Century of Endeavour

Source Listing for RJ

(c)Roy Johnston 2010

(comments to rjtechne at iol dot ie)

Please note that the location of this source material is undergoing re-organisation. The box numbers refer to boxes in the writer's house; he can be contacted by arrangement, via the e-mail address. Some box numbers however end with LH, in which case the files so designated have been transferred to the Linen Hall Library, for integration into the NI political record. This cherry-picking process is ongoing and open-ended; the contact is John Killen. The current record refers to (box locations in January 2003? but see following...); some have been re-located to shelf locations after moving house (RJ 2006); some are being re-allocated to new box numbers pending further transfers to the Linen Hall (RJ 08/06/10).

It is possible to classify RJ sources into

  • (a) My published works: books, papers, articles, pamphlets;
  • (b) Books possessed by me which relate to my publications and political evolution;
  • (c) Public records of my work eg government reports in which I participated;
  • (d) Minutes and other records of various bodies in which I participated;
  • (e) Public record office, national library and other such sources;
  • (f) Those papers in my possession and which I have attempted to catalogue;
  • (g) Miscellaneous other institutional sources;
  • (h) Books relating to the background of my work;
  • LH transferred in first batch 2005, selected from all foregoing sections.

I hope to be able to deposit some or all of this material accessibly, perhaps in the Linenhall Library, in numbered boxes. A key to the current box numbering is given below. This classification is not absolute, because stuff sometimes turns up unexpectedly, and gets put in the current box when dealt with. An entry has been verified only if its box number has current dated initials.

Box RJ1 is mostly 1970s and 80s socio-technical.
Box RJ2 is mostly techno-economic and socio-technical publications and projects. If an entry is labelled RJ2 without the current date, it remains to be verified; it may exist. RJ 08/06/10.
Box RJ3 earlier had books and publications of direct political interest to the narrative; currently it contains RJ scientific material from the 1950s and 60s. RJ 08/06/10
Box RJ4 is mostly published work with a science flavour.
[Some of the foregoing boxes appear to be absent; perhaps they are in LH?]
Box RJ5 was mostly unpublished files of papers related to techno-political developments, covering the 1950s, 60s and 70s; apparently now it contains most of the logbook sequence. Some techno-economic material is currently on shelving. RJ 08/06/10
Box RJ6 exists and seems still to be mostly the 1980s; its contents have been updated and identified. RJ08/06/10.
Box RJ7 contains now a mixed assortment requiring analysis. RJ 08/06/10.

(a) Published Works

Books

Up to the present I can't claim a complete book under my own authorship; I can however claim to have contributed chapters and editing services to published books, and I list these:

1. Unstable Heavy Particles 1947-55, ed H Yukawa, for Physical Society of Japan.
. This contains several papers with which I was associated, one of which has my name on it.

2. A Study of the Unstable Particles Occurring in the Cosmic Radiation; PhD Thesis, 1955.
. I include this here, in that it is accessible in the TCD Library, though not published, or indeed publishable.

3. Renewable Energy Ireland, a Report summarising the Irish contribution to the UN Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy, Nairobi, August 1981, edited by RJ and published by the Irish United Nations Association. (See also, if we can find it, Box RJ4, in a file labelled 'Renewable Energy Africa')??. Box RJ2 RJ 08/06/10.

4. Operations Research in Ireland, ed Julian Mac Airt, Mercier Press 1988; I contributed chapter 6, on techno-economic modelling of mostly biological systems, based on the 1970s experience of the TCD MSc in OR and Statistics. See the RJ catalogued library.

5. JD Bernal - a Life in Science and Politics, ed Brenda Swann and Francis Aprahamian, Verso 1999; the writer contributed Chapter 2, on the early Irish influences. I summarise this in the 'Science and Society' thread, Bernal having been a significant early influence on my own political development in the 1940s and subsequently. See the RJ catalogued library; attic case 1 shelf 3R.

6. Developing Industrial 'Case-based Reasoning', R Bergmann et al, Springer verlag 1999, this is the INRECA project report, which was published as a case-based reasoning manual; the writer is among the 10 named authors on page xix. His main contribution was in the use of n-dimensional 'fuzzy' parametric indexing in technical catalogue search.

7. Irish Innovators in Science and Technology, ed Mollan, Davis & Finucane, Royal Irish Academy, 2002: I contributed the chapter on Bernal. There is also a book Physicists in Ireland, edited by Andrew Whitaker of QUB and published in 2002 by the Institute of Physics, to which I contributed a chapter on Bernal in somewhat greater depth. Both are largely based on the Verso 1999 book.


Scientific papers, mostly during the DIAS epoch, but some later:

7. Proc. Congres Internationale sur le Rayonnement Cosmique, University de Toulouse, avec l'appui de l'UNESCO, Bagners re Bigorre, Juillet 1953; this includes contributions under the following titles, with RJ as a named member of the group:

8. Production of a V01 by a 1BeV negative primary; WB Fretter, BP Gregory, RHW Johnston, A Lagarrigue, H Mayer, F Muller and C Peyrou; p26.

9. Quelques Resultats sur les V-chargés; with group as above; P101.

10. Mesures de Masse de Particules S par Moment-Parcours, with group as above; p113.

The foregoing is mostly in (Box RJ4?), as are the following scientific papers.

From 1954 the sequence continues with reports of work done in DIAS; I have outlined something of the scientific thinking behind this in the 1950s academic module:

11. Evidence for the Nuclear Interaction of a Charged Hyperon Arrested in Photographic Emulsion; RHW Johnston and C O Cerallaigh; Phil Mag, ser 7, vol 45, p424, April 1954.

12. Further Evidence (etc as above); Il Nuovo Cimento; 1 Marzo 1955, 1, 468-472.

13. Observations on Negative K-mesons; MW Friedlander, D Keefe and MGK Menon (Bristol), RHW Johnston and C O Ceallaigh (DIAS), and A Kernan (UCD); Phil Mag ser 7, vol 45 p144, February 1955.

14. Further Evidence for the Electron-Decay of K-Mesons; RHW Johnston and C O Ceallaigh, Phil Mag ser 7, vol 46, p393, April 1955.

15. Conferenza Internationale sulle Particelle Elementari, Pisa June 1955; this contains many papers from the Ecole Poletechnique group, and several from the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, including 2 by the present writer, and several in which he participated. Most of this material appeared as separate publications subsequently. Box RJ4.

The G-stack collaboration, its first publication:

16. On the Masses and Modes of Decay of Heavy Mesons Produced by Cosmic Radiation; JH Davies et al, Il Nuovo Cimento, serie X, Vol 2, pp1063-1103, Novembre 1955; this papoer had all of 36 named authors, 10 from Bristol, 6 from Copenhagen, 3 from DIAS (including the present writer), 3 from UCD, 9 from 4 locations, three in Italy and one in Brussels, and 5 from 2 other Italian locations.

