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Letters, programmes and reports from various organisations with ties to the European Union or European funding.
Includes: Letter from JTH Stewart (Commission of European Communities) to Mulvihill (27 March 1991) approving financial contributions to a WITS seminar to be held in Dublin late that year, invitation and subsequent conference report to the WITEC-UETP (Women in Technology in the European Community-University Enterprise Training Partnership) conference in Dublin Castle, 2-4 May 1991, WITEC document, Gender Issues in Technology - Guidelines for Action, a document outlining COMETT, the European Commission’s programme for high-level technology training.

A very large file of 24 folders with diverse material covering Mulvihill’s interests in scientific education, training and research. The file covers a broad range of interests and includes: A heavily annotated book entitled, Blood & Guts, A Short History of Medicine (London, 2003), by Roy Porter, an itinerary and report from the ‘First European Feminist Conference on Reproductive Technologies and Genetic Engineering’ that was held in Spain in October 1986, the itinerary and notes from ‘Irish Origins: The Genetic History and Geography of Ireland’, a conference held in the Royal Irish Academy in December 2000. Research carried out by Mulvihill into the Vartry Reservoir and other infrastructure to supply Dublin city with water. As well as the mining industry in county Wicklow, a
press paper for the BA (British Association for the Advancement of Science) Festival of Science in May 2005.

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) Media and Outreach Strategies, provided by Mulvihill’s Science Media Consultancy, 1 May 2013. A Report entitled Women in Industrial Research; a wakeup call for European Industry (European Commission, 2003),
Annotated launch paper for the ‘Gender Equality Unit’ of the Department of Education and Science (4 December 2001), a strategy for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (November 2002), an invite and programme of the Science on Screen Festival, which Mulvihill helped to organise in March 1997, an annotated preparatory script for the Blood and Guts audio tour of Dublin. Handwritten research notes on Marsh’s Library, and annotated/amended Rules for the Irish Science Journalists Association (December, 1991). Minutes for the ‘RDS Advisory Committee on Science Meeting’, held on 15 June 1993, Mulvihill’s Year Planner and Professional Diary for 1997, and the initial ‘Call for Information’ for the Eureka Guide to Ireland in 1997. This project became Ingenious Ireland in 2002.

16 notebooks of research, ideas and suggestions written by Mulvihill from 1990-1999. Certificate awarded to Mulvihill (National Science and Technology Journalism Awards 2002-3). 3 large photographs, 2 of which show the Scholars' Dinner in Trinity College, Dublin in 1979. One photograph is mounted with accompanying identification. Third photograph shows a gathering of past pupils for the same occasion in 1989. Mulvihill appears in both. 4 editions of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series, as well as art materials and paintings made by Mulvihill during personal art classes.

2 folders of research material pertaining to the scientific/technological aspects of County Derry. Includes returned questionnaires from various organisations, annotated notes on previously published material, enclosed original material from hydro-electricity generation on the River Roe near Limavady. Also material on Derry’s linen industry and its technological innovations. And the measuring or ‘triangulation’ of Lough Foyle.

Material collated by Mulvihill about science and technology in Donegal. Includes a visitor’s handbook titled Glenveagh National Park; A Remote and Hauntingly Beautiful Wilderness (Government of Ireland, 1996). The book is annotated by Mulvihill. Also a pamphlet by Christopher Moriarty entitled The Reverend WS Green: Explorer and Fishery Scientist (RIA, 1995). Other material covers the Fintown Railway, diamond exploration in Donegal and Thomas Drummond, mathematician, inventor and Irish under-secretary from 1835-1840.

Large file of material covering Dublin City and County. Includes: Annotated books by Elizabeth Healy, The River Gods (Dublin, 1998), Edward McParland, The Custom House, Dublin (Dublin,1991) and a pamphlet on Trinity College Dublin from the Irish Heritage Series (Dublin, 1979). A profile and history of the Poolbeg Generating Station and other information from the ESB (Electricity Supply Board).

Annotated biographical information on William Molyneux (1656-1698), a Dublin-born writer on science, politics and natural philosophy, information on the development of gasworks in Ringsend, a Press Release from 2001 publicising a commemoration of George Francis Fitzgerald (1851-1901), academic and physicist who served as Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, a letter from Anne-Marie Diffley (25 April 1997), to Mulvihill, enclosing information about the scientific heritage of Trinity College, most notably within the College’s Geology Museum and Weingreen Museum and annotated information about Chester Beatty (1875-1968) and the formation of his library in Dublin Castle.

A folder of information from Guinness/Diageo describing the technological changes of the brewery over several centuries,
annotated pamphlet and booklet from the School of Cosmic Physics, a faculty within the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, as well as a booklet and annotated pamphlets from the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal Irish Academy. An Annotated lecture by John Lucey entitled Encounters with Nature. This lecture was part of the Royal Irish Academy’s History of Science seminar on 27 Sept. 2013. Mulvihill’s notes accompany the print-outs.

Written notes and other information about William Rowan Hamilton, the Dublin-born mathematician, astronomer, and physicist who helped establish Dunsink Observatory. There is also accompanying material about that the Observatory itself, annotated research material about Fingal, including Malahide Castle and historical farming practices within the same area.
A letter from Nathalie Morgado, from the Musee Des Arts et Metiers in Paris (22 June 2000), to Muvihill, supplying information on Lucien Bull, a pioneer in chronophotography. Bull was born in Dublin but lived most of his life in France.

