Century of Endeavour

Index of Supportive Hypertext Files

(c) Roy Johnston 2006

This Index is complete in first approximation. It may be that in the course of its development, some hotlinks have got lost, as can happen if files get moved from one folder to another. If anyone finds any dead hotlinks, will they please advise me, so that I can repair them. I do not want to produce a CD-ROM until I am satisfied that the overall hypertext navigation is sound, and most if not all mistakes rectified. Please advise me also of any errors in the text: spellings, anomalous italics or bold, non-standard characters, whatever. Suggestions like 'should X perhaps be hotlinked with Y?' are also welcome. Further development may perhaps involve setting up a complete access-procedure via theme as well as via decade. Currently the access is primarily via decade, with access via theme supplementary but incomplete. RJ 12/07/06.

We list here the files in the hypertext support system which contain either source material, or material in more detail and closer to source, usually as referenced from the main text of the printed book. In some cases they contain additional material found since the book was printed, and in such cases the files are usually hotlinked to appropriate related concepts elsewhere in the hypertext. The files are priarily grouped by decade.

A file added since the printed edition is marked **; one amended by post-print additions is marked *. The files are ordered and grouped within each decade as suggested by the sequence of the appendices. We also hope eventually to give an alternative index page, in which all background files to do with a theme are grouped chronologically within a theme.


1900s

The Johnston family background

Student Politics in the 1900s

Alice Stopford Green
. The Making of Ireland and Her Undoing
. The Old Irish World
Patrick Maume's Long Gestation
Hubert Butler on
Standish O'Grady


1910s

The Johnston family

Interaction with the TCD Authorities
. Academic background; Oxford influences.

The Albert Kahn Foundation
. Albert Kahn Travelling Fellowship Report (1914-1915) (summary)
. Supplementary Albert Kahn Report: Food Supply in France 1916 (in full)
. Charles Garnier's Letters to JJ

The Co-operative Movement

Politics, including JJ and 1916
. Patrick Maume's Long Gestation


1920s

The Family: Stillorgan, Dundalk; Budapest

Internal TCD Politics: the Treaty, Unionism, Commerce and Economics, UCD and Agriculture...

The Albert Kahn Foundation: Rockefeller and the 1926 Prices Commission
. The Garnier letters: Douglas Hyde, the Treaty talks...

The Co-operative Movement: TCD, Farm to Consumer, Better Business, the Irish Economist, Northern Ireland...

Academic Publications
. Groundwork of Economics (1926): Ch3 in full

The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society: Oldham, National Transport, Distributive Waste...

Outreach: the Barrington Lectures: working men in TCD; Carnegie Trust; Irish Statesman..
. The TABI conference 1926 (Applied Christianity; 'Towards a Better Ireland')

Agriculture Commission 1923
. The Prices Tribunal 1926
. JJ's 1926 Seanad attempt

Politics: some civil war journalism; Dermot MacManus; 'Applied Christianity'


1930s

The Family: Dundalk, Drogheda; uncles in India; Blackrock, Avoca School..

Internal TCD Politics: the reform movement takes shape

The Albert Kahn Foundation: the 1938 Garnier visit to Ireland
. The Garnier letters: includes TW Moody's review of Garnier's book

The Co-operative Movement: the 1935 Year Book...
. Economy in the Distribution of Goods: Co-operative Conference Association, August 1933

Academic publications by JJ
. JJ's 1934 book The Nemesis of Economic Nationalism
. JJ's unpublished 1937 paper: The Place of Wheat in Irish Agriculture

The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society: winter milk; the economic war...

Intellectual Outreach: the Barrington Lectures, Studies...

Public Service: the Seanad (from 1938)
. The Civil Service Commission (1932-35)

The all-Ireland view: founding the Irish Association

National Politics: Fianna Fail and Fine Gael; agriculture and the coming war

On the Science and Society theme: see the TCD Board record for 1931


1940s

The Family: the War, moving to Drogheda, School, College...
. Adare's 1841 College Concept

Internal TCD Politics: the war, internal reforms, interaction with Government...
. Some contemporary TCD verses on the 1948 'Republic'

Epilogue: Albert Kahn Foundation; 1940s and later

The Co-operative Movement: still JJ, RJ begins...