17. A Scattering Calibration Experiment; RHW Johnston, n2 del Supplemento al Vol 4 Serie X del Nuovo Cimento, pp456-459, 1956.

18. On the Relation between Blob-density and Velocity of a Singly Chaged Particle in G-5 Emulsion; G Alexander and RHW Johnston, Il Nuovo Cimento, Serie X, Vol 5, pp363-379, Febbraio 1957.

19. The Relative Frequencies of the Decay Modes of Positive K-Mesons and the Decay Spectra of Modes K-mu-3 and K-beta; G Alexander, RHW Johnston and C O Ceallaigh, Il Nuove Cimento, Serie X, Vol 6, pp 478-5000, Settembre 1957.

The G-stack collaboration, with variable composition, produced 3 more papers on negative K-mesons:

20. The Interaction and Decay of K- mesons in Photogrqaphic Emulsion;

Part 1, General Characteristics of K- Interactions: B Bhowmik et al, Il Nuovo Cimento, Serie X, Vol 13, pp690-729, Agosto 1959;

Part 2, The Emission of Hyperons from K- interactions at rest: B Bhowmik et al, Il Nuovo Cimento, Serie X, Vol 14, pp315-364, Ottobre 1959;

Part 3 has no additional sub-title, but is in effect an addendum to part 2: D Evans et al, Il Nuovo Cimento, Serie X, Vol 15, pp873-898, Marzo 1960;

21. On the Ionisation-Velocity Relation in Photographic Emulstion for Singly Charged Particles, 1961, unpublished, with MA Shaukat (DIAS) and D Prowse (UCLA). This was my last scientific paper; it is filed with some O Ceallaigh correspondence; he was in the end not happy to publish it because it was inconclusive. We had reached the fringe of applicability of the experimental technology, and were attempting to quantify the 'relativistic rise' on the high-energy side of the minimum. Prowse had supplied the raw material. We had in fact gone up a cul-de-sac, and O Ceallaigh recognised it. Box RJ4.

22. A Special-Purpose Computer for the Analysis of Measurements of Multiple Scattering in Photographic Emulson, paper by RJ in Electronic Engineering, June 1963;

23. The Development of a Method for Measuring the Concentration of Suspended Solids, paper by RJ in 'Research and Development for Industry, no 31, March 1964; this is in a folder along with internal Guinness reports on the continuous fermentation process; also 3 Guinness Patents: 976,663 Examining Solutions Photoelectrically, 986,343 Controlling Yeast Fermentation, 1,004,693 Continuous Production of Alcoholic Beverages; Box RJ4.

24. An Analytical Approach to the Simulation of a Real-time System, paper by RJ at the 5th Annual Symposium of AGIFORS, Chicago, 1965; also at the same conference, with Oisin O Siochru, Long-term Fleet Planning as a Step Towards an Integral Company Model. Both these are in a folder in Box RJ2 RJ08/06/10, labelled 'Chicago 1965'.

25. Organisational Structure, presentation to the Aer Lingus General Manager, from Innovation Group 18, July 1967. This group effort as well as the present writer involved Maurice Foley, Ken Holden and 4 others. It was a bottom-up response to a call for innovative management ideas. One can perhaps see the influence of Stafford Beer. I abstracted this experience into a presentation which I made in the Irish Management Institute in 1968, and I have reproduced this in the 1960s socio-technical module. Box RJ4.

26. Simulation and Validation, response to Prof TH Naylor, Proceedings of the 1972 IFORS conference, p219, North Holland / American Elsevier 1973; also in same Proceedings, Report on the Discussion Forum, p703. Both are accessible in full.

27. An Approach to National Manpower Planning in Science and Technology, Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society, Vol XXIII Part II, p21); this was delivered on January 9 1975 by RJ, co-authored with Genevieve Franklin.

Folder in Box RJ2 contains most if not all of the above papers; those labelled for some other box may turn up elsewhere. RJ 08/06/10.


Articles, Reviews and Letters in quality journals:

28. There is a letter headed Uneven Development in Technology in the US-published International Science and Technology (March 1963), and a review in Development (December 1966) of the OECD Report Science and Irish Economic Development. Box RJ4.

29. Irish Times Features: there was a series of five articles on January 9-13 1967 under the generic title Science in Ireland which was my contribution to the public discussions arising out of the 1964 OECD Report and the subsequent lobbying of the Council for Science and Technology in Ireland (CSTI) regarding the structuring of the then projected National Science Council. Box RJ2.

30. There were several in-depth reviews written during the 1960s, and these are collected in a folder, along with related correspondence. There is a letter from Maurice Harmon, editor of the University Review, seeking to publish the 1967 Irish Times series as a single integrated long paper. I sent him the material, but have no record whether it appeared or not. They might possibly be in the June 1967 issue. There is a copy of the Ray Keary Geology article in the Irish Times of May 26 1966, and my supportive letter as from the CSTI of June 7 1966. There is an article in Hibernia, May 1967, reviewing a book by Brian Murphy The Computer in Society which raises most of the key socio-technical issues which remained endemic up to the 1990s and even today. There is a critical review of Michael Woods Research in Ireland published in the August 1970 issue of the Irish Journal of Agricultural Research and Rural Sociology. There is a copy of a paper published in Léargas, August-September 1970, published by the Institute of Public Administration, entitled The Computer as an Analytical Mathematical Tool. Box RJ2.

31. The foregoing paved the way for the Irish Times Science and Technology Column which ran from January 1970 to December 1976, and is in principle available in full in ASCII, but I made a selection in the mid-1980s with a view to publication of a book by Tycooley, entitled In Search of Techne, and this is the basis of what is available here, being what I then considered to be perhaps of lasting interest, in the context of possible future studies of science and society, or science and government. Tycooley however collapsed, and I was left with an unpublished book on my hands, which at the time I had to leave on one side. It may however be of interest here in the context of studies of science and politics in the third world, ie the process of transition from colonial to post-colonial government, and the recognition of that science is not necessarily always simply and imperial tool. Bound printouts of two edited versions of In Search of Techne are in Box RJ2.

34. Reviews in Books Ireland and the Irish Times; these are in a folder in Box RJ4:
* Hamilton Academicals a review of TL Hankins' biography of WR Hamilton, Books Ireland December 1981;
* Why the Sky is Blue a review of the Brock et al collected essays on John Tyndall Books Ireland, May 1982;
* Science, Technology and Renewal Reviews:
Ireland in Transition, Kieran Kennedy (ed), Mercier £7.95;
Renewing a Local Economy, Connell Fanning, Cork UP NPG;
The Perversion of Science and Technology in Ireland, Derry Kelleher, Justice Books £2.50.
* The 1986 Science in Ireland 1800-1930 Conference Report with the sub-title 'Tradition and Reform' edited by JR Nudds et al, TCD and published by the TCD Physics Dept. I was asked by John Banville to review it for the Irish Times.