Information on the scientific development of Dublin Zoo, a letter from Roderick Kernan, Emeritus Professor of Physiology (25 Sept. 2003), to Mulvihill, sharing his insights on scientific developments in Ireland over the previous 50 years, correspondence and a completed questionnaire from the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (April 3 1997), to Mulvihill, annotated information and published material about the history of printing in Dublin as well as correspondence and historical information from Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown Heritage Centre.

A letter from Tom Wall, Telecom Eireann Museum (4 March 1999), to Mulvihill, enclosing photocopies of some the museum’s exhibits, CD-ROM from Marsh’s Library and monochrome photographs of the development of the Ringsend Gasworks site and of Dunsink Observatory.

Material collated by Mulvihill about science and technology in county Kerry. Includes: annotated pamphlets Killarney National Park (Dublin, 1995), Matthew Parkes, The Valentia Island Tetrapod Trackway (Kildare, 2004) and the Irish Bio-geographical Society Bulletin, no. 23, (Dublin, 1999).

A CD-ROM containing information and images from Peter Coxon, Professor of Geography at Trinity College, Dublin, hand drawn diagrams and information on the Glensk Viaduct on the Killorglin-Valentia Railway. Returned questionnaires and further information supplied to Muvihill from the Kerry County Museum and Blennerville Windmill Company, a large amount of annotated material focusing on the Cahirciveen Generating Station as well as a returned questionnaire from the Electricity Supply Board that runs that particular station.

4 colour photographs and further information from White Villa Farm Museum in Killarney, annotated press cuttings dealing with the scientific and natural history of Kerry. Notes and structural ideas handwritten by Mulvihill.

Includes: Letter from Margaret Gallagher (3 Sept. 2002) to Mulvihill, enclosing a map of Ballycroy National Park, the area of which is marked by blue and green colours and annotated by Mulvihill, correspondence to Mulvihill from Duchas, the Irish Heritage Service, supplying information about the Cong Canal and National Parks within the county of Mayo. Returned and annotated questionnaire from the Ceide Fields Visitor Centre.

Proposal for a survey of Clare Island, published by the Royal Irish Academy and annotated by Mulvihill, information on Foxford Woollen Mills and Knock Folk Museum. Returned questionnaire, brochure and annotated notes on Doon Archaeological and Nature Peninsula.

Includes: annotated supplement to Archaeology Ireland (Vol.1, No.3), which covers the archaeological engineering involved in Newgrange, Knowth, Dowth and the River Boyne. Annotated notes accompanying a chapter on Irish Stone Bridges that was published by the Irish Academic Press in 1991. Written by Peter O’Keeffe and Tom Simington.

Colour photograph of Passage Grave at Newgrange. Information on mining in Meath and annotated notes on Francis Beaufort, the hydrographer and inventor of the Beaufort Scale. Annotated material on the practice of Ballooning in Meath, as well as notes on chapter structure.

A folder of material that includes annotated research material on Tassan Lead Mine. Annotated material on John Robert Gregg who was born in Monaghan in 1867. Gregg invented the Gregg Shorthand method of writing that was adopted by many journalists and stenographers in the twentieth century.

Concentrating heavily Birr Castle and the Parsons family, this file includes: A research report entitled Ladies of Birr Castle focusing on the lives of Lady Mary Ward and Lady Mary, Countess of Rosse. Both women were scientific pioneers in the nineteenth century. Annotated material from Birr Castle Demesne and the building of Parson’s Telescope, the largest telescope in the world for many years.

Annotated research material on John Joly, the Offaly born geologist, physicist and mineralogist, information on the history of distilling in Tullamore, research material on the boglands of the county and how fuel is derived for electricity.

Contains material on the mining industry at Berehaven Mines and the Ben Bulben Barite Mine. Annotated material on George Stokes, the physicist and mathematician who was born in Skreen. Also material on the astronomer, Edward Cooper, who resided at Markree castle near Collooney.

Includes: Letter from Sean Watts (3 May 2000), to Mulvihill, enclosing a large amount of information about The Mining Company of Ireland and the Slievardagh Collieries between 1825-1995. Material sent to Mulvihill by professor Michael G Harrington about the physiologist and biochemist, Edward Conway, who was born in Nenagh in 1916, a returned questionnaire and additional information about Mitchelstown Cave in Cahir.

A letter from Sandra Peavoy (17 Feb 1998), to Mulvihill, enclosing research material in relation to the Silvermines site in Shalee, information on Charles Bianconi, the Italian-Irish entrepreneur who became known for his innovations in transport and was twice mayor of Clonmel, in County Tipperary, as well as colour and monochrome photographs of geological features and mining shafts within the Shalee/Silvermines area.

Includes: Handwritten notes and a typed proposal for the book. A letter from Mulvihill (9 Nov. 1998), to John Leonard of Geological Survey of Ireland. Mulvihill seeks permission to use GSI diagrams in the introduction to Eureka Guide: Ireland explored and explained. This eventually became the introduction for Ingenious Ireland. Letter from RJ Bleakley (26 Feb. 1998), enclosing publications and other information on nature reserves in Northern Ireland. Hand written notes on form, structure and content of the book’s introduction.

Includes: 1 box labelled ‘People A-J’, 1 box labelled ‘People K-Z’, 1 box labelled ‘Topics A-E’, 1 box labelled ‘Topics F-Z’, 1 box labelled ‘Pix, Maps, Misc. Topics etc’. 1 unlabelled box. Smaller in size and containing headed cards with no further information.