200th Anniversary of The Battle of Waterloo

The leaders were Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington commander of the British forces, Napoleon Bonaparte commander of the French forces and General von Blücher commander of the Prussian forces

Classical and Jazz - Collaboration and Communication

This project seeks to bring Classical and Jazz musicians together in the form of a Jazz quartet and Classical string quartet, teaching and documenting the process of collaboration and communication of ideologies.https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-global-jazz/1024/thumbnail.jp

An evaluation of how students learn to write research proposals: a case study of the master of education students in the Faculty of Education, University of Zimbabwe

A paper on how students in the Faculty of Education at UZ learn how to formulate and tabulate a research proposal.Writing a research proposal is a crucial step in doing a research project. The quality of the project in most cases is determined by the proposal. One of the limitations of research in education is the scarcity of relevant;material that serves as guides for researchers. Available material, though sometimes helpful, tend to bring every researcher outside their territory because of the wrong assumptions made of their unique environments. Eight students studying for a Master's degree in the Faculty of Education at the University of Zimbabwe were studied after a lengthy period of tuition in research methods in order to find out how they fared in proposal writing. The results, after three months of observation, revealed that most of them struggled to put a decent proposal together. This makes proposal writing a rather daunting task for the inexperienced researcher. This paper, therefore, attempts to overcome such limitations

Tom Kettle (1880-1916)

Tom Kettle whose 100th anniversary is on September 9th died during the Battle of the Somme along with over 3,500 other Irishmen. Tom Kettle was for some a compromised nationalist. While on an arms buying assignment to Belgium in 1914 he witnessed first-hand German atrocities against the civilian populations in Belgium and France. His experience led him to join the Daily News, become a war correspondent and he subsequently assisted in humanitarian work. When he returned to Ireland he answered Redmond’s call to fight for England with the promise of gaining Home Rule. His experience resulted in him breaking out of the insular approach of Irish nationalism and adopting a more European approach of which Ireland was a part – “My only counsel to Ireland is, that to become deeply Irish, she must become European”

Cardinal Wiseman at Maynooth

Nicholas Wiseman was born in Seville on the 2nd August 1802 of Irish parents. He was the son of James Wiseman (a Waterford merchant then living in Seville) and Xaviera Strange also from Waterford. He returned to Waterford after the death of his father in 1805 with his mother and siblings. He attended school in Waterford for some years until he was sent to Ushaw College, Durham in 1810. Having decided on a religious life he was selected to attend the reopened English College in Rome. He took his degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1824 and was ordained in 1825 and although only 26 he became Rector of the English College in Rome. He was appointed curator of the Arabic manuscripts in the Vatican and professor of Oriental languages in the Roman University

Exhibition collaboration between The John Paul II Library, Maynooth University Kildare Library and Arts Service and The Teresa Brayton Heritage Group

In August 2014 the John Paul II Library hosted a major exhibition outlining the life and work of Teresa Brayton in the foyer of the new library extension. The Maynooth branch of Kildare Library and Arts Service lent the Teresa Brayton archive to the John Paul II Library in order to mount the exhibition. Staff per-sonnel from both institutions are also members of the Teresa Brayton Heritage Group. This relationship facilitated co-operation and enhanced the success of the exhibition

Louis le Brocquy (1916-2012)

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Louis le Brocquy who was born in Dublin on the 10th November 1916. In a career spanning over seventy years he has received many accolades and awards. He won the Premio Acquisito Internationale in 1956 and in Ireland he is the only painter to be included during his lifetime in the Permanent Irish Collection of the National Gallery of Ireland. He received an honorary D. Litt. from UCD in 1962 and has received honorary PhDs from Dublin Institute of Technology and Dublin City University. His work is exhibited in many public collections including the Guggenheim, New York and the Tate Modern, London

Kuno Meyer (1858-1919) and Peadar Ó Laoghaire (1839-1920)

In Special Collections we hold a reproduced copy from the June edition of Studies 1920 titled Canon Peter O’Leary and Dr. Kuno Meyer by Douglas Hyde. Their names had already been linked in June 1911 when on the same day Dublin Corporation conferred the Freedom of the City on both men and Cork City followed suit the following September. Douglas Hyde writes “It seems altogether reasonable to couple Father Peter with Dr. Kuno Meyer…….because these two, each in his own way …did work for Irish nationalism through the medium of Irish literature, which nobody else did…..Kuno Meyer established the School of Irish Learning, bringing us back into the long past centuries. Father Peter grasped us as we are in the present, and by his masterly handling of the living speech projected us along the road which we must travel…..

Inverse-opal conducting polymer monoliths in microfluidic channels

Inverse opal monolithic flow-through structures of polyaniline (PANI) were achieved in microfluidic channels for lab-on-a-chip (LOC) applications. In order to achieve the uniformly porous monolith, polystyrene (PS) colloidal crystal (CC) templates were fabricated in channel. An inverse opal PANI structure was achieved on-chip, through a two-step process involving the electrochemical growth of PANI and subsequent removal of the template. The effect of electropolymerisation on these structures is discussed. It was found that growth time is critical in achieving an ordered structure with well-defined flow-through pores. This is significant in order to fabricate optimal porous PANI structures that maximise surface area of the monolith and also provide well-defined flow profiles through the micro-channel