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MELISSA KELLY BBLS 2008
PATRICK BARRETT BComm 1976
Antonio Buccellato and Melissa Kelly are happy to announce their engagement. The wedding ceremony will take place in New York in May 2012. Melissa is moving to New York, and taking the bar exam.
“Many thanks to Seamus O’Dalaig and Ian Murray for organising the recent BComm 1976 reunion in O’Donoghues. After 35 years it was great to turn the clock back and meet so many ‘old faces’.”
JOHN GREENE BComm 2005 John Greene and Helen Mahony (2005) are happy to announce their engagement. The wedding ceremony will take place in summer 2012!
YIBO HU BSc 2006 Yibo Hu and HuaHui Li, are happy to announce their marriage, which took place on February 7, in China. They currently reside in Dublin.
SANDRA KENNY
Sandra Kenny & Dr Wei Gao.
BAgrSc 1998 Sandra Kenny and Dr Wei Gao are happy to announce their marriage, which took place on March 22, in Dublin.
PETER BYRNE BAgrSc 1975, MAgrSc 1989 “This is my first time leaving a message on the UCD Alumni page. It would be great to know where all our classmates from 1975 Ag Sc degree are today.”
BELFIELD BABIES GERALDINE BYRNE BA 1989 Geraldine Byrne and Mark Lysaght are proud to announce the birth of a of baby boy – Dara Corven Joseph Lysaght. He was born on October 2 at Mount Carmel Hospital, Dublin, and weighed 7lb. Dara Corven Joseph Lysaght. DEALGA O’CALLAGHAN BSc 1973, PhD 1977 Dealga O’Callaghan is delighted to announce the birth of his second grandchild – a baby boy, Shae. He was born on December 15, 2010 in Liverpool, and weighed 10lb, 2oz. He is a brother to Cian Joseph. JOE HOUGHTON MBA 2004 Joe Houghton and Penny are proud to announce the birth of a baby boy, Daniel Miles. He was born on April 18, 2011 in The Coombe, Dublin, and weighed 8lb.
BOOKS CANICE O’MAHONY BE 1947 Retired engineer Canice O’Mahony looks back at his career in Dundalk in An Engineer Remembers.
ANNE CLARE BA 1958, MA 1960, HDipEd 1963 Anne Clare’s Unlikely Rebels, The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom recalls how the Gifford girls – who came from a Protestant Unionist background – became involved in the Republican movement.
MARIANNE MANAHAN GALLAGHER BA 1962, HDipEd 1964 Marianne Manahan Gallagher wrote A Ballylanders Rebel: Liam Manahan 1916 for her father. It is the story of a family prepared to sacrifice everything to achieve freedom for Ireland.
JANE STANFORD BA 1966, HDipEd 1967 This biography of John O’Connor Power, That Irishman: The Life and Times of John O’Connor Power, was published by The History Press Ireland in May 2011. It was launched by Professor Luke Gibbons in the Royal Irish Academy.
MICHAEL MACDONALD BAgrSc 1959 Michael MacDonald lives in Mullingar, Co Westmeath. He grew up on a farm in Co Cork and later took a degree in Agricultural Science at University College Dublin. A compulsive poet, Michael has published three collections of poetry to date. Face to the Wind reflects concern for the destiny of man. Celtic Fire is a considerable volume which deals with a wide range of subjects concerning Ireland in the 1990s. In Take It Easy and Harmony, Michael offers a sense of optimism. www.michaelmacdonald.com
PHILIP RYAN BSc 1967, PhD 1971 Since retiring from UCD in 2005, Philip Ryan switched from scientific writing under his own name to science fiction under the pen name, Richard Rydon. His latest novel, The Palomar Paradox: A SETI Mystery, coincides with the golden anniversary of SETI – the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. The book was published earlier this year and is available from www.lulu.com and from www.amazon.com.
MICHAEL CASEY BA 1965, MA 1967 After finishing a masters in UCD, Michael Casey went to Cambridge and completed a PhD in economics. He returned to the Central Bank and was seconded to the executive board of the IMF in Washington DC for several years. Now retired, he occasionally writes for The Irish Times and other newspapers. His latest book, Ireland’s Malaise: The Troubled Personality of the Irish Economy Economy, was published by the Liffey Press late last year.
PHILIP DONNELLY BE 1956 One of Philip Donnelly’s most recent projects is the publication of his memoir, The Eyes That Shone – From Ireland to Canada in the 1950s 1950s. Ireland’s ambassador in Canada, Declan Kelly, hosted the launch at his residence in Ottawa on April 2010. For more information, visit www.donnellycanada.com.
BRENDAN CARDIFF BA 1966, MA 1967 Brendan Cardiff received his MA at UCD and then an MBA at Louvain University in Belgium. He worked at the Institute for Public Administration in Dublin and the Industrial Development Authority before moving to Brussels to work for the European Commission as a policy analyst from the mid-1970s until his retirement in 2004. His entertaining and lively memoir, Roots & Routes, describes the characters, landscapes and formative events during Ireland’s remarkable late 20th-century renaissance.
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