34.1 Rural Technology Reviews, probably Books Ireland, circa 1987:
Linen on the Green, Wallace Clark, Universities Press (Belfast), NPG;
The Quiet Revolution, Michael Shiel, O'Brien Press, £15;
Agriculture in Ireland: A Census Atlas; AA Horner, JA Walsh and JA Williams, UCD Geography Dept, £12.

35. Science and Technology in Irish National Culture, The Crane Bag, Forum Issue, Vol 7 no 2, 1983, p58. This was very badly proofed and has appalling misprints, but I have reproduced a corrected version which is related to the 'science and society' thread. See the RJ catalogued library.

35.1 Books Ireland, circa May 1991: Science and Culture;
More People and Places in Irish Science and Technology; ed Charles Mollan, William Davies, Brendan Finucane; Royal Irish Academy; £5.95, £10.95 HB.
Vulgar and Mechanick; JE Burnett & AD Morrison-Lowe; Royal Dublin Society; £15.00.

36. JD Bernal - Some Irish Influences, paper by RJ in Notes and Records of the Royal Society, London, Vol 47(1), 93-101 (1991). Ann Synge (who contributed Chapter 1 on the early Bernal, complementing my Chapter 2, to the book finally published by Verso in 1999) and I between us contributed two papers to NRRS in successive issues, based in the work we had done towards our respective chapters in the then projected Bernal biography; we were in despair at its ever coming out! Ann alas did not live to see her chapter in print. See the RJ catalogued library.

37. Physics on the Fringe, Physics World, July 1992; this career overview in its published form was edited down from the original version available here. Box RJ4.

37.1 Books Ireland, 1992: Religion, Nationality, Dissent:
The Dissenting Voice, by Flann Campbell; Blackstaff Press; 513pp; £13.95 UK pb; 0-85640- 457-8.
enegade, by Marjorie Quarton; Andre Deutch; 309pp; £14.99 UK; £16.60 IR; hb; 0-233- 98722-3.

37.2 Books Ireland circa March 1993: Fame and Nationality;
Great Northerners; Art Byrne and Sean McMahon; Poolbeg £6.99 pb;
Nine Ulster Lives; ed G O'Brien and P Roebuck; Ulster Historical Foundation, £7.95(st) pb;
Northern Ireland Scientist and Inventors; W Garvin and D O'Rawe; Blackstaff; £4.95(st) pb.

37.3 Robert Boyle: the Irish Connection (1994 Review);
Robert Boyle Reconsidered; Michael Hunter (ed); Cambridge UP; 1994

38. Science, Technology and Nationality - an Irish Example, paper by RJ in Planet the Welsh bi-monthly review, no 110, April-May 1995. See the RJ catalogued library.

39. Sustainable Development, report on the 1996 INES conference in Amsterdam, MSF Journal (Ireland) no 2, 1996. Along with other conference material, in Box RJ6, RJ08/06/10.

40. Science in India, review in Science and Public Policy Vol 24 #1, February 1997, of The Science of Empire, Z Baber, SUNY 1996. Box RJlib1.

41. Tableau 2 - Futures + Directions, ed June O'Reilly, Cork RTC, 1997; this contains my 'Green Science' paper. Box RJlib1

42. New Perspectives on Ireland, ed Daltun O Ceallaigh, Leirmheas 1998; this is mainly based on Greaves School papers, but includes an edited version of my 'Science and National Culture' material. Box RJlib1.

42.1 Books Ireland 1998: Republican Origins;
A Deeper Silence: the Hidden Origins of the United Irishmen; A T Q Stewart. Blackstaff Press, 225 pp, £9.99 pb 0-85640-642-2
The '98 Reader: Ed Padraic O'Farrell. Lilliput, 208 pp, pb, npg, 1-901866-03-3
William of Orange, a Dedicated Life 1650-1702: Cecil Kilpatrick. GOLI Eeucation Committee, 113pp, pb, £4, 0-9501444-7-9
1798 Myth and Truth: Derry Kelleher. Kestrel Books, 36pp, pb, £4, 1-900505-85-1

42.2 Irish Democrat December 1999:
Science and Colonialism in Ireland; Nicholas Whyte; Cork University Press; ISBN 1-85918-185-6; PB, NPG.

43. Science and Politics in the Irish Colonial to Post-Colonial Transition, Irish Literary Supplement, Boston, Fall 2001 (Reviews of Kelleher and McMillan books). Box RJlib1.

44. Biotechnology and Sustainability: a Local and Global Political Perspective, Farm and Food, Spring 2001 (Teagasc, ed Con O'Rourke). Box RJ4, with Planet.

Occasional Newspaper Articles:

45. Publications in journals of the Irish left (Review, Irish Democrat, the Plough, United Irishman): alas I do not have these; to resurrect them would be a major work; perhaps later during subsequent development of the hypertext knowledge-base. If I do find them I will decimalise them under 45.


(b) Selected Books and Papers in my possession, relating to Scientific and Political Development

Many of this group went to LH with the first batch; see at end of this page; most of the remainder are catalogued on the book-shelves of our house. RJ 08/06/10.

3. The Years Flew By, Sidney Gifford Czira, Gifford and Craven, Dublin 1974; I have used her Ferguson aircraft reference on several occasions. Box RJ3.

12. Operations Research in Ireland, Julian Mac Airt, Mercier Press, Cork, 1988. See the RJ catalogued library.

14. 1916 as History, C Desmond Greaves, Fulcrum Press 1991; Box RJ3.

18. Independent Spirit, essays by Hubert Butler, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York, 1996; Box RJ3.

19.1 The Committee, Sean McPhilemy, Roberts Rinehart, Colorado, USA, 1998. This book has been the subject of litigation, and is not easily accessible. It attempts to unearth the nature of the leading strategic body in Unionist politics, said to be an informal and secretive committee spanning political unionism, loyalist paramilitarism, agencies of the State and the Orange Order. That some such network probably exists has been common conjecture. This attempt to expose it however is flawed, probably as a result of it being dominated by disinformation and false trails propagated by the real 'committee', if such exists. A good starting point for a re-assessment of this question might be to ascertain the exact processes whereby the August 1969 pogrom was planned and executed using the forces of the State against the unarmed Catholic people of West Belfast. This event provoked a demand for 'arms to defend the people' and provided the political basis for the subsequent emergence of the Provisionals. Was the strategic intent of the pogrom therefore to kill the demand for Civil Rights and to re-invent the IRA in military mode, thus justifying the need for continued Unionist repression? Box RJlib2.

20. Folder containing Cathal Goulding funeral record, 1999 Ard Fheis agenda, Goulding oration at Jim Sullivan's funeral 1991. See also f11 below. Box RJ6 RJ08/06/10.

