Royal Irish Academy
Academy Committee for Geography
The Academy Committee
for Geography was created during a reorganisation of the Royal Irish
Academy in 2004. It is the direct successor of the former National
Committee for Geography, but it also inherited the responsibilities
of the National Commission for the Teaching of Geography. It is
one of very few single discipline Committees to have survived the
reorganisation.
Committee members represent
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Geography Departments in third level
academic institutions throughout Ireland
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Ordnance Survey Ireland,
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Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland,
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Geographical Society of Ireland,
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Association of Geography Teachers of
Ireland
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Geological Society of Ireland,
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Environmental Protection Agency
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Royal Irish Academy
The current
Chairman is Dr Dennis Pringle (National University of Ireland,
Maynooth), whilst Dr Stephen Royle (Queen’s University Belfast) is the
Honorary Secretary.
One of the main roles of the Academy Committee is to act as a link
between the Irish geographical community and the
International
Geographical Union (IGU), in particular by acting as a conduit for
information from the IGU's 38 Commissions and Study Groups. One of the
Academy Committee's most esteemed members, Prof. Anne Buttimer, was
President of the IGU from 2000-2004 and remains as a Vice-President - an
honour of which the Committee is extremely proud.
The objective of the Academy Committee for Geography is to act as a
focus for the geographical community throughout Ireland by promoting
research and scholarship and engaging with issues of public concern. The
Committee is currently engaged in a number of projects, including an
exploratory investigation of the feasibility of publishing a new Atlas
of Ireland (as a successor to the Atlas published by the National
Committee in 1979) and the entry of a team of secondary school pupils to
represent Ireland at the International Olympiad in Brisbane in July,
2006.
Further information on the membership and activities of the Academy
Committee, and the IGU and its Commissions, may be viewed in the
Geography section of the Royal Irish Academywebsite
http://www.ria.ie/committees/geography
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