Academic publications: JJ joins the RIA; Berkeley

The SSISI: Rural Civilisation

Outreach: Barrington; RM Burke...
. Irish Agriculture in Transition
. Dovea co-operative farm...
. The Richards Orpen Plan
. Maurice Laheen on RM Burke

Public Service: the Seanad
. Seanad 1942: Minimum Price of Wheat
. Seanad post-1943
. Post-Emergency Agriculture: Committee of Inquiry

The Irish Association: JJ's Presidency

*Political Activism: JJ in the Seanad, RJ in the Student Left
. Greaves Journals, relevant extracts from November 1945 to the end of the decade.
. Some Background on Micheal O Riordain, from his son Manus

Science and Society: RJ on Bernal, JJ on Peat and Dunsink


1950s

The Family: Paris, Sandymount, Rathmines; JJ in Laois

Internal TCD politics: the McConnell epoch begins, the Agricultural Institute and the Kells Ingram Farm

The Co-operative Movement: the Plunkett centenary, the Mayo revival..

Academic publications: JJ on Berkeley; RJ in high-energy particle physics
. Berkeley as Economist

The SSISI: JJ's Presidency...

Outreach
. The Sickness of the Irish Economy

Public Service: JJ in the Seanad:
. JJ's maiden speech as de Valera nominee: Sterling Assets, Communism and the arms race...
. JJ's Swan Song in the Seanad: robust defence of his record; the store cattle trade...

The Irish Association: the Kilkenny Debates...
. JJ in Belfast 1956: European Free Trade...

*Political Activism: the IWL, the Ballyfermot Co-op, Hubert Butler...
. The Greaves journal extracts: the Curraun episode, the IWL and the North, Peadar O'Donnell, Hungary...

Science and Society: 'Atoms for Peace', JJ and peat, British Association, Sputnik...

Socio-technical issues: the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies; statistics in market research..

Techno-economic analyis: livestock and market gardening; anaerobic digestion...


1960s

The Johnston family

TCD College Politics

Academic publications by JJ and RJ
. Bishop Berkeley's Querist in Historical Perspective

The Co-operative Movement in the 60s: a failed attempt from which one can learn, perhaps.

The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society
. Consumer Demand as the Basis of Credit (JJ 1969)

Intellectual outreach: JJ in economics (the 'Barrington' thread), RJ in science
. Why Ireland Needs the EEC by JJ, published in 1962 by Mercier Press in Cork
. JJ and Dermot MacManus, again
. Irish Economic Headaches: a Diagnosis (JJ 1966)
. The January 1967 Irish Times 'Science in Ireland' series by RJ
. **J Finbar Donovan and the Aer Lingus Real-Time Reservations Project

The Irish Association: the RJ view (1963-67), the JJ view (1963-64)

JJ and political work
RJ and political work: 1960-66, 1967-68, 1969, *1970
. Some theoretical notes by RJ from the 1964-66 period
. The Wolfe Tone archive from January 1963 to December 1970
. The Wolfe Tone Society Constitution
. Malachi Stilt-Jack: A Study of WB Yeats and his Work; Brian Farrington 1966
. The Greaves Journal: Part 1 from 1960, Part 2 from June 1966, Part 3 from 1968
. The Greaves Journal: extracts relating to Civil Rights in Northern Ireland
. The Sinn Fein Minutes: 1960-66, 1967-8, 1969, 1970
. The 'Special Conference of Republicans Document 1965
. . The 1966 Garland 'Captured Document'
The 1969 Garland Commission Report
. Nuacht Naisiunta (the SF internal newsletter) in 1969 and 1970.
. Freedom Manifesto (February 1970 United Irishman)

Science and Society: Overview
. Review of Michael Woods' book Research in Ireland (1970)

Socio-Technical Problems: Overview
. The Computer in Society, published abbreviated as a review in Hibernia, May 1967

Techno-economic Analysis: Overview


1970s

*The Family: JJ and my mother's last years, with my sister...

