**DIAS 2020 PUBLIC EVENT** Samhain agus Science 2020 International Storyteller and bestselling author Steve Lally will be discussing his book (co-written with Paula Flynn Lally) ‘Irish Gothic - Fairy Stories from the 32 Counties of Ireland’, along with... Read More
*DIAS 2020 PUBLIC EVENT* Samhain agus Science 2020 As a geneticist, our speaker Mark Lawler has always been fascinated about the research that uncovered the “Secret of Life” as Francis Crick described the discovery of the structure of... Read More
*DIAS 2020 PUBLIC EVENT* Presented as part of Samhain agus Science to celebrate Dark Matter Day. It’s a remarkable claim, but today’s scientists are convinced that everything we have ever observed, stars, planets, ourselves - everything! - constitutes... Read More
**DIAS 2020 PUBLIC EVENT** Samhain agus Science 2020 The landscape of Ireland forms the focus of an extensive body of medieval literature, Dindshenchas Érenn (Knowledge of Ireland’s Notable Places). Dealing with over two hundred places and natural features,... Read More
The School of Celtic Studies Library at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) will open its doors virtually to showcase some of its hidden literary treasures for Culture Night. Join us as members of DIAS speak about... Read More
During his years living in Dublin, Erwin Schrödinger cycled daily from his home in Clontarf to DIAS at Merrion Square. DIAS have launched this cycle route to give people a glimpse into Schrödinger’s life in Dublin, and the... Read More
As part the Dublin Festival of History, the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies presents a talk on some of its notable first researchers. Immigrants and refugees coming to Ireland are not – or not only – a recent... Read More
Previous DIAS O'Donovan Scholar, Dr Nike Stam opens this years Samhain agus Science festival, describing the challenges of bringing Celtic Studies to new audiences. Dr Nike Stam, creator of the School of Celtic Studies Podcast, joins us to... Read More
As part of our Samhain agus Science mini-festival and Dark Matter Day 2021, we present "The Dark Side of the Universe", a talk delivered by Prof. Katherine Freese. Prof. Freese will recount the ongoing search for understanding the... Read More
Sound artist & composer David Stalling has collaborated with a team of seismologists at DIAS, led by Sergei Lebedev (now a DIAS Adjunct Professor, and at Cambridge University), since 2018. What has emerged is a new set of... Read More
