• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Irish America

Irish America

Irish America

  • HOME
  • WHO WE ARE
    • ABOUT US
    • IRISH AMERICA TEAM
  • IN THIS ISSUE
  • HALL OF FAME
  • THE LISTS
    • BUSINESS 100
    • HALL OF FAME
    • HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES 50
    • WALL STREET 50
  • LIBRARY
  • TRAVEL
  • EVENTS

George Boole

George Boole Celebrations

By Julia Brodsky, Editorial Assistant
December / January 2016

December 3, 2015 by Leave a Comment

On November 2nd, 2015, schoolchildren all over the world engaged in a lesson in Boolean mathematics and logic through the launch of University College Cork’s Bring Boole2School program. The date marks the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of George Boole, the English mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is often called the “forefather of the information age.” Boole … [Read more...] about George Boole Celebrations

UCC Celebrates Legacy of
Mathematician George Boole

By Irish America Staff
December / January 2015

December 11, 2014 by Leave a Comment

A celebration of the life and legacy of George Boole was the theme of the gala dinner for alumni and friends of University College, Cork, which took place at the Princeton Club in New York in November. Boole, UCC’s first professor of mathematics turns 200 on November 2, 2015, and UCC will celebrate this bicentenary year with a program of events that will shine a global … [Read more...] about UCC Celebrates Legacy of
Mathematician George Boole

Primary Sidebar

Featured Video

Featured Podcast

News from the Irish Post

  • Four cities, one story: the Irish in Britain

    THERE is no single story of the Irish in Britain. What makes up our community, is a patchwork of...

  • Man hospitalised with burns to his face and body after hot water attack

    A MAN is receiving treatment in hospital after another man attacked him with hot water. The victi...

  • Funding of €8m will help preserve archaelogical monuments across Ireland

    FUNDING of more than €8m has been earmarked by the Irish Government to protect archaeological mon...

  • British? Irish? Either? Neither? exhibition tackles identity and belonging in Northern Ireland

    A SERIES of photo exhibitions exploring notions of identity, belonging and culture has launched i...

April 17, 1969

On this day in 1968, Bernadette Devlin was elected to Britain’s Parliament on the “Unity” ticket, as MP for the Mid-Ulster constituency. The election followed the death of Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Mid Ulster, George Forrest, and Devlin found she was running against Forrest’s widow on the Unionist ticket. At 21, Devlin was the youngest woman ever to be elected to Parliament. Raised Roman Catholic in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Devlin became passionately involved in politics while a student at Queen’s University Belfast. She helped to form the Irish Republican Socialist Party along with Seamus Costello in 1974.

Footer

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Subscribe

  • Subscribe
  • Give a Gift
  • Newsletter

Additional

  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Terms of Use & Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2026 · IrishAmerica Child Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in