21. Buried Alive in Ireland, Derry Kelleher, Justice Books, 2001; Box RJ3.

22. Irish Republicanism - the Authentic Perspective, Derry Kelleher, Justice Books, 2001; Box RJ3.

23. 'Republican Sinn Fein' stuff received from Ruairi O Bradaigh, 2001; Box RJ6 RJ08/06/10.


(c) Reports for Government Agencies, Project Reports etc

This group sub-divides into broadly-defined techno-economic and socio-technical areas. The former addresses the question 'how will this technological innovation affect the economics of the operation?' The latter addresses the question 'how will this innovation affect the people concerned, and how can they be best motivated to implement it?'

There were various reports published in the 70s and 80s, mostly in consultancy mode; these are 'grey' publications, in some cases accessible in the libraries of the client organisations, but never actually 'published'.

There were also some EU project reports in the 1990s, mostly in the domain of knowledge-base and learning-resource architecture.

Techno-economic
1. Folder containing technical papers and correspondence relating to the production of methane gas from farmyard manure, circa 1958. This led to an article in the Irish Times
Methane from Manure; there is a typescript copy. The correspondence is with F Mignotte in France and engineer Padraig O Hailpin in Dublin. Box RJ2 RJ08/06/10

1.1 Envelope containing research reports from the Guinness Production Research Group. Box RJ1.

1.2 Folders containing Aer Lingus material relating to the analysis of company overhead costs, in the context of the development of a total company model; also some notes on techno-economic analysis of business processes, produced in 1970 as raw material for postgraduate supervision work, I have filed in Box RJ2 RJ08/06/10.

3. An Empirical Model of as Commercial Tomato Production Unit in Ireland, RJ with JS Hickey, IA Kinsella and PC O'Kane; this, and the following related reports, were accounts of techno-economic modelling MSc projects implemented by the Foster TCD OR group in the early 1970s; all in Box RJ2 RJ08/06/10.
3.1 An Evaluation by Simulation of the Profitability of the Production of Flax in Ireland; Divilly et al, 1971. Box RJ2 RJ08/06/10
3.2 A Deterministic Simulation of Locomotive Allocation in the Irish Rail System; A ni Eigeartaigh & G Franklin, 1971. Box RJ2 RJ08/06/10.
3.3 The Cost of Seasonality in Milk Supply; report to Bord Bainne by RJ, 1974; this is associated with a related MSc thesis by Hooper et al. Box RJ2 RJ08/06/10

4. Report and source-programme relating to an analysis of fishing-port performance, sponsored by Gaeltarra Eireann, 1974. Box RJ2 RJ08/06/10.

5. A folder containing a selection of TCD-related OR-type project material from the period 1971 to 1975 is retained in Box RJ2 RJ08/06/10.

6. Legislation, Energy Conservation and the Balance of Payments; 'Conserve', 1975; this memorandum was circulated to TDs from an ad-hoc group of engineers and concerned citizens convened by RJ, the objective being to oppose the then proposed investment in a nuclear power plant at Carnsore Point Co Wexford. Along with supportive documentation it resides in a folder in Box RJ2 RJ08/06/10.

7. Folder containing anaerobic digestion correspondence, notes, papers, articles associated with the period 1973-75 resides in Box RJ2.

8. Technology and the Economy as Interacting Systems, paper by RJ in Technology Ireland, vol 9 no 10, January 1978; Box RJ2 RJ08/06/10.

9. Biomass System Analysis; report by RJ for the National Board for Science and Technology, 1980; Box RJ2 RJ 08/06/10.

10. Folder with New Hibernia correspondence (Breasal O Caollai) and unpublished article re the IIRS management crisis; also Kelleher material re techno-economics of Whitegate Refinery. December 1984. Box RJ1.

10.1 Folder containing some notes developed with Crotty on the modelling of livestock production systems, in the context of Crotty's book, circa 1984. Box RJ1.

Folder containing some anaerobic digestion project concets and related correspondence, arising from the 1970s oil crisis, and some related R&D concepts relating to renewable energy. Box RJ2 RJ 08/06/10.

Socio-technical
11. On the Variability of Concert Audiences: Memo prepared for the Committee of the Culwick Choral Society, circa 1958, containing an analysis of concerts from 1939 to 1957, with ticket sales analysed by outlet, and concerts analysed by genre. This I count as a pioneering episode in what later emerged in operations research as the 'philosophy of the unplanned experiment'. Box RJ2 RJ08/06/10.

12. Folder containing papers relating to the Council for Science and Technology in Ireland (CSTI) (mid-1960s), followed by those of the Kane-Bernal Association which followed in (early 1970s), in association with Derry Kelleher. Box RJ2 RJ08/06/10.

13. A Paper folder in Box RJ2 contains, along with the above Books Ireland reviews, 3 documents relating to socio-technical work in the 1970s:
* An article in Business and Finance 19 December 1974 discussing the need for a National Board for Science and Technology.
* A conference contribution to a meeting of the Society of College Lecturers, being a reply to a paper by Páid McMenamin of the Industrial Development Authority, on Industrial Expansion and the Composition of the Labour Force; I made the case for a procedure for converting science graduates to engineers in a postgraduate process.
* An article entitled ARC in the May 1980 issue of Trade and Industry outlining the experience of the TCD Applied Research Consultancy Group in its 4 years of prior existence.

14. On the Feasibility of a European Regional Genetic Resources Information Network; Robert Friel and RHW Johnston; TCD Applied Research and Consultancy Group, January 1979. Box RJ2 RJ08/06/10

15. A National Marine Data-Bank; Robert Friel, RHW Johnston and Daphne Levinge; TCD ARC Group, May 1979. Box RJ1.

16. Folder containing notes towards a briefing for the Ballymun Community Co-op identifying potential enterprise opportunities; this leaned on the experience of Mike Cooley's 'Greater London Enterprise Board'. There was some Youth Employment Agency support, and a projected link with the National Institute of Higher Education (NIHE Dublin) in Glasnevin. Circa 1984. Box RJ1.

17. Community Enterprise and the RTCs, Reports to the Youth Employment Agency and the National Enterprise Agency, April and November 1985; the first covered Dundalk, Athlone and Tralee, and the second covered the other six, NIHE Limerick, the Dublin Institute of Technology and University College Dublin. Box RJ1.

18. Community Enterprise and the 3rd-level Colleges; Practical Manual for the use of Community Enterprise Activists, December 1986; this was based on the earlier Reports to the YEA and NEA, April and November 1985. Box RJ1

19. Folder containing material relating to the Shannon Development project on identifying regional linkages with Brittany; 1986; Box RJ1.

20. Research and Technological Development Linkages between Less Favoured Regions of the European Community; National Board for Science and Technology, 1986; cf Dr Stan Nielsen. Box RJ1

21. The NIHE as an Accessible Technology Business Resource...; Shannon Development, July 1987. There is also an associated file of correspondence with the NIHE people and with Shannon Development. Box RJ2 RJ 08/06/10.

