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Prize Question 2020: ‘What can science achieve during pandemics?’
Thursday, 30 July 2020The Austrian Academy of Sciences will award prizes for the best essays.
DIB Explorers: Beatrice Grimshaw, author and traveller
Thursday, 30 July 2020The last explorer in our series is Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw, who started her career as a sports journalist and long-distance cyclist before travelling extensively in the South Seas and Australasia and settling in Papua...
DIB Explorers: Arthur Montagu Gwynn, doctor and naturalist
Tuesday, 28 July 2020A medical doctor, naturalist and explorer, the intrepid Arthur Montagu Gwynn was described by one of his granddaughters as ‘having a gun under his bed, a bullet hole in his arm and crocodile skins under his stairs’.
Grangegorman Histories on Dublin City FM
Friday, 24 July 2020Dr Philip Cohen, Chair of the Grangegorman Histories Expert Working Group spoke with Luke Stedmon on the 'Good Morning Dublin’ Show.
The importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to tackle the COVID crisis
Thursday, 23 July 2020Our author Niamh Moore-Cherry reflects on some of the lessons learnt from Ireland's response to the 2008 economic crisis and how they can help face the current crisis.
DIB Explorers: William Lamport, inspiration for Zorro
Thursday, 23 July 2020Our next DIB explorer is William Lamport, who worked as a spy in Italy and Catalonia and plotted to seize control of Mexico City with a militia of indigenous mine workers.
IAP Working group on Regenerative Medicine - call for experts
Wednesday, 22 July 2020The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) are inviting member academies to nominate experts to serve on the Working Group tasked with developing a statement on Regenerative Medicine.
COVID-19 recovery and green growth: What is holding up implementation of the Paris Agreement?
Tuesday, 21 July 2020In just a few weeks, the Covid-19 pandemic has led us to mobilise crisis response and best determine how we can live with the pandemic in the short term. The next stage, and one that we eagerly await, is how we can...
DIB Explorers: Thomas Heazle Parke, army surgeon and African traveller
Monday, 20 July 2020Our series of explorers continues with Thomas Heazle Parke, the first Irishman known to have crossed the continent of Africa. He once saved a man’s life by sucking arrow poison into his own mouth.
Tellus: the largest collaborative cross-border programme of geoscience surveys
Monday, 20 July 2020Our author Mike Young reflects on the impacts of this unprecedented survey of Northern Ireland and the six northern counties of the Republic of Ireland.