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DR kevin Kiely pearse oshiel Dr Pádraig Lenihan louise lennon
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Kevin, born in County Down, who holds Pearse is chairman of Lifeways Ireland Before becoming an academic Pádraig Louise is Policy and Com u ni cations Officer
a PhD in modernist and postmodernist CLG the charity that achieved state served in the army for 14 years, retiring of Irish Rural Links, a national network of
poetry, is a poet, a novelist, a literary critic, recog ni tion for the Steiner schools in at the rank of captain. He was a lecturer organisations and individuals campaig n -
an American Fulbright Scholar. He is also Clare and Galway. He teaches in the areas in history at the University of Galway until ing for sustainable rural development
a commentator on poetry, literature, and of the philosophy of education with earlier this year. The study of European in Ireland and Europe. She represents IRL
the arts in Village Magazine, The Irish Inde - particular emphasis on Goethe’s radical warfare in the period 1641–1715 forms at Community & Volun tary (C&V) Pillar
pen dent, Books Ireland, The Journal of the epistemol ogy. He has worked over the the backbone of his research and writing Bilateral meetings with various Govern -
E. E. Cummings Society, The Inter na tional past 35 years to support the establish - career. This study includes weaponry, ment Departments and is the secretariat
Wallace Stevens Journal, and other publi - ment of alter native schools at kinder - tactics, and manoeuvre (the ‘sharp end’ for the C&V Pillar Health Linkage Group.
ca tions. His many works include Quintesse garten, primary, and secondary levels. of warfare) alongside such societal quest - She is the C&V Pillar representative on the
(St Martin’s Press, New York, 1985) and He maintains a research interest that ions as state-building, recruitment, logis - Public Participation Network National
Breakfast with Sylvia (Lagan Press, Belfast, seeks to expose the assumptions that tics, disease, strategy and cultural issues Advisory Group. She represents IRL on the

2015) for which he was awarded the underpin the scien tific and tech nolog ical such as memorialization and represen - Implementation Group of Our Rural Future,
Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry. culture and mode of thought that has tation. His many military history publica - Ireland’s Rural Development Policy, the
engulfed our lives with a view to explor - tions include Confederate Catholics at war, Euro pean Rural Parliament, and Coalition
ing other ways of coming to know the 1641–1649 (2001) and 1690 Battle of the 2030, and supports the co-ordinator of the
world. Pearse is also chair man of Cooper - Boyne (2003). He also wrote Consolidating European Rural Communities Alliance.
ative Housing Ireland and a found ing conquest: Ireland 1603–1727 (2008) a sur - She is the IRL alternate for the Common

member of Inis Housing Associ ation. vey of Irish history, and The Last Cavalier: Agri cultural Policy Strategic Plan Monitor -
Currently he is pre par ing a series of on line Richard Talbot (1631–91) (2014) a biog - ing Committee, PEACE IV, and Interreg
videos aiming to make his research raphy of a pivotal and controversial figure. VA monitoring committees. Louise has
access ible to a general audience. In 2018 he co-edited Poema De Hibernia: also worked on a number of EU Funded
A Jacobite Latin Epic on the Williamite Wars projects IRL has partnered on: RUBIZMO,
which the editors believe to have been SustainIT, and NICHE.
composed by Thomas Nugent of Pallas
County Galway.

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