The Co-operative Movement: still alive, though moribund in consumer mode...

Academic publication (why there was none, though perhaps the OR TCD work counts)
. The TCD MSc in Operations Research and Statistics: adapted from Ch6 of Operations Research in Ireland edited by Julian Mac Airt and published in 1988 by Mercier Press, Cork

The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society: RJ on manpower planning in science

Outreach: the Irish Times Science and Technology Column

Political Activism: JJ and the EEC, RJ in transition...
. Sinn Fein Minutes in 1971...
. Nuacht Naisiunta from January 1971: the EEC, the North, the IRA...
. The Greaves Journal extracts 1971-1975: civil rights rearguard actions, Bloody Sunday, the EEC campaign...
. Some National Archive material from 1971 relating to Wilson, Callaghan, Heath (incomplete)
. The Dublin Wolfe Tone Society from 1971, in decline...
. England's Responsibility for the Crisis in Ireland: C Desmond Greaves (lecture delivered at the Wolfe Tone AGM in November 1972)
. Government by Duplicity: review by RJ for Atlantis (#4, Sept 1972) of Vol III of the Whitehall Diaries of Tom Jones, Lloyd George's secretary, done at the request of the Editor Seamus Deane.
. The New Ireland: Utopian or Scientific? Paper by RJ in Atlantis #5, April 1973
. Where We Stand: Tomas Mac Giolla at Carrickmore July 1972; the political position of 'official Sinn Fein' in relation to what was then going on in the North...
. The Greaves Journal 1976-1980: O'Casey, science and society, the CPI...
. On the Problem of Democratic Unity: paper by RJ published in #9 of Ripening of Time, March 1978; it had been read at a meeting of the Dublin Wolfe Tone Society on January 24 1978

Science and Society: the Kane-Bernal episode

Socio-Technical Issues: the Irish Times, the TCD MSc project, the science-engineering interface...
. Legislation, Energy Conservation and the Balance of Payments: memorandum by RJ circulated to TDs in or about May of 1975 to examine the situation arising from the oil crisis

A Techno-Economic Overview
. The 1972 Dublin IFORS Conference: Background and RJ's Contribution
. A Fishing Port Techno-Economic Model: a popularising account of a project done by RJ in 1974-5
. Technology and the Economy as Interacting Systems: paper by RJ published in Technology Ireland, January 1978
. Biomass for Energy: paper by RJ delivered at the Limerick Conference of the Operations Research Society of Ireland, November 1980


1980s

Family questions: local education availability, the divorce referendum...

Academic Publication: the Science in Irish Culture issue...
. Science and Technology in Irish National Culture: paper by RJ on the British Association Meetings in Ireland, Crane Bag, Forum Issue, Vol 7 no 2, 1983, p58

The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society: industrial policy, university policy...

Intellectual Outreach: public transport, the Common Agricultural Policy, science and technology...
. Public Transport in Dublin: a 1984 paper by RJ stimulated by the opening up of the DART system.
. Some Science-related Reviews by RJ: Hamilton, Tyndall, conference reports, rural technology, development economics (Cantillon), Schroedinger...

Political Activism: The Labour Party, the Greens, the Peace Movement...
. The Greaves Journal extracts: his final years, some mellowing; Eastern Europe and the CPGB...
. Innovation, Employment and Regional Government: paper by RJ at the inaugural meeting of the Constitution Club, Buswell's Hotel, November 5 1986.
. Labour and the National Question: document submitted by RJ to a Labour Party Commission in January 1986; also a related report produced for the Labour Party International Affairs Committee
. Socialism and National Democracy: reviews by RJ for the Irish Labour History Society's journal Saothar of Priscilla Metscher's Republicanism and Socialism in Ireland, (Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 1986), and David Howell's A Lost Left, Three Studies in Socialism and Nationalism, (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1986)
. The Kiev-Odessa Peace Cruise of 1988: Some Reflections and Comments by RJ on the Perestroika Process in the USSR
. Violence and the Nation-Building Process - Some Reflections on Irish National Identity: paper by RJ at the AGM of the Ulster Quaker Peace Committee on 13/2/88
. Notes in Assessment of Gorbachev, written by RJ on 11/2/89 during the emerging USSR crisis
. The 1989 Green Party Manifesto, as uploaded to the GreenNet...
. The 1990 Brendan Clifford correspondence, arising from a review of his Belfast 1790s book...

