Mary Mulvihill

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Mary Mulvihill. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
New plaque to honour science communicator Mary Mulvihill

Science communicator and former Irish Times journalist Mary Mulvihill will be commemorated by a plaque at her former home in Dublin, which will be unv(...)

Mary Mulvihill was a regular contributor to The Irish Times. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Fifth Mary Mulvihill Award offering €2,000 for best entry on theme of water

The 2022 student media competition in memory of science writer Mary Mulvihill will be on the theme of water, its organisers have announced. The comp(...)

The winning audio documentary examined contrasting experiences of Ireland and Peru during the pandemic. Illustration: Paul Scott
Covid-19 audio documentary wins 2021 Mary Mulvihill prize

An audio documentary prompted by a photograph of people being restrained by police as they attempted to leave Lima in Peru to avoid Covid-19 has won t(...)

The late Science journalist and entrepreneur Mary Mulvihill. Photograph: Brian Dolan.
Launch of the 2021 Mary Mulvihill science media competition for third-level students

The 2021 Mary Mulvihill Award, which commemorates the work and legacy of science journalist, author and Ingenious Ireland founder Mary Mulvihill will (...)

Like John Tyndall, who always underlined the need for science communication and engagement with the public, Tyndall National Institute in UCC has a major programme of science engagement in tandem with advanced research. Above public engagement and outreach officers Dr Caitriona Tyndall and Alida Zauers with Albi Morrish in the Tyndall Atrium adjoining the cleanroom during Culture Night. Photograph: Clare Keogh.
Celebrating the bicentenary of John Tyndall, one of Ireland’s most influential scientists

Kevin O’Sullivan Environment & Science Editor The life of great Irish natural philosopher John Tyndall was summed up adeptly in 2018 when the pu(...)

Dr Eucharia Meehan, chief executive and registrar of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, at the launch of a year-long programme of events to mark 80 years of discovery at the Institute. Photograph: Marc O’Sullivan
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies celebrates 80 years of discovery

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) is marking its unique mission and legacy of ground-breaking discoveries with a week of online events culm(...)

50 things to do in Ireland this summer

WE PICK OUT SOME CREATIVE WAYS TO SPEND THE WARMER MONTHS AS COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS GRADUALLY EASE Things you can do this weekend and all summer (...)

William Rowan Hamilton: In his winning essay, Hayes focuses on the ‘flash of genius’ Hamilton experienced in October 1843 when he carved the equation that had just come to his mind into the stones of Broombridge on the Royal Canal near Cabra, in Dublin
NUI Galway student does the maths to win Mary Mulvihill Award

NUI Galway maths student James Hayes (17) is the 2020 winner of the Mary Mulvihill Award, the science media competition for third-level students. The(...)

Laura Finnegan, winner of the 2019 Mary Mulvihill Award, a science media competition for third-level students. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times
Entry deadline for 2020 Mary Mulvihill science award extended

The deadline has been extended for the 2020 Mary Mulvihill Award to midnight on April 30th. The month-long extension is down to the disruption caused (...)

A notable entry in Mary Mulvihill’s Ingenious Ireland: The Coelostat from Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies which provided proof of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Maria Koutoulakis pictured with the Grubb Coelostat and Einstein Lens. Photograph: Mark Steadman
Ingenious Ireland a window on a not so distant past

I was late for an appointment with my chiropractor when I spotted the book. It jumped out at me from a prime position on a front-window shelf of a cha(...)

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