SFI Little Book - April Re-print edits included

96 Digging Deep

Ireland is not widely known for having extensive natural
resources or a rich mining culture but in fact Ireland
is Europe’s largest producer of zinc and second largest
producer of lead. Leading the charge in unearthing
the wealth of resources in the Irish landscape are
the researchers at iCRAG, the Science Foundation
Ireland funded Irish Centre for Research in Applied
Geosciences. Their activities range from building 3D
models of the subsurface, and methods to unlock our
energy and raw materials reserves, to discovering new
ways to manage our groundwater, which supplies an
incredible one fifth of all water used in Ireland.

www.icrag-centre.org

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George Boole was a professor in University College Dublin born Lucien Bull pioneered
Cork who wrote ‘The Laws of Thought’ which high-speed photography, capturing
contained Boolean Algebra, a form of logic that a fly in slow motion.
was later used to develop electronics systems that
used binary instructions. 100 1930

98 1799-1864 County Down native, James Drumm invented
the nickel-zinc rechargeable battery.
Nicholas Joseph Callan, born in
County Louth, invented the induction
coil as well as the worlds largest
battery, the self-exciting dynamo and
numerous electric motors.

Ireland: ScienceRising We believe that science and innovation in Ireland are
Explained on the upward trajectory. To support this, our campaign
entitled Science Rising will aim to inform, engage and
With the maturing of research investments made by the explore all possibilities, economic and social, to better
Irish government through Science Foundation Ireland our country for our people and the impact we make
there is now a very real concentration of excellent on the world. We will do this through a wide-ranging
research in relevant priority areas. There has been an programme, engaging academic and industrial scientists,
erosion of the boundaries between basic and applied educational establishments, industry and the Irish public
research (the ABC of Modern Research: Applied and Basic through partnership, information, events, competitions
Combined) and the establishment of activities to support and awards.
public engagement with science, technology engineering
and maths. For further information visit http://sciencerising.sfi.ie
and to join the conversation #sciencerising.
Science Foundation Ireland is constantly considering how
best to support further economic and societal impact and Science Foundation Ireland is the Irish state agency that
Ireland’s desire to future proof its ability to be the best funds excellent scientific research and its application.
country in the world for science and innovation.

To do this we want to engage at local and international
levels. To understand and explain what makes us great
inventors, explorers, scientists and leaders. The ability
to question, imagine, collaborate, discover, answer
and create is deeply engrained in Irish people and in a
collaborative way across government, industry, academia
and education we want to support participation in science
at all levels to help Ireland realise its full potential.



Science Foundation Ireland, an agency of the
Department of Jobs Enterprise and Innovation,
would like to thank the following organisations for
all their help and assistance in creating this book.

The BT Young Scientist Exhibition / Dublin
Institute of Technology / Equinome.com / Health

Research board / Intel Ireland / Irish Research
Council / Kite Entertainment / Marine Institute /

NUI Galway / NUI Maynooth / Mutebutton.ie /
Obesity group, St Vincent's Hospital Dublin /
Oxymem.com / Royal College of Surgeons Ireland /
SEAI / Scifest / Selfsense.ie / Smart Futures /
SurgaColl.com / Teagasc / Treemetrics.com /
Trinity College Dublin / University College Cork /
University College Dublin / University of Limerick /

Wattics.com / Design and illustration by
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