22. The Mentec Customer Analysis System; March 1988; cf Dr Mike Peirce. This failed because it ran into socio-technical barriers of a type subsequently identified. Box RJ1

23. Folder containing profiles of various small Irish high-tech firms, translated into Franch, which were used in an exploratory mission seeking to identify potential partnerships via the BC-NET process, circa 1989. Box RJ1

24. An Information Technology Uptake Support Environment; Roy Johnston and Barry Rhodes (Interactive Multimedia Systems). This paper was published in the Engineers' Journal, Volume 46, March 1993, pp16-19, Institution of Engineers of Ireland. It had been read, along with a demonstration of the system, at a meeting of the Electrical, Electronic and Computing Division of the IEI on Jan 21 1993.

(d) Minutes and other records of relevant organisations

4. A file of the weekly internal Sinn Fein newsletter Nuacht Naisiunta, running from its initiation in September 1969 up to June 1976 was kept by Derry Kelleher, and I have used it extensively, especially for the period 1969-70. This has been donated to the Workers Party archive, on the understanding that it will be set up accessibly for historical scholarship. This archive contains much useful pre-split republican material.

5. The Dublin Wolfe Tone Society minutes are in the custody of Anthony Coughlan; he has enabled me to abstract them, and my abstract is available, subject to his copyright. The WTS archive includes a copy of a TCD student publication entitled 1916-1966 published in 1966 as a commemoration; it has papers from 17 authors, including an outline political manifesto by RJ entitled Ahead.

Transferred to Linen Hall in first batch:

1. Folders (grouped by year) containing internal Irish Workers League material from the period 1949 to 1954, including conference resolutions, and a leaflet on the Ballyfermot Co-op. The 1949 folder contains a memo from Muriel McSwiney dated 1944, which however is outside the scope of this study. I have abstracted as much of this material as seems relevant, starting with the 1940s political module and continuing into the 1950s module. Box RJ5LH.

2. The Sinn Fein minutes from the 1960s and early 70s, and the Ard Fheis reports, which were made accessible courtesy of the Workers' Party, which has organisational continuity with the 1960s Sinn Fein. These contain in 1964 a reference to, and outline of, the present writer's 'Economic Resistance' article in the United Irishman, and later in 1970 a reference to the 'Freedom Manifesto' published after the Ard Fheis; this is hotlinked to a copy of the complete document, of which the present writer was the author. The latter 2 documents are in Box RJ3LH.

3. I have cross-referenced my analysis of the Garland January 1966 'captured documents' from the Sinn Fein record; they help fill a gap in the Ard Fheis sequence, and relate to how the Army Council saw Sinn Fein during 1965-66. These are available via the National Archive (ref 98/6/495) and I am indebted to Matt Treacy a TCD postgraduate student for picking them up, in the context of his researches into the period. This and my SF Minutes notes are in Box RJ3LH, in a blue IPA folder. This also contains the 'Commission Report' of 1969 (which I have scanned in; this version arrived via a Quaker Unionist NI source) and the 1998 special United Irishman commemorative issue which contains the memoir by Mick Ryan. Also in RJ3LH is a folder containing some backup documentation relating to the Commission meetings, which I have not attempted to analyse; the work of the Commission during 1969 was overtaken by events, and I judged the latter to be more relevant to the narrative.

Some of my own WTS papers relating to the WTS I have also abstracted, and these are available in Box RJ5LH; these include some notes from 1965 relating to republican politicisation at the basic grassroots level, and the Tuairisc 7 paper Our Ideas by Anthony Coughlan, which fuelled the 1966 Maghera meetings of Republican Clubs, where the Civil Rights approach to Norther Ireland politics was first introduced. There is also an abstract of the 1967 Coughlan plan for WTS development. The WTS held a conference in Carrickmacross in November 1972, and C Desmond Greaves read a paper England's Responsibility for the Crisis in Ireland. This was subsequently published in Atlantis, No 5, April 1973, and is here reproduced in full, along with my own 'Irish Utopias' paper which appeared in the same issue.

6. Minutes of the Technology Group of the Institute of Physics (Irish Branch) exist in a folder in box RJ1LH. Some relevant points in these have been abstracted in the 1980s socio-technical stream.

Green Party records are incomplete, but I have grouped such material as is available in folders by year, and sometimes by topic within year. This should not be seen as a history of the Green party, but simply an indication of the present writer's contribution to it.

7. 'Green Party' folder 1990-1991 includes notes on the use of the Internet, and material on regional policy development. Box RJ7LH.

8. Folder 1992 has some Green policy development papers, and included letters to Roger Garland and then to Trevor Sargent, after the latter's election, attempting to make the case for taking seriously the potential of the Internet. Box RJ7LH.

9. 'Green' folder 1993 has some record of an attempt to introduce the 'social wage' concept into the political currency, both via the Green Party and also via Ruairi Quinn and the Labour Party. Box RJ7LH.

10. There is a 1994 Geen folder containing miscellaneous policy material relating to the European election, including records of an expedition to the West in support of Richard Douthwaite's candidacy. Box RJ7LH.

There is probably more to come eventually, in the hypertext, for the 1990s in this sequence.

(e) Public Record Office Sources

1. New Ireland Forum, Report of proceedings, public session, October 11 1983; contains submission by the present writer, Micheal O Loinsigh and others; box RJ3LH.

2. The Garland January 1966 'captured documents'; these help fill a gap in the Ard Fheis sequence, and relate to how the Army Council saw Sinn Fein during 1965-66. These are available via the National Archive (ref 98/6/495) and I am indebted to Matt Treacy for picking them up, in the context of his researches into the period. I have put them in an 'Institute of Public Administration' folder along with some Ard Fheis material, and a 1962 Government assessment of the risk of a general release, in Box RJ3LH.

I have attempted to track down a record of the Lynch-Heath talks which took place in 1971-72, without much success; these related to the EEC and to the North. At the time we suspected the gestation of a 'Federal deal' in the context of the EEC accession, with Ireland going in as a British satellite, in return for concessions leading towards 'national unity'. I regard the analysis of this aspect as unfinished business; I have attempted to outline what I thought at the time in the 1970s political module of the hypertext.

(f) Personal Papers, letters etc.

Personal papers relating to various political and scientific processes; correspondence relating to possible employments, project proposals etc; this was cherry-picked and the LH selection is groped at the bottom. The RJ6 box exists and contains much of this group, so we group this first; note that the numbering of each folder has ceased to have significance. RJ 08/06/10.

7. 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. Box RJ6, RJ08/06/10.

15. '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. Box RJ6, RJ08/06/10.

17. Bofin: some correspondence relating to a community co-operative project on Inis Bofin; we attempted this in 1972-3. Box RJ6, RJ08/06/10.

