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University of Limerick doctorate is ‘greatest honour’ says founding president Ed Walsh (Limerick Leader)
By Staff Reporter
IT HAS been 12 years since Dr Edward Walsh left the university he founded, but yesterday he was finally presented with an honorary doctorate from UL.
After serving as university president for 28 years, Dr Walsh said yesterday: “This is the greatest honour of my life.”
“My life has been so much associated with the university. I had the marvellous job for 28 years working here, and just seeing a fantastic team of university staff, faculty and students making a name for this place; the first university created since the foundation of the State.”
Dr Walsh said it was a “fantastic honour” to receive the doctorate from president Don Barry, another UL president from his native county of Cork.
“I can’t think of anything better,” he said of the honour, before joking: “For 28 years I only received abuse.”
“We had lots of fun, even during the difficult times. I’m hugely proud of it (the university] and delighted to be back here at the heart of the campus.”
Let’s hope all Ed Walsh’s successors will take his “baby†and develop it to its full potential.
Limerick students share architecture award
FRANK McDONALD Environment Editor
FINAL-YEAR architecture students at the University of Limerick have been awarded joint first prize at an international design workshop in Hamburg where they competed against entrants from Barcelona, Istanbul, Oxford, Sheffield Stockholm, Okinawa and Hamburg.
The award was announced on Saturday following a week-long “Art and City†workshop to generate ideas to connect Hamburg’s docklands area – known as Hafen City – to the city centre. One of the adjudicators was Hamburg’s chief architect and city planner.
Merritt Bucholz, director of the Limerick school of architecture, said they were all thrilled to win such a prestigious prize – especially at a time when architects in Ireland faced such difficult times, with up to 50 per cent estimated to be unemployed due to the recession.
All of the participating design teams had the opportunity to present their ideas to the people of Hamburg during the workshop, and it is intended that their designs will be published in a catalogue for Hafen City towards the end of this year, the organisers said.
© 2010 The Irish Times
Nice to see UL’s Architectural School delivering on an international stage. 😎
“Art and City†workshop link
I’m sorry but I’m lost on that website or stage…
@missarchi wrote:
I’m sorry but I’m lost on that website or stage…
Hmmm . . . . I linked to the English version and its navigation is easy enough by following the drill-down links?
Planning Application 10809 (Clare County Council)
For the upgrading and improvement of an existing pedestrian walkway and the linkage of the route to the existing Cappavilla student village.
The planning application seeks both permission and RETENTION permission as follows:
a) Planning permission for the provision of a board walk section measuring approx. 657 metres
b) Planning permission for the provision of upgrading materials over a section measuring approx. 823 metres
c) Planning permission for permanent RETENTION of a portion of boardwalk measuring approx. 45 metres
d) Planning permission for permanent RETENTION of an upgraded portion of the walkway measuring approx. 585 metres
e) Planning permission for a new route to link the upgraded walkway to Cappavilla student village measuring approx. 205 metres.
The upgraded and improved walkway is located close to the southern boundary of the University’s Clare campus and will be for pedestrian use only.
Garraun, Clonlara, Co. Clare
The existing 45 metre boardwalk for retention should give people a good idea as to how the planned 657 metre section will look like. A simple wooden-plank construction to walk on without any railing. It runs right along the water edge embedded among the river reeds. Obviously a very nice place to stroll, wouldn’t be too surprised if some wild-life issues come up.
ECOFACT are the environmental consultants.
@CologneMike wrote:
Let’s hope all Ed Walsh’s successors will take his “baby†and develop it to its full potential.
28 years as college president. 😡
@CologneMike wrote:
Hmmm . . . . I linked to the English version and its navigation is easy enough by following the drill-down links?
interesting description of SAUL from website
Most architecture schools are located in cities. As SAUL is not in a city, :confused:
Having said that well done to them
Contracts signed on Development of North Bank Sports Pitches and Pavilion Building at UL (Link)
50 construction jobs have been created as a result of the contract signing today for the development of state of the art, all weather sports pitches and a Sports Pavilion Building of the North campus of the University of Limerick. The development, which includes a full sized GAA pitch, two soccer pitches and a rugby pitch, all fully floodlit, is due for completion in September 2011 in time for the 2011/2012 academic year. The Pavilion Building comprises changing rooms, squad rooms, coaching rooms, together with bar, restaurant and conference facilities. The development will cost €9m, which will be funded from a number of sources including income raised from the operation of the facility and from funding generated from campus based commercial activities.
