Tomás Roseingrave
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Roseingrave was born at GortGort
Gort is a town in south County Galway in the west of Ireland. An Gort is the official Irish name for the town, as defined by the Placenames Commission. In spoken Irish, however, the town is known by its traditional name Gort Inse Guaire. It lies just north of the border with County Clare on the...
, County Galway
County Galway
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, to Thomas Roseingrave (an engineer) and Nora McMahon, in 1918. He was educated at the O'Brien Institute, Dublin, between 1928 and 1934, later working for the Dublin Port and Milling Company, and later still for Ceimici Teoranta, in 1965.
He earned a Master's Degree
Master's degree
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in social science at University College, Dublin, in the early 1960s, where he would later become a senior research fello. In 1967 he became director of manpower studies in the Department of Labour. It was in this capacity that he published a number of influential reports on Irish regional development, none more so that Manpower in an industrial growth centre:a survery in Waterford.
A member of Muintir na Tire
Muintir na Tíre
Muintir na Tíre is a national Irish voluntary organisation dedicated to promoting the process of community development. Canon Hayes founded the organisation in 1937. It aims to enhance the capacities of people in communities, rural and urban, to become involved in local social, economic, cultural...
, he was in 1968 made its second national director. His reports while at Munintir na Tire were well received at government level and played a significant part in the examination of the problems current in rural Ireland in the 1970s.
Ireland
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joined the EEC
EEC
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in 1973, and from then till his death, Roseingrave was member of the EEC's Economic and Social Committee, acting as a rapporteur
Rapporteur
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for many of it's opinions, particulary in new areas pertaining to community and technology. His work was recognised by an award of the gold medal of the Foundation for European Merit in 1982. Five years later, he was distinguished when made a Grand Officer of the Institute for Diplomatic Relations. Through Home Truth, an RTE
RTE
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programme that ran from 1966 to 1968, and his weekly broadcasting work on RTE
RTE
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radio, he became associated in the public mind as the public face of Irish social sciences.
A keen Irish language
Irish language
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enthusiast and a member of the Gaelic League, Roseingrave was a member of the Gaelic Athletic Association
Gaelic Athletic Association
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, the RTE review committe and a member of the Dublin Institute of Adult Education.
Personal life
On 21 August 1945, Roseingrave married Ellen Goulding, with whom he had two sons and four daughters. They lived in DundrumDundrum
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, Dublin. A son, Tom, died suddenly in November 2006. A daughter, Siobhan Roseingrave, stood during the Irish general election, 2011 as the lone Independent
Independent (politician)
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female candidate in the constituency of Wexford
Wexford
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.
Roseingrave died in St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, in August 1993, after lving much of his life in the city.
Bibilography
- Manpower in an industrial growth centre:a survey in Waterford, The Stationary Office, Dublin, 1969.
- Community development and the goals of development in Ireland, 1974.
- Some aspects of community development as a method of social work, 1975.
- Social research as a basis for social planning, 1975.
See also
- Daniel RoseingraveDaniel RoseingraveDaniel Roseingrave was an Irish organist and composer. He was organist at Gloucester Cathedral , Winchester Cathedral and Salisbury Cathedral , Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin together with St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin in 1698-1719. He composed some church music including a verse anthem Lord,...
, died 1727. - Thomas RoseingraveThomas RoseingraveThomas Roseingrave was an Irish musician and organist.-Early years:He was born at Winchester but spent his early years in Dublin, studying music with his father, Daniel Roseingrave. In 1707 he entered Trinity College but failed to complete his degree...
, c. 1690-1766. - Ralph Roseingrave, c. 1695-1747.
External links
- http://www.ena.lu/tomas-roseingrave-020704297.html
- http://www.ucd.ie/ucdnews/feb96/book.html
- http://irishelectionliterature.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/leaflet-from-siobhan-roseingrave-independent-wexford/
- http://www.rip.ie/death_notices_detail.asp?NoticeID=7650