Patrick Masterson Explained

Patrick Masterson
Honorific-Suffix:	OMRI
Birth Date:	1936 10, df=y
Birth Place:	Dublin, Ireland
Nationality:	Irish
Alma Mater:	University College Dublin University of Leuven (Ph.D.)
Occupation:	educator Embed: yes Office: President of the European University Institute Order: 4th Successor: Yves Mény Term Start: 1994 Term End: 2001

Patrick Masterson (born 1936, in Dublin) is a former president of University College Dublin^{[1] [2]} and the European University Institute.^[3]

Biography

He has held numerous appointments in academia, and has authored several books and publications on philosophy and religion. He has written a 'comic campus novel', Quality Time at St Chinian (2017).^[4]

He received a First class degree from University College and then took a Ph.D. at Leuven in 1962.

He was a member of the staff of University College Dublin prior to being appointed Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology in 1980, Registrar in 1983 and President from 1986 until leaving in December 1993 to become Principal of the European University Institute, Florence, a post he held from 1994 to 2002.^[5]

He was Vice-Chancellor of the National University of Ireland from 1987 to 1988.

He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Religion at University College Dublin.

Publications

• Book: Atheism and Alienation: A Study of the Philosophical Sources of Contemporary Atheism . Gill and Macmillan . Dublin & London . 1971 . registration . Internet Archive.
• The Sense of Creation - Experience and the God Beyond (Ashgate 2008,).^[6]
• With Seamus Heaney: Articulations: poetry, philosophy, and the shaping of culture (Royal Irish Academy, 2008)
• Approaching God: Between Phenomenology and Theology (Bloomsbury 2013,).
• Quality Time at St Chinian (Liberties Press, 2017)^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: UCD President's Office: Patrick Masterson. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150118053236/http://www.ucd.ie/president/pastpresidents/patrickmasterson/ . 2015-01-18 .
2. News: Dublin university president aims to lure foreigners . https://web.archive.org/web/20121104120856/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/59271428.html?dids=59271428:59271428&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+29,+1991&author=Kevin+Cullen,+Globe+Staff&pub=Boston+Globe+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Dublin+university+president+aims+to+lure+foreigners&pqatl=google . dead . 4 November 2012 . . 29 September 1991 . 13 November 2010 .
3. News: Survey eyes PhD career paths . . 5 July 1996 . 13 November 2010 .
4. Web site: Quality Time at St Chinian: a humorous take on higher education .
5. Web site: Dr. Patrick Masterson .
6. 10.1111/j.1741-2005.2009.01283_3.x. THE SENSE OF CREATION: EXPERIENCE AND THE GOD BEYOND�by Patrick Masterson. New Blackfriars. 90. 1027. 388–390. 2009. Barden. Garrett.
7. Web site: Masterson. Paddy. Quality Time at St Chinian by Paddy Masterson. Liberties Press. Liberties Press. 28 May 2017.