Professor Mary Daly
Principal, UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies
Mary E. Daly graduated from UCD with a double-first in History and Economics and a research Masters in History, which secured an NUI Travelling Studentship. Her doctoral research was carried out at Nuffield College Oxford. She has been a member of the UCD Faculty since 1973, and has also held visiting positions at Harvard and Boston College. Her teaching and research has concentrated on 19th and 20th century Ireland. She has written 8 books, and edited/co-authored 5 books and numerous articles. Mary has also played an active role outside UCD, as a member of the National Archives Advisory Council and the Irish Manuscripts Commission. Secretary of the Royal Irish Academy 2000-2004, she was vice-chair of the Academy’s Working Group on Higher Education, whose report was published in July 2005.
The College of Arts and Celtic Studies contains the largest and the most distinguished group of scholars in humanities in Ireland, and it offers the most diverse range of undergraduate and graduate programmes. The College is the custodian of major repositories: the Irish Folklore Archive; the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute – which guards the priceless manuscript holdings of the Irish Franciscans, and the UCD Archives, which is a major resource for the history of modern Ireland. I hope that the College will play a major part in making UCD a leading Europe research university by expanding its strong publications’ record; developing a strong graduate school and initiating research projects that capitalise on UCD’s holdings and strengthen our links with other major research universities.
