Books to date include a new eco-guide, two collections of biographies of historic Irish women scientists, and an encyclopaedic guide to Ireland’s scientific, industrial and natural heritage.
The latest book is the guide to sustainable living: Drive Like a Woman, Shop Like a Man (2009).
Packed with easy and practical tips that won’t cost you anything, and could save you a packet, as well as helping you to tread a little more lightly on the planet.
More about this new book here.
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There is also a new collection of biographies of historic Irish women scientists that I edited and produced for WITS, the Women in Science & Technology network.
Read more about Lab Coats and Lace: the lives and legacies of inspiring Irishwomen scientists and pioneers (WITS, 2009) here.
Ingenious Ireland, a guide to the country’s scientific, industrial and natural heritage came out in 2002. It took several years longer than intended, and weighs in at over 1kg, but happily went on to win a number of awards.
Read more about that book here.
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The first collection of biographies of Irish women scientists that I edited for WITS was Stars, Shells and Bluebells, published in 1997.
And you can read more about that book here.
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Dear Ms Mulvihill,
I am a freelance editor for Edco in Dublin, working on a TY history book. My managing editor there is Suzanna Henry (shenry@edco.ie). We would like to reproduce an extract of 136 words from pages 436-7 of Ingenious Ireland. I attach the passage below.
The book will be approx 100 pp long, print run 3000, distribution in the Republic of Ireland only and selling price of around 12 euro. Publication date is early September 2009.
We hope you will allow us to use this passage. Please advise us of your terms.
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Stephanie J Dagg
April 14th, 1932. A young Irish scientist was working in a Cambridge laboratory when he saw ‘a wonderful sight, lots of scintillations, looking just like stars’. Ernest Walton (1903–95) had just split an atom and what he saw was the energy released as the atom broke apart. The brilliant experiment had transformed lithium into helium, a modern act of alchemy. It was a collaboration with John Cockcroft and it introduced the era of nuclear power. In 1951, the two men shared a Nobel Prize for their ingenious work.
Ernest Walton, son of a Methodist minister, was born in Dungarvan and schooled at Methody College in Belfast … After graduating from T.C.D., Walton went to work at Cambridge University under Ernest Rutherford, who had already discovered much about radioactivity and the structure of the atom …