Series A, starts in Aer Lingus and continues until end of ARC period:

[A] Vol 1, January 68 to March 77

The book starts with some notes on a round-trip flight done with an Aer Lingus pilot and crew, aimed at identifying sourcing procedures for inputs of management statistics. It continues with a listing of personal agenda for work in Aer Lingus as seen in April 1969, focused mainly on upgrading the forward planning procedures with more intelligent use of statistics and modelling. There are notes on the 'Aer Tatal' conference, the objective of which was to make the Government invest in more modern fleet.

The book then becomes a log of hours worked on various projects, after becoming freelance. It continues like this up to 1972; there are some notes on episodes in the EEC referendum campaign, mostly from Cork. These are interspersed with notes on aspects of milk production, in the context of the Bord Bainne Winter Milk project.

In September 1972 there is a report of an Institute of Physics symposium in honour of Cormac O Ceallaigh. Then in March 1973 we have the OECD 'confrontation' with the Department of Finance.

There is a long gap, and then in 1975 there is a record of a tour of Northern Ireland with Terry O'Brien, on the trail of milk production dynamics, followed by some agricultural macro-modelling. The TCD Industrial Liaison Office then begins to occur; there was an expedition to Limerick with Robert Ardill and others, training sales engineers for DEC.

Ideas for the TCD Applied Research Consultancy Group begin to emerge in 1976, and from then on this tends to dominate; there are records of a series of conferences attended, looking for business opportunities.

[A] Vol 1a, May 73 to April 76 (basically scientific and technological

Conferences
There are detailed notes, in the first 45 pages, on the Algiers conference organised by IFORS and IFAC, dedicated to technology problems in the 'third world' (28/05/73 to 4/06/73); I wrote this up subsequently in the Irish Times.
This had a somewhat political flavour, in the post-colonial direction, so it is appropriate to group with this....
pp75-98: The Moscow conference, from which the 'Irish Peace Group' emerged (25/10/73 to 31/10/73);
Both these conferences generated significant agendas which attempted to identify postgraduate projects having third-world post-colonial dimensions.

TCD MSc student projects in Operational Research and Statistics (with FG Foster's group):
p46 car accident statistics (Foras Forbartha, 3/07/73);
p65 scientific manpower projections derived from the census (1/10/73)...

Episodes dedicated by the need for Irish Times material:
p48 Bary, oceanography in UCG, boat trip;
p71 Kendall gave the Geary Lecture in the SSISI, on lagged relationships (22/10/73);
p105 oil symposium (11/12/73);
p119 Mitrani on advanced computing in Newcastle on Tyne (22/01/74);
p129 Hobson in Aberdeen on anaerobic digestion;
p131 Aberdeen offshore oil (21-22/03/74);

Attempts to identify clients for TCD sponsored postgraduate work, primarily relating to operations research and sttistics:
p73 North Connaught Farmers had a logistics problem (23/10/73);
p101 Michael Hurley in IAWS (31/10/73);
p103 Achill quartz (Jim Gilson) (8/12/73);
p135 Scott autoanalysis in biochemistry (21/05/74);
p137 Moorepark food quality instrumentation etc (27/05/74);
p139 more Moorepark ppn various food production systems (17/06/74);
p154 Blood Bank information system (01-02/75)..

Attempts to identify experience relevant to technological innovation in the university postgraduate system:
p51 patent symposium (4/9/73);
p103 IIRS ultrasonics seminar (7/12/73);
p105 OR and generics workshop (11/12/73);
p121 Cunningham on DNA (13/03/73);
p123 UDIL Group in Cambridge (20/03/74);
p136 Leenane symposiun UCG/CNRS (20/05/74);
p145-146 records of TCD group meetings (11/07/74, 9/09/74);
p146 IEI seminar, engineers in public service (20/09/74);
p147-8 UDIL meeting Bangor, visit to Cardiff (25-6/09/74);
p156ff symposium held by National Science Council on European R&D policy (30/09/75), including energy (McAlister), environment (Downey), healthcare (Gault);
p177 Environmental panel (Dr Nichol IIRS, 22/01/76).

[A] Vol 2, 21 March 77 to 9 November 77

Here we follow the foregoing classification; we will adapt this as necessary in future sections.

Notes on conferences attended:
p14 college administration people at Maynooth; cost of production of an engineer etc; 31/03/77. In retrospect I should have paid more attention to this network.
p17 Operations Rearch Society of Ireland; notes on judging the papers; topics included healthcare, system integration, data collection methodology, structural design, railway scheduling, containerised freight, solar heating, corporate planning; 01/04/77.
pp55-62 ESA symposiom on satellite broadcasting; 23-5/05/77.
p65ff UMIST-Cranfield conference on industrially sponsored research; 26/05/77.
p74ff EEC DG XII symposium on Science and Society in Brussels; 31/05/77. This was dominated by Prigogine, and was quite prestigeous; the King turned up at the reception. People like Ravetz, Ziman and others were involved. I had been invited, and I discovered subsequently it was at the behest of Vincent Barry, then President of the Royal Irish Academy. I made my contribution, on the basis of such experience as I had to date of the university-industry interface; the ARC Group had then recently been set up, and I outlined its structure and activity.
p126-130 RIA meeting on engineering education, Timoney, McCabe, Crosland, Scaife involved, among others; 06/09/77.
p152ff IEI conference; Martin O'Donoghue, Timoney, Hely-Hutchinson et al; 06/10/77.
p182ff ORSI conference on multi-criteria decision making; 04/11/77.

