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Professor John Doran was appointed interim President of TU Dublin in April 2024.

Academic Qualifications:

• PhD Physics, Trinity College Dublin
• BA(Mod) Experimental Physics, Trinity College Dublin

Following several years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Physics at Trinity College and within the Optronics Ireland Programme for Advanced Technology, John joined the Dublin Institute of Technology as a physics lecturer in 1996. He was appointed as Assistant Head of School in 2003 and as Head of School of Physics, Clinical & Optometric Sciences in 2009. During his time in school leadership, the school has grown significantly, with more than a doubling of both undergraduate and postgraduate students. He was awarded a professorship from Dublin Institute of Technology in 2017 and was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and Health at TU Dublin in 2022. 

He has extensive experience of working with various health services in Ireland, and of the regulatory environment through many years involvement with CORU, the Health & Social Care Professions Council, in various roles including membership of the Optical Registration Board.

His research has focused on the fundamental physics and the applications of quantum semiconductor structures and other nanomaterials. Over the past 20 years, this research has concentrated on the applications of these materials in solar energy technology and has demonstrated significant performance enhancement of solar concentration and photovoltaic technologies through the novel incorporation of plasmonic materials. He has been a member of several large European research consortia, funded through various EU Framework programmes, and has also been awarded research funding through the Irish Research Council, the European Space Agency and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland.

If you wish to contact Professor John Doran, please email [email protected] . 

David Fitzpatrick obituary: ‘The most influential Irish historian of his generation’

Fitzpatrick made an outstanding and, at times, controversial contribution to irish historiography at trinity college.

Historian David Fitzpatrick in his office in the arts block of TCD. Fitzpatrick was also a multi-instrumentalist musician, and, while at Oxford, learned how to programme a mainframe computer. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

David Patrick Brian Fitzpatrick   Born: May 25th, 1948  Died: February 20th, 2018

Described by Roy Foster as “the most original and influential Irish historian of his generation”, David Fitzpatrick, who has died aged 70, was an Irish-Australian who made an outstanding and, at times, controversial contribution to Irish historiography in a career at Trinity College, Dublin, from 1979, where he was elected to fellowship, very unusually, after just three years, and which culminated in the university creating a special chair of history for him.

Starting at the University of Melbourne, he proceeded to Dublin via a PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge and post-graduate fellowships at Nuffield College, Oxford and Melbourne from 1971-1979.

His Cambridge thesis, a study of Co Clare during the revolutionary period from 1913 to 1921, resulted in his first full-length book, Politics and Irish Society (1977), one of the first works of professional history on an Irish theme to benefit from a rigorous application of statistical material to an often emotionally-charged narrative. His TCD colleague, Dr William (Bill) Vaughan, remarks of this that “you would be hard put to find a book” dealing with Irish history, published any earlier in the 20th century, which achieved this.

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Careful and fastidious

UCD economic historian Prof Cormac Ó Gráda told The Irish Times this week that “David Fitzpatrick was a careful and fastidious historian. He will be remembered for his deep, sometimes contrarian, insights and for his takes on a bewilderingly wide range of themes.”

Viewed at from today’s perspective, Foster wrote in a paper delivered last year at TCD, at a symposium to mark Fitzpatrick’s retirement, that politics and Irish society “now seems to mark an important moment in Irish historiography . . . representing a new way to write about the upheavals of 1916-23: astringent, impartial, alert to contradiction and paradox, . . . widening the comparative and theoretical perspective on Irish experience”.

David Fitzpatrick’s Cambridge thesis, a study of Co Clare during the revolutionary period from 1913 to 1921, resulted in his first full-length book

Very critical of previous historiography by some well-known Irish historians of earlier generations, Fitzpatrick eschewed hagiography and sentimentality, Foster remarking that “it takes apart the different worlds” of its subject matter, with a “caustic edge” and “sarcastically lapidary descriptions” of many of the people involved.

Fitzpatrick’s further work was especially distinguished by his studies of Irish emigration. Starting with a brief study in 1984, Irish Emigration 1801-1921, it culminated in what is probably his best-known and major work, Oceans of Consolation, (1995), another ground-breaking book, this time about Irish people’s experiences of emigration to Australia, based on exhaustive researches of letters sent home to relatives and friends in Ireland by people who had made new lives there.

It was a success both with the general public and with professional critics in journals including the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Times Review of Books, bringing out another striking aspect of Fitzpatrick’s writing, well described by Foster last year in his TCD paper as “the ability to listen to the human voices of history” which sprang from “a unique sense of empathy [which] re-creates the world of forgotten people”.

