Royal Irish Academy

JMS took his first violin lesson in Dublin. Two years later, in November 1889, he enrolled in the Royal Irish Academy of Music while also attending Trinity College .

Jane Francesca Elgee was a belle of Dublin society. Her engagements included formal balls and the theatre. During a ball at the Royal Irish Academy she found herself treated like a local literary celebrity, and...

The Brooke family had been progressive farmers, introducing improvements both in growing and processing produce, but failing to make a profit by their efforts. Some years after her father's death CB applied for, but did...

TD was elected to the Irish Academy of Letters in 1954.

HW 's remarkable popularity—as an academic scholar whose name was well-known in non-academic, cultivated households—went hand in hand with some scholarly condemnation. She was said to have been barred from British Academy membership by opposition...

MS was elected a member of both the Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, and the Royal Irish Academy .

ES was awarded the Gregory Medal, highest award of the Irish Academy of Letters .

In old age CH was loaded with other honours, including honorary membership in the Royal Astronomical Society , along with Mary Somerville , in 1835. (Each woman said she felt it a particular honour to...

Apart from the honour represented by her Writer in Residence posts, ML was in 1968 awarded an honorary Doctorate of Literature by University College, Dublin, where she had been a student. From 1971 to...

Other honours in 1987 included being made a Companion of Literature, and receiving an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University . Cambridge University awarded her a Honorary LittD in 1993. She received Honorary Fellowships from St Anne's College, Oxford

In preparing the book, AG consulted nineteenth-century editions of Middle Irish texts at the British Museum , the National Library in Dublin , and the Royal Irish Academy . From these, she aimed to produce...

Once again HB sold this work from her home (by now 60 Stephen Street). It survives in copies at the National Library of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy ; the second of these contains...

In late 2018 EB wrote a poem entitled Mnà na hÉireann (Women of Ireland) commemorating the women who voted in Ireland in the first election open to them, on 14 December 1918. Her title repeats...

She began her project as a money-earning one, but was later able to declare that the proceeds would go to charity. A further motive was patriotic and nationalistic: to counter the English (even, sometimes, the...