Science and Society: Operational Research and Management Science; Bernal and the 'science as culture' question...
. RTD Linkages in Less-Favoured Regions: memorandum by RJ prepared for the National Board for Science and Technology, in the context of work for the European Commission on inter-regional science and technology linkages
. Science in a Post-Colonial Culture: paper by RJ; the full version, from which the Irish Review Spring 1990 version was excessively edited down

Socio-technical analysis: physics and technology; the Techne project; 'quad-linkage' and the 'technopole' concept
. Some post-TCD proposals by RJ, including an Intellectual Resources Database pilot-project, in July 1984; this was an attempt to develop an all-Ireland resource network based on the Industrial Liaison Offices.
. Enterprise and the Regional Colleges: a pilot report on 3 colleges was produced in 1985 by RJ for the Youth Employment Agency; a further series of reports on the remainder of the RTCs, on DIT and on NIHE (Limerick) was produced later.

*Techno-Economics analysis, primarily the UN Energy conference, also wind, lignite, renewables...


1990s

The Family: overall demography, the Dungannon network revisited

The Albert Kahn Foundation: Rediscovery as a JJ Source

Academic publications: several papers by RJ on aspects of science history and culture, development economics and agriculture perhaps qualify

The SSISI: Local and Regional Government; all-Ireland economics; econometrics and the philosophy of science, STIAC, Innovation...

Outreach: science in a green-left political context...
. A Future for Dublin? an essay by RJ, which won the Irish Planning Institute prize in 1991
. Local and Regional Government: paper by RJ (ca 1991) for the Regional Studies Association
. Some Physics Concepts in a Management Context: paper by RJ published, with some abridgement, in the Physics World (Institute of Physics) July 1992 issue
. Sustainability in Economics: the 1996 INES Conference in Amsterdam, also a Teagasc angle
. Miscellaneous Reviews: science, religion, nationality, culture...
. Memoirs of Senator James G Douglas, Concerned Citizen: J Anthony Gaughan (ed), UCD Press 1998; review by RJ for Quaker Monthly, Oct(?) 1999

The Irish Association: revived interest by RJ led to prototyping their website

Political activism: first the early 90s: green networking, Maastricht, evolution of Left thought, the Northern Initiative...
Political activism in the mid-90s: the cease-fire; the Greens and the North; the divorce referendum...
*Political activism from 1998: the Orange Order; Quakers and Human Rights, post-colonial theory, post-USSR analysis...
. The Desmond Greaves Legacy: some interactions between RJ and the CDG Summer School
. A Green Paradigm for Nationality: paper by RJ published in Caorthann, the Green theoretical journal, #2, Nov 1994
. Updating the Manifesto: an Irish perspective: paper by RJ was submitted to the 1998 Paris conference 'MCP150'

Science and Society: the need for a History of Science Centre...

Socio-technical issues: IT Uptake, Culliton, databases and knowledge-bases, the Irish Times series revisited, water in South Africa...
. Submission by RJ in 1992 to the Culliton Commission on industrial development policy
. Case-based Reasoning: some notes on the philosophy of this approach to problem-solving

Techno-economic analysis: wave energy and other renewables, public transport, railways in the west...


By degrees I hope to be able to index all files in every decade within each 'thread', as below; initially the 'thread' files associated with each Appendix tend to be ones which are not primarily decade-related, or are post-publication additions. RJ 10/07/06.

