I did a @TEDxUCD talk on why it’s important to collect memories, the beautiful collections in the National Library of Ireland, and how we collect in this digital age - Memory Keepers | Sandra Collins | TEDxUCD youtu.be/i4mbHb5wqKo

Congratulations to Prof. Anne Fuchs, Director of the Humanities Institute of Ireland at @ucddublin, on receiving the @RIAdawson Gold Medal in Humanities. @UCD_Hum_Inst @HumanitiesUCD @UCD_Research

💙💛 The Royal Irish Academy has presented UCD Professor Anne Fuchs with its Gold Medal, Ireland’s highest scholarly accolade. A passionate supporter of early career researchers, Professor Fuchs received her Gold Medal for her work in the humanities, with the RIA citing her ground-breaking scholarship on German cultural memory, time, and temporality in modernist and contemporary literature as having paved the way for new research directions, not only in German Studies but also in interdisciplinary areas. Acclaiming Ireland’s foremost thinkers in the humanities, social sciences, physical and mathematical sciences, life sciences, engineering sciences, and the environment and geosciences, the Academy awards only two such medals each year. This spring, she was honoured at a special ceremony alongside fellow recipient Professor Seamus Martin, Smurfit Chair of Medical Genetics at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, who was awarded the Gold Medal in Life and Medical Sciences. “I am truly honoured to receive the 2025 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the humanities," said Professor Fuchs. "By awarding this gold medal to a scholar in German Studies and Modern Languages, the RIA recognises the breadth of humanities disciplines and their indispensable role in creatively addressing the enormous challenges of the 21st century in dialogue with Science, Technology, Engineering, Mechanics (STEM), and the social sciences.” President of the Royal Irish Academy and Professor of Synthetic Organic Chemistry at UCD, Professor Pat Guiry added: “The Gold Medals are a prestigious honour bestowed on exceptional researchers in higher education across Ireland. "The 2025 awards are a testament to the dedication, passion, and intellectual contributions to their disciplines demonstrated by Professor Fuchs and Professor Martin. Their research continues to shape the future of their respective fields, and it is an honour to recognise them with these prestigious awards.” Elected to the RIA in 2009, Professor Fuchs is Chair of the Irish Humanities Alliance . and Director of UCD Humanities Institute, and a member of numerous national and international policy committees. Prior to her current role at UCD, Professor Fuchs held the Chair of German at the University of Warwick and the University of St Andrews and a personal Chair in German at UCD. She is the tenth UCD academic to receive the RIA’s highest accolade since its inception in 2005. Recipients are judged by their peers to have made outstanding contributions to the humanities, social sciences, physical and mathematical sciences, life sciences, engineering sciences, and the environment and geosciences. The RIA is an independent, all-Ireland academic body that promotes study and excellence in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. It is the principal learned society in Ireland, and its members are elected in recognition of their academic achievements.

It was a pleasure to welcome Minister @lawlessj to @ucddublin yesterday to visit some recent developments on campus and to discuss UCD’s and Ireland’s ambitions in higher education and research.

Congrats @tcdlibrary - fabulous New Treasures exhibition in the Old Library launched tonight

“This is an exciting time for UCD Library, as we are working on plans to redevelop the James Joyce Library and launch a new Cultural Heritage Centre,” said Dr Sandra Collins, University Librarian at UCD. “The digitisation of the Mulcahy Papers reflects our mission to make UCD’s cultural heritage collections more accessible” The new Cultural Heritage Centre will bring together three major world-class heritage repositories: UCD Special Collections, the National Folklore Collection and UCD Archives, which houses the Mulcahy Papers among many other collections of private papers and institutional archives. The National Folklore Collection features thousands of audio and film recordings, manuscripts and rare printed materials. It holds the Irish Folklore Commission Collection, assembled in the years 1935-1970, which is inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World register.

🧑‍✈️📑 A remarkable collection of papers from twentieth-century Irish revolutionary and political leader General Richard Mulcahy will be made digitally available for the first time in 2025. Mulcahy, who played an active role in the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence, rose to Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army. He kept detailed correspondence, memoranda, reports, and minutes regarding his military and political leadership. Since the Mulcahy Trust transferred his papers to the UCD Archives in 1970, they have been a key source for the study of modern Ireland. With improved access and enhanced searchability, these digital papers will open up new pathways for research. The digital papers result from a multi-year project supported by the UCD Strategic and Major Initiatives Scheme, the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, and the Irish Research Council (now a part of Research Ireland). 95,006 high-resolution images have been digitised as part of the project. The images will undergo a quality control process before gradually being made available in the UCD Archives reading room throughout 2025.

As mentioned on @morningireland rte.ie/archives/2019/0106/10… the storm in 1839 was recalled by @rtenews in ths report from 1989

Michael Longley death: Leading tributes to the poet, President Michael D Higgins described Longley as “one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced”. irishtimes.com/culture/books…

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