British war effort and a desire to prove their loyalty to Britain, when it was coming under question from Ulster unionists and many of those in Britain, particularly after the Easter Rising. Much of this war service took place through parish organisations connected to the various Protestant denominations or through the pre-existing Anglican women’s organisations: the Mothers’ Union, Girls’ Friendly Society and Young Women’s Christian Association. Although many catholic and nationalist (and catholic nationalist) women supported the war effort, the membership of organisations like the Red Cross was dominated by Protestants. The imbalance in participation levels became even more pronounced after the Easter Rising when war service became even more associated with a British or imperial identity. The relationships between Catholics and Protestants, and between unionist Ulster and southern Ireland became increasingly strained during the war, with women’s war service acting as both a catalyst and a prism for viewing these divisions. This paper uses the war service of women in southern Ireland as a means of exploring southern loyalist identity during this tumultuous period. Dr Fionnuala Walsh is an Irish Research Council postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of History at Trinity College Dublin. She completed her PhD in 2015 and held the 2015-2016 Research Studentship in the National Library of Ireland. She is currently writing a monograph on the impact of the First World War on women in Ireland. Dr Walsh is the membership secretary of the Women’s History Association of Ireland.

This podcast is a collection of conference papers delivered at the Southern Irish Loyalism in Context Conference in July 21st - 22nd at Maynooth University. The conference was generously funded by the Irish Research Council and hosted at An Foras Feasa, Maynooth University. For more information about the conference use the following link: https://southernirishloyalism.wordpress.com

Eamonn is a wonderful clinician-scientist who graduated with a 1st Class Honours Degree from the University College Dublin (UCD) School of Physiotherapy in 2003 placing first in his class. Eamonn received a prestigious Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) post-graduate research scholarship. He was awarded his PhD from the UCD School of Physiotherapy and Performance Science in 2006, In this podcast that combines science with clinical application topics include: • The high prevalence of ankle injuries and the high risk of the development of chronic residual symptoms. • The characteristic features of CAI. • How to manage the young soccer player who sustains an ankle injury. • Detailed discussion of (1) modified Ottawa Ankle Rules; (2) determination of lateral ligament laxity; (3) syndesmosis assessment. • How to assess for chronic ankle instability • Mechanical insufficiencies including: (1) pathological laxity; (2) arthrokinematic restrictions; (3) synovial changes; (4) degenerative changes. • Functional insufficiencies including: (1) impaired proprioception; (2) impaired neuromuscular control; (3) impaired postural control/postural balance; (4) impaired strength. • Assessment of laxity and the use of taping and bracing. • Patient-reported outcome measures clinicians can use including the FAAM, CAIT & idFAI Associated papers and tools: Diagnostic accuracy of the Ottawa Ankle and Midfoot Rules: a systematic review with meta-analysis http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2016/11/24/bjsports-2016-096858.long Cumberland ankle instability tool ( 11 – chronic ankle instability (>11) Foot and ankle ability scale: FAN ADL(21 items) and FAN sport (8 minutes) Selection criteria for patients with chronic ankle instability in controlled research: a position statement of the International Ankle Consortium. http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/48/13/1014 2016 consensus statement the International Ankle Consortium: prevalence, impact and long-term consequences of lateral ankle sprains. http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/24/1493.long

Speaker: Andrew Pettegree Long before journalism had a name, Europe had a fully operative commercial news market, and newsmen had their own strongly felt code of ethics. In this paper Andrew Pettegree charts the emergence of journalism as a professional craft, from the earliest regular news serials, the birth of the newspapers, and the growth of party politics, through to the mass media of the modern age. He asks what lessons history has to offer to a craft under pressure from bewilderingly rapid changes of media platforms and the proliferation of new media outlets. This lecture is supported by the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Marsh's Library and the Irish Research Council-funded ‘Mapping readers and readership in Dublin: 1826-1926: a new cultural geography' (UCD Schools of History and Computer Science: http://marshreaders.ucd.ie/people/ ) Professor Pettegree charts the emergence of journalism as a professional craft, from the earliest regular news serials, the birth of the newspapers, and the growth of party politics, through to the mass media of the modern age. Location: Academy House Date: 23 November 2016 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.

Mary Louise O’Donnell traces the history and evolution of Ireland's treasured national emblem, the harp and examines its glorious musical tradition. Includes harp recital. Recorded in front of a live audience in the Central Library, on 12 March 2015. The image of the harp – symbolic of the political and cultural landscape of Ireland for centuries – evokes strong sentiments in the collective Irish imagination. This iconic instrument became the emblem on Irish coinage in the sixteenth century. Since then it has been symbolic of Irish culture, music, and politics – finally evolving into a significant marker of national identity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Mary Louise O'Donnell holds a doctorate from the University of Limerick and is a former Irish Research Council postgraduate scholar and postdoctoral fellow. Her first book 'Ireland's Harp: the Shaping of Irish Identity c.1770 to 1880' was published by UCD Press in 2014.