Appendix 1: Family and Background

**JJ's Final Selection: probably what he took from his TCD Rooms in 1970. I also give here some unidentified family photographs, from over a century ago, which I hope perhaps someone will be able to identify and let me know, so that I can reference them appropriately.

Appendix 2: Trinity College Politics

**The Duncan Obituary: Laissez-faire Economist was Ahead of his Time, published in the Irish Times, 28/01/06.

Appendix 3: Albert Kahn Foundation

If any additional AK material comes out of the analysis of the archives looted by the Nazis and subsequently recovered from Moscow, I hope to file them here; RJ 09/07/06.

Appendix 4: The Co-operative Movement

JJ's Clearing House Model, from Irish Agriculture in Transition, Basil Blackwell, 1951; ADDENDUM to Chapter XIX, Local Integration of Agricultural Production, p175.
*The Irish Co-operative Movement: Its History and Development, Patrick Bolger, Institute of Public Administration, Dublin, 1977.
Paper by RJ Biotechnology and Sustainability, in Teagasc publication 'Farm and Food', Spring 2001.
**George Russell (AE) and the New Ireland, 1905-30 by Nicholas Allen, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2003; notes towards a review by RJ.
**Trevor West's Biography of Plunkett, published by CUA in 1986; notes by RJ.
**Plunkett's 1904 book Ireland in the New Century; notes by RJ.
**Andrew Gailey's 1987 book Ireland and the Death of Kindness' notes by RJ added Dec 2007.

Appendix 5: Academic Publications

Science in India: review by RJ published in the Feb 1997 issue of Science and Public Policy (International Science Policy Foundation). The book reviewed was The Science of Empire by Zaheer Baber, published by the State University of New York (1996).

Appendix 6: Statistical and Social Inquiry Society

Any additional SSISI publications which come to light will be referenced here; RJ 09/07/06

Appendix 7: Intellectual Outreach

Any additional 'Barrington' or other outreach publications which come to light, relating to science, technology or development economics, will be referenced here; RJ 09/07/06

Appendix 8: Public Service

Any additional Seanad, Government Commission or other public service publications which come to light will be referenced here; RJ 09/07/06

Appendix 9: The All-Ireland View and the Irish Association

Irish Association for cultural, economic and social relations: The Beginnings of the Association, as recorded by Mary A McNeill, Hon Sec, Northern Committee, 1938-1953

Appendix 10: National and Left-wing Politics

Some Memorable Dinners Attended by JJ
**Independence, Partition and the Emigrants; paper by Roy Johnston published by Tuairim, London, in a publication described as 'an occasional bulletin', May 1961.
Greaves Journal overview: Part 1 Nov 1945 to Dec 1968; Part 2 Jan 1969 to death in 1988.
**The Blatherwick Memorandum (1970): Commentary by Anthony Coughlan on memo by Dublin British Embassy official David Blatherwick dealing with Republicanism, Civil Rights and left-wing activity in Ireland in the 1960s.
Critical analysis by RJ of Memoirs of Sean Mac Stiofain; Gordon Cremonesi, 1975.
Partition in Ireland, India and Palestine; T G Frazer; Macmillan, London, 1984.
**Anthony Coughlan's 1991 Obituary Essay on C Desmond Greaves.
Owen Sheehy-Skeffington: Andree, OS-S's widow, wrote a biography 'Skeff' which was published by Lilliput in 1991; RJ supplied some records of experience, some of which she used.
Mick Ryan's account of the United Irishman in the 1960s and 70s, published in a special 1998 bicentenary issue.
Justin O'Brien: The Arms Trial; Gill & Macmillan 2000; analysis by RJ.
Critical review by RJ of How the Troubles Came to Ireland; Peter Rose, Palgrave, Contemporary History in Context series, 2001.
JJ and Political Drama in Ulster: note by RJ in 2001 stimulated by the Hagel Mengel 1986 work on Sam Thompson et al.
Reviews by RJ of Derry Kelleher's legacy books, published in 2001:
. Irish Republicanism - the Authentic Perspective a critical history;
. Buried Alive in Ireland a personal memoir.
Standish O'Grady and Socialism: Review by RJ of To the Leaders of Our Working People, Standish O'Grady, ed EA Hagan, UCD Press 2002.
**Review by RJ of Ireland and Post-Colonial Theory; ed Clare Carroll and Patricia King, Cork UP 2003.
**Erwin Marquit's 2004 Review Essay Balanced Reappraisal of the USSR.
**The Trouble with Origins: critical review by RJ of Northern Ireland: the Origin of the Troubles, by Thomas Hennessy, Gill Macmillan, 2006.

