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 | | From: | Genealogical Society of Ireland | | Subject: | New Director Appointed | | Date: | 20 Jan 2005 12:50:14 -0800 |
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 | IRISH GOVERNMENT PRESS RELEASE 20/01/2005
Irish Minister for Arts, Sport & Tourism, Mr. John O'Donoghue welcomes
Appointment of Director of the National Library of Ireland.
John O'Donoghue T.D., Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, today
(Thursday, 20 January, 2005) welcomed the announcement by the Council
of Trustees of the National Library of Ireland of the appointment of
Mr Aongus O'hAonghusa as Director.
Minister O'Donoghue said "I wish Mr O'hAonghusa, who has been Acting
Director of the National Library since September 2003, every success
in his new appointment. I am confident that Mr. O'hAonghusa's
appointment will ensure the efficient and effective transition of the
National Library to autonomous status under the National Cultural
Institutions Act 1997 and that, under his stewardship, the Library
will continue to grow in international stature."
Michael Merrigan
Hon. Secretary
Genealogical Society of Ireland
www.familyhistory.ie
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| | From: | Sean J Murphy | | Subject: | Re: New Director Appointed | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 02:00:32 -0000 |
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| "Genealogical Society of Ireland" wrote in message
news:d25a4234.0501201250.75c40f01@posting.google.com...
> IRISH GOVERNMENT PRESS RELEASE 20/01/2005
>
> Irish Minister for Arts, Sport & Tourism, Mr. John O'Donoghue welcomes
> Appointment of Director of the National Library of Ireland.
>
> John O'Donoghue T.D., Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, today
> (Thursday, 20 January, 2005) welcomed the announcement by the Council
> of Trustees of the National Library of Ireland of the appointment of
> Mr Aongus O'hAonghusa as Director.
>
> Minister O'Donoghue said "I wish Mr O'hAonghusa, who has been Acting
> Director of the National Library since September 2003, every success
> in his new appointment. I am confident that Mr. O'hAonghusa's
> appointment will ensure the efficient and effective transition of the
> National Library to autonomous status under the National Cultural
> Institutions Act 1997 and that, under his stewardship, the Library
> will continue to grow in international stature."
Hmmm . . . I thought that the National Cultural Institutions Act 1997 was to
be implemented this month, that it would facilitate the appointment of a new
autonomous Board for the National Library, and that it would be left to this
Board to confirm the appointment of a permanent Director. Or is the act
being put into implementation at this very moment? There is still no Chief
Herald, and it remains to be seen if the Library Director will again be
called upon to take on this additional job, or whether it will remain vacant
or fall into abeyance. Clients who have been waiting for signatures for
their patents since September 2003 must be increasingly concerned, and again
it should be pointed out that a specific statute is required if Irish
armorial grants are to be safely resumed, as Section 13 of the 1997 act is
inadequate as it stands. Strange to think that these problems would probably
have remained unnoticed had not one Terence MacCarthy somehow persuaded the
then Chief Herald and his Deputy to oblige him with a certificate of Gaelic
chiefship in 1992.
Sean Murphy
An Irish Arms Crisis
http://homepage.eircom.net/~seanjmurphy/chiefs/armscrisis.htm
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