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Professor Desmond Gillmor

Fellow Emeritus (Geography)

 


  Agricultural Geography   Economic Geography   Geography   Ireland   Malawi   Rural Geography   Rural Studies   Social Geography
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Society and committee positions: Dublin University Geographical Society: Founder member and Secretary, 1960; Chairman, 1960-61; President, 1967-68, 1977-78, 1983-84, 1994-95; Honorary Life Membership conferred 1969. Geographical Society of Ireland: Committee member, 1966-69, 1984-86; President, 1972-76; Vice-President, 1976-78. Association of Geography Teachers of Ireland: Member of Committee, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1973-74, 1974-75, 1975-76, 1980-81, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1984-85, 1985-86, 1986-87, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91 President, 1976-78; Vice-President, 1978-80; Trustee, Gwenda Hurst Memorial Fund, 1989- Honorary Life Membership conferred 1983. Irish National Committee for Geography: Member, 1972-75, 1976-79, 1980-83, 2000-04. Chairman, 1996-99. Irish national delegate to 29th International Geographical Congress, Seoul, 2000 National Commission for the Teaching of Geography: Member, 1972-74, 1984-87; Chairman, 1974-75, 1976-79, 1980-83. Member of Royal Irish Academy Board for Science, 1996-1999 Member of Royal Irish Academy Board for Humanities, 1997-1999 European Standing Conference of Geography Teachers' Associations: Member, 1990-92.
Desmond A. Gillmor, The promotion and protection of Geography in Irish education, Geographical Viewpoint, 44, 2021, p39 - 46, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Desmond A. Gillmor, Old Drumlease: an important ancient ecclesiastical site in County Leitrim, Journal of the Federation of Local History Societies, 26, 2021, p138-141-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
The population of Leitrim in the twentieth century in, editor(s)Liam Kelly and Brendan Scott , Leitrim: history and society, Dublin, Geography Publications, 2019, pp743-765 - [Desmond A. Gillmor], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Desmond A. Gillmor, Gordon L. Herries Davies, Irish Geography, 52, (2), 2019, p239 - 244, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Almar Barry and Desmond Gillmor, Children as genealogists: exploring possibilities for primary classroom practice, Geographical Viewpoint, 41, 2013, p25 - 39, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Desmond A. Gillmor, Where a photograph led: Gillmors from northwestern Ireland in 1850's Iowa, USA, Irish Family History, 29, 2013, p7 - 26, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Desmond Gillmor and Almar Barry, Family histories and geographies: relationships between genealogy and geography, Geographical Viewpoint, 40, 2012, p15 - 23, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Desmond A. Gillmor, Discovering and tracing an American branch of an Irish Gillmor family, Irish Family History, 28, 2012, p9 - 21, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Desmond A. Gillmor, CofI intermarriage and inter-church families in the Republic of Ireland - 2006, Search, 35, (1), 2011, p48 - 58, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
'Culture Economy', 'Integrated Tourism' and 'Sustainable Rural Development': evidence from Western Ireland in, editor(s)Guy M. Robinson , Sustainable rural systems: sustainable agriculture and rural communities, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008, pp145 - 159, [Mary Cawley and Desmond A. Gillmor], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
  

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Desmond A. Gillmor, Drumlease: two centuries of a Church of Ireland parish in County Leitrim, Second , Dromahair, Ireland, Gillmor Publications, 2022, i-172pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Desmond A. Gillmor, Drumlease Church of Ireland, The Leitrim Guardian, 54, (2022), 2021, p111 - 113, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Des Gillmor, End of an era: farewell to two centuries of the Gillmor retail business, The Leitrim Guardian 2015, 47, 2014, p38 - 42, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Desmond A. Gillmor, The first upturn in Leitrim's population since the Famine, The Leitrim Guardian , 35, 2003, p26 - 28, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

  

General economic geography, with specialisation in agriculture and other primary activities, resource use, rural geography and tourism. Geographical education. Regional interests in Ireland, Europe and North America