Details of the O'Reilly Foundation Scholarship Programme award recipients to date, ordered by the year in which they started scholarship studies, may be found below.
Scholars 2009
Mr. Inish O'Doherty, from Dublin, has commenced his PhD in Chemical Biology in Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, having also been accepted onto their prestigious tri-institutional Training Program for Chemical Biology (TPCB) with the Sloan Kettering Institute and Rockefeller Institute...
Ms. Ruth Gilligan, from Dublin, is the youngest O'Reilly Scholar to date. Having graduated from Cambridge University with a first class honours BA in English Literature in 2009, she then spent the year in Yale University where she received her MA in English. She is currently a member of the Creative Writing Programme in the University of East Anglia, the oldest and most prestigious programme of its kind in the UK...
Scholars 2008
Ms. Caroline Martin, from Dublin, is studying for a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. She spent her first year of graduate school working in a research group at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in the US as a Fulbright Scholar. She is also involved in research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and has travelled to Taiwan several times as part of her PhD thesis Dissolved Fluxes of the Taiwan Orogen. In October 2009 she received a gold medal from the Irish Undergraduate Awards...
Mr. Johnny Ryan, from Dublin, is the author of a new book "A history of the Internet and the digital future", and is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of International & European Affairs in Dublin. He has just submitted his PhD thesis to the University of Cambridge...
Ms. Rhona Gaynor, from Dunboyne Co. Meath, holds a First Class Honours degree in History and Politics, and a Masters of Arts in Political Theory, from University College Dublin. She recently successfully completed a Masters in Public Administration, specialising in Public Policy and Management, at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)...
Scholars 2007
Mr. Brian Appelbe, from Cork, holds a First Class Honours degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Master of Science from University College Cork. Brian is currently studying for a Ph.D. at Imperial College London, focusing on nuclear fusion...
Mr. Paul Brady, from Dublin, graduated from Harvard Law School with an LLM in 2008 and is currently reading for a Doctorate in Law at Balliol College, Oxford. He also holds a First Class Honours degree in Philosophy from University College Dublin, a Masters in Legal and Political Theory from University College London, and is a graduate of King’s Inns. A former recipient of the NUI Pierce Malone Award in Philosophy, he has given tutorials, seminars and lectures at Griffith College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin...
Mr. Rossa FitzGerald, from Dublin, holds a First Class Honours degree in History and Politics from University College Dublin and graduated with a Masters degree in International Economics from John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington D.C. in May 2008...
Scholars 2006
Mr. David Murphy, from Cork, received the B.E. degree (with First Class Honours) and the M.Eng.Sc. degree in Microelectronic Engineering from University College Cork, in 2004 and 2006 respectively. Since 2006, David has been pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles...
Mr. Francis Kieran, from Meath, graduated, with a gold medal, from TCD Law School in 2006, and was awarded an LLM by Harvard Law School the following year. A Scholar of Trinity College Dublin...
Ms. Laura Bambrick, from Dublin, holds a First Class Honours Bachelors in Sociology and Social Policy from Trinity College Dublin, and a Masters in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford, where she remains to complete a Ph.D. Her research interests include socio-economic- and gender-based inequalities in power, resources and opportunities...
Scholars 2005
Mr. Patrick Kehoe, from Dublin, graduated from The Wharton School in June 2006 with an MBA, focusing on strategic management and entrepreneurship. He currently is an Associate Principal with McKinsey & Company based in New York. His interests lie in technology sector...
Mr. Julian Moore, from Limerick, graduated from Columbia University with a Juris Doctorate in June 2008. At Columbia he served as an editor of the Science and Technology Law Review, and the Journal of European Law. Before moving to New York, he studied law at the London School of Economics (LSE), where he organised the first Mayer Brown London Moot Court...
Scholars 2004
Mr. Michael King, from Dublin, graduated from Harvard University with a Masters in Public Administration in International Development in June 2006. He is the founder and former Chief Executive of the Irish-based development agency, Suas Educational Development, and holds an Honours degree in Economics from Trinity College, Dublin.
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Mr. Eoin Ó hÓgáin, from Kilkenny, graduated from the Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, in June 2006, placing in the top 5% of the graduating class. His studies focused on strategy and general management...
Scholars 2003
Mr. James Ruane, from Dublin, graduated from the Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, in June 2005, placing in the top 5% of the graduating class...
Ms. Caitríona Boushel, from Dublin, holds a Masters and a First Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering from University College Dublin. Her Master's thesis was on the Dynamical Modelling of Biological Systems...
Scholars 2002
Mr. Richard O'Brien, from Cork, graduated with an MBA from Cornell University in 2004. His studies focused on entrepreneurship, manufacturing, and public policy. He is currently based in Singapore,...
Ms. Katherine Smyth, from Dublin, graduated with honours from Georgetown University in Washington D.C. with a Master of Arts in Security Studies, where she specialised in interventionism, peacekeeping, and use-of-force issues, and refugee management and post-conflict reconstruction. She is a First Class Honours graduate from University College Dublin, where she completed a Master of Arts degree in the History of International Relations, and was awarded College Medals and Scholarships...
Scholars 2001
Ms. Bairbre O'Neill, from Dublin, undertook a Master of Laws degree at Yale University, USA, where her research related to the legal theories and rules that govern the political process, particularly electoral law. She graduated in May 2002 and sat the New York Bar exams in July that year. She was called to the New York Bar in June 2003 and practiced as a litigation associate with a law firm in New York...
Mr. Howard Reddy, from Carlow, graduated in May 2005 from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with a Masters of Music summa magna cum laude...
Dr. David Scannell, from Navan, undertook a Ph.D. in Law at the University of Cambridge, graduating in May 2005. His doctoral dissertation considered...
Scholars 2000
Dr. Anita Sands, from Drogheda, is Group Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer of UBS Wealth Management Americas and a member of the WMA Executive Committee, reporting to the CEO. At UBS, Anita is responsible for technology, operations and corporate shared services, along with architecting and executing the organization’s transformational strategy...
Scholars 1999
Dr. Catherine O'Sullivan, from Cork, graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2002. Her thesis title was "The Application of Discrete Element Modelling to Finite Deformation Problems in Geomechanics". While this research has direct application to geotechnical engineering, it also has relevance to solids manufacturing processes in the pharmaceutical and biological industries. Following graduation...
Ruth McGinley, from Derry, was awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Performance as a Solo Recitalist in 2002 from the Royal College of Music in London. She was also awarded the 20th Century Piano Competition Prize during her studies there...
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