Related to existing TCD projects:
p27 Paddy Cunningham, Joan Ryan and cattle genetics project; 21/04/77.
pp33-40 agendas and overviews; 25/04/77 to 20/05/77.
p39, p92, p108 Goffs project on computer analysis of horse-racing form; 09/05 and 08/06/73. This involved Robert Friel and Joan Ryan in a trip to the US. See also p131, 12/09/77; p162, 18/10/77.
p93 Cunningham on cattle genetics; 08/06/77.
pp95-7 overview agendas; 10-17/06/77.
p109ff overview agenda etc; 05/07 to 02/08/77.
p115 Waterford co-op; Joan Ryan's milk recording project; 11/08/77
p118 overview agenda 15/08/77.
p121 overview agenda 23/08/77.
p138 ESB and Analog Devices; Ed Richmond, Phil Burton etc; 16/09/77; see also p160ff, 14/10/77.
p140 Gerry Wardell, Brian Henderson and physics-related projects and concepts; 22-3/09/77.
p146 Tara Mines environmental project; Daphne Levinge, Jeffrey et al; 27/09/77.
p148 overview agenda; 30/09/77.
p178 Bord na Mona self-heating in milled peat; 28/10/77.

Attempted Identification of TCD clients:
p3 ESB interface project 21/03/77.
p9 cardiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Geddes; 25/03/77.
p12 Jack O'Sullivan, Daphne Levinge, environmental packages; 28/03/77.
p13 Grainger et al; on-line monitoring in ecological context; 28/03/77.
p24ff exploration of schools science equipment domain; 14/04/77
p94 Environment project projected with Tara Mines; 09/06/77. Daphne had done some work on re-vegetating mine-tips for her PhD, and we had some contacts there.
p102-3 Walton physics teaching demonstration; 28/06/77.
p104 Blood Bank, possible software development project; 30/06/77.
p106-7 biology lab materials sourcing; 01/07/77.
p114 Clondalkin paper mills, 10/08/77; also p119 17/08/77.
p117 meeting with Jack O'Sullivan, 12/08/77.
p122ff misc engineering and environment concepts 30/08/77.
p136 George Reynolds, Anthony Unwin and projected geological intrumentation concepts; 15/09/77.
p141 steering committee meeting 23/09/77.
p142ff European Space Agency concepts, 23/09/77.

Background experience relating to the innovation process:
p4 National Science Council meeting on technology transfer 22/03/77.
p28ff Institute of Physics (Irish Branch) Spring Meeting: polymer technology, Analog Devices, Materials Group; 23/04/77.
p32 Rabe, DG XII, EEC on R&D policy; 24/04/77.
pp41-53 EEC environmental conference: de Jong, Downey et al; 10/05/77.
p98ff DIAS seminar on the ESA scientific programme; O Ceallaigh was involved; 22/06/77.
p101 Brendan Walsh on Manpower Planning (ORSI seminar); 28/06/77.
p100 Notes for Martin O'Donoghue, then advising Fianna Fail in opposition on science policy; 29/06/77.
p149ff CREST meeting in IIRS; waste hydrolysis, fermentation etc; 03/10/77. pp164-178 UNIDO visit with UDIL group in Vienna; 19/10/77. This was an attempt on the part of the Industrial Liaison Officers of Britain to develop an export market for knowhow relevant to the 3rd world development problem; on the whole it was unproductive.

Related to 'science and society' publication, currently the Irish Times column:
By this time I had opted out of the Irish Times column, given that the ARC project was presenting many things to write about, but there was a confidentiality barrier; I had sensed conflict of interest.

