News Piece of Early Transatlantic Cable Donated to Computer and Communications Museum of Ireland

Dr Cornelia Connolly donates a piece of the Transatlantic Cable to Brendan Smith, Education and Public Engagement Officer, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway.  The cable promises to be a wonderful historical piece and a popular exhibit at the NUI Galway, Computer and Communications Museum of Ireland (https://ccmireland.com/).  

The Transatlantic Cable was laid from Valentia in County Kerry to Newfoundland in Canada in the 1800’s – an amazing engineering feat to happen not long after the Irish famine and a short number of years before the establishment of our University.  The laying of the cable established Ireland as a hub for telecommunications. 

To read more about the Transatlantic Cable check out the following:   

• RTE Brainstorm article: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/0616/1228379-transatlantic-cable-valentia-island-newfoundland/ 
• C. Connolly, (2002) "The transatlantic cable-an Irish perspective," in Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 623-625, https://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2002.1002531