The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) is one of Ireland's premier learned societies and cultural institutions. Founded in 1785, its current and former members include artists, scientists and writers from around Ireland. Membership is by election, usually after the proposed member has published a noted scientific or scholarly work. In addition, international scholars can be selected as honorary members if they have contributed to academia and have a connection to Ireland. This is a partial list of learned societies, professional bodies and engineering societies located in Ireland: British and Irish Association of Law Librarians Honorable Society of Kings Inns Institute of Chemistry of Ireland Institution of Engineers of Ireland Irish Computer Society Irish Mathematical Society Irish Medical Organisation Pharmaceutical Society... Aosdána Arts Council of Ireland Chester Beatty Library Cork Opera House Druid Theatre, Galway Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin Irish Georgian Society Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), at The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham Macnas, performance arts company, Galway National Archives of Ireland National Concert Hall National Gallery of Ireland... 1785 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... An artist is someone who employs creative talent to produce works of art. ... For a List of scientists, see: List of anthropologists List of astronomers List of biologists List of chemists List of computer scientists List of economists List of engineers List of geologists List of inventors List of mathematicians List of meteorologists List of physicists Scientist pairs List of scientist pairs See... Though anyone who creates a written work may be called a writer, the term is usually reserved for those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ...

Since 1951 the academy has been located at 19, Dawson Street in the center of Dublin. Built in c.1750, the building has some fine decorative plasterwork and a handsome meeting room designed in 1854 by Fredrick Villiers Clarendon and now used for conferences, exhibitions and public talks. 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. Dublins Hapenny Bridge. ... The National Museum of Ireland (NMI) is the main museum in Ireland. ...

The academy is also know for its publications on Irish material, particularly biography, history, geography and language. The Atlas of Ireland, published in 1979, was a comprehensive altas of Irelands geography, including related socio-economic thematical information. The academy keeps an extensive library and collection of Irish related material. This is a list of famous Irish people. ... Ireland is an island in north-western Europe. ... Socioeconomics is the study of the social and economic impacts of any product or service offering, market intervention or other activity on an economy as a whole and on the companies, organization and individuals who are its main economic actors. ...

External links

• Official website (http://www.ria.ie)
• Royal Irish Academic members (http://www.ria.ie/members/)