[A] Vol 3, 14 November 77 to 5 September 78

Related to existing TCD projects:
p6 Bord na Mona milled peat self-heating etc; 16/11/77; see also p96, 24/04/78; p184, Dowding , Daphne, 26/09/78.
p14 geophysical instrumentation, 28/11/77.
p21 EI Shannon, ultrasonics, 13/12/77.
pp33-41 numerous routine notes, 15/12/77 to 16/01/76.
p45 EI etc 30/01/78.
p48ff ESB 01/02/78; see also p51, 09/02/78; p86-7, 14/04/78; p128-9, 23/05/78; p140-1, 30/06/78; p175, 7/09/78.
p50 Bradley lasers, 9/02/78; see also p138, 26/06/78.
pp61-64 FAO project, meeting in Edinburgh; Erna Bennett, James Fyffe; plant breeding for the food crops, 14/03/78; see also p147, 25/07/78.
p68ff overview agenda, misc minor notes, 31/03/78.
p70 Dairy processing project; McNulty et al, 03/04/78; see also pp88-9, 17/04/78; p121-7, 17/05/78; p139, 29/06/78; p148-51, 25-7/07/78; p160-61, 31/08/78; p163-4, 1/09/78.
p84 overview agenda, 12/04/74.
p98 Semperit group: Gerry Wardell, Tony Moore; there were earlier references to this, it evolved via McBrierty and he tended to handle it; my own earlet notes were somewhat marginal; 25/11/78; see also p162, 1/09/78.
p98-9 management meeting notes, Brosnan from IDA was there, Spearman, Scott et al, 25/11/78.
pp104-108 minor project notes and agenda, 28/04/78 to 04/05/78/
p108 Bord na Mona project: Flood, Callanan, Daphne, 04/05/78; see also p112, 10/05/78.
pp109-111 George Waters RTE, Ronan Scaife and the acoustics of the concert hall, 04-5/05/78.
p130-1 overview agenda, 26/05/78.
p134-7 Marine resources survey; Fergus Cahill, Daphne, 21/06/78; see also p146, 13/07/78.
p142-45 agenda-like stuff, 3-12/07/78
p153-4 Steve and his effluent rate meter, 31/07/78.
p176 Paddy Cunningham and milk recording scheme, 7/09/78/

Attempted Identification of TCD clients:
p5 Mike Peirce and Philips man (O'Sullivan) on mini and micro applications in a process control environment; 14/11/77. This was an aspect of MP researching the potential for the Mentec enterprise, which emerged subsequently.
p6 Fergus Cahill, Kinsale, Marathon; vibration analysis software; 14/11/77.
pp8-19 Dan Bradley, Wrixon, Cement, IDA, misc stuff; 2-6/12/77.
p52 Dave McConnell and genetic engineering; insulin etc, 17/02/78.
p56 Erna Bennett, FAO and UNDP; Boulder Colorado; first hint of genetic iformation project. 06/03/78.
p90 Notes for a submission to Hardiman NBST, 19/04.78.
p155 David McConnell and Distillers; 1/08/78; misc ff.

Background experience relating to the innovation process:
p8ff COST seminar, European participation; Liam Downet involved; 22-25/11/77.
p16 milk seasonality seminar, 30/11/77.
p20 ORSI seminar on situation in Poland, 09/12/77.
p22ff David Walton took a historic look at the development of the theory underlying digital electronics, 12-14/12/77; strong critical philosophical dimension.
p42 Gerry Foley on Energy (ACE), 23/01/78.
p43 ESA Montecatini, 24/01/78.
p53 Prof Sir Charles Frank, pressure changes in Earth's mantle, 17/02/78. p54 UCD SPRU seminar on R&D and consultancy, ~20/02/78.
p57 Mike Matthews on possible civil applications of optical fibres, 06/03/78.
p59 seminar of material group of Inst of Physics; Imbusch et al, also Farmer and Ken Eng; this was an attempt to bridge the physics-engineering divide; 16/03/78
p80 Dan Bradley, at some depth, on lasers, 10/04/78.

[A] Vol 4, 4 June 78 to April 79

pp3-72 UNFAO project, on the problem of how to keep track of the genetics of the world food crops, using information technology.
p101 Erna Bennett on UNFAO project.
pp204-210 Rome meetings at end of project.

pp82-3 Meeting with Fergus Cahill, exploring the international marine scene; this would have been a precursor of the subsequent marine project.
pp88-89 briefing with Bary in UCG oceanography; identification of sources,
pp92-94 outline approach to the 'marine and oceanographic data centre' project, in the form of a draft letter to various sources.
pp115-6 Ray Keary on offshore data.
pp210-1 Daphne and Robert on hydrographic data. p148ff notes on marine project; Brest visit.

pp109-10, p112 Energy from biomass; preliminary meeting and draft terms of reference, 1/11/78
pp165-6 meeting re biomass progress, 20/01/79
pp237-8 further progress meeting 4/04/79

pp144-5 Bord na Mona milled peat heating project, 5/12/78.
pp239-40 further progress meeting.

Records of various seminars and contacts with the NBST, IEI, IDA etc.
p78 Record of meeting with Liam Downey re export consultancy 27/09/78
pp79-81 NBST meeting in the UNCSTD context, export consultancy again.
pp90-91 seminar in the IEI with Hardiman participating.
p95 IEI event on the technician scene, arising from the emergence of the RTCs.
p121 exploration of remote sensing with NBST.
pp123-8 Offshore engineering as seen from Aberdeen; Jim Brown seminar.
pp222-5 IDA manpower seminar 26/03/79
pp230-4 NBST industrial liaison seminar 30/03/79
pp241-3 spring meeting of Inst Physics (Irish Branch) in Killarney 7/04/79.

