My past life — working in the Central Bank (in shoulder pads)
Back in the early eighties (shoulder pads, unsure, skinny) while I was an undergrad at Trinity College Dublin studying Maths & Economics I managed to get myself a summer job as researcher in the Central Bank of Ireland on Dame street; my bosses were the now very...
The Physics Chanteuse
The year is 2000 and the month is November. Almost a year into my new position as the Institute of Physics Representative in Ireland, I find myself travelling to Switzerland with an Irish delegation of physics educators to attend a pan-European conference* being held...
Time travelling through plagues and viruses
What does the Visual Time Traveller have to say about plagues and viruses? Quite a lot — they feature on at least 13 pages: 1510 The first known influenza pandemic originates in Asia. 1546 Girolamo Fracastoro proposes that epidemic diseases are caused by transferable...
The Dialogue (with apologies to Galileo)
The Dialogue (with apologies to Galileo) This is a short script I wrote and read at the end of my inaugural Visual Time Traveller talk I presented in the RDS Library, on the 2nd of April 2014, when launching the exhibition (2 Apr – 15 May 2014). The first draft...
