Born and reared in Cork City, Ireland. Educated at Christian Brothers, Sullivan's Quay, Cork and also at
U.C.D and U.C.C.
Taught Maths, Applied Maths and computers at C.B.C. Cork.
I am now semi-retired from teaching but still involved in lecturing (Math) at University College Cork.

I also pursue my interests such as:

1. amateur radio(ei9hk, hf, vhf, packet)
2. Packet radio (winpack 6.3 - by Roger g4ide - thanks, Rog, it is really great.!)
   Note: Roger has died since this was written R.I.P.
3. Computers (pentium 166, 32Mb, 5.5Gb, multimedia),
4. Woodturning(Record no. 2).
5. Writing html pages and teaching HTML to anyone interested enough to come to my courses.
6. Teaching Internet itself - especially e-mail.
7. Teaching Mathematics at U.C.C.

Other interests

• Meeting other people on internet.!
• Learning about other languages and the challenge of writing other characters like Irish, Russian. (More difficult than I thought.!!)
• Learning about other cultures. Let's hear about yours..... e-mail me.! at :ei9hk06 at eircom dot net

  Well, just to try out my own language with its own characters here are a few words in Irish or Gaelic or Gaeilge: Fáilte romhaibh go léir go dtí mo leathanach. Ma theastaíonn uait scríobh chugam as Gaeilge beidh fáilte romhat.!! ( = welcome to my page. If you wish to write to me in Irish you are welcome to do so.!).: Hey, thanks to those who did.!!

PACKET RADIO is the use of the computer for sending and receiving messages and for reading bulletin boards. Sort of corresponds to the Internet except that it is run by amateurs for amateurs and costs nothing. It has, however the disadvantage that it can be slow and unreliable at times as it is only as good as the weakest link and so if some amateur operator decides he has had enough he can just shut down operations and all we know is that we are not getting our msg's anymore.! But generally this does not happen too often and some operators are quite professional. In fact some of the best internet software was written by amateurs, as I understand it. Now very much overtaken by email. Back up to interests

COMPUTERS

Skype and Google Talk and FreeCall are extremely useful for chats and phone calls that are cheap and convenient.

Back up to interests.

WOODTURNING is a new hobby for me but goes back to an old hobby of woodwork. I came across woodturning in the South of France up on top of a mountain in Provence.! Saw it demonstrated and was fascinated. Then the next year I saw a woodturning day advertised and applied for it. An older man "adopted" me and was my monitor/tutor until he died recently.R.I.P. Go raibh maith agat a Mhichíl (=thank you Michael) I am still very much a beginner but am getting there..well, sort of...... ! We have recently got permission from Coláiste Iognáid Rís to use their school workshop for demonstrations. Our thanks to them (they are my alma mater as well.!)

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HTML

Back up to interests. INTERNET I spend far too much time here on the Internet.! But e-mail takes up even more time.!

Click here for some photographs from Ballingeary, where I also taught for a time 1963-68.

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Updated March 2007.