Appendix 11: Science and Society

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Creator and Rebel, by Banesh Hoffman, Hart-Davis and McGibbon, 1972; review by RJ, Irish Times, SATURDAY, APRIL 20-21, 1973.
Science and Technology in Irish National Culture, in the Crane Bag, Forum Issue, Vol 7 no 2, 1983, p58.
The Practical Arts in Irish Culture: article published by RJ in Causeway, the Belfast 'Cultural Traditions' quarterly, Vol 1 no 1, Sept 1993. The foregoing is the title under which I submitted it; the editor improved on it with Godless Colleges and Non-Persons.
Scientific Culture and Irish National Identity: a paper by RJ in Daltun O Ceallaigh's New Perspectives on Ireland - Colonialism and Identity, Learbheas, 1998.
Science and Politics in the Irish Colonial to Post-Colonial Transition: review paper by RJ in the Fall 2001 issue of the Irish Literary Supplement (Boston College, ed Bob Lowery).
**JD Bernal and the 'Science and Society' Theme: paper by RJ for an Institute of Physics book on Irish physicists, edited by Andrew Whitaker of QUB, 2003.
**The Irish Ordnance Survey: History, Culture and Memory; Gillian M Doherty; Four Courts Press 2004.
**Science, History, Public Awareness: a review of 4 science-related books by RJ published in the June 2006 issue of Books Ireland.
**A biography of JD Bernal was published in 2006 which I was invited to review by the US-based Chemical Heritage Foundation: Andrew Brown, JD Bernal: the Sage of Science, Oxford University Press, 2006, 562pp.
**The Imperial Civilising Mission(?): Civilizing Ireland: Ordnannce Survey 1824-1842, Ethnography, Cartography, Translation; Stiofain O Cadhla, Irish Academic Press, 2006.
**Bernal Institute: a Possible Approach? paper arising from the Limerick Bernal Seminar, 1 June 2006; published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series, jpcs.iop.org, Vol 57, 2007, ed Vincent Casey.

Appendix 12: Socio-Technical Issues

Fostering Innovation: an article published by RJ in the February 1991 issue of Technology Ireland, based on a paper at an Operational Research Society of Ireland seminar on The Physics Graduate as an Industrial Problem-Solver by Fred Ridgway, who headed the management services unit in the Bank of Ireland.

Appendix 13: Techno-Economic Analysis

Energy and the Environment: Some Reflections on the International Peat Congress in Dublin, by RJ; this conference took place on June 19-23, 1984, in Dublin; the report was prepared for Mazingira, a UNEP journal.

Additions Subsequent to Publication

Some of the files listed above are post-publication, being always noted as such. There are also some files which relate to more than one decade or thread, and I have collected these in a folder 'addons', each file being hotlinked from several disparate locations in the hypertext. These include:
  • Book Reviews by RJ: there is a political group and a scientific group;
  • Papers by relevant authors: Emmet O'Connor on the Republican Congress, Erwin Marquit on the USSR collapse;
  • Notes on relevant collections: Fintan Lane and Donal O Drisceoil on Politics and the Irish Working Class 1830-1945;
  • A book by Sean Swan: Official Irish Republicanism, 1962 to 1972 which uses Century of Endeavour as one of many contemporary sources;
  • Obituaries of Paul O'Higgins (1927-2008) with added commentaries...



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