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Chair & Treasurer
Dr Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh, mofathartaigh@hotmail.com
Secretary
Geraldine McAdam, jim.mcadam100@outlook.com
Website and Social Media Manager
Maureen Kilgore, webmasterahsi@gmail.com
All Committee Members (including officers)
Professor Patricia Lysaght, Professor emerita of European Ethnology and Folklore,
University College Dublin
Seamus Caulfield caulfieldann@gmail.com
Peter Moser peter.moser@agrararchiv.ch
Declan O’Briain dobriain21@hotmail.com
Maureen Kilgore, Manager Irish Agroforestry Forum, Vice President European Agroforestry Federation.
Agriculturalist specialising in agroforestry education and promotion, low-input agricultural practices and environmental sustainability. Keen interest in the history of family farms and the role of women in farming in Ireland and other countries.
Professor (Hon) Jim McAdam, QUB.
Agricultural scientist with background in grassland ecology, agronomy and agroforestry systems. Current interests include farming on islands, trees on farms, the history of Irish agriculture and the impact of potential climate change on land use in Ireland and the Falkland Islands.
Jim.mcadam100@outlook.com
Dr Meriel McClatchie, School of Archaeology, University College Dublin.
Main areas of research: Environmental Archaeology, archaeobotany and ancient
foods.
Profile meriel.mcclatchie@ucd.ie.
Geraldine McAdam.
Interest in all aspects of rural history, life and people. Board
member of Cookstown and Western Shores Rural Development Assn.
Dr Karen Molloy, School of Geography, NUI, Galway.
Palaeoecologist specialising in pollen analysis of lake and bog cores. My research has focussed on long-term climate change and the role people have played in shaping the Irish landscape from the
Neolithic period through to present time.
Dr Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh, Rural Economy and Development Programme, Teagasc;
Social Sciences Research Centre, NUIG.
Agricultural historian interested in modern and contemporary agricultural history in Ireland, including the development of the advisory services, the development of the dairy industry, the regional development agenda and structural systems in Irish agriculture. mofathartaigh@hotmail.com.
Dr Dermot Ruane. UCD, School of Agriculture and Food Science, Agribusiness and
Rural Development.
Continuing interests: Agriculture, Farm Buildings, Farm
Management, Rural Development and Applied Agricultural Sciences. Current Special
Interest: Higher Agricultural Education Development in Ireland (19th and 20th
Centuries).
dermot.ruane@ucd.ie
Dr Helen Sheridan, UCD, Ag. Food Sci. International and EU agri-environmental policy
in relation to Ireland.
helen.sheridan@ucd.ie