Dreams

50 Years of Creativity, Culture and Community at the University of Limerick

Joseph O'Connor

• Publisher: Irish Academic Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781788558198
• eBook ISBN: 9781788551694
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Administration

Featuring a wide range of contributions from luminaries in the fields of literature, sport, the performing arts, and politics The University of Limerick (UL), the first university to be established since the foundation of the Irish state, came about through determined local campaigns. This sumptuously illustrated volume celebrates UL's fiftieth anniversary, presenting fifty contributions from or about people associated with the university.

A wide diversity of writings ranges from scholarly essays to students' tweets, through poems, presentations and personal memoirs. Voices include those of Loretta Brennan Glucksman, Donal Ryan, Denise Chaila, President Michael D. Higgins, Donnah Sibanda Vuma, Paul O'Connell, Dr Sindy Joyce, Bill Whelan, Mary O'Malley, Noel Hogan of The Cranberries, Kathy Rose O'Brien and the late Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. Also celebrated in these pages are UL's catering and grounds staff, with teachers, researchers and inspirational current and former students, some of whom have overcome immense obstacles to gain an education. As with many mosaics, the individual pieces are often remarkable, but the effect is best experienced in the totality. The book builds into a characterisation of a diverse and inclusive twenty-first century university: a place where there are beautiful buildings but no ivory towers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Editorial Note
• Foreword
• The Kindness of Librarians
• Socratically Pigtown
• Hope and Mercy
• Sharing a Dream: Chaplaincy at Third Level
• That’s Where You Come in
• In the Library
• The Redress of Music
• He’s Behind You!
• Cruinniú
• A Diary of Mateship and Resilience: UL Rowing Club
• The Passenger
• Forgiveness not Permission: Teaching Design at UL
• Sanc·tu·ary | \ ‘saŋ(k)-chǝ-,wer-ē: a place where someone or something is protected or given shelter
• Reflections from a Work and Organisational Psychologist: From Theory to Intervention
• Composing with Computers
• An Irish-German Perspective on UL@50 – or CIGS@25
• Two Trains of Thought
• Bluebells
• Ordnance Survey, 1974
• Living Irish in the Twenty-first Century in UL
• Taking Up Space
• Dúiche
• The Pink Ladies
• Live Music is a Bridge
• Lonesome Tonight: The Music of Frank MCCourt
• Keeping it Country
• Kate O’Brien in Special Collections
• ‘I’m Not Doing It!’
• Dreams are the Seeds of New Beginnings
• Roots and Wings: UL’s Art Collections
• Achelous
• Extract from ‘Skellboys’
• Walking Past the Rusty Man: Nursing and Midwifery
• From UL Confessions: A Selection of Fifty Tweets
• Six Photographs
• An tOileánach
• It’s the Kind of Place a Band Dreams of
• Places Matter
• Only Time Will Tell
• Find the River
• UL To Me Was a Playground
• A Conversation with Denise Chaila
• ‘To the apparent delight of the student population’: From a Report on the Living Bridge
• The Neurodiverse College Experience
• Trí Dhán / Three Poems
• Jim Kemmy: In Memory
• Sunshine at Limerick Junction
• Emmet Barry: Not Looking In
• Zone In and Focus
• The Stuff of Dreams
• Copyright, Credits and Acknowledgements