60 Question Quiz :June 7 2023 by Senior Times

Back in the 1960s and 70s, thousands of students from African countries were studying at Irish universities. Some had children outside marriage, who were then placed in one of Ireland's notorious mother and baby homes. Today these children, now adults, are searching for their families.

Oona Colin talks to Mairead Robinson about her experience.

Pt8: Salt and Pepper

Ruth Scott has been a successful DJ on national radio for years having begun as an early colleague of Conor’s in AA Roadwatch. She’s still on air but she is now also a humanist celebrant for weddings and funerals. She chats about her path in life, her humanism, and her happy marriage to Rob Morgan, son of the legendary Dermot Morgan.

Dr. Caitriona Jackman obtained a BSc in Applied Physics from the University of Limerick in 2003 and a PhD in Planetary Physics from the University of Leicester in 2006. She has held research positions at Imperial College London, and two consecutive fellowships (Leverhulme Trust and Royal Astronomical Society) at University College London. She moved to the University of Southampton in 2013, where she has held a Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Ernest Rutherford Fellowship to study planetary and stellar magnetospheres. She is a Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s National Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. At the heart of her research is Space Plasma Physics in our solar system and beyond. She is an expert in planetary magnetospheres, the magnetic bubbles which surround magnetised planets. She has worked with data from missions including NASA’s Cassini at Saturn, ESA’s Cluster mission in orbit around Earth, NASA’s Juno at Jupiter, and with data from the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Her research interests include understanding how the aurora works, and how machine learning and complexity science can be used to study huge volumes of data from space.

Prof . Derek Hand Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences DCU discusses the life of James Joyce with Gary Cooke.

Leitrim to Birmingham by Tony Downey. Episode 7: Neighbours' Childer by Senior Times

More gems from history’s greatest composers!

Includes works by Beethoven, Mozart,  Haydn, Wagner, Schubert, Bach , Strauss and Dvorak

Presented by John Low. Produced by Conor O’Hagan

What was it like growing up Irish in middle class south London in the 1960s? Gary talks to avowed dual national Conor O'Hagan.

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