All Ireland Awards & Ceremony
We’re delighted to bring the All-Ireland Awards back to the historic Royal Irish Academy on October 8th 2026
The RIA is a place where scholarship, culture and innovation have been celebrated for over two centuries and is the home to the Global Undergraduate Awards – All Ireland Awards each year.
This special event honours the exceptional achievements of students from across the island of Ireland, offering space to connect, reflect and share ideas. In the heart of Dublin, we’ll come together to celebrate not just academic excellence, but the bright future it represents.
Our mission is simple yet powerful: to recognise exceptional undergraduate work, connect students across cultures and disciplines and empower the next generation of innovators, leaders and changemakers.
Guided by our values of innovation, collaboration, ambition, impartiality and inclusiveness, we are proud to build a truly global community where undergraduate excellence is celebrated and harnessed to drive real change.
This event is an exclusive, invitation-only evening, bringing winners, their family members, academics and institutional supporters together to celebrate the exceptional talent from this years Global Undergraduate Awards and in recognition of the strength of the collective Irish educational ecosystem.
Tickets are by invitation only
Attendance at the All-Ireland Awards is by invitation only reserved for members of the Island of Ireland GUA community who have demonstrated exceptional academic potential through their participation in the Global Undergraduate Awards.
We bring these students together along with their academic supervisors to celebrate homegrown talent, along with the university leaders who champion their early research and scholarly ambitions.