Currently perceived agendas in the ARC context.
pp98-9 as seen on 11/10/78
pp139-43 as seen on 4/12/78
p167 23/01/79 p172, 174, 181 summary listings of current projects, seen from ARC and ILO angles, we tried to distinguish these distinct roles.
p189 as seen on 19/02/79
p235 as seen on 30/03/79

[A] Vol 5, 24 April 79 to 21 March 80

In what follows the order of the groupings is dictated be the page on which the first member of a group is encountered. Most of the routine day-to-day notes are passed over; I concentrate on entries which relate to a report or something published, or publishable.

Current ARC projects:
pp3-5 draft notes towards a marine project report.

pp18-9 notes on biomass fuel production process (Robert Friel) 7/05/79
pp22-5 preliminary biomass conference in Ireland, 9/05/79.
pp45-75 biomass conference in Golden, Colorado, 5-9/06/79; this was in some depth and could be an important soub>Researchrce, of current relevance. Follow-through pp76-81.
pp141-9 energy conference, 8-10/10/79
pp158-60 energy conservation conference, AFF, 31/10/79
pp223-5 NBST/EEC seminar on hydrogen (in energy context) 24/01/80.

ARC agenda and related overview snapshots:
p13 current agenda as seen on 1/05/79; p90 as seen 1/07/79; p130 as seen on 1/10/79; p200 as seen on 11/12/79; p236 as seen on 11/02/80; p251 as seen on 7/03/80..
pp152-3 outline draft of financial scene over the 3 years of ARC existence.

Attempts to develop new business:
pp35-7 outline proposal to IAOS for development of computer support for the pig production process.
pp39-43 expansion of this concept in support of added value in food production, getting away from simply butter and powdered skim. This meeting included people fromIAOS, AFT, CII, IIM and NCEA; it took place in Wexford, 29/05/79.
pp191-195 ICOS seminar 3/12/79 pp43-6 some follow-through from the earlier FAO project, with UNDP and the Boulder Colorado people, June 79. See also pp111-6 for EEC dimension.

Conferences, seminars etc:
pp133-7 UDIL meeting in Gregynog, 2/10/79
pp165-71 ORSI conference, 7/11/79.
pp178-87 computer users meeting, 21/11/79.

[A] Vol 6, 22 March 80 to 19 November 80

Conferences, seminars etc:
A3-B4 Inst Physics (Irish Branch) spring meeting, 22-3/03/80.
B9-C5 ICTU conference on new technology asnd industrial relations, 26-7/03/80.
C8-9 Pierce Ryan (AFT) inTCD science faculty, this was oriented towards EEC funding and closer TCD-AFT co-operation, 31/03/80; follow-up draft paper D1-5, 2/04/80.
F6-H5 OECD international seminar on the market for specialised training for industry, 21-3/04/80.
J4-5 US air force presentation to TCD science faculty of research areas of interest (!), 13/05/80; all projects said to be for open publication; presumably this is the way they try tokeep the global academic research community well-disposed to US politics!.
K7-8 solar energy seminar, 22/05/80.
U4-V6 IIRS biotechnology conference, 8/10/80.
W4-5 Biomass workshop, with international inputs, 30/10/80.agenda and related overview snapshots:
B5 agenda as seen on 24/03/80.
G6-7 RJ's contribution to OECD seminar, 21/04/80, see below.
H6 agenda arising from OECD event, 24/04/80.
K1-3 meetng of IUDIL group in Galway, 19/05/80.
P6-7 agenda 8/08/80, with cash flow outline.
R7-8 overview notes in the state of the units in the group, 26/08/80.
S9 indications from Spearman of impending closedown, 9/09/80.
S12-T1 fightback memo, referencing Stan Nielsen, and countering with an outline expansion plan, 16/09/80. U3 agenda 7/10/80.

Attempts to develop new business:
There were many minor encounters in this category; I instance only some major ones.
M8-9 introductory outline of Essco-Collins project for a solar energy generator, 7/07/80.
N2 VBR encounter in energy context, 22/07/80.
N6-P1 record of interaction with Al Cohen of Essco-Collins regarding 3rd-world solar energy project, 28/07/80.
Q3-R1 outline of an 'applied software unit' concept bridging DCS and Statistics, with an Engineering dimension, 13/08/80.
R9-S3 update of Essco-Collins proposal, 28/08/80.

Series B, decoupled from ARC activity:

[B] Vol 1a, 12 November 1980 to 15 May 1982

Agenda as seen at the time, related overviews
pp16-17 24/11/80 p64 arising from Foster event, 16/03/81.
pp90-91 ILO and ARC events in 1980, 29/04/81.
p127 15/07/81, p137 31/08/81, p151 18/09/81, p169 20/10/81.
p187 'ARC Services' concept, 2/12/81.
p189 3/12/81; p195 survival concepts 15/12/81; p202 ctd, 21/12/81.
p210 options assessment, 15/02/82.
p216 Dusty Miller 18,23/03/82; again p230 15/04/82; again p235-6 10/05/82; again p260-61 1,15,30/07/82; p264 17/09/82; p279 2/12/82; p282-3 2/02/83, 10/04/83.
p248 options assessment, 26/05/82; cf also Bradley p259, 28/06/82.
p263 agenda 7/09/82.

