This Day in Irish History : From the social media sensation @thisdayirish by Padraic Coffey

This Day in Irish History : From the social media sensation @thisdayirish by Padraic CoffeyYou may know all about the Easter Rising and the Good Friday Agreement, but did you know that the hypodermic needle was invented in Tallaght? Or that Dublin was the first city in the world to have a woman stockbroker, decades before London or New York? Or that the formula used to create the video game Tomb Raider was sketched on a bridge in Cabra in the nineteenth century? With one entry for every day of the year, this book marks the anniversaries of

or to pull up the drawbridge

and the sights and sounds of 'distance and of home' all coalesce in a sustained meditation on time and belonging

Lift the flaps to see how lots of things we throw away don't really belong in the bin

Ruth goes from being an ordinary young mother to an accidental activist

this is a self-portrait in writing that showcases why Kurt Vonnegut is as genius an essayist and commentator on American society as he is a novelist

If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt

time and cultures

and he plunges into a dangerous

Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts hereChemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman

at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth

'Unmissable

already terrifying century'