Upstart : friends, foes and founding a university / Ed Walsh ; with Kieran Fagan.

By:

Walsh, Edward M

Contributor(s):

Fagan, Kieran

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cork : Collins, [2011]Description: x, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781848891234 (hbk.)
1848891237 (hbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

378.4 WAL

Summary: Ed Walsh returned to Ireland in 1970 to blunder into setting up an institute of education. He found a decaying mansion on a riverside site, gathered talented young people and secured funding from the World Bank and European Investment Bank to build what became the University of Limerick. Along the way, Ed made powerful enemies as he challenged official cant, traditional academics and clerical humbug. This is an inspiring, frank and often funny memoir by a passionate educational leader.

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Title notes ( 3 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	378.4 WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100518985

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

With surprising candor, Ed Walsh, the son of a butcher who founded the University of Limerick, gives us a frank and often funny memoir of his academic and political battles as he founded the first new university in Ireland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ed Walsh returned to Ireland in 1970 to blunder into setting up an institute of education. He found a decaying mansion on a riverside site, gathered talented young people and secured funding from the World Bank and European Investment Bank to build what became the University of Limerick. Along the way, Ed made powerful enemies as he challenged official cant, traditional academics and clerical humbug. This is an inspiring, frank and often funny memoir by a passionate educational leader.