18. Resources Study Group material dating circa 1972. Box RJ6, RJ08/06/10.

27. 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. Box RJ6, RJ08/06/10.

29. '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. Box RJ6, RJ08/06/10.

30. 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. Box RJ6, RJ08/06/10.

32. There is a folder labelled 'Foster / UNU 1986' which contains 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. Box RJ6, RJ08/06/10.

34. Folder 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. Box RJ6, RJ08/06/10..

36. 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'. Box RJ6, RJ08/06/10.

42. 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. Box RJ6, RJ08/06/10.

44. 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. Box RJ6, RJ08/06/10.

45. 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. Box RJ6, RJ08/06/10.

46. 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. Box RJ6, RJ08/06/10.

49. 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. Box RJ6, RJ08/06/10.

51: see 44.

52. 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. This was not successful, but it surfaced again a decade later and remains on the agenda. Box RJ6, RJ08/06/10.

61. Folder with additional 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. Box RJ6, RJ08/06/10.

Remaining to be located:

24. 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. Box RJ5.

25. Paddy Farrington in Vietnam 1981-82; correspondence. Box RJ5.

26. Folder with material relating to the Peace Technology Group, Futures Society etc, circa 1982, done via TCD Industrial Liaison Office. Box RJ5

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.

31. 'Crane Bag' 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. Box RJ3.

33. 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.

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.

37. Folder with Links Europa file, incomplete, from 1986 to 1993, with some correspondence with the Editor Rosemary Ross. Box RJ5.

38. 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. Box RJ5.

39. Folder with EU proposal for 'distributed intellectual resources database' project, in association with Foster in TCD; 1985. Box RJ1

40. 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. Box RJ1

48. Towards the end of the 1980s I attempted unsuccessfully to re-establish a relationship with the Irish Times, and there is some correspondence about this in a folder saved in Box RJ5.

50. Folder dated 1991 with 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.

54. 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. Box RJ7.

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

56. 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.

57. Folder containing some Green party material for 1995, including correspondence with Patricia McKenna and Anthony Coughlan about the divorce referendum. Box RJ7.

58. 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. Box RJ7.

59. 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.

62. The 1998 Green Party folder 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 hypertext.. Box RJ7.

64. 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. Box RJ7.

65. (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).


(g) Miscellaneous other archival sources

1. The Desmond Greaves Journals, which I have scanned courtesy of Anthony Coughlan his executor, have proved to be a useful source of insights into the development of the political left from the mid 1940s onwards. I have abstracted them in decade modules, as feeders for the political thread. I have overviewed them in a sequence of 2 modules which are associated with the political Appendix. The decade detail modules are also available; the 1940s module contains Volumes 7, 8 and 9; the earlier volumes I pass over, though they will of course be of great interest to any biographer; we first encountered Greaves in 1946 when we were active as the student left in the Promethean Society. The 1950s module contains Volumes 10 to 13, and the 1960s modules contain Volumes 14 to 21. There are 3 successive chained modules of Greaves material in the 1960s. (The 60s are much richer needless to say.) There are two chained modules in the 1970s, and one in the 1980s.

2. Miscellaneous documentation related to the development of the Irish Green party.

(h) Other Relevant Books, mostly but not always in my possession

Those marked * have indexed references to me in their texts. I am in process of going through these systematically, and to deliver 'hot-linked' critical responses via the hypertext support for this 'Century' book, where I have not done so already. I want to place on record here that, with the exception of Henry Patterson, none of the authors mentioned ever checked things out with me, though I was always available at the time the book was written. Any other books I find which reference me I will add to this list, and add responses if I consider it necessary. My experience of most of these references is that they are often erroneous and dependent totally on mentions in the contemporary press. Note that if I make additions to the numbered chronological sequence subsequent to the finalising of this list for the printed edition, I add them in as decimal inserts to the sequence.

1. The Social Function of Science, JD Bernal FRS, Routledge Kegan Paul 1939; this book was influential during the early TCD Promethean Society epoch; see also his subsequent The Freedom of Necessity, RKP 1949. (TCD Library).

2. The Life and Times of James Connolly and Liam Mellows and the Irish Revolution, C Desmond Greaves, Lawrence and Wishart, 1960 and 1971 respectively. Box RJlib1. Greaves had set himself the task of encouraging the development of independent Marxist thought within Ireland, and ensuring that the Irish when they emigrated to Britain learned to act politically in the Irish interest, the vehicle for this being the Connolly Association, with its paper the Irish Democrat. I have partially abstracted his journal, which he kept from the 1930s to his death in 1988, where it bears on this narrative, in the hypertext. An overview is accessible from Appendix 10.

2.1 Malachi-Stilt-Jack: A Study of WB Years and his work, Brian Farrington, Connolly Publications 1965. This was produced in the context of the 1916-66 celebrations and fuelled a Wolfe Tone Society seminar. Box RJlib1

3. The WTS History sub-committee was helpful in the production of The First Dail by Maire Comerford, published by Joe Clarke, 1969. She was a regular attender at the WTS meetings. RJlib1.

4. * Ireland Since the Famine, FSL Lyons, Collins/Fontana 1973. Box RJlib2.

5. * Memoirs of a Revolutionary, Sean Mac Stiofain, Gordon Cremonesi, 1975; this has references to the present writer, and provides several anchor-points for comment (TCD Library).

6. * The IRA, the Secret Army, J Bowyer Bell, Academy Press, 1979; this also deserves some critical comment which I have given in the Critics module. See also 11.1 below. Box RJlib2.

7. * Communism in Modern Ireland, Mike Milotte, Gill & Macmillan 1984; also needs critical comment. Box RJlib2.

8. * The Provisional IRA, P Bishop & E Mallie, Heinemann, London, 1987. Box RJlib2.

9. * Disillusioned Decades, Tim Pat Coogan, Gill & Macmillan 1987. Box RJlib2.

9.1 * The Politics of Illusion (republican and socialism in modern Ireland), Henry Patterson, Hutchinson Radius, London, 1989.

10. * Andrée Sheehy-Skeffington, Owen Sheehy-Skeffington's widow, wrote a biography Skeff which was published by Lilliput in 1991. I contributed material to her, which she acknowledged. Box RJ3.

11. * Heresy: the Battle of Ideas in Modern Ireland, Desmond Fennell, Blackstaff 1993. Box RJlib2.

11.1 The Irish Troubles: a Generation of Violence 1967-1992, J Bowyer Bell, Gill and Macmillan 1993. See also the Critics module.

12. * 20th Century Ireland, Nation and State, Dermot Keogh, Gill & Macmillan, 1994. This work by an academic historian is so sloppy as to hardly merit a mention, but it is of interest because of a reference to both myself and my father as subversives. Box RJlib2.

