Category: Anglais/English/Inglés

The European City of Science is a recently introduced European Union programme that sees a major European city chosen biennially by the Supervisory Board of Euroscience, an organisation based in Strasbourg, for scientific and technological research. Dublin’s bid to host the European City of Science 2012 had been in preparation since 2008. It brought together the scientific, academic and industrial establishment of Ireland. Over fifty stakeholders came together under the stewardship of the Chief Scientific Adviser and Senior Executive…

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From January 2012 copyright on major works of James Joyce (1882-1941) was lifted by the European Union seventy years after his death. Lifting of copyright restrictions will permit performances, readings and adaptations of Joyce’s work without having to seek permission or having to make a payment to the James Joyce Estate that is controlled by the writer’s grandson Stephen Joyce, its sole beneficiary. Freed from copyright restriction are some major works including Dubliners, A Portrait of an Artist as…

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