Significant Contacts p39 Eileen Bernal in London, leading to Brenda Swann and Ann Synge, 19/01/81/
p40 Crotty and Foster 19-20/01/81.
p43 Spearman and the IIRS/ARC arrangement, 23/01.81.
p68 Brenda Swann, on the way to Bath UDIL, 5/04/81.
p72 Stafford Beer in Wales, 9/04/81.
p123 Bill Watts (Provost-elect), 6/07/81.
p150 Provost 18/09/81.
p192 Dan Bradley and ARC death-knell, 7/12/81.
p205 Bradley 13/01/82; MacBride 15/01/82.

Research etc
pp73-82 Bernal papers in Cambridge; Magda p82; 10-11/04/81.
112-116 Bernal trail: Earl of Ross, Bunbury (Grubb), Kevin Bernal, Tom Nevin, 29/05/81.
p209 RDS science minutes 1956-62 re RJ early contacts etc 10/02/82.

[B] Vol 1b, August 1981 to Feb 84

Agendas, project outlines etc
pp82-87 Renewable Energy Centre concept, arising fromthe Nairobi episode. pp92-166 Many renewable energy concepts and events, up to Dec 82.
p189 abstract of 1a agendas, 13/05/83.
p218 agenda arising from Prague event, 27/06/83.
p221 general agenda on 1/07/83.
p311 agenda arising from Berlin meeting, 29/11/83.
p344 list of current job applications, 20/02/84.
p371 agenda 4/04/84.

Research etc
pp169-171 Crotty peasant agriculture model, 27/02/83; pp180-3 1/05/83.
pp226-261 British Association meetings in Ireland, 5/09/83.
pp316-323 indexing of Irish Times columns for projected book, 15/12/83.
pp344-352 outline of Crotty model, 20/02/84; see also pp354-5, 3/03/84; pp358-60.

Networking, contacts etc
pp168, 172-178 Inst Physics technology group, seminar, conference, Feb-Mar 83.
p200 Dusty Miller 3/06/83; p223 12/07/83.
pp262-3 Physics open day in UCG, 22/09/83.
p283 Dusty Miller overview of Techne project, 19/10/83.
p296 misc Techne contacts, Nov 83.
p352 Dusty Miller 1/03/84.

[B] Vol 1bb, political notes 23/05/82 to 31/12/83, quarto, hard cover.

p3 Labour 70th anniversary at Clonmel, 23/05/82, on coat-tails of my sister Maureen Carmody.
p6 Gralton forum, 15/06/82; Eamonn McCann was there, problems of USSR.
p10 CND executive, 19/06/82. p12 LP Regional Council, 24/06/82.
p14ff 4S group, LP branch; p17 13/07/82 IUNA; p18 ICND in Belfast, p20ff IUNA, ISM, Celtic League..
p28ff LP SE Const Cl 9/09/82, 16/09 LP Const Exec; p34 18/09 ICND in Glencree, p36 agenda 20/09.
p39 ISM Coughlan on Pakistan 30/09, p42 New Radicals, p43 ICND annual conference, p47 LP const exec 21/10.
p49 ISM 28/10, p51 ICND, p52 ISM NEC 4/11, p55 Galway mtg on neutrality and nuclear disarmament 6/11.
p64 IUNA 10/11, ISM-CA meeting with CDG; p66 LP local, ISM 10-yr 11/12/82; p70 LP conference 12/12/82.
p77 ICND officers mtg 25/01/83; Quaker meeting in Churchtown 30/01, with subsequents thoughts on theology (NB this is worth a note!); more ICND, p80 Crotty at ISM, p81 5/02/83 WP contacts, p82 more CND.
p84 ISM EC 10/02; Milltown Park neutrality conference 12/02 (substantive notes); p93 LP local; p94 ICND in Belfast 19/02.
p96ff ISM and ICND, p99 agenda 18/04/83; p101 Quaker mtg in Moyallon 23/04/83; p104 IUNA conference 27/04.
p107ff ICND, Labour Left, ICCL; p109 WP ard fheis 21/05; p111 ICND in Carrick on Shannon 11/06.
p112 LP Regional Council 16/07; p114 ICND; p116 LP local; p117 'anti-amendment aftermath' 4/10.
p118 ISM 20/10/83, workers co-ops 5/11; p119 labour left publication.

[B] Vol 1c, Political notes, 1 Jan 84 to 13 March 86; small book hard cover.

