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New iPhone app for the Hill of Tara

Now you can follow in the footsteps of High Kings and heroes at Tara, with our new iPhone app. Royal rituals, burials and battles, even sacrificial horses. . . visitors to Tara can now explore the amazing stories of Ireland’s most important historical and archaeological site, with a new iPhone app.   Spanning over 4,000 […]

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New digital walking tours of Ingenious Dublin

Press release Tuesday October 16th 2102: on Hamilton Day, the day quaternions were invented in Dublin in 1843 As hundreds of geeks gather in Dublin for the WebSummit… two new city walking tours are launched to celebrate Ireland’s many great inventions and scientific discoveries. Did you know. . . that Dublin algebra helped to land […]

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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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Meet the Loneliest Plant in the World

New technology brings the Botanic Gardens to life The world’s loneliest male.  Vicious plants that can eat sheep.  The philosopher’s stone (where Wittgenstein sat and thought).  And the shrub that inspired Thomas Moore’s famous melody, ‘The Last Rose of Summer’ . . . These are just some of  over 30 ‘short stories’ featured in three […]

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New Dublin walking tour, 500 million years in the making!

New geology walking tour of Dublin Jurassic creatures, time travel, and some little-known Irish rock art PRESS RELEASE An unusual new Dublin guided tour is taking people back in time and face-to-face with Jurassic creatures, just by strolling the city streets. Called ‘Dublin Rocks’, the walking tour explores the very fabric of the city’s landscape […]

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