[English version below] Labhair muid le hAoife Uí Fhaolláin, scoláire iarchéime de chuid na Comhairle um Thaighde sna Dána agus sna hEolaíochtaí Sóisialta, faoi Lig Sinn i gCathú, leabhar mhí na Samhna. Tá tráchtas scríofa ag Aoife faoi shaothar iriseoireachta Bhreandáin Uí Eithir agus bhí go leor rudaí spéisiúla le rá aici faoi na cosúlachtaí idir saol an údair agus imeachtaí an leabhair, faoi pholaitíocht an chogaidh chathartha agus go leor eile. [Leagan Gaeilge thuas] We spoke to Aoife Uí Fhaolláin, a Postgraduate Scholar of the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, about Lig Sinn i gCathú, November's book of the month. Aoife has written a Master's thesis on Breandán Ó hEithir's journalism and she has many interesting things to say about the similarities between the author's life and the events in the book, and about civil war politics. Le tacaíocht ó Chlár na Leabhar Gaeilge (Foras na Gaeilge) agus ón gComhairle Ealaíon

The Role of the University in a Changing World Drew Faust 30 June 2010, Trinity College Dublin In a speech to the Royal Irish Academy at Trinity College Dublin on Wednesday 30 June, Harvard president Drew Faust surveyed "the role of the university in a changing world." While she celebrated the expansion of education globally, she warned of the rising pressures threatening to undercut that trend. She lauded the career-defining role of higher education and defended the ongoing importance of the humanities. The event was co-sponsored by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS). www.ria.ie Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website 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.

Speaker: Professor Orla Feely, Chair, Irish Research Council The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013. Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet. Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model' of Open Access and the European Commission's proposed ‘Green Model'. More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx www.ria.ie Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website 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.

Speakers: RIA President, Professor Luke Drury Professor Orla Feely, Chair, Irish Research Council The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013. Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet. Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model' of Open Access and the European Commission's proposed ‘Green Model'. More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx www.ria.ie Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website 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.

Keynote Address: Open Access and the European Research Area Speaker: Dr Octavi Quintana-Trias, Director, European Research Area The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013. Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet. Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model' of Open Access and the European Commission's proposed ‘Green Model'. More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx www.ria.ie Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website 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.

Public Research in Ireland and Understanding Ireland's National Guidelines: an overview and Open access policies of funding bodies & their implementation: a panel discussion Speakers: Dr Patricia Clarke, Health Research Board Dr Manus Ward, Science Foundation Ireland Mr Joe Doyle, Enterprise Ireland Dr Eucharia Meehan, Irish Research Council The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013. Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet. Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model' of Open Access and the European Commission's proposed ‘Green Model'. More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx www.ria.ie Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website 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.

Open Access and the Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences Speakers: Professor Keith Jeffery, School of History and Anthropology, Queens University Belfast Professor Ronan McNulty, School of Physics, University College Dublin Dr Kevin Lalor, School of Social Sciences and Law, Dublin Institute of Technology Professor Stefan Decker, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland Galway The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013. Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet. Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model' of Open Access and the European Commission's proposed ‘Green Model'. More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx www.ria.ie Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website 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.

Global Perspectives of Open Access Speaker: Prof Nicholas Canny, European Research Council's Working Group on Open Access The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013. Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet. Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model' of Open Access and the European Commission's proposed ‘Green Model'. More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx www.ria.ie Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website 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.

Open Access in Practice Speakers: Niamh Brennan, Programme Manager, Research Informatics, Trinity College Dublin Dr Sandra Collins, Digital Repository of Ireland Ruth Hegarty, Publications Manager, Royal Irish Academy Dr Darius Whelan, Faculty of Law, University College Cork Dr John Howard, UCD Librarian & RIAN The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013. Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet. Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model' of Open Access and the European Commission's proposed ‘Green Model'. More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx www.ria.ie Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website 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.

Global Perspectives of Open Access Speakers: Prof Nicholas Canny, European Research Council's Working Group on Open Access Geraldine Clement Stoneham, Knowledge and Information Manager, Medical Research Council UK, and RCUK Research Outputs Network Dr Julia M Wallace, Manager, PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) Project The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013. Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet. Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model' of Open Access and the European Commission's proposed ‘Green Model'. More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx www.ria.ie Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website 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.