George Boole
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Celebrating the bicentenary of John Tyndall, one of Ireland’s most influential scientists
- Science
- July 31, 2020, 11:29
Kevin O’Sullivan Environment & Science Editor The life of great Irish natural philosopher John Tyndall was summed up adeptly in 2018 when the pu(...)

The Cork woman who inspired radicalism from Ireland to Russia
- Abroad
- October 8, 2019, 07:06
In 1955, a Soviet delegation sent a cheque to the New York apartment of a 90-year-old Irish author, translator and composer. At the time, the Soviet U(...)

Why does Ireland not have a National Museum of Science?
- Culture
- September 21, 2019, 05:00
The opening of The Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) last night shows what can be done when vision, determination, resources and good old-fashioned (...)

Call for greater recognition of George Stokes’s contribution to science
- Environment
- August 13, 2019, 02:55
Ireland should do much more to recognise “the immense contribution to the world of science” made by mathematician and physicist George Gabriel Stokes (...)

Could Sherlock Holmes’s true nemesis have been a mathematician?
- Science
- November 15, 2018, 00:00
A fascinating parallel between a brilliant mathematician and an arch-villain of crime fiction is drawn in a forthcoming book – New Light on George Boo(...)
When government is the biggest funder of scientific endeavour
- Science
- March 12, 2018, 11:25
Scientific research is expensive and the Government is the biggest funder of Irish science. A major problem can arise, however, when government contro(...)

Robert Murphy – ‘had a true genius for mathematical invention’
- Science
- June 30, 2017, 11:29
“A brilliant meteor that flared intensely but all too briefly”; this was how Des MacHale described the Cork-born mathematician Robert Murphy in his bi(...)

How investing money can spur our creativity
- Innovation
- April 20, 2017, 05:47
It is amazing how quickly you can get something done if you provide a bit of incentive to encourage things along. A lot of companies dangle a wad of c(...)

What’s your county’s claim to fame?
- People
- March 11, 2017, 06:00
CONNACHT Galway Galway has always been a hub for visitors, notably including Christopher Columbus, who pitched up in 1477 and is thought to have atte(...)

'Innovation is in our DNA'
- Education
- May 18, 2016, 01:00
John Breslin Engineer, senior lecturer in electronic engineering at NUI Galway, and researcher with the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. He (...)