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Published by Collins Press, Cork, 2011. Hardcover first edition. Signed by the author, and there is a bookshop sticker ( from O'Mahony's who run the bookshop in UL) on the front cover.
Signed by Ed Walsh to the title page in fine black ink, not dedicated. There is a previous owner's name to the endpage.
Ed Walsh returned to Ireland in 1970 to blunder into setting up an institute of education. He found a decaying mansion on a riverside site at Plassey just outside Limerick , gathered talented young people and secured funding from the World Bank and European Investment Bank to build what was first the NIHE,and then became the University of Limerick. Along the way, Ed made powerful enemies as he challenged official cant, traditional academics and clerical humbug.
This is an inspiring, frank and often funny memoir by a passionate educational leader.
