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	Encyclopedia: Irish mythology
		In Irish mythology Goibniu or Goibhniu (pronounced Goive-nu) was a son of Brigid and Tuireann and the smith of the Tuatha DÃ© Danann.
		In Irish mythology, Brigit or Brighit (exalted one) was the daughter of Dagda (and therefore one of the Tuatha DÃ© Danann) and wife of Bres of the Fomorians.
		Leinster (Irish: Laighin) is the eastern province of Ireland, comprising the counties of Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford and Wicklow.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Irish-mythology (5704 words)

	Royal Irish Academy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) is one of Ireland's premier learned societies and cultural institutions.
		The academy library holds some important early Irish manuscipts and, in fact, the academy once held many Celtic treasures now in the National Museum of Ireland.
		The academy is also know for its publications on Irish material, particularly biography, history, geography and language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Irish_Academy (225 words)

	Royal Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Royal Society of London is claimed to be the oldest learned society still in existence and was founded in 1660.
		The Royal Irish Academy, founded in 1782, is also closely affiliated with it.
		Although a voluntary body, it serves as the national academy of the sciences in the United Kingdom.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/r/ro/royal_society.html (267 words)

	Royal Irish Academy of Music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) is a linked college of Dublin City University located in Dublin, Ireland.
		It moved to its present address in Westland Row in 1871, and was granted the right to use the title "Royal Academy of Music" the following year.
		In addition to its academic degrees, the RIAM offers a variety of courses and examinations in the fields of music, public speaking, and drama, including associate and licentiate diplomas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Irish_Academy_of_Music (146 words)

	Royal Irish Academy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) is one of (An island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) Ireland's premier (Click link for more info and facts about learned societies) learned societies and (Click link for more info and facts about cultural institutions) cultural institutions.
		Since 1851 the academy has been located at 19, Dawson Street in the center of (Capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Free State) Dublin.
		The academy library holds some important early Irish manuscipts and, in fact, the academy once held many Celtic treasures now in the (Click link for more info and facts about National Museum of Ireland) National Museum of Ireland.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/royal_irish_academy.htm (280 words)

	Royal Society - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Royal Society of Edinburgh (founded 1783) is a separate Scottish body.
		It's possible that the Royal Society was one of the first documented aspirations toward Open Content; they imagined a network across the globe as a public enterprise, an "Empire of Learning".
		Although this seems obvious today, the philosophical basis of the Royal society differed from previous philosophies such as Scholasticism, which established scientific truth based on deductive logic, concordance with divine providence and the citation of such ancient authorities as Aristotle.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Royal_Society (403 words)

	UCC Press Release: [short title here] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His research and publications, which extend from the early medieval period to the modern, have a particular emphasis on the interface between the historical and the literary and the interaction of the oral with the written.
		Those elected as Members of the Royal Irish Academy today have raised the benchmark of excellence in their respective fields internationally and bring honour on themselves and Ireland by their achievements'.
		The Royal Irish Academy is an all-Ireland, independent, academic body that promotes study and excellence in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.
	www.ucc.ie /opa/pr/PRRIA.html (363 words)

	New Science Secretary elected at the Royal Irish Academy
		On 16th March 2000 the Royal Irish Academy unanimously elected physicist, Professor James A. Slevin, as the new Science Secretary of the Academy in succession to Professor Roderick P. Kernan, who had held the post since 1993.
		He has been a member of the Royal Irish Academy since 1991 and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a member of the American Physical Society.
		Following on from the Academy's Millennium Project - Irish Origins: The genetic history and geography of Ireland - there will be a major international conference at which the four projects that received funding will report on their research.
	www.irishscientist.ie /2000/contents.asp?contentxml=086s.xml&contentxsl=insight3.xsl (896 words)

	Royal Irish Academy - Royal irish Academy - Ardagh Chalice
		The Royal Irish Academy is one of the country's principal learned societies and was founded in 1785 to promote the 'advancement of science, polite literature and antiquities'.
		Treasures of the Academy include the Ardagh Chalice, the Tara Brooch and the Cross of Cong (all on display in the National Museum, Kildare Street) as well as many rare books and manuscripts.
		An important function of the Academy today is the publication of major works of Irish interest.
	www.dublinks.com /index.cfm?loc=6-5-2&pt=0&spid=F6182103-FEFA-4188-8876531D8F0174D9 (170 words)

