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Royal Irish Academy Annual Review 2017 annual Review 2017 2017 Review annual Royal Irish Academy Annual Review 2017 royal irish academy irish academy royal Cover TO PRINT.indd 1 2/19/2018 4:42:00 PM key achievements Expert Climate change: Statements on: inaugural Oireachtas • Irish storminess • Dynamics of housing Royal Irish briefing, with the markets Academy Brexit Oireachtas Library • Robotics and Taskforce survey, and Research Service personhood report, briefings, liaison 18,300 Footfall in Academy 45 research House grant recipients, visiting 15 different countries RIA Inaugural George Bernard Shaw Day and publication of Judging Shaw by Fintan O’Toole Corpas Stairiúil na Gaeilge 1600–1926 launched: • free online resource • fully searchable corpus • 19 million words from 4,366 texts written in Irish Third conference in the Library’s series on the major vellums— Book of Uí Mhaine/ Publication of Leabhar Ua Maine Sunningdale: the search for peace in Selections from the Northern Ireland by first 25 Irish Historic Noel Dorr, MRIA 20 new Towns Atlases made members of freely available online the Royal Irish Academy TO PRINT.indd 1 2/19/2018 3:06:53 PM At the US-Ireland Research Innovation Awards (l to r) James O’Connor, American Chamber of Commerce Ireland; Anna Scally, KPMG; Peter Kennedy, PRIA; Stephen Masterson, Ulster Bank A Year in View Chief Whip and Minister of State Joe McHugh, TD who officially launched Corpas Stairiúil na Gaeilge 1600–1926 TO PRINT.indd 2 2/19/2018 3:06:58 PM Nithy Kasa reciting her poetry at the launch of Marianne Elliott, MRIA, and Eucharia the ‘Language and migration in Ireland’ report Meehan, MRIA, on admittance day New members on admittance day TO PRINT.indd 3 2/19/2018 3:07:05 PM At the launch of the 2018 suffrage conference ‘Representation, gender and politics: past and present’ at the Houses of the Oireachtas; Leas-Cheann Comhairle, Pat ‘the Cope’ Gallagher, TD; Cathaoirleach, Senator Denis O’Donovan; Senator Ivana Bacik, Chair Vótáil100; Peter Kennedy, President of the Royal Irish Academy (PRIA) Briefing on ‘Climate change: science, policy and the future for Ireland’ at the Houses of the Oireachtas organised in association with the Oireachtas Library and Research Service TO PRINT.indd 4 2/19/2018 3:07:09 PM At the launch of the Gender Equality Taskforce for Higher Education. Mary Mitchell O’Connor, TD, Minister of State with special responsibility for Higher Education (right), with Marie O’Connor, taskforce chair (left). TO PRINT.indd 5 2/19/2018 3:07:11 PM Cunningham Medal 2017 awardee Dervilla M.X. Donnelly, MRIA (right), with Catherine Godson, MRIA (left) At the Academy Gold Medals ceremony (l to r) Mary E. Daly, PRIA; Gold Medal 2016 recipients Fergus Shanahan, MRIA and Louis Cullen, MRIA; and Richard Bruton, TD, Minister for Education and Skills TO PRINT.indd 6 2/19/2018 3:07:18 PM Social Sciences Committee members, Dr Aisling Murray, ESRI (left) and Dr Felicity Kelliher, WIT (right) at the Mary McAleese Discourse Professor Tuula Teeri, president- elect of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Mary McAleese, MRIA, with Mr Edward Gleeson, Sciences, delivering the 2017 partner, Mason Hayes & Curran at the Mary Leaders in Higher Education McAleese Discourse in September Address on 16 November TO PRINT.indd 7 2/19/2018 3:07:26 PM John Bell graffiti art installation at Fane Street Primary School, Belfast for John Bell Day November 2017 Noel Dorr, MRIA; Olivia O’Leary; Ambassador Bobby McDonagh at Iveagh House on 22 November for the launch of Sunningdale: the search for peace in Northern Ireland TO PRINT.indd 8 2/19/2018 3:07:33 PM Celia Holland, MRIA who was the respondent to the Fintan O’Toole speaking at the launch of William C. Campbell Discourse on 29 November Judging Shaw at the Little Museum of Dublin At the launch of IHTA, Dublin Suburbs No. 1 Clontarf (l to r): Charles Duggan, Dublin City Council Heritage Officer, Dr Jacinta Prunty, series editor; Peter Kennedy, PRIA; the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mícheál Mac Donncha; Colm Lennon, MRIA, series editor and author (seated) TO PRINT.indd 9 2/19/2018 3:07:40 PM At the Dublin launch of ‘Ireland and Japan, 1957’ (l to r) Dr Eoin Kinsella (RIA), State Minister for Foreign Affairs Kazuyuki Nakane, Minister for the Diaspora and International Development Ciaran Cannon, TD, and Dr Michael Kennedy (RIA) The Hamilton Prize winners 2017: (l to r) Tadhg O’Keeffe, UCD; Oliwia Jarosz, DIT; Conor Reynolds, MU; Lauren O’Hare, UU; Michael Keyes, UL. Other Hamilton Prize winners (not in the photograph) were: Samuel McKeown, TCD; Brian Whelan, NUIG; Ethan Hawthorne, QUB; Aidan J. Marnane, UCC; Ryan Hogan, DCU. TO PRINT.indd 10 2/19/2018 3:07:42 PM New President Professor Michael Peter Kennedy is the 56th President of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA); he was elected on 16 March 2017. Peter Kennedy, PRIA, is a world expert in wireless communications. He is professor of microelectronic engineering at University College Dublin. Prior to that he was chair of the