Folders from boxes dating from the 2005 boxing period:

Folder containing material relating to the 1994 Gralton School and related correspondence with Declan Bree TD. Box RJ5.

Associated with the above is a folder with NW regional material, including an Arigna Mines position paper, and a record of a regional conference in June 1990 in Manorhamilton. I had picked up on this network thanks to attendance at a 1990 Gralton event. Box RJ5.

Folder with correspondence re the Spanish Civil War memorial (O Riordain, Jan 1996); this includes a list of those who contributed. The memorial consists of the names of the volunteers who fought in the Connolly Column, inscribed on the base of the Connolly Memorial opposite Liberty Hall in Dublin. Contributions ranged from £5 to £150, and included ones from Trades Councils and Trade Union branches. RJ contributed £25. Box RJ5.

(Folder with material relating to the NI Peace Process, mainly to and from Derry Kelleher and Nodhlag O Gaire: this seems to have gone elsewhere; it was in Box RJ5, but this box is now occupied by the Log Book series prior to the IMS period).

Slit envelope WTS 72-74, with miscellaneous material relating to Citizens for Civil Liberties, the New Ireland Movement, the Dublin & Monaghan bombings, and various attempts to keep progressive politics moving despite the Provisional campaign.

Reconstructed box system for temporary transfer to the RDS Nov 2010

1990s

Political

Folder with correspondence relating to the PUP in 1995.

Folders with correspomdemce relating to Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese as Presidents.

Folder containing Green party 1996 material, mostly to do with the party constitutional reform process. There are 2 further folders for 1997 continuing this process; one also contains some science policy material.

Folder containing some Green party material for 1995, including correspondence with Patricia McKenna and Anthony Coughlan about the divorce referendum.

Folder containing 1994 correspondence with the US Embassy relating to the projected Clinton visit, the Wilson heritage near Strabane and the neglected Protestant aspect of the Irish influence on the US Presidency.

Folder with 1997 papers relating to the Green Party.

Folder with papers relating to the work in 1997 on the Green Party Constitution.

Folder with material from the 1998 Green Party convention; this contains more science policy material, substantially as published in the Cork Tableau, which I have reproduced in the 1990s 'science and society' module of the 'Century' hypertext.

2 green folders with material relating to a 1995 UCD conference on EU foreign policy issues.

Folder with Links Europa file, incomplete, from 1986 to 1993, with some correspondence with the Editor Rosemary Ross.

Associated folder containing material which arose out of the 1789 French Revolution bicentenary; this led to a paper published in Links Europa in 1990, in which a new approach to the nation-State structure of Europe was urged in the context of a Left-Green convergence.

Folder with material relating to foreign affairs; correspondence with DFA etc, in 1990s.

Folder containing miscellaneous material relating to the Dublin transport network issue; this helped generate my 1984 and 1991 papers on this topic, the latter winning an Irish Planning Institute prize; with 51. Folder dated 1991 relating to the Irish Planning Institute prize essay scheme, which led to my prizewinning 'A Future for Dublin?' paper.

Brief encounter with Ruairi O Bradaigh, RSF, probably in early 1990s, unproductive.

Folder containing miscellaneous papers and letters to do with the Desmond Greaves Summer School, extended over the 1990s. I have abstracted some of this in a dedicated posthumous 1990s Greaves module of the hypertext.

Folder with some material picked up at the time of Cathal Goulding's funeral.

Techno-economic & Socio-technical

Folder 'Sci & Soc Tyndall 90s' mostley relating to McMillan.

Folders 'sciencewell 1999 conference concept', also a related one 'contacts abroad'.

Folders with historic material collected in 1990s: RIA relating to 1861-70 period; RDS 1880-90; RIA & RDS 1898-1820; Civil Engineers 1880-90; RDS 1890-1900; this was in the context of a historic analysis project which was abandoned at the time due to other pressures.

Folder with published material: Causeway, Books Ireland, Blackwell's Companion...

Taped macro-folder '90 marxism & science', containing folders relating the Cuba, ASTMS/SSB, Bernal biography, Physics Today etc.

Folder with science in history correspondence 1997-2000, mostly in the 'sciencewell' context.

Folder relating to McMillan and the plaques work in 1997.

Folder with misc correspondence re the 'science and Irish culture' question, 1994-98, mostly with Peter Bowler and the Queens science history people, but also including correspondence with Feargal Quinn in the RDS context, and with President Mary McAleese on her election.

