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We are storytellers, and we can help you to tell your story too. Ask us about making an audio guide for your centre, for example, or about our media and communications training.
The stories we tell are about Irish inventions and discoveries -- and there are quite a lot of those! More about us, and director Mary Mulvihill.
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Hamilton Quaternion walk — new podcast tour
Press release People everywhere can now enjoy a famous ‘Eureka’ moment that took place in Cabra, beside Dublin’s Royal Canal in 1843. That moment was when a great mathematician and scientist, William Rowan Hamilton, had a spark of inspiration and invented a revolutionary new form of algebra. Hamilton’s ‘quaternions’ turned the world of mathematics upside [...]
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Dublin’s Victorian diving bell
There was a lot of interest when I mentioned this lovely Victorian diving bell at the Open Data event in the NDRC. This odd metal structure is on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dubliners pass it all the time, and many people probably think it is scrap metal. Yet this is a wonderful piece of our [...]
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Photo competition – Win an iPod Touch!
Make sure to show some of the surroundings in your photo, so that we know where you took it. Read the full terms and conditions here. This photo competition is in association with Maths Week Ireland, which is generously providing the iPod Touch prizes. .
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Read all about us in The Irish Times!
Find out how downloadable audio guides can help promote heritage and science, in this great feature about our work in The Irish Times. The feature came during our busiest week — starting with a long interview about our guided tour to the Hill of Tara on RTE History Show, then on Monday we launched our [...]
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Art meets science at Dublin Contemporary
If you loved Rough Magic/Arthur Riordan”s ‘Improbable Frequency‘, and if you are at all interested in science and art, then this is for you! We’ll be exploring art and science with physicist and poet Iggy McGovern, Rough Magic director Lynne Parker, and Arthur ‘ Improbable Frequency’ Riordan. Asking how — did Austria Nobel physicist Erwin [...]
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Launch of new maths trails — Dublin by Numbers
New mathematics initiative – walking trails for families and schools An Irish system of algebra that helped to land a man on the moon, and the geometry of a Dublin sculpture are just some of the stories featured in three new city tours, that also get people to spot symmetry in Georgian buildings, measure extinct [...]
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Wanted: maths jokes & riddles
Thinking caps on please! We’re looking for your favourite maths jokes and riddles. Our next project is Dublin by Numbers, a maths walking trail for families and school groups, packed with games and puzzles and things to do along the way. We want to include short mathematical riddles and puzzles as well — and we’d love to [...]
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Culture Night special walking tour
We are taking names on the ‘waitlist’ for cancellations, as the tour is fully booked (see booking form below). But even if we can’t accommodate you this time, don’t worry! Just get our fully downloadable Dublin Rocks audio-guided tour, and you can take the full tour at your own pace whenever you want. We are delighted to [...]
Dublin by Numbers
Our next project is a fun mathematics walking tour of Dublin for families. And we’d love to hear what you think should be in the tour. For instance, we’ll be looking at numbers all over the city, from bus routes to car number plates, and imagining what the world would be like if numbers had [...]
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Media skills – How to write an effective press release
It’s true what they say: publicity is the essential oxygen of survival these days. This intensive half-day workshop will equip you with basic media skills to help you publicise your research, business or events, and focusing on the central technique of how to write an effective press release. By the end of the session, you [...]
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