YEAR IN REVIEW
UCD historian tops O’Donnell, director of the UCD Bioinformatics and Computational
bestsellers list Institute of Criminology, and Biomedicine. Professor Geraldine Meaney,
In what is thought to be a first Claire Milner, a former research Professor of Cultural Theory, UCD School of
for an academic, Great Irish associate at English, Drama and Film, leads the
Speeches by Professor Richard the institute, explore the graduate programme in Gender, Culture
Aldous, head of the UCD School continuing prevalence of and History. Professor Paul Devereux,
of History and Archives, topped child pornography and its Professor of Economics and Geary Research
the Irish bestsellers list in ramifications for today’s Fellow, leads the Graduate Programme for
December. The anthology is a criminal justice systems around the Quantitative Social Sciences. UCD is
celebration of 50 speeches which the world. The authors provide collaborating on the fifth programme.
have shaped Irish history – from Henry a framework for understanding the
Grattan’s 18th-century cry of freedom to contemporary nature of this problem, and
Bertie Ahern’s declaration that Ireland’s hour in particular, its intimate relationship with
had come. new technologies.
Fighting international cybercrime – UCD to lead four major Graduate
First MA graduates Research Education Programmes
Law enforcement officers from the UK, UCD achieved outstanding results in the
Italy, Austria and Norway, as well as two Graduate Research Education Programmes
officers from Interpol, were among the first in October. Funded by the Irish Research
20 to graduate with master’s degrees in Council for the Humanities and Social
Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Sciences and the Irish Research Council for
Investigation from UCD in December, as the Science, Engineering and Technology, UCD
university lends its computing expertise to is to lead four of the five programmes
help in the international fight against awarded. The national Graduate Research
cybercrime. This degree aims to produce Education Programme is a new approach to
Dr Bernard Meehan, Keeper of
graduates with skills which enhance their multi-annual funding of postgraduate and
Manuscripts, TCD; Dr Edel Bhreathnach,
ability to investigate cybercrime and to doctoral programmes in the humanities, National Coordinator of Louvain 400,
train junior colleagues in forensic sciences, engineering and technology in
UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute; and Fr
computing and cybercrime investigation. Ireland. Pictured below: Professor Eugene
Hugh McKenna, Vicar General of the Irish
Franciscan Province
O’Brien, former Director, UCD Urban
New book tackles child Institute Ireland, leads the PhD programme Annals of the Four Masters
pornography in Sustainable Development. Professor reunited for first time since 1616
In a new book published by Willan Denis Shields, Professor of Clinical In October, the extant editions of the
Publishing: Child Pornography – Crime, Bioinformatics from the UCD Conway Annals of the Four Masters, originally
Computers and Society, Professor Ian Institute, leads the PhD programme in entitled the Annals of the Kingdom of
Ireland, a chronicle of Irish history from
prehistory to 1616 AD compiled by the Irish
Franciscans, were reunited for the first time
since 1636 in an exhibition at the Long
Room, Trinity College Dublin (TCD).
The exhibition, entitled ‘Writing Irish
History: the Four Masters and
their World’, was a unique collaborative
exhibition between the Irish Franciscans,
the Royal Irish Academy, TCD and UCD. It
formed one part of the Louvain 400
commemoration which celebrates the
400th anniversary of the founding of the
Irish Franciscan college of St Anthony’s in
Louvain in Belgium.
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