PResident's RePORt 2009/2010 - University College Cork

Foreword
UCC at a Glance
Academic Developments
Teaching and Learning
Research
College Reports:
Arts, Celtic
Studies and Social
Sciences
Business and Law
Medicine and Health
Science, Engineering and
Food Science
Events
Student Experience
Sports and Recreation
Buildings and Estates
Cork University Press
Finance
Governing Body
IRIS Appendix
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Cork University Press
In 2009/2010, Cork University Press experienced the best financial
outcome in its 86-year history. This success was achieved despite
tough trading conditions with sales in the Irish book trade down
by 16 per cent.
For the first time, a number of CUP patrons were appointed to
enhance the profile of the press. They are Brian McCarthy, Executive
Chairman, Fexco (Chairman of Cork University Foundation Board),
Alan Crosbie, TCH Holdings and Lord David Puttnam.
Professor Grace Neville, Vice President for Teaching and Learning,
took over as chair of the publications committee from Professor
Dermot Keogh.
19 new CUP titles were published in 2009/2010
including:
JG Farrell in His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries
edited by Lavinia Greacen. The late JG Farrell made the news
by winning the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010. RTE plan to use
the book as a basis of a radio documentary on JG Farrell and
the last days of his life, spent in West Cork.
Going to the Well for Water: The Seamus Ennis Field Diary
1942-1946 edited by Ríonach uí Ógáin. Cathal Goan, Director
General of RTÉ, who officially launched the book, said that that
this was more than a book because it was an important piece of
primary research. The book went on to sell out in hardback and
has been republished as a paperback edition.
Aloys Fleischmann (1880-1964): Immigrant Musician in
Ireland was published as part of the wider centenary celebrations
of his son Aloys Fleischmann, Professor of Music, UCC. The
book was launched by Niall Toibin, who was also conferred with
an honorary degree by the university this year.
Gold, Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey, 1896-1924
was published to great acclaim by former UCC PhD student
Kevin McCarthy. Bill Mallon, the world’s foremost expert on
Olympic history, said “This is a remarkable book. It looks at Irish
athletes in the Olympic Games from 1896-1954, during most of
which time Ireland did not exist as an independent state.”
Unlikely Radicals: Irish Post-Primary Teachers and the ASTI,
1909-2009 was published to celebrate the centenary of ASTI.
The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian edited by Shane Alcobia-
Murphy and Richard Kirkland is the first collection of essays
solely dedicated to the achievement of this remarkable Irish
poet.