On Tuesday the 23rd of August as part of our FREE lunch time talks in the National Library of Ireland we will welcome
Kevin F. O’Malley, United States Ambassador to Ireland
Talk Entitled: Irish American identity: How do we sustain the people to people links between Ireland and the United States?
Followed by a moderated discussion and audience Q&A with Dr Sandra Collins
Date: Tuesday August 23rd
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: National Library of Ireland
Kevin F. O’Malley was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland on September 30, 2014 and presented his credentials to President Michael D. Higgins on October 8, 2014.
Kevin F. O’Malley, an attorney, was a partner at Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C., in St. Louis, Missouri, whose trial skills have earned him Fellowship in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Mr. O’Malley has been an adjunct professor at both Washington University School of Law and Saint Louis University School of Law. He is a nationally recognized author of a treatise on jury instructions that is used in federal jury trials throughout the United States.
Mr. O’Malley is known as a leader, an experienced manager, and frequent public speaker, and he has been consistently chosen by the editors of “The Best Lawyers in America” for his
work in medical negligence defense and white collar criminal defense. Based on a career that has emphasized collegiality and common sense in litigation, he recently received the Award of Honor of the Lawyers Association of St. Louis, a recognition by lawyers for both plaintiffs and defendants of his abilities to resolve conflicts in a professional manner.
Before entering private practice, Mr. O’Malley was an Assistant United States Attorney in St. Louis, Missouri and a Special Attorney of the Organized Crime Section of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, California, and Phoenix, Arizona. During his tenure as a federal prosecutor, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Attorney General of the United States. He was a legal instructor for the Central and Eastern European Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI) in both Moscow and Warsaw. In 2009, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon appointed Mr. O’Malley to the Missouri Board of Healing Art, its only non- physician member. He was subsequently elected as its President. He served as an officer in the United States Army Reserve.
Ambassador O’Malley earned an A.B. in 1970 and J.D. in 1973 at Saint Louis University where he was on the editorial board of its Law Journal.
Ambassador O’Malley has strong Irish roots; all of his grandparents were Irish and his grandfather emigrated from Westport, County Mayo. Ambassador O’Malley is joined in Ireland by his wife Dena. They have two sons, Brendan and Ryan.
Dr Sandra Collins is the Director of the National Library of Ireland.
Formerly the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). She was appointed to this role in the Royal Irish Academy in 2011. DRI is the Irish national trusted digital repository for humanities and social sciences data. She is also a Funded Investigator in Insight: Ireland's National Data Analytics Research Centre and Co-PI on a large cross-disciplinary Irish Research Council project called Irish Records Linkage (IRL).
She was appointed as Chair of the ALLEA (all European Academies) international E-Humanities Working Group in 2012, she is rapporteur for the Horizon 2020 Expert Advisory Group on 'European Research Infrastructures' and a member of the Horizon 2020 Expert Advisory Group 'Science with and for Society'. She is a member of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) European Steering Forum, the Irish Member State representative at the European Future Internet Forum since 2009, and a member of the National Steering Committee on Open Access Policy. She is one of the Top 38 Irish Technology Women (Technology Voice, Intel), and one of Silicon Republic's Top 100 Women in Technology.
This is a FREE talk open to all members of the Public.
Booking not required.