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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 6h

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 6h

#NORFest2025 registration is now open!

Join us 6–7 Nov at the RIA for two days of global open science, policy, and innovation, featuring keynote speaker Joy Owango (TCC Africa).

Book your tickets now: www.eventbrite.ie/e/national-o...

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 1d

For more on Kay McNulty's life see: www.dib.ie/biography/mc...

Kay McNulty is also featured in Irish STEM Lives, available at: shop.ria.ie/products/iri...

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 1d

But when the ENIAC machine was publicly launched in February 1946 the women programmers were relegated to the role of hostesses, and official reports and early histories of computing made no mention of female operators.

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 1d

In June 1945 she was one of six women selected to work on the room-sized ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) and is credited with suggesting the concept of subroutines.

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 1d

#BiographyoftheWeek from the Dictionary of Irish Biography

‘Looking for women math majors.’

In spring 1942, with a shortage of trained men, Kay McNulty from Creeslough, Co. Donegal, was hired as a 'computer' to perform ballistics calculations at the Moore School, University of Pennsylvania.

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 1d

Join us on 8 Oct for Collecting Ireland’s History, a lecture for the Dublin Festival of History in collaboration with @virtualtreasury.bsky.social

Explore 700 years of Irish manuscript collecting.

Book your tickets now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 2d

Join us on 8 Oct at the RIA for Irish STEM Lives: Spotlighting Irish Contribution to STEM

Irish STEM Lives editors, Turlough O’Riordan and Jane Grimson will discuss some of the fascinating lives featured the book

Book your tickets now: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalirishacademy/1804403

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 2d

Read more and view the digital images, provided by Irish Script on Screen and copyright Royal Irish Academy Library: www.ria.ie/collections/...

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Book of Fenagh - Royal Irish Academy

RIA MS 23 P 26 (Cat. No. 479) A.D. 1516

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 2d

The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-13.00 and 14.00-16.30 Monday – Friday, with the exception of Wednesday, when the Library will be closed in the morning. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view the MS of the Week.

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 2d

The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 P 26, the Book of Fenagh. This 16th century manuscript is mainly a revision of an older Book of St Caillín which no longer survives. The mark the manuscript’s 500th anniversary in 2016, an online exhibition was created and two lunchtime lectures were delivered

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 3d

RIA will launch IHTA no. 32, Ballyshannon, with a special event held at the Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon on 9 Oct

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 4d

Grant Spotlight: Archaeology Legacy Grant

Michael Monk’s excavation project, supported by this grant, brought long-standing research to life and provided experience to nearly 100 students.

Apply for 2025 funding until 15 Oct: https://www.ria.ie/grants/archaeology-legacy-grants-scheme/

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 4d

@deptoffhed.bsky.social accepts Expressions of Interest for membership of the National Science Advice Forum

Learn more: https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-further-and-higher-education-research-innovation-and-science/publications/invitation-for-expressions-of-interest-national-science-advice-forum/

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 5d

The interview is available to watch here:https://lnkd.in/d6SZEFns

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 5d

Earlier this year, Manchán was interviewed by Colin Graham as part of the ARINS My Identity series, a series which seeks to understand the diverse identities and traditions on the island of Ireland and how they are understood, felt, expressed and promoted.

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 5d

We are saddened to hear of the passing of Manchán Magan - writer, broadcaster, and passionate advocate for the Irish language and culture.

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University of Limerick @unioflimerick.bsky.social · 6d

Ahead of the publication of her new book on 15 October, 'Pious & Promiscuous: Life, Love & Family in Presbyterian Ulster', UL's Dr Leanne Calvert writes for The Conversation about the colourful sex lives of Presbyterians in long-eighteenth-century Ulster.

Read: theconversation.com/the-sex-live...

Presbyterian Catechising by John Phillip (1847). A 19th century painting of a group of people gathered in a room. The room is filled with men, women, children and a dog.

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 5d

You can learn more about the manuscript here: www.ria.ie/collections/...

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Leabhar Mór Leacain / The Book of Lecan - Royal Irish Academy

RIA MS 23 P 2 (Cat. No. 535) A.D. 1397-1418

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 5d

We had a great turn out for our Book of Lecan conference, hosted in the RIA Library and organised in partnership with Maynooth University and Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Pictured are two speakers, Alex Woolf and Seán Ó Hoireabhárd, with the Book of Lecan (RIA MS 23 P 2)

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 5d

Yes please Joe

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 7d

Grant Spotlight: Archaeology Research Excavation Grant

Elaine’s work in the Burren, supported by AREG funding, led to the discovery of unexpected burials and new insights into ancient monument use.

Apply for 2025 funding: https://www.ria.ie/grants/archaeology-research-excavation-grants/

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 8d

For more on their lives see:
Dorothea Heron: www.dib.ie/biography/he...
Frances Kyle: www.dib.ie/biography/ky...
Averill Deverell: www.dib.ie/biography/de...

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 8d

Although called to the bar simultaneously, Deverell was the first woman to practise at the bar in Ireland when she was called to the northern bar in 1922. In another first, Dorothea Heron was the first woman to be apprenticed as a solicitor in Ireland.

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 8d

In early 1920, Averill Deverell and Frances Kyle were the first women admitted to King's Inns, and when they were called to the Irish bar in November 1921 they made legal history as the first women in Britain and Ireland to be admitted to the bar.

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