Fitzpatrick also contributed two chapters on Irish emigration, one on the Irish in Britain, to the Oxford New History of Ireland, published under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy, of which he was elected a member. A new book, on the “Americanisation” of Irish culture, is due for publication this autumn.

Fitzpatrick’s interest in people was to the fore in his study of Irish Protestants after 1796, Descendancy (2014), which dealt with the lives of the ordinary Irish Protestants in the last two centuries, working and lower middle class people rather than the landed gentry; and in his three noted biographies, of War of Independence hero Harry Boland (2003), the Irish-speaking Church of Ireland Bishop of Connor, Frederick MacNeice (father of the poet, Louis) (2012) and, most recently, of Ernest Blythe (2018) who had been, Fitzpatrick sensationally discovered, a member at one time of the Orange Order.

David Fitzpatrick was described as a ‘careful and fastidious historian’ by UCD economic historian Prof Cormac Ó Gráda

Sheer eclecticism

This sheer eclecticism manifested itself also in his lecture rooms and tutorials. Convinced that he had to understand his undergraduates better, Fitzpatrick became an avid fan of the Harry Potter series of novels, reading them on trains from Belfast, where he resided after his marriage to military historian Jane Leonard in 1999, and often dividing up his tutorial students into “wizards” and “muggles”, the better to get them to vigorously examine a subject for discussion.

A man of very wide interests, Fitzpatrick was a multi-instrumentalist musician, and, while at Oxford, learned how to programme a mainframe computer.

Fascinatingly, another academic colleague in historical studies, speaking on condition of anonymity, believes that crucial to Fitzpatrick’s story was his fraught relationship with his father, Brian Fitzpatrick, a famous Australian socialist journalist and historian of the mid-20th century, who had left his family while David was still a child, and who may have bequeathed a dislike of authority to his only son.

“David was very easy to deal with as a colleague, [but] he . . . always spoke his mind,” he says of this, adding that this independence of spirit probably influenced Fitzpatrick’s aloofness when it came to university politics – he refused, for instance, to join his colleagues in membership of the Irish Federation of University Teachers, and also his stout – and for him unusual – public defence of his former graduate student, the late historian Peter Hart, whose study of the IRA in Co Cork during the War of Independence and the Civil War, Violence and Community in Cork, attracted the ire of some staunchly nationalist commentators.

Fitzpatrick’s mother Dorothy (nee Davies) was also an historian, as was his only sibling, Sheila, who was renowned for her work on Soviet Russia. He is survived by his widow, and their children, Julia and Hannah, and by his first wife, Georgina (nee Haigh), also an academic, and their children, Brian and Meg, and by his sister.

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15 men brought to military enlistment office after mass brawl in Moscow Oblast

Local security forces brought 15 men to a military enlistment office after a mass brawl at a warehouse of the Russian Wildberries company in Elektrostal, Moscow Oblast on Feb. 8, Russian Telegram channel Shot reported .

29 people were also taken to police stations. Among the arrested were citizens of Kyrgyzstan.

A mass brawl involving over 100 employees and security personnel broke out at the Wildberries warehouse in Elektrostal on Dec. 8.

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Touring the Top 10 Moscow Metro Stations

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Komsomolskaya metro station looks like a museum. It has vaulted ceilings and baroque decor.

Hidden underground, in the heart of Moscow, are historical and architectural treasures of Russia. These are Soviet-era creations – the metro stations of Moscow.

Our guide Maria introduced these elaborate metro stations as “the palaces for the people.” Built between 1937 and 1955, each station holds its own history and stories. Stalin had the idea of building beautiful underground spaces that the masses could enjoy. They would look like museums, art centers, concert halls, palaces and churches. Each would have a different theme. None would be alike.

The two-hour private tour was with a former Intourist tour guide named Maria. Maria lived in Moscow all her life and through the communist era of 60s to 90s. She has been a tour guide for more than 30 years. Being in her 60s, she moved rather quickly for her age. We traveled and crammed with Maria and other Muscovites on the metro to visit 10 different metro stations.

Arrow showing the direction of metro line 1 and 2

Moscow subways are very clean

To Maria, every street, metro and building told a story. I couldn’t keep up with her stories. I don’t remember most of what she said because I was just thrilled being in Moscow.   Added to that, she spilled out so many Russian words and names, which to one who can’t read Cyrillic, sounded so foreign and could be easily forgotten.

The metro tour was the first part of our all day tour of Moscow with Maria. Here are the stations we visited:

1. Komsomolskaya Metro Station  is the most beautiful of them all. Painted yellow and decorated with chandeliers, gold leaves and semi precious stones, the station looks like a stately museum. And possibly decorated like a palace. I saw Komsomolskaya first, before the rest of the stations upon arrival in Moscow by train from St. Petersburg.

