American Academy Of Arts
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Sheila O’Donnell: Architect who has spent a lifetime building connections
- Art & Design
- April 25, 2019, 06:00
When we meet in London, Sheila O’Donnell has just won Woman Architect of the Year at the Royal Institute of British Architects awards. Earlier th(...)

Former New York Times editor appointed as adjunct professor at DCU
- Education
- January 25, 2018, 14:42
A former executive editor of The New York Times has been appointed as adjunct professor at DCU’s school of communications. Jill Abramson was the firs(...)

Philip Roth's final interview: 'Life can stop on a dime'
- Books
- January 22, 2018, 06:01
With the death of Richard Wilbur in October, Philip Roth became the longest-serving member in the literature department of the American Academy of Art(...)

Influential mathematician helped disprove ageist myth
- People
- August 3, 2017, 16:00
Marina Ratner, an influential mathematician and Russian-Jewish émigré who defied the notion that the best and the brightest in her field do their fine(...)

Colm Tóibín slates plan to cut grants for non-productive artists
- Irish News
- April 22, 2017, 01:00
The writer Colm Tóibín has condemned controversial proposals from the Arts Council to cut grants for non-productive artists and to introduce audits to(...)

Irish Women of the World: Health adviser Liz Shanahan and other science success stories
- People
- March 8, 2016, 00:00
Dr Fiona Ginty Principal scientist in the Life Sciences and Molecular Diagnostics Organization at GE Research Center (GRC) in NYC, working on a cure (...)

Irish architects pipped at post for premier prize
- Architecture/Design
- May 10, 2015, 10:02
Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey have been pipped at the post for the premier Mies van der Rohe prize for European architecture, which went to the (...)

Obituary: Heaney ‘the most important Irish poet since Yeats’
- Books
- August 30, 2013, 12:14
Born: April 13th, 1939; Died: August 30th, 2013The Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, who has died aged 74, was described by Robert Lowell as “the most imp(...)