Folder containing correspondence in 1991-92 relating to the Institution of Engineers of Ireland and their attempt to develop the electrical and electronic division towards computer applications relating to membership profiles. This was not successful, but it surfaced again a decade later and remains on the agenda.

Folder 'IEI/ORMSI COnvergence' attempting to identify some common ground, the ORMSI being in decline; dated 1991; contains material relating to my tenure of the Presidency of the Operations Research Society of Ireland, during which I attempted to negotiate mergers, the Society being sub-viable. Box RJ6.

Folder with supportive material relating to INES, the international network of engineers and scientists, focused on the August 1996 Amsterdam Sustainable Development conference, which I attended with MSF sponsorship, and reported on subsequently. It includes an account Some Sustainable Development Challenges published in the October 1996 Engineers Journal.

1980s

Folder containing correspondence in 1983-94 with the Minister Ruairi Quinn, Niall Greene who headed the Youth Employment Agency, and others, which indicates that there was some hope for the Techne concept, with some State support, via the Youth Employment Agency. There is here an implicit political dimension. This also contains correspondence with Joe Watson the Limerick Industrial Liaison Officer, and Ron Cox in TCD Engineering, in February 1984, relating to the RJ resurrection project 'Techne'. I have made this available in the 1980s module of the socio-technical stream.

Political

Split envelope 'Pugwash': relates to a group in TCD.

Blue folder 'Czechoslovakia': contains a record of an attempt to set up a peace conference in 83-84 on the initiative of the World Peace Council; a MacBride fringe network event.

Bound report with enclosures relating to Sean MacBride and the United Nations Association.

Split envelope '68 Club': an attempt to commemorate the 68 events in 88.

Split envelope 'New WTS' contains records of attempts made in the period 1988-91 to revive the Wolfe Tone Society concept.

Dnieper Peace Cruise folder, 1988.

Yellow file 'Ways out of the arms race'; record of a conference held inImperial College London 1988.

Folder 'Society for Co-operative Studies': record of a 1986 conference at an Grianan.

Blue folder 'Techno-economics/New Hibernia' associated with an unsuccessful attempt to relate techno-economics to politics via a progressive publication.

Split envelope 'Toulouse Meeting 1984': record of a conference on European research and technology; O attended this at the invitation of Brendan Hallingan, then MEP.

Split envelope: Forum submission 1983; Book Ireland reviews etc 84-6..

Split envelope: Paddy Farrington in Vietnam 1981-82; correspondence..

Blue folder 'Peace Movt / East Berlin visit'; nothin came of this.

Blue folder, 'CIC' weith Soviet Peace Committee contacts, and papers relating to a projected 'Centre of International Co-operation'; there is a Brendan O'Regan connection, Shannon etc.

Split envelope 'CIC E/W Project' related to the above. 2 hard-back notebooks, political events circa 82 to 86.

Envelope-folder with MS of 1986 'Lost Left' review and correspondence with David Howell in Manchester, 1986.

Folder contain the Strasbourg divorce documentation, application #9697/82, with the Report of the Commission as adopted on March 5 1985. There is an article by Alan Shatter as published in the Irish Times of December 19 1986, entitled 'What the Johnston Decision Means for Irish Law'.

Small overflow box, all split envelopes:

Labour Party early 80s...

ISM Cttee: Sovereignty Movement early 89s...

New Bell / New Radicals: attempt to set up a journal; contains correspondence with Greaves, the Gralton grou and others in the early 80s.

` United Nations Assoc: early 80s material.

Techno-economic

Maroon folder 'Ireland-Brittany' contains material relating to an attempt made to develop links between small high-tech firms in the Shannon area with complementary firms in Brittany.

Folder 'NBST Regional Linkages June-Sept 86' contains record of work for NBST on the 'less-favoured region' concept.

Folder '~1985 Agri Biologique / Aran Islands' containing ideas for the co-op development.

Split envelope 'RTE policy SW etc' dealing with an attempt to explore the potential for the utility of short-wave radio in the context of the Irish diaspora; there is correpondence with Charlie Haughey re a 'world service'.

Blue folder 'EEC Proposal: Distributed Database for Intellectual Resources'; folder inside 'ECIRN' has related material based on the UK university industrial liaison network. A good try, in association with Foster in TCD 1985; alas unsuccessful.

Maroon folder 'IoP Technology Group 83-84' containing material relating to the attempt made by Norman McMillan and RJ to develop a link between the Institute of Physics in Ireland and industrial innovation.

