Mary Mulvihill
Mary Mulvihill is an award-winning science writer, and one of Ireland’s foremost science editors and broadcasters.
Recent books include a new guide to sustainable living, Drive Like a Woman, Shop Like a Man (New Island, 2009), and Lab Coats and Lace, a collection of biographies of inspiring Irish women scientists, which she edited for WITS (2009).
Over the past 20 years Mary has had numerous popular science series on RTE radio and Lyric FM, including The Quantum Leap, the Goldilocks World and Left Brain, Right Brain. She has also written frequently for The Irish Times and numerous other publications, and edited Technology Ireland for a decade.
Each month she publishes a guide to what’s on and what’s worth reading and seeing. The Science@Culture bulletin has been on the go for over a dozen years now, and is widely read by a vast cross-section of people interested in science and related events. Read the latest edition, and subscribe to the bulletin here.
Ingenious Ireland (2002), her guide to Ireland’s fascinating scientific heritage and curiosities won a number of awards. She also edited two collections of biographies of Irish women scientists and pioneers – Stars, Shells and Bluebells (1997), and Lab Coats and Lace (March 2009).
Before all that, she was a statistical geneticist with the agricultural research agency (An Foras Talúntais, now Teagasc) . . . but that’s another story!
And way before that there was a degree in genetics, followed by an MSc in statistics (both at Trinity College, Dublin), and somewhere along the way a graduate diploma in journalism.
Affiliations, memberships:
Irish Science & Technology Journalists Association: member, former president
WITS: founding member, first chairperson
RIA Committee for the History of Irish Science: member
Irish Council for Bioethics: former member of the first council
Industrial Heritage Association of Ireland: member, former council member
Association of Independent Radio Producers Ireland: member
NUJ & Irish Writers Union: member
Enjoying the blog greatly, Mary, and I can’t wait to read about your adventures in Waterloo. Thanks for the links as well – have downloaded the eco font and look forward to watching the videos.
Mary – send me an email address and I will send you some info on ‘recent dead’ scientists in Ireland (Belfast) and some who are still hanging on to life!
Yours
Martin
Dear Miss Mulvihill,
Please contact me by e-mail. I’d like to discuss ‘Lab Coats and Lace’ with you, and in particular one of the contributors, unfortunately recently deceased.
regards,
Clive.
Mary,
You might like to see this on the context of your ‘smart’ economy article
Hi Mary. Loving the blog lately. Some great stuff. I’ve just added you to my blog roll and will feature your blog as my “featured link” next week. Keep up the good work.
Regards,
Humphrey Jones, Frog Blogger!