	Stone Monuments Decay Study 2000
		Baker, J.W. (1968) The petrology of the Carnsore Granite, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy,68B, 159-176.
		Brindley, J.C. (1957) The aureole rocks of the Leinster Granite in south Dublin, Ireland, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 59B, 4-75.
		Bruck, P.M. and Reeves, T.J. (1976) Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Structure of the Bray Group in County Wicklow and south County Dublin, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 76B, 4-75.
	www.heritagecouncil.ie /publications/stone/biblio.html (703 words)

	Royal Irish Academy
		The Academy has remained at the centre of serious study of Irish civilisation ever since 1785, for although all sorts of more or less ephemeral societies sprung up with similar objectives, none of them competed with the Academy, which laid down standards of scholarship...
		On 16 October 1843 (a Monday) Hamilton was walking along the Royal Canal in Dublin with his wife to preside at a Council meeting of the Royal Irish Academy when the idea for the quaternions suddenly came to him:-
		Today, at the beginning of the 21st century, membership of the Academy is roughly the same as it was at the beginning of the 20th century.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Societies/Irish_Academy.html (609 words)

	DETE - Press Releases - Address to the Royal Irish Academy by An Tanaiste and Minister for Trade, Enterprise, and ...
		Royal Irish Academy publications have reminded us of Ellen Hutchins of County Cork, who discovered and classified various non-flowering plants that are among the rarest of their kind.
		Irish scientists are examining how climate change is affecting the flora and fauna of Great Britain and Ireland.
		From the outset, the agencies, the academy, the researchers, the educators, and the government must ensure that we make clear how and why this investment is of value, not only to researchers but also to the society of which they are part.
	www.entemp.ie /press/2003/200103.htm (4947 words)

	Flannery Elected to Royal Irish Academy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Regents' Professor M. Raymond Flannery has been elected an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy in the section of science.
		Flannery said his election to the academy, the greatest academic honor in Ireland, is a "mind-numbing and humbling experience." The last vacancies for honorary membership occurred in 1989.
		The Academy, founded in 1785 as a society for promoting the study of science, polite literature and antiquities, was incorporated by King George III in 1786.
	gtalumni.org /news/ttopics/sum97/flannery.html (121 words)

	Catholic Encyclopedia: BARTHOLOMEW MACCARTHY
		Of peculiar interest are his discussion of the ancient Paschal Cycle of 84 years and other Paschal computations in vogue in Ireland, the origin of A.D. dating in Irish annals, the methods of rectifying errors in the same, and the history of the various British or Irish falsifications which appeared during the
		MacCarthy was a man of great ability and wide learning and was recognized as one of the foremost of Irish scholars and as the highest authority on all matters of Irish chronology, especially on those touching the Paschal question.
		Irish Catholic Directory (1870-1905); Minutes of the Royal Irish Academy (Session, 1903-4); Gaelic Journal, I, II; Irish Ecclesiastical Record 1864-1898; and the various works of the author.
	www.mindspring.com /~mccarthys/cybrary/16057a.htm (669 words)

	Peatland refs
		Doyle, G.J. A study of subfossil pine layers in a raised bog complex in the Irish Midlands.
		Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 84B, 57-70.
		Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 84B, 71-81.
	www.ucd.ie /botany/doyle/Peatlandrefs.html (795 words)

	Fethard Launch of Irish Historic Towns Atlas: No. 13 Fethard
		Photographed at the launch of 'Irish Historic Towns Atlas, no. 13, Fethard', in the Abymill Theatre, Fethard, on Friday 7th February are L to R: Terry Cunningham (chairman Fethard Historical Society), Michael Ryan (President, Royal Irish Academy).
		The diffusion of the atlas project of Ireland is dated initially to a conference 'Irish towns and medieval Europe' held at University College Dublin in 1978.
		By 1981, after I presume many meetings, the Council of the Royal Irish Academy had agreed to publish the atlas in its constituent fascicles and the government agreed to pay funds for the employment of a cartographic editor.
	www.fethard.com /reports/fethard_atlas_launch1.html (1292 words)

	Medieval Irish Language and Literature
		The Old Irish List is specifically intended for discussions of medieval Irish and liguistically related issues (it is not the place for cultural discussions).
		The Thesaurus Linguarum Hiberniae was a joint project of the Royal Irish Academy and University College Cork (CURIA) to create an on-line archive of literary and historical materials in the various languages of early, medieval and modern Ireland.
		Irish texts can be downloaded in a variety of formats.
	www.digitalmedievalist.com /urls/medirish.html (661 words)

