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Facing The Sun, Frank Prendergast, Muiris O'Sullivan, Ken Williams, Gabriel Cooney
Facing The Sun, Frank Prendergast, Muiris O'Sullivan, Ken Williams, Gabriel Cooney
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December 2017 marked 50 years since archaeologist Michael J. O’Kelly first observed the solar illumination of the burial chamber in the Neolithic passage tomb at Newgrange during the period of the winter solstice. O’Kelly subsequently recorded direct sunlight entering Newgrange through the ‘especially contrived slit which lies under the roof-box at the outer end of the passage roof’ on 21 December 1969. The discovery of this historic phenomenon, dating back over 5,000 years, captured the public interest and imagination at that time and ever since. In this major article published in the Winter 2017 edition of Archaeology Ireland (date of …
Bau, January 17-21, Munich, Jim Roche
Bau, January 17-21, Munich, Jim Roche
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This bi-annual five-day event is one of the
leading and biggest trade fares of architecture,
materials, building systems and craft skills in
the world. Held in the huge Messe München
Trade Fair Center in eastern Munich and
stretching over 17 gigantic halls each the size
of a football pitch, it offers a truly rich display of
the latest innovations in building technology.