12.1 Inventing Ireland, Declan Kiberd, Vintage 1996. Box RJlib1.

13. Maurice Laheen, the Tuam local historian, put me in touch with John Cunningham who wrote a chapter on RM Burke's life and times for John A Claffey's Glimpses of Tuam since the Famine (Tuam 1997; ISBN_0_9530250_0_4).

14. Home Rule as Rome Rule, Derry Kelleher, Justice Books, 1997, based on his November 1996 address to the UCC Philosophical Society. Box RJlib1.

15. * Memoir: My Life and Themes, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Poolbeg, 1998. Box RJlib2.

16. * Science and Colonialism in Ireland, Nicholas Whyte, Cork UP 1999. Box RJlib2.

17. Elephants Against Rome, C Desmond Geaves, Learmheas 1999; preface by Anthony Cronin and introduction by Anthony Coughlan; an epic poem dealing with the writer's early experience in left-wing anti-fascist politics in the 1930s and 40s. Box RJlib1.

18. * Ireland and Empire, Stephen Howe, Oxford UP, 2000. RJlib2. This leans heavily on the Patterson and Purdie analyses; I have commented in the Critics module.

19. * The Arms Trial, Justin O'Brien, Gill & Macmillan 2000 (TCD Library); this has references to the present writer on which I have hung some commentary in a separate file. It also confirms contemporary 'official' republican analyses of the role of Fianna Fail, as outlined in Nuacht Naisiunta during the Easter 1970 period.

20. For Protestant Self-Determination, CM Hussey, Dunesk Press, 2001; this thoughtful historical analysis of the Ulster situation deserves in-depth review, and I hope to do this in the current context, with further additions to the hypertext. Box RJlib2.

21. * A Secret History of the IRA, Ed Moloney, Penguin, London, 2002. While being a competent history of the Provisional campaign and its eventual politicisation led by Adams, the treatment of the origins of the Provisionals at the end of the 1960s leaves much to be desired, and I have commented in the Critics module. Attic, case 5, shelf 2R

22. * Sinn Fein: 100 Turbulent Years, Brian Feeney, O'Brien Press, Dubllin, 2002. This book deserves credit as an attempt to show the historical continuity of Sinn Fein over the century, in popular narrative form. Feeney's analysis of the current role of Sinn Fein in the political mainstream is however somewhat uncritical, almost promotional. It is to be regretted that he fails to pick up the irony of the Provisional politicisation process following some of the paths which we tried to pioneer in the 1960s, though the parallel is far from exact. I have commented in the Critics module. Attic, case 5, shelf 3L

23. Ireland and Postcolonial Theory, ed Clare Carroll and Patricia King, Cork University Press, 2003. This important offering based on mostly US scholarship breaks new ground in Irish cultural studies; I review it for the October 2003 Irish Democrat. Attic, case 1, shelf 5R.

24. JD Bernal: the Sage of Science, Andrew Brown, Oxford UP 2005. This definitive biography is based on extensive researches in the Bernal archive, acknowledging the Brenda Swann work; it complements effectively the 1999 Verso publication listed above, #5 in the RJ authorship section. Attic, case 1, shelf 3R.


What follows went to LH in first batch:

From Group b:

1. Folder containing SF Ard Feis records (incomplete) from 1964 to 1969; also the Roy Garland (UUP) version of the 1969 'Garland Commission Report'. I have included a 1962 report on the state of the IRA from the Minister for Justice to the Cabinet with these. Box RJ3LH.

2. Where We Stand, Tomas Mac Giolla; Carrickmore Republican Clubs Conference, 1972; reprinted by Workers Party 2000; Box RJ3LH.

4. Economic and Social Implications of the Political Alternatives that may be open to Northern Ireland, ed Norman Gibson, NUU Social Sciences, 1975. Box RJ5LH.

5. The Ripening of Time - this pocket-sized left-wing theoretical quarterly ran from December 1975 at least up to October 1980 and perhaps later; I have a complete series Nos 1 to 13 (January 1980). It was produced by a group which preferred to remain obscure; it had an anarcho-Trotskyist flavour, and was critical of the USSR. I read a paper to the Wolfe Tone Society on January 24 1978, and I sent them a copy, which they published in No 9, March 1978. Derry Kelleher had a paper in No 11, February 1979. The RoT people lumped these together, and did a critical reply to mine in No 13, October 1980, and promised one on Kelleher, but I don't have it. This is raw material for the 1970s political thread. Box RJ3LH.

6. Co-operation and Community Development in the West of Ireland, Patrick Commins, 5th international seminar on marginal regions, TCD, July-August 1979; Box RJ3LH.

7. De Valera Centenary Publication Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, 1982; this was a stimulus for the present writer to try to reopen relations with it, as a follow-on from the TCD Applied Research Consultancy contract. There is correspondence with Ken Whitaker, Stan Nielsen and others. It was a false trail. Box RJ4LH.

8. On to the Republic, Derry Kelleher, Ripening of Time, 1982; Box RJ3LH.

9. Coalition?, Derry Kelleher, Justice Books 1, 1984; Box RJ3LH.

10. Garret's Bloodied Scenario, Derry Kelleher, Justice Books 2, 1986; Box RJ3LH.

11. An Alien Ideology, Derry Kelleher, Justice Books 3, 1986; Box RJ3LH.

13. An Open Letter to Ian Paisley, Derry Kelleher, Justice Books 6, 1990; Box RJ3LH.

15. Skeff, Andrée Sheehy-Skeffington, Lilliput 1991; there is inserted also the original of my September 1978 MS notes for Andrée S-S, which she used as the basis for her references to the 1940s student left in the book, without acknowledgement, and MS letters from OSS to RJ dated 23-25/04/56, on issues relating to the exposure of Stalin; Box RJ3LH.

16. Patterns of Betrayal, Sean Garland et al; Workers Party, 1992; this is their response to the Democratic Left breakaway; Box RJ3LH.

17. Caorthann 1994-95, a fringe Green theoretical publication edited by Laurence Cox, this includes material published by me, in particular a paper on A Green Paradigm for Nationality. Box RJ7LH.

19. Bodenstown 1998, Sean Garland, Workers Party 1998; Box RJ3LH.

From subsequent groups:

1. Folder with 1950s correspondence: Owen Edwards and the 1913 Club, Brian Farrington on Stalin, Plough material in draft, notes on the Wolfe Tone diaries; raw material for the development of politics in the black 1950s. Box RJ5LH.

2. Folder with Connolly Association correspondence, mostly with Desmond Greaves, from the period 1963-68. (I have copied the Greaves letters for the Coughlan archive.) Box RJ5LH.

3. Folder with material relating to the 1964 Sinn Fein draft social and economic programme, including some critical notes by RJ. Box RJ5LH.