The University of Limerick has a proud tradition of providing excellent sports facilities for its students, staff and the wider community. The University Arena, with Ireland’s first Olympic sized pool, a boathouse with Ireland’s only indoor powered rowing tank, an outdoor all weather athletic facilities and numerous field sports pitches are just some of the facilities available.
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Anyone have an update on the UL Medical Building, I was around UL the other week and there doesn’t seem to be any progress since Christmas? As the project stalled?
@lukejr wrote:
Anyone have an update on the UL Medical Building, I was around UL the other week and there doesn’t seem to be any progress since Christmas? As the project stalled?
It has stopped, according to this Limerick Leader article from early April, which means that construction stopped sometime in mid March.
CONSTRUCTION work has halted at the site of the €16m medical school at the University of Limerick, with fears that it may not open as planned this coming September.
Work on site had been slowing down since Christmas, and came to a complete standstill a fortnight ago.
It remains unclear when the outstanding works will resume, but the university is in discussions with the main contractor.
Looks like the group is being wound up:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2011/0504/1224296003488.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2011/0422/1224295255509.htmlThe plans for the extension of the library and for the redesign of the central core of the PESS building are up on the county council website.
http://www.lcc.ie/ePlan/InternetEnquiry/rpt_ViewApplicDetails.asp?validFileNum=1&app_num_file=11487
http://www.lcc.ie/ePlan/InternetEnquiry/rpt_ViewApplicDetails.asp?validFileNum=1&app_num_file=101182The renders of the library look very impressive. and the redesign of the PESS building will be a vast improvement. That lecture hall that is there at the moment is awful. A new sports hall is included in the plans too.
The Irish phobia of building anything above four storeys manifests itself again – and this in a location where there aren’t any houses for a radius of a mile.
UPSTART ~ ED WALSH
Friends, Foes and Founding a University
Ed Walsh, son of a Cork butcher, returned to Ireland in 1970 to blunder into setting up an institute of education when Limerick wanted a university.
Ireland’s academic and religious ‘old boys’ clubs’ attempted to put manners on Ed.
But he found a decaying mansion on a riverside site and gathered talented young people.
Soon officialdom came to dread Ed’s letters and the certainty that if they didn’t reply to his satisfaction, he’d be bounding into their Dublin sanctums in short order.
Limerick’s National Institute of Higher Education opened two years later.
Despite a vicious recession Ed secured funding from the World Bank and European Investment Bank to build what became the University of Limerick.
He made powerful enemies as he challenged official cant, traditional academics and clerical humbug.
Later he won the support of a reclusive Irish-American who secretly pumped millions into the Limerick campus and later throughout Ireland.
With surprising candour Ed describes his academic and political struggles, and his efforts to straddle the divide between warring factions.
It seems to have all the ingredients of a good read. I’ll put it on my wish list for Christmas.
Some activity on the medical school site in the past few weeks. Not sure if it’s full steam ahead or if they’re just weather proofing the site after it was abandoned last year. Also the new sports pavillion is nearly complete. They were taking down the timber fence and blocking the construction entrance today. It’s got a very elaborate entrance.
It seems to have all the ingredients of a good read. I’ll put it on my wish list for Christmas.
In actual fact, Walsh seems to be an innovator in form as far as biography is concerned.
Never seen a man’s diary used so fixedly in generating the narrative of an autobiography.
Seldom much reflection on his then actions or motives.Have it on your wish-list for other people to get for you.
But not a good personal buy.My wish-list has the founding of a proper independent Arts & Humanities faculty in UL — something Walsh never seemed to see the need for (I wonder why so was that now . . . ) .
@teak wrote:
Never seen a man’s diary used so fixedly in generating the narrative of an autobiography.
Sounds like a “Captain‘s Logbook”. I’ll have to wait until St. Stephen’s day before commenting.
A quick update on the works at the PESS building in UL. Seems to be progressing nicely.
The windows were going in to the Medical School when I passed today. It’s not the nicest building I’ve seen but it will be great to have that side of the campus finished for the time being.
Also a recent issue of An Focal the student paper led with the story of a new student centre being planned for the carpark near the Languages Building. Apparently the stables complex is outdated and a new centre is needed.
Medical School Accommodation
Medical School
They are a year behind schedule due to the original builder going bust.
Photos from Sparky No 1
Here is a nice shot of the Sports Pavilion near the Medical School.
Hope they never have issues with flooding!
Photo from Sparky No 1
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