Pádraig Yeates, a historian and former journalist, has been awarded the National University of Ireland’s (NUI) highest degree for his extensive research on Irish social and labour history. At a ceremony on Tuesday evening, NUI chancellor Dr Maurice Manning conferred Mr Yeates with the degree of Doctor of Literature (DLitt) on published work. UCD historian Prof Diarmuid Ferriter said Mr Yeates had demonstrated “exceptional commitment to the research and writing of Irish social and labour history”. anyone with an interest in our social and labour history owes him deep gratitude and respect,” he said. Mr Yeates was previously a journalist with The Irish Times between the early 1980s and early 2000s, where he worked as industry and employment correspondent, and community affairs correspondent.

Source: The Irish Times June 12, 2018 21:11 UTC