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# nobel-prize - Saturday 12 October, 2019
'For about 40 minutes I was a Nobel Prize winner': Irish author victim of hoax call
Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke were both awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
# nobel-prize - Friday 11 October, 2019
'Scandalous': Outrage after Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to Slobodan Milosevic defender
Peter Handke was a vocal defender of the Serbs during the bloody collapse of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
# nobel-prize - Thursday 10 October, 2019
Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke
Two winners were announced today as the prize was not awarded in 2018 following a scandal.
# nobel-prize - Tuesday 2 October, 2018
Scientist becomes just third woman ever to win Nobel Prize for physics
She shared the award with two other scientists.
# nobel-prize - Friday 4 May, 2018
2018 Nobel Literature Prize postponed after #MeToo controversy
This is the first time it has been postponed in over 70 years.
# nobel-prize - Monday 9 April, 2018
Three Nobel prize judges quit in protest over sexual assault allegations
A high-profile figure associated with the Swedish Academy has been accused by 18 women of sexual assault and harassment.
# nobel-prize - Sunday 8 October, 2017
Time out: Dangers of disrupting your body clock
The Nobel Medicine Prize was awarded last week to three scientists highlighted how the body clock works.
# nobel-prize - Thursday 5 October, 2017
British writer of The Remains of the Day wins Nobel Prize for Literature
The prize is worth 9 million kronor (€1 million).
# nobel-prize - Monday 26 June, 2017
Nobel Peace Prize winner released from Chinese prison after 8 years with late-stage cancer
Liu Xiaobo was sentenced in 2009 for “subversion” after spearheading a bold petition for democratic reforms.
# nobel-prize - Sunday 2 April, 2017
Bob Dylan FINALLY accepts Nobel Prize for Literature
The decision to give the musician the award sparked controversy in recent months.
# nobel-prize - Friday 9 December, 2016
Bob Dylan to play Dublin gig next year
The musician recently won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
# nobel-prize - Monday 5 December, 2016
He may be a no-show, but Bob Dylan has written something special for the Nobel banquet
Patti Smith will also perform a version of Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.
# nobel-prize - Thursday 1 December, 2016
Obama holds ceremony for Nobel Prize winners (Bob Dylan doesn't show up)
Dylan has also indicated he will skip the Nobel award ceremony in December.
# nobel-prize - Wednesday 23 November, 2016
Colombia's government will sign a new peace deal this week
The new, revised accord will be submitted to Congress for approval, after the last one was rejected in a referendum.
# nobel-prize - Saturday 29 October, 2016
Bob Dylan finally breaks silence on Nobel Prize award
The 75-year-old is the first songwriter to win the prestigious award.
# nobel-prize - Friday 14 October, 2016
Why Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature
For fans of lyrics, or of lyrical music, Dylan’s output rewards thorough exploration like no other artist of the last 100 years
# nobel-prize - Thursday 13 October, 2016
Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize for Literature
The American singer was awarded the prize for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.
# nobel-prize - Tuesday 4 October, 2016
# nobel-prize - Saturday 12 December, 2015
How much will a can of beer cost you next year? It's the week in numbers
Plus: How many selfies did Teresa Mannion say she posed for in Ballina?
# nobel-prize - Thursday 10 December, 2015
Irish scientist receives Nobel Prize for Medicine in glittering ceremony
Professor Campbell is only the second Irish person to ever be awarded the prize for science.
# nobel-prize - Monday 12 October, 2015
# nobel-prize - Tuesday 6 October, 2015
That time the Nobel physics prize was accidentally given to the wrong person
Right name, wrong man.
# nobel-prize - Monday 5 October, 2015
Irish-born scientist given a Nobel Prize for his work fighting a horrible parasite
Irishman William Campbell shared one half of the prize with Satoshi Omura of Japan.
# nobel-prize - Monday 28 September, 2015
Watch Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai doing card tricks
The Pakistani activist is multi-talented.
# nobel-prize - Wednesday 10 December, 2014
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US scientist who sold his Nobel Prize to donate some of his millions to Irish university
It has also been revealed that the man who bought the medal did so to give it back.
# nobel-prize - Monday 13 October, 2014
Check out the CV of the guy who just won the Nobel Prize for Economics
It’s fair to say he’s “accomplished.”
# nobel-prize - Saturday 11 October, 2014
Autocorrect just made a very big fool of Naomi Campbell
This is why proofreading your tweets is essential.
# nobel-prize - Friday 10 October, 2014
17-year-old Malala Yousafzai has won the Nobel Peace Prize
The teenager was the joint winner of the award along with Kailash Satyarthi of India.
# nobel-prize - Thursday 9 October, 2014
French writer Patrick Modiano has won the Nobel Prize for Literature
The award is the biggest prize in literature and is worth €877,000.
# nobel-prize - Monday 6 October, 2014
UCC to give honorary degree to newly-crowned Nobel prize winner
May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser have shared the award with fellow neuroscientist John O’Keefe.
# nobel-prize - Thursday 17 April, 2014
Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel Prize-winning writer, has died
The Colombian writer was 87.
# nobel-prize - Saturday 19 October, 2013
Wikipedia 'edit-a-thon' tries to increase representation of women there
Many high-profile women from the science, tech, engineering and maths fields have little or no profile on the contributor-generated online encyclopaedia.
# nobel-prize - Friday 18 October, 2013
Alice Munro declines Nobel awards invite due to poor health
The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is due to pick up a prize of US $1.2 million.
# nobel-prize - Monday 14 October, 2013
Nobel Prize winner reponsible for two of most important economic charts in recent decades
Robert Shiller compiles two charts and makes them free for the public – and these charts predicted the dotcom bubble and the property bubble.
Assad: I should have won the Nobel Peace Prize
The Syrian leader made the remark “jokingly” according to a Lebanese newspaper.
# nobel-prize - Thursday 10 October, 2013
Canadian Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize, doesn't answer her phone
The 82-year-old Canadian has become just the 13th woman to win the prize in 112 years.
# nobel-prize - Thursday 5 September, 2013
Have you read Paul Simon's moving tribute to Seamus Heaney yet?
The singer-songwriter writes of his conversations with the literary great in Dublin and in Manhattan, and says there are “few poets” he would rank as Heaney’s equal.
# nobel-prize - Friday 30 August, 2013
The life and times of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney in pictures
Remembering the life of Seamus Heaney in pictures.
# nobel-prize - Monday 12 August, 2013
Google Doodle celebrates quantum physicist with an Irish connection
Erwin Schrödinger lived and worked in Dublin for seventeen years.
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WITH MANY OF us remaining at home in recent weeks, some of us have been turning our hand to a lot more cooking than we may normally have done.
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