Irish Research Council launches ‘Discovery Ireland’ as part of #LoveIrishResearch initiative
Posted: 28 January, 2016
![Repro Free: Thursday 28th January 2016. Pictured today (28.01.16) at the launch of IrishResearch, a new Irish Research Council campaign aimed at highlighting the achievements of Irish researchers, were:
The Minister for Skills, Research and Innovation, Damien English TD.
Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Chair of the Irish Research Council.
Dr. Eucharia Meehan, Director of the Irish Research Council. The IrishResearch campaign will run throughout 2016. As well as highlighting Irish researchers achievements, it will aim to increase public awareness of the important research conducted in higher education institutions throughout the country. Full details of the campaign are available on www.research.ie. Picture Jason Clarke.](https://research.ie/assets/uploads/2016/01/J0270370009-1000x667.jpg)
The first publication produced as part of the #LoveIrishResearch initiative was unveiled today: ‘Discovery Ireland’, a book exploring the role of discovery research, celebrating the achievements of great Irish scientists, and highlighting the fundamental research currently underway in Ireland.
Contemporary case studies included in the book range from research on how solar storms on the sun disrupt communications networks on earth, to how cells die and the implications for resistant cancers where the normal cell death process is disrupted and cancer cells continue to grow.
“Discovery Ireland” is dedicated to Professor Ernest T.S. Walton, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics (with Sir John Cockcroft) in 1951 for pioneering work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles.
Appropriately, the launch of the book took place at the Fitzgerald Building in Trinity College Dublin where Walton worked and researched during his time as the Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy.