Android apps by ziggiapps

National Botanic Gardens

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:55:46 +0000

National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin
Plants, people and history

The perfect companion for a visit to the gardens, packed with fascinating stories and treasures and over 200 years of history.

> Meet the loneliest plant in the world
> Visit the glasshouse that is an architectural treasure
> See the ‘Last Rose of Summer’
> Hear about plants that eat sheep . . . and much more.

Enthusiastically narrated by the gardens' director, Matthew Jebb, and award-winning heritage writer, Mary Mulvihill, the guide also features Thomas Moore's famous melody, The Last Rose of Summer.

The app combines three colour-coded audio tours of the gardens, with additional information, images and archive photographs. The Green tour explores the historic glasshouses and exotic plants. The Yellow tour is an easy stroll around the garden’s historic highlights. The Red tour takes you to the river, to explore wildlife, plant hunting, and even philosophy.

You can use the app to plan a visit, or to explore the gardens, or as a souvenir afterwards. The app requires a 3G connection to the Internet, and the audio is best enjoyed using headphones.

Developed for the National Botanic Gardens by Ingenious Ireland, with a grant from the Cultural Technology Grant Scheme 2010 from the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport.

For more ingenious tours, visit www.ingeniousireland.ie

Skull Duggery

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:21:55 +0000

Scare the living half-to-death with spooky sounds from Werewolf’s to Ghouls with a few eerie tunes to fit the mood.Create the atmosphere for your goulish party, improve your ghost stories with spooky sound effects or scare your friends and relatives with spine chilling sounds.As Robocop says "I'd buy that for a dollar".

East Pier

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:08:11 +0000

THE EAST PIER HERITAGE TOUR

This 14-stop audio tour with full colour map along Dún Laoghaire's renowned East Pier brings you on a 2-mile journey that includes tragedy, bravery, wildlife, poetry, literature and engineering, not to mention Victorian ladies under beautifully restored bandstands. Hear about the famous seals, what birds you see, and stories from Marconi to how the HSS satellite technology works, what an anemometer is, how Beckett got his inspiration, and why a Russian cannon with a Romanov seal is placed near the entrance overlooking Scotman's Bay.
Mary Mulvihill of Ingenious Ireland joins producer and local resident Aileen O'Meara on a unique tour of this popular south Dublin walk.

The Metals

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:08:12 +0000

The Metals Heritage Tour.

This is an 11-stop audio tour with full colour map along the popular walkway from Dún Laoghaire to Dalkey Quarry in south Dublin, known locally as "The Metals",
It's not just a journey through fascinating engineering and social history. It's also an eye-opening excursion along a unique living heritage.
Join architectural historian Rob Goodbody, author of "The Metals", and producer Aileen O'Meara back to when Dún Laoghaire just a small fishing village surrounded by rocky outcrops, and hear the fascinating story of how engineers designed this unique trackway that shaped the development of this marine town and its fine harbour.