Split envelope 'Shannon conference?' containing material collected at the instigation of Brendan O'Regan in the context of his Peace initiative in NIHE Limerick. Nothing came of it.

Green folder 'Brendan O'Regan / Irish Peace Inst' gives some background to the above.

Folder 'Communiy Enterprise and the RTCs' with draft handbook based on the YEA work 1986.

Folder entitled 'Techsear' containing documentation about a relational database, developed with Mike Peirce for Mentec in 1988, aimed at servicing the need in industry for innovation expertise, in a marketing context..

Hardback file 'Salesys' containing documentation of the foregoing.

Associated with the foregoing is a file of correspondence with HMS 'Dusty' Miller covering the period 1982-84, relating to an abortive attempt to develop a venture-seeding business on a commercial basis. There is also a file of correspondence with the IDA, the CII, the IIRS, the NBST and the YEA, relating to the Techne project. I attempted, unsuccessfully, a 'rearguard action' with the College, in the form of a letter to the Provost at the end of 1983. This I have included in the 1980s module of the Academic' stream, along with some related interactions with Kadar Asmal.

The TII file contains correspondence relating to the attempt I made with Michael Byrne of Byrne Lowe Associates to set up a technology trensfer and innovation brokerage, with the aid of a European network. This never came to anything; the supportive information-technology was flawed. There is a brief note on this in the 1980s module of the socio-technical stream.

Socio-technical

[26. Folder with material relating to the Peace Technology Group, Futures Society etc, circa 1982, done via TCD Industrial Liaison Office.

28. Folder with report of Toulouse meeting on 'European Strategy in Research and Technology', February 1984, and associated correspondence, mainly Brendan Halligan. I attended this in behalf of the Labour Party. Box RJ5.

35. Folder entitled 'Aran Islands / Agriculture Biologique' which contains some correspondence with the Inis Mean co-operative (Tarlach de Blacam) and with various agencies about the organic food market. I had identified the latter in Brittany where I had encountered the 'agriculture biologique' movement. This related to some Aran development concepts. Box RJ5.]

Renewable Energy Ireland: report on the UB Nairobi energy conference, edited by RJ, published by IUNA.

Renewable Energy conference folder (1981) containing the Nairobi conference report, and some records of attempts to follow it up with some energy consultancy based on contacts made; these did not bear fruit.

Blue Folder with papers relating to the Crumlin (Lough Neagh) lignite deposits, as taken up on behalf of the Irish United Nations Association, at the instigation of Sean MacBride. Circa Feb 1986.

Folder 'Rennes/Dublin Network' with material relating to the Brittany trip in 1985 in search of linkages between college research groups and small high-tech firms, on an inter-regional basis. Included is a paper on the 'quad-linkage' concept. Associated folder entitled 'Cork-Rennes' which contains some material relating to attempts in the period 1986 to 1988 to build on the 'inter-regional linkage' concept, as piloted in earlier work. This did not bear fruit; it deserves a brief mention in the 1980s socio-technical stream.

RJ/Techne/TCD 1984: deals with post-TCD transition attempts. There was a folder labelled 'Foster / UNU 1986' which contained records of an attempt I made to re-establish my earlier 'research associate' status with the Statistics and Operations Research Laboratory in TCD. It also contains correspondence relating to the termination of the TCD contract. A further folder labelled 'dealing with the College 1984-88' is associated.

Folder with ORSI Bulletin file covering 1979 to 1987, giving some insights into the thinking of the 'management science' community in Ireland, as they increasingly led the way towards the micro-computing revolution. Some issues contain an 'RJ Column', one of which, in January 1983, outlines a response to some questions raised in the international Operations Research community (IFORS) context, indicating collective self-doubt.

Techne/Seedcorn/YEA Pilot-scheme; also Techne Project; 2 folders amalgamated.

'Techne Papers' folder outlining RJ's approach to building on the TCD Applied Research Consultancy experience, via a network to support a dynamic flow of innovative companies from the university research system towards commercial viability. This at the time was stillborn, but it represents a model which was valid but perhaps premature in the context. I have reproduced a summary 'Innovation' paper dated 19/10/1984 in the 'socio-technical' stream as an example.

Report on the NIHE Limerick as an Accessible Technology Business Resource for the Mid-West.

Log-books: Series b; 1a from 12/11/1980, 1b from 7/8/81 Kenya UN trip, 2 from 12/04/84, 3 from 01/06/85 includes Rennes expedition, 4 from 23/10/85, 5 from 14/07/86, 6 from 11/11/86, 7 from 30/05/85, 8 from 09/11/87, 9 from 15/05/88, 10 from 11/11/88...

