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Royal Irish Academy Acadamh Ríoga Na Héireann finalcovertoprint_Layout115/11/201215:32Page1 ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 Royal Irish Academy / 2011 11 12 Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann / Royal Irish Academy • Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann • Academy Irish Royal Cover image: Based on an archaeological drawing of the double-ditched enclosure phase of occupation at Tomb 1 at Knowth, Co. Meath. June 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the programme of archaeological excavations at Knowth, under the direction of Professor George Eogan, MRIA, and the publication of volume 5 in the Royal Irish Academy’s series of monographs presenting the findings from the excavations. I Follow us on I RA Royalwww.ria.ie Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2. Tel: +353 1 676 2570 RA RIA finalcovertoprint_Layout115/11/201215:32Page2 VOICES IN THE ETHER: IRISH NATIONAL LANGUAGES WRITING STRATEGY on the ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY NATIONAL COMMITTEE RADIO FOR MODERN LANGUAGE, LITERARY SH GILLIAN MCINTO AND CULTURAL STUDIES OHN BOWMAN • IBHEAR WALSHE SEAMUS HEANEY • J ORKMAN •E SIMON W BHRIAIN LENNON • OIREANN NÍ HILARY HEPBURN • D AUGUST 2011 ALLAN NÍ ANLUAIN CHRIS MORASH • CLÍODHNA RAN STEPHEN DOUDS • ANNE DEVLIN • OR • MAL ACHY MO •A NNE O’CONN PAT B ORAN 2 1 0 2 RIA COMMITTEE FOR LITERATURES IN ENGLISH –3 2 February RIA RIA THE RIA HAMILTON LECTURE E RE .I - GI IA STE .R 2011 R O W NLI WW NE F S AT OR FREE TICKET - PROFESSORINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED EDWARD STUDY, PRINCETON • FIELDS WITTEN MEDALLIST REFLECTIONS ON CRISIS QUANTUM The role of the public intellectual OF edited by Mary P. Corcoran and Kevin Lalor THEORY KNOTS 17 October 2011@ 7.30pm BURKE LECTURE THEATRE, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN RIA ITION XHIB AT E TH AN E R OY AL DEMY uu IRISH ACA u u u u u u u 15 February: THE SECOND DRAFT OF 7 March: ‘ASWILDASANYTHINGIN HISTORY: THE HALIDAY PAMPHLETS AND ROMANCE’: ROBERT EMMET AND RADICAL DANIEL O’CONNELL. RESPONSES TO THE UNION, 1800-1803 FREE Kevin Whelan, Keough-Naughton Notre Dame Patrick Geoghegan, Trinity College Dublin Centre, Dublin 14 March: WITNESSING THE RISING OF LUNCHTIME 22 February: ONE MAN AND HIS LIBRARY: 1641 THROUGH THE HALIDAY PAMPHLETS CHARLES HALIDAY’SPAMPHLETCOLLECTION Nicholas Canny, MRIA LECTURES Sophie Evans, Library, RIA 21 March: TROUBLING TIMES – Wednesdays, 1-2pm, 29 February: REVOLUTION, REBELLION PAMPHLETS OF THE ‘TROUBLES’ AT THE Meeting Room, Royal Irish Academy, AND UNION: IRELAND IN THE 1790S LINEN HALL LIBRARY, BELFAST 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2. Dáire Keogh, Saint Patrick’s College, DCU John Killen, Librarian, Linen Hall, Belfast in conjuntion with FROM CROMWELL to CHOLERA a HISTORY of IRELAND FROM THE PAMPHLET COLLECTION OF Issues of Higher Education Institutional Governance CHARLES HALIDAY Opening Hours: Mon–Fri 10am–5pm. ADMISSION FREE GROUPS BY APPOINTMENT. EMAIL: [email protected] OR PHONE 01 6090620 www.ria.ie RIA Finaltexttoprint_Layout115/11/201214:28Page1 selected achievements National Languages Strategy Publication of ‘ ’ policy report Issues of Policy submission for the Department of Education and Skills: ‘ Higher Education Institutional Governance ’ Irish Historic Town Atlas, no. 24, Sligo by Fióna Gallagher and Marie-Louise Legg Irish Writing on the Radio Conference: ‘ ’ The AngloIrish Treaty e-Book from DIFP and DHO: online archive of Irish Language Texts FNG Reflections on Crisis : The role of the public intellectual edited by Mary Corcoran and Kevin Lalor Introduction to News Media for Seminar: ‘ Ireland s Geoscientists ’ ’ masterclasses Inaugural series of with Nobel laureates: Peter Doherty and James Watson Publication, in collaboration with the Dublin 1911 National Archives of Ireland, of St Patrick s Confessio Hypertext Stack Project Launch of the ’ website: http://www.confessio.ie Irish Foreign Policy New textbook: edited by Ben Tonra, Michael Kennedy, John Doyle and Noel Dorr From Cromwell to Cholera Library Exhibition: ‘ ’, based on the pamphlets and tracts collected by Charles Haliday (c. 1789–1866) Finaltexttoprint_Layout115/11/201214:28Page2 Finaltexttoprint_Layout115/11/201214:28Page3 4 Change and Continuity CONTENTS 9 Welcome Message from the Acting Director 10 Funding Fundamental Research 17 Ranking Metrics: The Controversy and a Possible Reconciliation 22 Terrorism, Torture and Memory 28 New Members 36 Distinctions Conferred on Members 38 A Year in View 42 Remembering Paddy Buckley 46 Bereavements 47 Academy Committees Report 50 Discourse List 51 Policy Report 55 Research Projects 66 Library Report 71 Publications Report 77 Mobility Grants 78 Appendices Finaltexttoprint_Layout115/11/201214:28Page4 CHANGE LUKE DRURY AND President CONTINUITY ooking back on slightly more I am firmly convinced that now is not Lthan a year as President of the the time for a bland and insipid Academy I have very mixed strategic review, dressed up in the fash- feelings. This year was