Karen Power

We’re glad to see @theguardian.com cover ‘For and Against a United Ireland’ (RIA,2025) by leading journalists Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/24/a-united-ireland-referendum-must-not-be-another-brexit-analysts-say

The Royal Irish Academy was delighted to take part in this year’s @dublinbookfest.bsky.social with two events.

A crowd facing a panel of five speakers with a screen behind them

Really enjoyable and insightful panel discussion today at the @ria.ie talk 'The Troubles and the European Community: Exploring DIFP XIV (1969-73)

Two men stand in front of bookshelves, each holding a yellow book, smiling at the camera.

Check out the review of For and Against a united Ireland in this weekends @irishtimes.com:

"For and Against a United Ireland by Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride: Arguing to end apathy of ‘undecideds’ Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride demonstrate the importance of free and reasoned deliberation."

Intercepted? Or illegally boarded in breach of international maritime law?

So jealous of anyone at the live event!! This has been absolutely class

If your idea of culture is listening to me droning on about architecture, politics and the future of Belfast, tomorrow's your lucky day. If you have more conventional tastes, the good news is that there's lots of far better stuff on for Culture Night, and it's all free.

Himself and myself were in Paris with the two wee ones im August. Easily navigated the city using the Metro with a 9 and 7 year old. Cheap, frequent, clean, convenient and quick. What's not to love?

‘Boiling frog’ effect makes people oblivious to threat of climate crisis, shows study Research shows people’s response to binary data could drive more effective ways of communicating gravity of crisis

The increasing number of extreme climate events – floods, wildfires, hurricanes, etc – has NOT raised awareness of the threat posed by climate collapse. Instead, people change their idea of normal: the “boiling frog effect”.

But “before and after” data can help.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

DCU welcomes the recent decision of the Press Ombudsman, upheld by the Press Council, regarding the University’s complaint about articles published by Gript.ie. The decision by the Press Ombudsman stated “The articles purported to reveal that the course presented teachers with exercises that were for replication in school classrooms, and that these used extremely sexually explicit language and visual materials showing sexual organs and sexual activity.” The Ombudsman found that the articles “contained no evidence that DCU was doing anything other than running a post graduate course to enable adult teachers of SPHE/RSE to teach the subject to secondary school children in support of the national curriculum.” This decision was upheld by The Press Council. The University has always maintained that materials used on the Graduate Diploma in SPHE/RSE are provided only to the teachers as adults in the context of their broader SPHE/RSE education on the programme. The Ombudsman’s decision, and that of the Press Council, vindicates this. The University stands firmly over the content of the course and with the academic staff who deliver it. The Press Ombudsman’s decision can be read in full here. More information about the course is available at dcu.ie/sphe A number of teachers have also spoken about their positive experience of the DCU programme. The Graduate Diploma in SPHE/RSE continues to train teachers in the provision of the curriculum, and welcomed a new cohort at the beginning of this year. FacebookTwitterWhatsAppLinkedInEmailCopy LinkShare

Fair play to DCU for holding Gript into account, which sadly rarely happens.

A united Ireland: for and against If you want to know what it's all about, these two are the ones to ask

First review of the concept of the upcoming publication 'For and Against a United Ireland' bangingon75.substack.com/p/a-united-i...

Enjoyable and informative session this evening organised by the @priiie.bsky.social 'Meet the media' with Daniel McConnell of the Sunday Business Post and Fiona Wynn of the Irish Sun

The absolute madness of it all. Private jets should be banned

A picture of violence: The 27 women killed in four years In at least 20 of the 27 deaths, the killers - or the suspects in their killings - were well-known to the women.

A picture of violence @ItaDungan

27 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland as young pregnant mother Sarah Montgomery latest name to be added to devastating roll call. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

LGBTQIA+ archival material in the collections of the Royal Irish Academy Library - Royal Irish Academy Professor Sonja Tiernan, Co-ordinator of Irish Humanities Alliance, provides an insightful overview of items from the RIA Library collection relating to LGBTQIA+ history in Ireland.

As Dublin marks its annual Pride Festival, explore this insightful blog reviewing highlights from the Royal Irish Academy Library collection relating to LGBTQIA+ history in Ireland.

https://www.ria.ie/blog/lgbtqia-archival-material-in-the-collections-of-the-royal-irish-academy-library/

"Skerries Wild Bee Festival" North County Dublin today allowed me completely nerd-out on #pollinators up close! 🔍

Gorgeous location of the old Skerries Mills 🌻🍃🌻

#solitarybees #hoverflies #mimics #nativeflowers #nature #speirgorm #summersolstice #ireland

This, 100 times this, and more.

Delighted to have got my hands on this today from @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social

@gavreilly.com some light lunchtime reading

An important read. Get your information from quality, qualified and valid sources

@irishrail.bsky.social

What's the update on the 8.02am Skerries to Pearse? Currently between stations, not moving and cannot hear the driver update over the tannoy

Cianan Brennan: How the far right tried to hijack Carlow shooting Despite the gardaí’s unprecedented pushback on this occasion, the information war feels like a battle that is currently being lost, writes Cianan Brennan

How the far right tried to hijack the Carlow shooting

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

The Royal Irish Academy is ceasing activity on X (Twitter) - Royal Irish Academy The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour. Therefor...

Statement: The Royal Irish Academy is ceasing activity on X (Twitter)

www.ria.ie/2025/05/01/t...

What the hell?!

This month, Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) will publish twenty new biographical entries and two revisions of existing entries.

www.dib.ie/news/mission...

@irishrail.bsky.social

any update on the delays with the northern commuter from Skerries to Pearse at 8am?

This is great news!

Dr Michael Kennedy tells us about the documents on display at the National Archives ahead of the launch of DIFP XIV.

This publication is available from shop.ria.ie

Dr Michael Kennedy tells us about the publication of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: v 14: 1969-1973.

Dr @melissabaird.bsky.social, Dr John Gibney, & Dr Michael Kennedy from our Documents on Irish Foreign Policy research programme will be on the @rteradio1.bsky.social History Show tomorrow at 6pm discussing the outbreak of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, covered in DIFP's latest volume (1969-73)