2. Revolution Square Metro Station (Ploshchad Revolyutsii) has marble arches and 72 bronze sculptures designed by Alexey Dushkin. The marble arches are flanked by the bronze sculptures. If you look closely you will see passersby touching the bronze dog's nose. Legend has it that good luck comes to those who touch the dog's nose.

Touch the dog's nose for good luck. At the Revolution Square station

Revolution Square Metro Station

3. Arbatskaya Metro Station served as a shelter during the Soviet-era. It is one of the largest and the deepest metro stations in Moscow.

Arbatskaya Metro Station

4. Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station was built in 1935 and named after the Russian State Library. It is located near the library and has a big mosaic portrait of Lenin and yellow ceramic tiles on the track walls.

Lenin's portrait at the Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station

5. Kievskaya Metro Station was one of the first to be completed in Moscow. Named after the capital city of Ukraine by Kiev-born, Nikita Khruschev, Stalin's successor.

Kievskaya Metro Station

6. Novoslobodskaya Metro Station  was built in 1952. It has 32 stained glass murals with brass borders.

Novoslobodskaya metro station

7. Kurskaya Metro Station was one of the first few to be built in Moscow in 1938. It has ceiling panels and artwork showing Soviet leadership, Soviet lifestyle and political power. It has a dome with patriotic slogans decorated with red stars representing the Soviet's World War II Hall of Fame. Kurskaya Metro Station is a must-visit station in Moscow.

Ceiling panel and artworks at Kurskaya Metro Station

8. Mayakovskaya Metro Station built in 1938. It was named after Russian poet Vladmir Mayakovsky. This is one of the most beautiful metro stations in the world with 34 mosaics painted by Alexander Deyneka.

Mayakovskaya station

One of the over 30 ceiling mosaics in Mayakovskaya metro station

9. Belorusskaya Metro Station is named after the people of Belarus. In the picture below, there are statues of 3 members of the Partisan Resistance in Belarus during World War II. The statues were sculpted by Sergei Orlov, S. Rabinovich and I. Slonim.

10. Teatralnaya Metro Station (Theatre Metro Station) is located near the Bolshoi Theatre.

Teatralnaya Metro Station decorated with porcelain figures .

Taking the metro's escalator at the end of the tour with Maria the tour guide.

Have you visited the Moscow Metro? Leave your comment below.

January 15, 2017 at 8:17 am

An excellent read! Thanks for much for sharing the Russian metro system with us. We're heading to Moscow in April and exploring the metro stations were on our list and after reading your post, I'm even more excited to go visit them. Thanks again 🙂

December 6, 2017 at 10:45 pm

Hi, do you remember which tour company you contacted for this tour?

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Putin taunts the West with 'first ever' visit to remote ice-covered 'frontier region' just 55 miles from the US - as Zelensky tries to drum up war support in Lithuania

• Chukotka is Russia's easternmost region, sharing a maritime border with Alaska

President Vladimir Putin  has arrived for his first-ever presidential visit to Chukotka in Russia 's Far East - just 55 miles from the US state of Alaska . 

Putin arrived in Anadyr, the local capital of the Chukotka region this morning after flying from Moscow some nine time zones away. 

Chukotka is the easternmost region of Russia, with a maritime border on the Bering Strait with Alaska.

The Russian president was met in Anadyr by a motorcade and was whisked away in a limousine amid frigid temperatures of -28C. 

It's the closest he has come to US soil since he met with President  Barack Obama in New York City in 2015.

Chukotka is so close to Alaska that Roman Abramovich - the ex-Chelsea FC owner - was reported to fly to Anchorage in Alaska for lunch when he was the governor of the region from 2001 - 2008.

Putin's visit comes at a time when US-Russian relations are at their lowest ebb in decades amid the war in Ukraine and a growing East-West divide. 

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today landed in Lithuania as part of an unannounced trip to the Baltic states to drum up more support for the conflict. 

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'Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are our reliable friends and principled partners. Today, I arrived in Vilnius before going to Tallinn and Riga,' Zelensky said on social media platform X, formerly Twitter.

'Security, EU and NATO integration, cooperation on electronic warfare and drones, and further coordination of European support are all on the agenda,' he said.

The Baltic tour marks Zelensky's first official trip abroad this year.

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Following his trip to Chukotka, Putin is expected to visit several regions in the Russian Far East to boost his re-election campaign amid the war with Ukraine, which has seen more than 300,000 Russians killed or maimed.

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