overshadowed by ionable jargon of management the tragic illness and death of Executive consultancy. What is needed is a deep Secretary Paddy Buckley, whose loss is and thoughtful analysis of the still keenly felt throughout the Academy’s role, informed by history, Academy. I am very grateful to Mary and drawing on international experi- Daly for contributing a moving ence; for this reason I am delighted that obituary of Paddy to this review, see we have secured a person of such dis- pages 42–5. It was strangely appropri- tinction as the philosopher and former ate though, that the week which began President of the British Academy, with Paddy’s funeral should end with Baroness Onora O’Neill, to chair the the admission day for new members. As review. The Academy owes her and her individuals we come and go, but the fellow members of the strategic review Academy goes on as long as we are group a great debt of gratitude. I would prepared to work, as Paddy always was, also like to thank the many members of at keeping it where it has been for over the Academy who have submitted input two-hundred years—at the heart of to the review process. intellectual and civic life in Ireland. As discussed last year, this cannot ever be There have, of course, been many taken for granted, and it is important positive aspects to the year, especially a that the Academy continuously reviews greater involvement with the its purpose and role, especially, as now, Department of Education and Skills, in times of crisis. The current strategic which led to a direct invitation from review of the Academy should be seen Minister Ruairí Quinn to submit a in this light. working paper on issues of third-level 4 Finaltexttoprint_Layout115/11/201214:28Page5 Finaltexttoprint_Layout115/11/201214:28Page6 Finaltexttoprint_Layout115/11/201214:28Page7 governance. I am deeply grateful to the family, the life of the Academy would many members and staff of the be much less exciting. A particular Academy who contributed to this highlight was of course the participa- paper. Of necessity it had to be rather tion of the Academy in the Euroscience general, and our aim was to clarify the Open Forum (ESOF 2012) and the City evidence base (which is surprisingly of Science festival and the excitement thin) and give some broad principles- and enthusiasm that generated. based advice to the minister, reflecting—in as much as this is Despite these positives, the Academy, as possible—the voice of the academic is the case with all publicly supported community. It would be inappropriate bodies, continues to suffer from head- for the Academy, I feel, to make specific count and budget cutbacks, which are detailed recommendations in this area, proving increasingly difficult to manage. but I think the report was a useful con- I am enormously grateful to the staff, tribution to the debate. The associated who have shown admirable flexibility discussion meeting was stimulating, and and have in many cases taken on sub- at times provocative, including the key- stantial additional work-loads and note address by Rektor Lauritz B. responsibilities on a voluntary basis. Holm-Nielsen of Aarhus University in Clearly this situation cannot carry on Denmark. The meeting underlined indefinitely, and I am concerned that we once again the unique and valuable are becoming exposed to increased risk facility that Academy House represents in many areas of our operations. This is as an independent, neutral space for yet another reason why the strategic such discussions. review is so important. I am hopeful it will give us the arguments to fight I have also greatly enjoyed the many against these cuts by demonstrating how launches and public events associated the Academy can play its part in the with the Academy, its projects and its necessary regeneration of Irish society. committees. These are too numerous to This must be as much in cultural values mention individually, but they are a and in political and civic ethics as in the great tribute to the energy and dedica- economy. I have always felt strongly that tion of all the projects and staff, as well the emphasis on the ‘smart economy’ is as the broader network of Academy misplaced, and that the discussion committees (see the Selected should be on building a ‘smart society’, Achievements section on page 1 and the out of which a smart economy will Year in View on pages 38–41 for more naturally emerge. To attempt to build a details of these events). The committees smart economy without embedding it in in particular are of vital importance, as a smart society is a dangerous, and ulti- they extend the reach of the Academy mately a futile, exercise. Indeed, one beyond the membership and into the could make a strong argument that what wider community. Without the active is needed is not just a smart society, but participation of this whole extended a smart and ethical society. 7 Finaltexttoprint_Layout115/11/201214:28Page8 This leads me naturally to one of my attitude also poses for research in the major concerns at the moment: the humanities and the social sciences.
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