The ‘Secrets of Stone’ is a day of talks and discussions all about our geological heritage. It’s going to be a great day, of interest to anyone who’s ever stopped to enjoy the scenery, marvelled at a fossil, or puzzled over a rock, and especially to hillwalkers and climbers. (Saturday, March 24th, Collins Barracks) Organised […]
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How to get your message across
‘Great training, great people and great results’ Mike Hannigan, Director, Coworkinn Could you use some media training? Do you and your colleagues need help: Preparing for an upcoming talk, presentation, or media interview? Publicising an event or research finding? Getting your point of view across in a public debate? Whatever your need, we can help, […]
Free media skills offer
We are offering a free place to an NGO on our next media skills workshop, taking place in Dublin next Wednesday, January 18. It’s an intensive, practical — and enjoyable — half-day session that will equip you with basic media skills to publicise your research, business, or event. You will learn about How To: Identify […]
Media skills — new year, new skill
Book now, and save with our earlybird offer! Are you looking to publicise your business, an event, or maybe your research? At Ingenious Ireland, we have over 20 years experience in helping people to tell their story to the media. Now, we’re running a series of half day intensive workshops that will give you the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. .
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