Department of Microelectronic Engineering in University College Cork from 2000 to July 2017. His research publications are in the fields of oscillator design, hysteresis, neural networks, nonlinear dynamics, chaos com- munication, mixed-signal test and frequency synthesis. He has worked as a consult- ant for SMEs and multinationals in the microelectronics industry, and is founding director of the Microelectronics Industry Design Association and the Microelectronic Circuits Centre Ireland. Professor Kennedy has received many prestigious awards including Best Paper (International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications), the 88th IEE Kelvin Lecture, IEEE Millennium and Golden Jubilee Medals, the inaugural Royal Irish Academy Parsons Award in Engineering Sciences and the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Chapter of the Year Award 2010. In 2004, he was elected to membership of the RIA and was made a Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering in 2014. He was elected to membership of Academia Europaea in 2015. He served as RIA Policy and International Relations Secretary from 2012 to 2016. TO PRINT.indd 11 2/19/2018 3:07:43 PM Peter Kennedy, President Across the developed world, academies which was launched in March and has been are self-governing communities of leaders adopted by the major funding bodies across of scholarly enquiry. Independent from Europe. political, commercial and ideological inter- ests, they are uniquely placed to provide The Academy also took the lead in prepar- access to an unparalleled human resource ing a report for the European Academies of intellectual excellence, experience Science Advisory Council (EASAC) on and expertise. The Royal Irish Academy ‘Valuing dedicated storage in electric- is proud to be Ireland’s leading body of ity grids’, which addresses the problem experts in the sciences and humanities and of storing electrical energy. In a carbon to play its unique role both nationally and dioxide emissions-reducing world where internationally. a larger percentage of electrical energy now comes from renewable sources, it is With significant amounts of public money becoming increasingly difficult to balance being committed to research across the instantaneous production and con- Europe, it is important that appropriate sumption of electrical energy; hence the governance structures exist to ensure need to understand what role storage grids the quality and integrity of the work. As might play. This timely report was launched a member of the ALLEA (All European both in Brussels and in Dublin. Academies) Permanent Working Group on Science and Ethics, the RIA played a leading Closer to home, Brexit has been a major role this year in drafting ‘The European concern for scholars. The RIA partnered Code of Conduct for Research Integrity’, with academies and learned societies across 12 13 TO PRINT.indd 12 2/19/2018 3:07:45 PM Members of Council, 2017–18: Front row left to right: Seán Dineen, MRIA; Geraldine Butler, MRIA; Pat Shannon, MRIA; Peter Kennedy, PRIA; Sally Wheeler, MRIA; John McGilp, MRIA; Peter McHugh, MRIA. Centre row left to right: Eoin O’Reilly, MRIA; Mary Canning, MRIA; Andrew Carpenter, MRIA; Elizabeth Meehan, MRIA; Pat Guiry, MRIA; Imelda Maher, MRIA; Jane Grimson, MRIA. Back row left to right: Daniel Carey, MRIA; Bernadette Whelan, MRIA; Gerry McKenna, MRIA; William Spillane, MRIA. Council Members not present: Maria Baghramian, MRIA; Ciarán Brady, MRIA; Tom Brazil, MRIA; Eunan O’Halpin, MRIA; Angret Simms, MRIA. 12 13 TO PRINT.indd 13 2/19/2018 3:07:48 PM the UK and Ireland, including the British work and visit. Archaeological sites, built her- Academy and the Royal Society, to address itage, the historic environment and museum matters of shared concern in the fields of collections are significant contributors to research and innovation. the creation of local and national identities for Ireland’s citizens, attractors for tourists, As an all-island body, the RIA is uniquely posi- and a source of connection and pride for the tioned to highlight the issues which impact Irish diaspora. The Academy’s ‘Archaeology higher education and research. The RIA Brexit 2025’ report provides a sustainable, strategic Taskforce with two working groups, one in pathway towards understanding, enjoying and Northern Ireland, the other in the Republic, protecting the benefits of archaeology over consulted widely and prepared a Brexit the next decade. factsheet, which is enclosed in this Annual Review, quantifying the connections between The Academy also has an outstanding record Ireland and the UK. The Academy also pub- as an academic and scholarly publisher. This lished discussion papers in collaboration with year saw the publication of a number of the British Academy addressing issues related important new works including Volume 6 to the Border. of the Excavations at Knowth series, the Irish Historic Towns Atlas of Clontarf, and the Since its foundation in 1785, the Academy has fourth in our Judging series, Judging Shaw.
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