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5 unusual facts about Royal Irish Academy


Conrad Herwig

Herwig has conducted master classes, seminars and workshops at hundreds of universities and conservatories around the world including the Sibelius Academy, Finland; the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin; the University of Köln, Germany; Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y.; and the University of Southern California.

MRIA

Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a title awarded as public recognition of academic excellence.

Series C Banknotes

An excerpt from a sixteenth-century manuscript kept by the Royal Irish Academy also features.

William Hamilton Drummond

He was soon elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy, contributed frequently to its Transactions, held for many years the office of its librarian, and took a scholarly interest in Celtic literature.

William Mossop

In 1786 Mossop was employed to make the prize medal of the Royal Irish Academy, considered one of his best works.


Albert Russell Nichols

Nichols took part in the Lord Bandon dredging expedition of 1886 with Haddon, sponsored by the Royal Irish Academy, and in the biological surveys of Lambay, Clare Island and Malahide.

Ferghal Dubh Ó Gadhra

Ó Gadhra was the compiler of the O Gara Manuscript (now RIA MS 23 F 16), which he compiled at Antwerp and Lisle between 1655 and 1659.

Great Book of Lecan

The (Great) Book of Lecan (Irish: Leabhar (Mór) Leacain) (RIA, MS 23 P 2) is a medieval Irish manuscript written between 1397 and 1418.

Pádraig Mag Fhloinn

Mag Fhloinn's manuscripts, featuring folksongs, are kept in the Royal Irish Academy in Dawson Street, Dublin.

Robert Francis Scharff

She was a specialist in Porifera and Cnidaria with both Scharff and Stephens taking part in the Royal Irish Academy Clare Island Survey.

Samuel Haughton

He was president of the Royal Irish Academy from 1886 to 1891, and for twenty years he was secretary of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland.

William John Fitzpatrick

FitzPatrick was long actively interested in the work of the Royal Irish Academy and the Royal Dublin Society.


see also

New Bern High School

Sinisa Malesevic, Member of Royal Irish Academy, Professor of Sociology at Dublin University, Ireland

Seamus Deane

He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a founding director of the Field Day Theatre Company.