Ireland: A Colony Once Again

About Sean O NuallainSean O'Nuallain

Sean O Nuallain holds an MSc in Psychology from University College Dublin (UCD) Ireland and a PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin Ireland. He has been a Visiting Scholar at both Stanford and UC Berkeley continually (2002-2012) eventually being appointed a faculty member by academic senate in both institutions; and directs the independent non-profit organisation Nous Research and the independent college trading as University of Ireland in the US. In 2012 he founded the International Congress of Irish studies which held its highly successful first conference at UC Berkeley in July 2012.He was Science and Technology convenor and member of national council of the Green Party Ireland 1997-2003 before resigning in 2003 after an internal coup. From 1997-2003 the Green Party''s representation at national level tripled; it is now at pre-1997 levels.He participated in the successful Irish campaign against e-voting 2004-2006 and with help from Stanford colleague David Dill coached the deputy leader of the Irish Labour party before her critical 2004 parliamentary address on the subject.He won the critical Irish tenure case resulting in disciplinary procedures being rewritten in favour of all university employees (including non-academic 2003) and was a co-founder of the Musician''s Union of Ireland 2003.After being unfairly dismissed from DCU winning three separate judgements he worked the French jazz circuit and the American folk circuit between 2002 and 2005 as a guitarist with his partner Melanie O'' Reilly; together they also produced the award-winning radio show Jazz on the Bay in which they interviewed - inter alia - David Brubeck Chick Corea and closet jazz pianist Clint Eastwood. In recent years Sean O Nuallain has taught both at UC Berkeley and Stanford and published refereed papers in biology and neuroscience with Walter Freeman and the late Richard Strohman of UC Berkeley. As well as being a single author of papers in these and other subjects he has had his courses at Stanford endorsed by Patrick Suppes.He is the author of a book on the foundations of cognitive science: The Search for Mind (Ablex 1995; 2nd edition Intellect 2002; 3rd edition Intellect 2003) co-editor of Two Sciences of Mind (with Paul Mc Kevitt and Eoghan Mac Aogain; Benjamins 1997) editor of Spatial Cognition and co-editor of Language Vision and Music (Benjamins 2002) and Ireland in Crisis (Cambridge Scholars Publishing forthcoming). His Being Human: The Search for Order (Intellect 2002) sold out its first print-run immediately and has been published in a second edition (2004).He is also an avid sportsman who has won squash tennis rugby and racquetball championships in Ireland the US and Canada.