4. Folder containing Wolfe Tone material 1964-66, including correspondence with George Gilmore in 1966, and 'economic resistance' papers. Also the Minister Des O'Malley correspondence re Griffith Barricks and the housing crisis. Also the NI Republican Clubs Constitution, and the 1966 Independent 'red scare exposure'. Box RJ5LH.

5. Folder containing the earlier Irish Times series January 9-13 1967 on 'Science in Ireland', and the original more extended paper from which the series was condensed. Box RJ2LH.

6. Folder with material relating to the Pierre Tielhard de Chardin Society of Ireland; circa 1967; Derry Kelleher and the writer took an interest in this, in the then fashionable spirit of enquiry into issues relating to Marxism and Christianity. This episode has been placed on record by Risteard O Glaisne in Irish published by Coscéim in 1994. Box RJ2LH.

8. Folder containing a limited amount of 1967-68 Sinn Fein-related material, including correspondence with Derek Peters and Betty Sinclair about the NICRA and how to improve its relationship with the Republican Clubs, primarily regarding arrest without trial etc. It also includes letters from Anthony Coughlan on the abstention question, 'Definition of Socialism' material, draft recruiting leaflet material for the 26 and 6 counties, and miscellaeous correspondence relating to educational conferences etc. Box RJ5LH.

9. Folder containing Wolfe Tone Society material mostly from 1968, supplementary to the Society's records as salvaged and retained by Anthony Coughlan. It includes a copy of the 'Text-books in Irish' report compiled by Micheal O Loinshigh et al in May 1968, and a report of the Maire Mac an tSaoi lecture of July 1967. It includes the August 1968 circular which enshrined the present writer's still-persisting broad-spectrum agenda, at a time when the focus was already narrowing to Civil Rights in the North. Box RJ5LH.

10. Folder with some 'dirty tricks department' material attempting to undermine the politicisation process 1964-73; some from 'ultra-left' sources, others Special Branch forgeries. Box RJ5LH.

11. Folder containing a few papers related to the NICRA, including the original Constitution, the January 1969 constitutional revision memorandum, a slanted press cutting suggesting 'IRA infiltration', the June 1969 'Ultimatum to Stormont' leaflet, and a September 1969 draft of a document supportive of the 'Civil and Political Rights Covenant' campaign. There is also a copy of the abortive August 24 1968 'Dungannon Declaration' which Anthony Coughlan had drafted and attempted to convey as the public message from the Coalisland-Dungannon march, but for which the transmission procedure failed through an unfortunate misunderstanding, between the Dublin WTS people and the NICRA. Fred Heatley mistakenly blocked it, claiming it was an 'Army Council statement'. Box RJ5LH. (I am retaining copies of the latter 2 documents in Box RJ3, in the Cathal Goulding folder b20 above.)

12. Folder containg miscellaneous correspondence relating to local SF work in 1969; this includes the record of the meeting of the Pearse Cumann with George Gilmore and the Rev Ned Watson, the correspondence with Mercy Simms. and also the draft notes for organisers for November 1969, prior to the Ard Fheis on January 1970. Box RJ5LH.

13. Folder with some cuttings and correspondence arising out of the August 1969 crisis, including letters to Bernadette Devlin, Noel Browne and Justin Keating; this material has mostly been abstracted in the 1960s political thread, in its context. Box RJ5LH.

14. Folder with some Sinn Fein material circa 1970; includes the Crowe episode, where an aging bachelor farmer was seeking a successor. Box RJ6LH.

16. Miscellaneous cuttings and correspondence etc connected with my resignation from SF in January 1972. Box RJ6LH.

19. Miscellaneous Common Market (Study Group and Defence Campaign) notes from the period 1966 to 1972. Box RJ6LH.

20. A folder with some 1973 Moscow Peace Conference material contains support for some initiatives relating to technology transfer to the third world, treated in the techno-economic stream. It also contains material relating to the political stream, as regards the composition of the group attending the conference, in the context of the republican politicisation process, and the convergence with the Left. Box RJ6LH.

21. Folder containing some CPI material relating to the period 1974-1978, selected papers from which I have reproduced in the 1970s module of the political stream; these relate to partition economics, the 'left alternative' and the 'science and society' question. Box RJ6LH.

22. Folder with material relating to the 'Irish Alternative' meetings which took place in 1977 around Sunningdale-time; this was an attempt to reach out to the IRSP and the Provisionals from the Left, which proved abortive. Box RJ6LH.

23. Folder with Operations Research Society of Ireland material for the period 1977-1980, including conference abstracts and attendances, and some lecture demonstration notes (in a separate folder). Box RJ6LH.

32. Government by Duplicity, a review by RJ of Tom Jones Whitehall Diaries Volume III (on Ireland); this appeared in Atlantis 4, September 1972; box RJ5LH.

33. The New Ireland - Utopian or Scientific? paper by RJ in Atlantis 5, April 1973. I reproduce this in full in the hypertext; it encapsulates the essentials of my vision at the beginning of my post-SF epoch. This vintage issue of a publication edited by Seamus Deane contained papers bt Desmond Greaves, Desmond Fennell, Jack Bennett, JW Foster, WJ McCormack, Lelia Doolan, Ed Walsh and many others; Atlantis was beginning to assume a mantle not unlike that of the Bell and the Irish Statesman; it is a pity if did not survive. Box RJ5LH

41. Two folders relating to the Constitution Club, which existed in the period 1986-1988, and involved the present writer along with Desmond Fennell, Tom Barrington, Ray Crotty, John Robb and a few others in an attempt to influence public opinion in the direction of Regional Government. One folder collects most if not all of the papers presented, including one by the present writer on the 'Regional Technopole' concept, while the other contains minutes and correspondence. Box RJ6LH.

43. Folder containing political feelers to Haughey, Spring, Quinn re Science & Technology policy, 1984-88. Box RJ1LH

47. Folder with political correspondence late 1980s, including a Brendan Clifford review and subsequent correspondence; includes also a 1989 memo on the Gorbachev situation in the USSR. Box RJ5LH.

53. Folder with Campaign for Democracy material 1991-1993, and Robert Lynd School material 1992; also correspondence with Senator Gordon Wilson. It contains also the original of my Irish Times letter dated 11/12/1992 relating John Taylor and the Donegal-Derry question to the opportunities presented by Maastricht. Box RJ8LH.

60. Copy of the 1992 Towards a Lasting Peace in Ireland manifesto published by Sinn Fein, containing 1994 Irish Times letter and related correspondence with Gerry Adams, and a 1996 fax to John Hume. Box RJ8LH.

63. Folder with correspondence between the present writer and leadimg members of the Orange Order, covering the period 1996-1999. The contacts were Henry Reid and Cecil Kilpatrick. I have reproduced some of the outgoing correspondence, but the incoming is handwritten. I later got to review Kilpatrick's popularising biography of William of Orange for Books Ireland, providing an opportunity to link it with Kelleher's 1798 bicenenary offering. Box RJ7LH.


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