Labour Left: 9/01/84, 20/01/84, 14/03/84, 17/06/84, 25/07/84, 24/03/85, 1/02/86
Rathgar Labour Party branch meetings (George Jeffares's house): 14/01/84, 10/04/84, 25/09/84, 6/11/84, 4/12/84, 15/01/85
Labour Party International Affairs: 14/01/84, 25/07/84, 4/09/84, 9/10/84, 13/11/84, 9/01/85, 12/02/85, 20/03/85, 1/08/85, 4/09/85, 8/09/85 (commission draft notes), 6/11/85, 4/12/85, 9/12/85 (ICND),
NI sub-cttee: 24/09/84 (NI), 3/10/84, 18/11/85
Labour Party Dublin SE Constituency Council: 19/01/84, 18/10/84
Labour Party Regional Council: 25/02/84, 16/07/84, 14/11/84

Irish CND: 21/01/84, 4/02/94, 24/03/84 (Cork), 8/09/84, 20/10/84, 8/12/84, 12/01/85, 23/02/85, 15/01/86 (TU),
CND in Britain: 24/11/84 (EP Thompson, David Blunkett, major international event in London)
Irish Sovereignty Movement: 1/03/84, 17/05/84 (Coughlan), ?7/07/84, 3/10/85
Irish Association: 25/02/84 this perhaps was a significant forum-related event; Una O'Higgins O'Malley presided, it included TP Hardiman, Tomas Mac Giolla, (John?) Cooney, Chris McGimpsey etc. There was a call for the Forum to go on indefinitely as a focus.
Irish United Nations Association: 24/04/84, 30/05/84, 9/09/84, 23/02/85, 25/03/85, 17/07/85, 31/01/86 (Colm O Briain UNESCO), 13/03/86

GEDCo group (renewable energy): 20/01/84
4S Group: Alan Matthews 12/03/84, 3/12/84 (Des Geraghty)
Divorce Action Group: 29/08/84 this was an all-party event, 27/01/86
Quakers: Yearly Meeting (Eustace St) 4/05/84, QPS Richhill 13/10/84, peace group 7/12/84, 8/01/86 Peace Committee revival,
ASTMS (SSB): 16/01/86 (WFSW Bernal event)
Celtic League conference: 24/08/85
Belgrave Residents: 5/11/84

One gets an impression of the varying priorities and levels of activity, under the influence of local, NI and global affairs. It could be a source for a paper, perhaps.

[B] Vol 2, April 84 to April 85

Agendas, project outlines etc
p15 agendas arising from co-op and physics conferences, 15/04/84/
p24 agenda arising from London visit, 27/04/84.
p65 overview agenda, 22/06/84.
p91 agenda 24/08/84, see also p93 11/09/84, p105 19/09/84.
pp138-9 17/10/84, prospect list; p158 9/11/84; p198 14/01/85.

Research etc
From November 1984 the record is one of frantic job search, without much success; I am placing on record only a few highlights.
pp202-224 RTC project, beginning with Dundalk, 19-25/01/85; Athlone and Tralee up to p275.
p299 to the end: notes on the Brittany project, from 5/05/85, in IUT Rennes.

Networking, contacts etc
pp16-16 Ronan Breslin, Sean Marlow, Walsh, Flahive, Ross Cooper, 16-19/04/84.
pp18-24 visit to Greater London Enterprise Board, Mike Cooley et al, 25-27/04/84.
p38 meeting with Arbuthnot re TCD scene, 17/05/84; pp39-45 misc contacts 13/05/84 - 1/06/84. includes Ronan Breslin, Mike Cooley, Gordon Foster and a few others.
pp50-64 misc contacts 7-21/06/84, includes Bolton St seminar, Dermot O'Doherty, Dusty Miller, Mel Healy, John Long, DIT Cathal Brugha St, John Hayden HEA...
pp68-71 misc contacts 26/06/84 to 5/07/84, includes Futures on Cooley aftermath, Tom Hardiman, Arbuthnot, Paddy Lynch..
pp78-90 misc contacts arising from FAST event, 9/07/94 to 2/08/84, including Sean Marlow, Ronan Breslin, ECIRN concept, Joe Watson, Joe Haughton on post-Bradley situation..
pp90-95 more misc contacts 3/08/84 to 14/09/94, including McBrierty, Foster and UNU, Paddy Lynch, Ross Cooper, Ronan Breslin, Donal Nevin..
pp123-131 misc contacts 2-11/10/84 - including Michael Sexton, Dave Scott, Ed Walsh, IEI Energy Division, Ross Cooper...
pp137, 15-16/10/84, Dusty Miller, Eoghan O'Neill, World Wood Day.
pp140-157, 17/10/84 to 9/11/84, Annraoi de Paor, Tony Farmer, Rea O'Neill, John O'Loughlin Kennedy, Noel Mulcahy, Gordon Foster, Niall Greene, Mel Healy, Paddy Lynch, Ross Cooper, Dusy Miller.

