The RSAI runs an annual programme of lectures, talks, outings and excursions to which Members and Guests are invited to partake. Places on all outings and excursions must be booked in advance but lectures and talks are open to all. Lectures and talks usually take place at 7.30pm in the Helen Roe theatre, which is in the basement of Society House, 63 Merrion Square, unless otherwise indicated. They are also live-streamed via ZOOM Webinars. RSAI Members receive their free registration links via e-newsletter, non-members may book via our Eventbrite page (tickets €5).
The subjects of lectures and talks span all areas of the Society’s remit, history, archaeology, art history, local and social history. Excursions include day-trips and three/four day expert led tours.
If you have any suggestions for potential lectures or talks please forward this information to the Hon. General Secretary Ms. Philippa E. Barry here for consideration by the Programme sub-committee.
Here are the details of upcoming events on the 2023 programme:
LECTURES
26 January 2023
Annual General Meeting
Seize the Clay! Making Pottery in Fourteenth Century Kilkenny
Mr Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Archaeologist, NMS
23 February 2023
Crusaders and the cultures of crusading in medieval Ireland
Prof. Tadhg O’Keeffe, UCD
23 March 2023
Annual Próinséas Ní Chatháin Memorial Lecture
Atheagrán d’Annála Chluain Mhic Nóis, agus de bhlogh d’Annála Leacáin
Mr Nollaig Ó Muraíle, MRIA
27 April 2023
Dublin’s Law Library as a Concept and a Physical Space
Dr Niamh Howlin, UCD
25 May 2023
Annual Helen Roe Memorial Lecture
What the burgess saw: art in the Irish medieval town
Dr Rachel Moss, TCD
21 September 2023
Contemporary Archaeology, a Maritime perspective
Dr Niall Brady, Director, Archaeological Diving Company Ltd
26 October 2023
Annual Frank Mitchell Memorial Lecture
Mesolithic Ireland: new perspectives
Prof. Graeme Warren, UCD
23 November 2023
Feagh McHugh O’Byrne – a most disloyal subject or leader of the Gael?
Dr Emmett O’Byrne, Historian
14 December 2023
E. C.R. Armstrong (1879-1923) – Antiquary and Museum Curator
Mr Raghnall Ó Floinn, MRIA, former Director NMI
TALKS
13 February 2023
Exploring our past through the analysis of ancient dental plaque
Dr Robert Power, UCD
6 March 2023
What lies beneath? Recent research at Castle Roche, County Louth
Ms Laura Corrway, Blackfriary Archaeology Field School
3 April 2023
Rathgall Hillfort, Co. Wicklow. Barry Raftery’s excavations and their impact on current understanding of Bronze Age Ireland
Dr Katharina Becker, UCC
8 May 2023
New approaches to understanding bog butter in Ireland
Ms Karen O’Toole, UCD
4 September 2023
Dating early medieval metalwork: the implications of radiocarbon dating Ireland’s Insular crosiers
Dr Griffin Murray, UCC
2 October 2023
Digging in the Irish Archives – Egyptian Collections and Connections
Mr Emmet Jackson, Cardiff University
6 November 2023
Seventeenth century glass from the Dublin Castle excavations 1961-1987
Mr Antoine Giacometti, Director, Archaeology Plan