Folder 'Academy 1985' / 'Crane Bag, O'Hara etc' with papers relating to bicentenary history event, incl Herries Davies bibliography.

[There was a reference to an 'Academy 1984' folder containing follow-up material on my 1983 'British Association meetings in Ireland' paper which I collected for an aborted issue of the biennial, projected for 1985, but it folded, Its niche was partially filled by the Irish Review from 1986, to which I contributed a paper 'Science in a Post-Colonial Culture'. This was subjected to editorial cuts, but the full version is available.] This seems to have been mislaid, but I include this here because of the hotlinks. RJ 13/11/2010.

Folder 'Solar Energy' 1982-3 with Wrixon correspondence and Books Ireland review of Tyndall book.

Folder 'NIHE correspondence / Technopole ~1986' developing the 'regional technopole' concept in a Limerick context.

Split envvelope 'Irish Times S&T col 1987 (?)' which was perhaps a resurrection attempt.

Folder 'WFSW Conference 1986' attended in Moscow on behalf of the Scientific Staffs Branch of the ASTMS, including a summary report.

1970s

Political

Large package, tied, with label RJ 70s, peace group stuff, fringe-left.

Hardback Journals, 77-79 and 79-82 Slit envelope folder labelled 'AC Critique' containing material relating to CPI politics circa 1975, when I attemped unsuccessfully to come to terms with it. RJ 10/2010.

Slit envelope folder 'CPI Problems 1977' with records of unsuccessful attempts to bring about internal reform in the CPI aimed at 'broad-left' development. RJ 10/2010.

Slit envelope folder 'CPI Archive 72-77' recording some of the attempts made to keep alive Marxist socio-economic analysis in a political context dominated by the Provisionals. RJ 10/2010.

Slit envelopes: 1. Peace Group (MacBride), correspondence etc; 2. IPG Current Agenda; 3. draft constitution for Irish International Peace Movement IIPM, a MacBride concept; 4. papers from Geneva conference of UN NGO Disarmament Committee; 5. 'USSR etc' being a record of attempts to develop contacts in the peace movement context.

Slit envelope with draft 1975 pamphlet on 'Irish National Unity' as seen in the context of the Provisional campaign.

Box P70.2

Slit envelopes: 1. Resources Article (Navan Mine); 2. Humanists; 3. Labour History; 4. ADE (Association for Democracy in Education); 5. New Ireland Group (an attempted new departure); 6. ISM local (an attempt to develop the aftermath of the anti-EEC movement as the Irish Sovereignty Movement on a local basis).

Slit envelope Mornington School 1971: this was a last-ditch attempt to keep republican political education going.

Reinforced envelope 'SF 71-72' containing Aer Lingus tattered file with SF material 1971-72 in it; some earlier, back to late 69; this could be relevant to my opting out process. RK 10/2010.

Slit envelope, Dublin Wolfe Tone Society 1971-73; mostly Aug 69 material.

Folder labelled 'WTS ~1975' containing mostly MS material relating to the attempts of the Wolfe Tone Society to survive in the Provisional-dominated epoch. RJ 10/2010.

Slit envelope folder labelled 'Galway/Sligo/Limerick 70s polit' containing mostly ms socio-technical notes with a political flavour. RJ 10/2010.

Slit envelope, CMDC, with material relating to the Common Market Defence Campaign and its transition into the Irish Sovereignty Movement.

Slit envelope ASTMS economic conference 1976; includes Left Alternative material.

Green folder Left Alternative ca 1976 with materials in it from various sources, some relating to the ASTMS conference mentioned above.

Blue folder 'Allende / Concert 18 Sep 74' relating to the response to the Allende assassination in Chile; the Isabel Para concert in Liberty Hall raised money for the refugees.

Slit envelope, SFDA, with material relating to an attempt to develop a working farmers' critique of the EEC.

Maroon folder, EEC Group, with material relating to the Common Market Study Group, with Raymond Crotty and others.

Slit envelope folder 'Broad Left Alternative 76-77' with explorations in various directions. RJ 10/2010.

Slit envelope Resource Protection Campaign with 1974-5 material (Corr na Mona Oireachtas).

Envelope addressed to RJ at the Irish Times re the Marathon project, 1975, containing briefing material; I can find no record of my having used it, though I had referred to Marathon in 1973 in my Irish Times science and technology column.

