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Located just 3 km from Dublin city centre, the National Botanic Gardens are an oasis of calm and beauty, and entry is free.
A premier scientific institution, the gardens also contain the National Herbarium and several historic
wrought iron glasshouses.
NEWS FROM THE GARDENS
Flora of County Limerick
20 May 2013
The National Botanic Gardens is delighted to announce the arrival of the Flora of County Limerick.
This is the first flora to the county, and covers the 1,100 native and alien
flowering plants, ferns, fern-allies and conifers growing in the wild from the Shannon
Estuary to the Galty mountains.
The Flora is the result of some thirty years of fieldwork and research by botanist
Sylvia Reynolds, author of A catalogue of alien plants in Ireland (2002).
This flora, and other publications, are available from the Botanic Gardens.
Buy this and other flroas here . . .
Inauguration of ?What is Life?
28 April 2013
Nobel laureate Jim Watson was guest of honour at the National Botanic Gardens
on the 60th anniversary of his publication of the DNA double helix. He inaugurated
a remarkable new sculpture by Charles Jencks celebrating Irish Science and the
extraordinary new revelations made in the last 30 years about the novel roles of
RNA in living organisms.
Read more here . . .
New Link between the National Botanic gardens and Glasnevin Cemetery
3 May 2013
History was made today when Mr. Brian Hayes, TD, Minister of State with special responsibility
for the Office of Public Works (OPW) oversaw the breaching of the wall between the National
Botanic Gardens and Glasnevin Cemetery & Museum. The event marks the commencement of
construction of a pedestrian link between the two institutions, which will allow
visitors a chance to enjoy the unique amenities each has to offer.
Read more here . . .
RTÉ's Secrets of the Irish Landscape
5 May 2013
Matthew Jebb and Colin Kelleher of the National Botanic Gardens will be
appearing in the new RTÉ production, Secrets of the Irish Landscape,
on Sunday nights (5, 12 & 19 May).
Presented by Derek Mooney, the series tells the history of how the Irish landscape
and its natural history developed.
Read more here . . .
James Joyce in tulips
Friday 3rd May 2013
After one of the coldest springs for many years, Ireland’s very first tulip portrait
has finally come into full bloom.
The portrait was a joint project by the National Botanic Gardens, the Embassy of the
Netherlands, the James Joyce Centre in Dublin with the support of the Department of
Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, the Irish Museums Trust, Beechill Bulbs from Co. Offaly,
and Jac. Uittenbogaard & Zonen (JUB) from the Netherlands.
Overseen by Jan Guldenmond, former landscape architect of the Keukenhof flower bulb
fields in the Netherlands and his assistant Nol van Ruiten, the planting took three days to complete last November.
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Irish Plant Scientists' Association Meeting 2013
4 April 2013
The 2013 Irish Plant Scientists' Association Meeting (IPSAM) will be held in the National
University of Ireland Galway on May 16-17 2013.
Submissions are invited from postdocs, PhD researchers and talented undergraduate students
involved in Plant Science.
check the
IPSAM2013 Website for further details
The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland
Wednesday 6 March 2013
To celebrate its 70th anniversary, the Society of Irish Foresters has published a limited facsimile edition of
Henry Elwes and Augustine Henry’s masterpiece The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland. The 8-volume facsimile
was formally launched by Sir Henry Elwes, great-grandson of Henry John Elwes, and Dr. Matthew Jebb,
Director of the National Botanic Gardens ...
Read more here...
The DNA double Helix is 60 today
Thursday 28 February 2013
Sixty years ago today two young scientists in Cambridge University made the intellectual
breakthrough that revealed the structure of the DNA molecule. Although it had been postulated that DNA
was the most likely molecule of inheritance, its 3-dimensional structure had not been known.
Jim Watson and Francis Crick made the breakthrough on a Saturday morning ...
Read more here...
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