[B] Vol 3, June 85 to October 85

[B] Vol 4, October 85 to July 86

p3: The first agenda, 23/10/95, covers job applications, Brittany follow-ups, World Food Day, publications and consultancy contacts.
p13: There was an IUNA N-S event in Ballymascanlon, 16/11/85, involving MacBride and others; the question of lignite as a resource came up.
p17: The Licencing Executive Society had its annual convention in Dublin, 19/11/85; I had been subscribing to the LES journal in the ILO context, and regarded this as perahps the makings of a network; it included most of the active patent agents. Ciaran Comerford, Frank Murray, Dermot O'Doherty were involved.
p27: There was a seminar on worker co-ops organised by the ICTU, 28/11/85.

p33: The agenda on 2/12/85 has 21 items, which included an approach to Bob Collins for an RTE science programme, which however never came to anything. There was also the hint of an approach to Mentec (Mike Peirce) which later matured.
p42: Crumlin lignite, 19/12/85.

p43: agenda 2/01/86; Brittany linkage programme, energy systems, RTE, ICTU, Craif Gardner, UNESCO, TCD enterprise centre, Esprit...
p63: Summary of lignite concept, 22/01/86; see also p96, 11/02/86...

p78: Agenda 3/03/86, Brittany linkage, energy systems...
p91ff: Dublin Crisis Confernece 7/02/86; various planning and environmental and housing issues...
p109ff: various Shannon region firms possibly interested in the Brittany linkage; Feb 86.
p119ff: various contact with Ed Walsh, Alan McCarthy, Brendan Halligan relating tothe Brittany linkage... the concept involved 'jumellage binaire': indentification of complementary small high-tech firms linked with local university-based R&D work.. See also p143, 11/03/86, for an attempt to interface with the TII network.
p168-70: Inst Phys (Irish Branch) 30/03/86; seminar on history of physics, Wayman, McHale et al.

p171: Agenda 20/03/86, SFADCO, NEA, Udaras, BIM...
p189ff: notes on centres of knowhow in Brittany, 28/03/86
p199: typed notes for Paul Davies (with whom a partnership concept was on the agenda, under the Techne Associates label, he supplying the business-type jargon and thinking)
p203: Some NIHE profiles, 5/04/86, in the 'jumellage binaire' context.
p213ff: notes on Brittany trip, from 13/04/86... here we have considerable details of firms and contacts, culminating in the Foire de Rennes; this may or may not be worth analysis; Maze was the best contact and his relationship with the solid state people in TCD has persisted; he was, and still is, producing optical fibre transparent in the UV. He is also a Breton nationalist.
p269: There is a draft letter, 3/05/86, which summarises the then thinking on the Brittany project.
p275: Outline of the report to SFADCO, 4/05/86.
p286ff: draft letter to Noel Mulcahy in NIHE Limerick developing the 'jumellage binaire' concept; copies went also to Favier in Rennes. See also p294 where there is an index of the Brittany trip, dated 9/05/86. Also on p296ff there is a letter to Tom Dunne in SFADCO outlining the projected process and associated report.
p306: Note for Paul Davies, 19/05/86, on the possible use of the Minitel concept in Ireland. This in France was a 'killer application' for micro-electronics interfaced with the phone system, pre-dating the Internet. It was taken up a decade later by Mel Healy et al in the context of the Irish banking system, and provided a good service for a time, but was leapfroged by the Internet. If it had been taken up with our timing it would have had a decent lifetime.

p328: Agenda 1/06/86, YEA, SFADCO, NBST etc; the inter-regional linkage report was in gestation via Stan Nielsen..
p337: Outline of the Brittany report, with indexed references.
p345: LES conference, 16/06/86.. various contacts which however never came to anything..

p365: Agenda 30/06/86, Stan Nielsen's inter-regional linkage model, among other things, including Mentec.
p376: 'Growth at the Periphery' seminar in Limerick (Coombes, Mulcahy, Burton et al); cf p378 for summary, 7/07/86.
p383ff: Contacts and notes for Stan's paper on inter-regional linkages.

[B] Vol 5, July 86 to November 86)

[B] Vol 6, November 86 to May 87

p4 Agenda 11/11/86; the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) and NIHE contacts are perhaps memorable.
p26 24/11/86: there are some notes on a possible contract with NIHE Limerick, in the context of their 'technopole' project; this seemed at the time to be a possible employment opportunity.
p40 Agenda 28/11/86; this is more structured; YEA, Captec, Tramex, the IDA, Taconic and Aonad are referenced. Aonad was (is) a worker co-operative initiated by Tom Redmond supplying computer knowhow to trade unions and other peoples' democratic organisations; it perhaps deserves somehistorical study.
p55 Agenda 15/12/86; carried over (includes RTE), current, marketing (includes Dublin BIC and Irish Times), general...
p59, 19/12/86; programme for a YEA seminar arising out of the reports.
p69 Agenda 13/01/87: Captec, YEA, Aonad, Mentec and RTE are referenced.
p94 Agenda 1/02/87: priority targets include Mentec, Cork Enterprise Board, Dublin BIC; there are 17 items listed for longer-term sales efforts, evidence perhaps of increasing desperation..!
p122ff Outline proposal (20/02/87) for a dynamic process involving the Shannon Development 'Industrial Support Foundation', the NIHE and the Innovation Centre, the key concept of which was the upgrading of NIHE postgraduate activity.
p127 Agenda 4/03/87: current activity includes Captec, DIT and the Shannon/NIHE initiative. There are 9 items listed as 'priority sales', and 7 more low-key ones.
p143 on 16/03/87 there is a Mike Peirce agenda relating to his projected relational database covering Mentec market experience.
p150ff: there is a Regional Studies seminar (20/03/87) chaired by Joe Lee; this let subsequently to an approach to the Waterford City Manager who was there.
p172 Agenda 2/04/87: current are Captec, DIT Rathmines (Jim Hickey) and the ISF/IC/NIHE Limerick work; there is production work aimed at getting online access to the TCD machine; priority sales has 5 items and low-key sales a further 5.
p191ff Spring conference of IP(IB) in Portrush; p196 has the agenda arising (12/04/87) which is focused on the 'knowhow directory' concept which is emerging with Captec.
p199ff on 13/04/87ff there is a record of an Academy seminar at Jordanstown on 'Technology and Employment'; this was the RIA asserting its all-Ireland status ina difficult political envoronment.
p208ff there are extended notes on the NIHE scene, starting 21/04/87.
p231 Agenda 1/05/87: Mentec, Captec, DIT, Limerick ongoing; 7 priority sales, 4 low-key; there is a Bernal Institute mention, relating to Brendan O'Regan.
p240 there is a draft of the conclusions for the Limerick report, dated 6/05/87.
p268 there are some notes on Brendan O'Regan's conference, 22/05/87, relating to his attempt to develop Shannon as a focus for reform initiative in the USSR, in the context of the need for world peace. The Soviet cultural attache was there.
p276 Agenda 6/06/87: a full page of items, complex structure; things seem to be beginning to look up, after a bad period.