Aer Lingus folder 'Ard Fheis 1971' with some material relating to this disastrous event.

Aer Lingus folder 'ideas for theoretical journal' which has some post-ard-fheis re-assessments of the options.

'Boat Project' folder: we market-researched demand in 1971 for a boat service between the Aran Islands, Ros a Mhichil and Doolin, as a possible community co-operative project.

Hard-backed notebooks: one from May 1962 to 6/6/65 with a note on the Irish Association meeting in Derry; another, with sellotaped black cover, has Aer Lingus techno-economic modelling notes.

Bofin: some correspondence relating to a community co-operative project on Inis Bofin; we attempted this in 1972-3.

Techno-economic

Envelope addressed to RJ at the Irish Times re the Marathon project, 1975, containing briefing material; I can find no record of my having used it, though I had referred to Marathon in 1973 in my Irish Times science and technology column.

Anaerobic Digestion 1973-75

Folder with some TCD Operational Research papers, mostly from MSc projects.

Biomass system analysis (for energy production; this was an NBST sponsored project with TCD people).

Socio-technical

Energy Policy; impact of oil crisis; 'Conserve' group.

Copy of Technology Ireland with some 1970s material folded in.

IBPGR 'Genetic Resources' project, funded by the UNFAO, at the instigation of Dr Erna Bennett; this involved also Robert Friel and Daphne Levinge.

Report on milk supply seasonality to Bord Bainne, associated with a related student MSc project.

Maroon file with material relating to a report on the use of the computer in the management of the fishing industry.

Analysis of the profitability of flax production in the Carlow region by simulation, for Bunclody co-op.

Simulation of locomotive allocation in the Irish rail system,

1960s

Socio-Political

Split-envelope folder "Events 64" containing material inscribed Castleblayney, City Group, Waterford, C na Poblacht.

Folder inscribed 'Utopia' with draft material relating to vols III and IV of the projected SF education manual.

Folder inscribed 'Manuals' contaiming material circa 1966 relating to the internal SF education process.

Folder labelled 'Societe Italiana di Fisica' containing material relating to the evolution to my thinking in relation to the Irish Workers League in the period 1957 to 1965.

Aer Lingus folder labelled in red '1965-71 misc'; has internal SF material.

Loose blue folder 'RJ Misc MS 1959-69'; contains initial 1959 Sean Cronin contact material.

Aer Lingus folder 'Manual of Education Vol II, Ireland Today'

Aer Lingus folder 'Educational Conferences (Current)' with notes on mid- to late 60s political developments within the republican movement.

Split-envelope with misc material relating to the disastrous 'Co-operative Development Trust' episode; also brown folder with additional material.

Hard-backed notebook: one from May 1962 to 6/6/65 with a note on the Irish Association meeting in Derry; Folder with WTS material 1963-6.

Techno-economic

Aer Lingus outline approach to an overall techno-economic planning model (with Oisin O Siochru)

Aer Lingus reports related to economic planning.

Aer Lingus reports based on visits to IBM Kingston in the context of the real-time project.

Aer Lingus 'Innovation Group' papers 1967.

Draft paper aimed at 'Nature' on modelling the fermentation process as a control system project.

Guinness 'continuous fermentation' papers; also misc related papers.

Hard-backed notebook with sellotaped black cover, has Aer Lingus techno-economic modelling notes.

Chicago 1965 conference of AGIFORS; report of the Aer Lingus real-time system analysis.

Folder with some 1970 techno-economic notes on the Aer Lingus situation.

Socio-technical

Entropy papers: two folders dating from the period 1965-1969 containing my attempts to formulate an information-theoretical theory of management costs, extending the Shannon definition of entropy, and introducing a temperature-analogue identified as a measure of management skill. There are some TCD seminar papers, courtesy of Frank Drechsler in the Business School. I published some summary notes on the basic concepts via the Institute of Physics, in Physics Today, July 1992, and this is accessible.

Technicianship Report, in CSTI context; cf Noel Mulcahy; origin of RTC concept.

Folder 'CSTI Kane Bernal' with material associated with Derry Kelleher and the Kane-Bernal project which was initiated in the 60s and survived into the 70s.

1950s

Political

Techno-economic, Socio-technical, scientific

Papers published when in DIAS (3 folders); also a draft 1963 follow-up paper, with O Ceallaigh correspondence.

PhD thesis (hardback); hardback Japanese publication with related material.

Statistical analysis of the Culwick concert attendances.

1940s

Political

Early Irish Workers League material post-1948.

Science-related

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