	University College Dublin - News
		Election to membership of the Academy is the premier distinction bestowed on academics in Ireland.
		Of all the Irish universities (north and south), UCD had the highest number of new Academy members elected.
		He is the author of Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland (2000) and co-author of Irish Prehistory: A social Perspective (1994/99) and The Irish Stone Axe Project Monograph 1 (1998).
	www.ucd.ie /news/mar04/ria.htm (692 words)

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		The Royal Irish Academy (Academy Ríoga na héireann) is an independent body founded in 1785.
		The Academy promotes the study in the sciences and humanities and encourages excellence through election to its membership and a system of awards and prizes.
		The Academy's library is renowned for its collection of unique Irish manuscripts.
	www4.nationalacademies.org /IAP/IAPPRdir.nsf/weblinks/NAEW-523L5V?OpenDocument (104 words)

	PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY
		Moss, Richard J.: A chemical examination of the crucibles in the collection of Irish antiquities in the Royal Irish Academy, 175-193.
		Richardson, H.G. and Sayles, G.O.: The Irish parliaments of Edward I, 128-147.
		Donnelly, J.S.: Irish agrarian rebellion: the Whiteboys of 1769–76, 293-331.
	www.xs4all.nl /~tbreen/Journals/PRIA.html (8048 words)

	References for MacCullagh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		James MacCullagh, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 4 (1847-50), 103-116.
		James MacCullagh, Abstracts of the papers communicated to the Royal Society of London from 1843 to 1850 V (London, 1851), 712-718.
		B K P Scaife, James MacCullagh, M.R.I.A., F.R.S., 1809-1847, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 90C (3) (1990), 67-106.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/References/MacCullagh.html (73 words)

	PATRICK, ST - Online Information article about PATRICK, ST
		Tara, during which no fire might be kindled until the royal fire had been lit.
		Irish tradition represents the future apostle as tending the herds of a chieftain of the name of Miliucc (Milchu), near the See also:
		Voice of the Irish "; whilst repeating these words he says, " I imagined that I heard in my mind the voice of those who were near the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAS_PER/PATRICK_ST.html (2804 words)

	World of Piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A student of John O’Conor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Lorna Horan is a pianist with extensive international experience.
		Lorna is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music and the Vancouver Academy of Music where she undertook three years postgraduate work.
		She is also a masters graduate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
	www.su.edu /piano/horan.html (169 words)

	Professor Marianne McDonald
		She is most well-known for her work on ancient Greek drama, mythology, and modern versions of ancient classics in film, plays and opera, but her poems, plays, and translations have also been widely published.
		The Royal Irish Academy directs this project with the cooperation of the University of Cork, the University of Dublin, and universities throughout the world.
		She also is one of the few women to have been elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
	homepage.mac.com /mariannemcdonald (369 words)

	BIBLIOGRAPHY
		Wilde, W. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities of Gold in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy.
		Praeger, R. "The Broighter Gold Ornaments." Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (JRSAI) 72 (1942): 29-32.
		Irish Art and Architecture from Prehistory to the Present.
	www.unc.edu /celtic/catalogue/torc/biblio.html (290 words)

	Royal Irish Academy Library and Catalogue
		The library, with its unique manuscript, pamphlet and early printed book collections, is at the heart of the Academy.
		The collection of c.2,000 manuscripts includes the largest corpus of Irish language manuscripts in a single repository, the oldest surviving Irish manuscript, the Cathach, or Psalter of St. Columba, and other important early texts.
		The manuscript collections encompass a wide range of fields including genealogy, history, literature, hagiography, early Irish law, natural history, journals and diaries, society minute books, etc. The printed book, pamphlet, drawing and map collections reflect the course of Irish history and endeavour over the years.
	www.ria.ie /library+catalogue (328 words)

	Royal Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, claims to be the oldest learned society still in existence.
		The Royal Irish Academy, founded in 1782, is closely affiliated.
		Hartley, Sir Harold (editor), The Royal Society: Its Origins and Founders, The Royal Society (1960)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Society (441 words)

	Royal Irish Academy Homepage
		The Royal Irish Academy is Ireland's Academy for the Sciences and Humanities.
		Preplexingly Easy: presents selected letters from the correspondence of Hamilton and Tait during the period from November 1858 to October 1859
		This volume of papers presented to a conference in the RIA examines the career of Casement from his work in the Congo and South America to the London parliamentary scene of Whitehall.
	www.ria.ie (145 words)

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