[B] Vol 7, June 87 to November 87

[B] Vol 8, 11/87 to 5/88

[B] Vol 9, 5/88 to 11/88

pp36-58, up to 6/07/88: mostly Mentec and contacts with various firms inthe context of the BC-NET concept, euro-trade development among high-tech SMEs etc. Some episodic fallout from Soviet 'Peace Cruise'.
p59; 10/07/88: some ideas for the coming 1798 bicentenary.
pp59-66, up to 20/07/88: more BC-NET stuff, episodic; p67 has an Agenda.
p79, agenda 1/08/88: Mentec, BC-NET, Udaras, Brendan O'Regan's Shannon-USSR joint venture.
More of this up to p100, where politics re-emerges, with Hilary Tovey and ideas for a WTS resurrection; Janice on language; notes towards a Links Europa paper; p103 Fishman on language; also Agenda 5/09/88; this includes Mentec, Udaras, BC-NET, Eolas, Shannon Development, the Delta programme and Fishman.
p104, 9/09/88 there is a 'non-business agenda'. Then on p106 there is the first encounter with Brian Ennis and IMS; 2 projects in Esprit I and has put infor one in Esprit II which is the 'film of the book'. This is 'IT-USE', on foot of which I was subsequently recruited; I had made the contact earlier in the context of
More BC-NET stuff up to p122, where there are notes on the first serious IMS meeting on 26/09/88.
More Mentec and BC-NET stuff up to p133 where there is an agenda for 5/10/88; extended tidy-up with IMS in prospect.
p136, 9/10/88: Dublin Peace Committee and Ulster Quarterly Peace Cttee meeting, with Andrew Young.
p144, 15/10/88: Euro-alert; Coughlan, Catriona Ruane, Kelleher, Behal and others.
Mostly Mentec then up to the end of the book. There is an agenda p154 for 27/10/88. IMS does not yet figure, suggesting that the earlier contact was to do with drafting the Esprit proposal.

[B] Vol 10, 11/88 to 4/89

p114, 8/02/89: NIHE Regional Studies seminar notes.
p121, 10/02/89: extended agenda; 10 items, mostly BC-NET related; from here on for a while System Dynamics is active.
p134, 28/02/89: extended agenda; 12 items; IMS figures withtop prioriy.
p135ff from 1/03/89 we have the TOSKA project. On p138ff we have the Dornier kick-off meeting.
p156, 20/03/89 we have a TOSKA agenda. From here on stuff like BC-NET and TII decline in significance, and the IMS contact becomes increasingly full-time.
p166, 28/03/89: we have the first mention of IT-USE, running in parallel with TOSKA.

We make the break at this point, where the IMS work begins to be the mainstream; up to here the stuff is in the first RJ logbox; from here on the stuff remains on the shelves, and may eventually end up in a second logbox. The utility of this material will depend on the extent to which it may become relevant to a historical study of the basis being laid for the 'Celtic Tiger' phenomenon, of which it begins to be symptomatic. It reflects the interaction between an innovative small Irish firm and the EU R&D support network. I may get around to indexing it later, if there turns out to be a demand for this. RJ April 2005.

[B] Vol 11, 4/89 to 9/89

[B] Vol 12, 9/89 to 5/91

Series C, Totally dominant IMS component:

[C] Vol 1, 6/91 to 4/93

[C] Vol 2, 11/93 to 4/94

[C] Vol 3, 4/94 to 3/95

[C] Vol 4, 5/95 to 8/96

[C] Vol 5, 8/96 to 9/97

[C] Vol 6, 10/97 to 11/98

[C] Vol 7, 10/98 to 8/99

[C] Vol 8, 11/99 to 2/2001

[C] Vol 9, 4/2001 to 6/2003

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