Press release: July 4th, 2013 Dublin’s newest walking tour has an air raid shelter, elephants, earthquakes and chocolate! Not so much Men in Black . . . as Men in White Coats! Dublin’s quirkiest new walking tour celebrates great Irish inventions and ideas, and it’s surely the only tour in the world that combines an […]
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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 […]
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 […]
New book celebrates Dublin inventions, discoveries and hidden stories
Think you know Dublin? Press release: August 27th 2012 Where in Dublin can you peer inside a Victorian diving bell? Or see the skeleton of Tommy, the prince’s elephant? Where was the world’s first earthquake experiment done? Did you know the hypodermic syringe was invented in the former Meath Hospital? And that Dublin algebra […]
The 7 Wonders of Ireland — press release
7 Wonders named as part of launch of new Atlas of scientific people and places Did you know . . . Ireland has some of the world’s oldest fossil ‘footprints’? Irish algebra helped to land a man on the Moon? The great telescope at Birr was the biggest in the world for over 70 years? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
