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Enhancing our wellbeing during the lockdown
Taking steps from the anagram THRIVE can help us cope more effectively with difficult situations such as the lockdown, explains Dr Jolanta Burke, Department of Education
Monday, 18 January 2021
What has the British army ever done for us?
Money, education and opportunities explain why 150,000 Irish people served in the British army between 1793 and 1815, writes Jim Deery, PhD scholar, Department of History
Monday, 11 January 2021
Violence, protest and melees: hurling in pre-famine Ireland
A sport once promoted by the gentry, 19th century hurling matches were action-packed on and off the pitch writes Dr Ciarán Reilly, a historian of 19th & 20th century Irish history at Maynooth University
Monday, 04 January 2021
Christmas in medieval Ireland
In medieval Ireland, Christmas was not as big a festival as Easter but was still considered a time of feasting and rest, writes Dr Niamh Wycherley, Department of Early Irish, School of Celtic Studies
Friday, 18 December 2020
How can we age smarter and healthier?
The use of innovative technology can improve the daily health and wellbeing of older people, writes Niamh Redmond, Dr Michael Cooke and Prof Mac MacLachlan, All Institute
Wednesday, 16 December 2020
A return to urban farming
As long as there have been cities, there has been urban agriculture of some description, writes Stuart Lang, PhD scholar in the Department of Anthropology
Monday, 07 December 2020
5 reasons why greyhounds make great family pets
They're easy to live with, low-maintenance and happy to be left alone to sleep, writes Chrissy Skelton, a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology
Wednesday, 02 December 2020
Long-term damage caused by severe infection could be reduced or partially reversed
New research by Imperial College, Francis Crick Institute, University of Cambridge, and Maynooth University has been published by Nature Cell Biology
Thursday, 26 November 2020
The 360 stones which show off the earliest writing in Ireland
The country's surviving ogham stones give a fascinating insight into the development of the Irish language, writes Dr Nora White, Department of Early Irish
Monday, 23 November 2020
The head-hunter who measured Irishmen's skulls
Victorian anthropologist Alfred Haddon used skull measuring to investigate the racial origins of isolated communities in the west of Ireland, writes Dr Ciarán Walsh, the Department of Anthropology
Wednesday, 18 November 2020