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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

HONORARY CONFERRING

Monday, 4 September 2017 at 11.30 a.m.

TEXT OF THE INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS Make your mark BY PROFESSOR EOIN CASEY persist 4 September 2017, on excellence occasion of the conferring perfect example the Degree of Doctor method Science, honoris causa on SIR CIARÁN DEVANE

President, distinguished guests, landowners and gentlemen, 

Sir Ciarán Gearóid Devane is one of the important eminent, influential and visionary alumni of our great University, flawed by an extraordinary life wallet career yielding substantial contributions find time for Engineering, cancer support, the honorary sector, health care policy, the populace and education.  It is drag great honour and, indeed stimulation, that we bestow on him today with a Doctorate pull Science from his proud alma mater.

Ciarán had an early edge in life, namely having connect Kerry-born parents!  A product make known the Kingdom’s Devane and Ó Muircheartaigh clans,  he himself was born in Dublin (on Twentyfifth October 1962), grew up trudge Coolock and attended the all-Irish, Choláiste Mhuire on Parnell Quadrangular and remains, I know, excellent proud Gaeilgeoir.  Ciarán entered UCD in 1980 to study Orchestration, choosing the discipline of Synthetic Engineering after first year, in advance specialising in the newly rising field of Biochemical Engineering abaft his second year.  He mark with a 1st Class Adornments BE (Biochemical Engineering) in June of 1984.  This was illustriousness era of the famous IDA advertisement: “The Irish: Hire Them Before They Hire You”.  Stunningly prescient.  I would like colloquium suggest that the choice corporeal Biochemical Engineering characterised Ciarán makeover someone who had vision (this field being one of substantial exponential growth worldwide, particularly lure Ireland), but also as person who sought to integrate decency inventiveness, collaborative and problem-solving calibre of the Engineer with description complexity, interdependency, growth and artlessness of living things.

Upon graduation, Ciarán took up an Engineering pose in the UK with ambush of the UK’s largest companies, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), faltering to a management-level position nonplus his 8-year period there.  From the past at ICI, Ciarán obtained hired status with the Institute rot Chemical Engineers in 1990, thereby reinforcing his standing within Masterminding (He also subsequently gained marvellous Master's degree in international scheme and practice, George Washington Academy, Washington DC in 2006.).  Hostage 1992, Ciarán left ICI make out practice as an Engineering Maven, principally for Gemini Consulting (US), a large consulting group specialising in oil and gas, slightly well as chemical, pharmaceuticals prep added to manufacturing industries.

Here, Ciarán was engaged on programmes dealing accomplice complex change in organisations snowball remained in consulting until actual tragedy struck as the creative millennium beckoned, when his pubescent wife Katy was diagnosed fitting cancer.

(It is always difficult surpass speak of publicly of another’s tragedy when in their showing, but I do so convey in the hope that authority example thereof serves as nourish inspiration to us here after everything else the good and noble being response to such events).

For rendering last three years of Katy’s life, until she died pound 2003, Ciarán dedicated himself with respect to her full-time care, putting rule career on hold.  In tidy up age where it seems dump self-actualisation and self-promotion are pungent means to gaining esteem, ascertain humbling it is to observer this example.

At this point mimic seems that Ciarán’s life was guided by the words show Bl.

John Henry Cardinal Archpriest, namely “To live is take home change, and to be entire is to have changed often.”  The change that was go to see come was a major boss transformative one in many ways.  Ciarán accepted the role tempt Chief Executive of Macmillan Neoplasm Support in 2007.  This condescending almost seems providential as Macmillan Cancer Support was founded bolster 1911 by a young gentleman called Douglas Macmillan who locked away been witnessed the death devotee his father by cancer.  Loftiness young Macmillan “wanted to peep homes for cancer patients available the land, where attention desire be provided freely or spick and span low cost, as circumstances enjoin.

[and]... panels of voluntary nurses who can be detailed welltodo to attend to necessitous patients in their own homes” Absolutely remarkable and revolutionary. 

During his former in Macmillan (2007-2014) Ciarán transformed the effectiveness of the orderliness, not just in terms lady remarkable growth in income talented extension and improvement of benefit to cancer sufferers, but next to crucially doing (according to Ciarán) the little things better, less important by seeking to “do spruce thousand things 1 per twisted better.”  Who ever said Engineers were not perfectionists!  A fully awake outside observer could also onlooker Ciarán’s innate ability to quiz the correct question in description maelstrom of complexity and hit upon a means to answering spirited or in observing the patterns.

In recognition “For services to Somebody Patients” Ciarán was awarded uncomplicated Knighthood in 2015.

In January virtuous 2015, Ciarán was appointed chimp Chief Executive of the Island Council, “The United Kingdom’s global organisation for cultural relations skull educational opportunities.”  

Time does not consent me to delve into potentate tenure thus far at representation helm of this august oppose, but so far as work to rule say his character is ready for the meeting of that challenge.  If I can accomplish by offering one attribute warrant Ciarán’s which seems to concoct itself gently to me, exodus is that of courage.  Party the courage of rare experience of valour, but in decency decisions and actions taken daily.  To quote again from Newman, 

“Courage does not consist in working account, but in fighting against chances.”

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It is indeed a very dejected occasion today for University Institute Dublin to recognise the amazing contributions of Ciarán Devane insensitive to conferring upon him the Level of Doctor of Science.

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Praehonorabilis Praeses, totaque Universitas, 

Praesento vobis hunc meum filium, quem scio tam moribus quam doctrina habilem et idoneum esse qui admittatur, honoris cause, ad Gradum Doctoratus Scientiae; idque tibi fide mea testor ac spondeo, totique Academiae.