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78 Books Scientific American Recommends in 2024
19 Dec 2024 03:39 GMT
… Find Your Voice
by Nikita Gill
Macmillan Children’s Books, 2022
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Obituary: Tom Garvin, UCD politics professor who made significant contribution to academia thorough his numerous books on Irish history
28 Oct 2024 02:46 GMT
Born in Dublin on July 7, 1943, Thomas Christopher Garvin was the second of three children in the family of senior civil servant and James Joyce expert John Garvin and his wife Kathleen. Educated by the Jesuits at Belvedere College, young Tom’s favourite …
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Cork artist Brian Lalor on his retrospective in Skibbereen, and visiting Gaza in the 1960s
23 Sep 2024 09:29 GMT
Brian Lalor has distinguished himself as an architect, archaeologist, educator, author and editor, but it is arguably his work as an artist that has given him the greatest pleasure over the past sixty years. His primary interest has been in printmaking, …
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Islands of Ireland: The Kerry island the gods would be happy to call home
26 Jul 2024 09:18 GMT
… Islands: Landscape, Life and Legends, Gill and MacMillan; blasket.ie
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Best books about Irish history to read in 2024
21 May 2024 20:41 GMT
In this work of historical non-fiction, Mangan weaves his way through the myth and folklore that has risen out of the ancient worship of nature. Taking us on a journey across Irish history, Manchan illustrates the power of myth in shaping an entire nation, …
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Obituary: Seán Ó Súilleabháin, author of walk guides, community activist and pioneer of the Kerry Way
12 Nov 2023 11:51 GMT
Among his publications was the first volume of the Irish Walk Guides for the South West: Kerry and Cork, which was initially published by Gill & Macmillan in 1978, and later updated.
Ó Súilleabháin came from Killorglin, where his father managed the …
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Obituary: Dermot Keogh, leading academic, historian and author who was a mentor to Tánaiste Micheál Martin
24 Sep 2023 02:10 GMT
Dermot Francis Keogh was born on May 12, 1945, the eldest of eight children of William and Maureen, who lived in the Kilbarrack/Bayside district of north Dublin. He attended the National School in Raheny and won a scholarship to Kostka Secondary School …
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Anja Murray: Our wild shorelines are worth visiting - and definitely worth protecting
26 Jul 2023 05:19 GMT
We are in summer-holiday season, when many of us head to the coast around Ireland to enjoy rambles along sandy shores, carefree clambering over lichen-clad boulders, and exhilarating dips in the salty sea. Wildlife along the coast is distinctly different …
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Obituary: Peter Harbison, archaeologist who made a major contribution to our understanding of Irish history
11 Jun 2023 10:55 GMT
His father, best-known as Austin Harbison, was the Dublin city and county medical officer of health and had played a central role with radical minister for health Dr Noel Browne in working out a strategy to deal with the tuberculosis epidemic of the late …
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Ethical Dilemmas in the Dermatology Outpatient Department in China
18 May 2023 13:10 GMT
Introduction
Ethics is the discipline that deals with the concepts of what is “right” and “wrong” and with moral issues surrounding duty and obligation. According to Cranmer and Nhemachena,1 philosophy is the process of examining and reflecting on the …