Draft:Kieran Hickey (academic)

The building which once served as Hickeys office

Kieran Hickeys career edit

Hickey specialised in the study of historical and current climate change. [1] Hickey worked in the Geography department of University College Cork as a researcher and lecturer. He has also studied and worked in Armagh, Cork, Coventry, Kilkenny, Maynooth, Oxford and Scotland[2], as well as travelling to a number of other countries worldwide to aid in his research, visiting every continent. His research had taken him from his home in Ireland all the way to the Arctic Circle to research the effects of climate change in the area. [3] He has lectured in Maynooth University from 1993 to 1996 and University of Galway from 2001 to 2014.[4] During his lifetime, he published 3 books between 2008 and 2011, and contributed 13 chapters to collaborative works from 2002 to 2016. He has also written a number of research papers and edited journals on the topic of climate change from the years of 1992 to 2014. His published books are

  • Wolves in Ireland: A Natural and Cultural History. (2011)
  • Deluge: Ireland's Weather Disasters 2009-2010. (2010)
  • Five Minutes to Midnight: Ireland and Climate Change. (2008)

His contributions to collaborative works are: • 'Coastal Climates and Meteorology, Storms and Storminess and The Big Wind 1839' (2016)

  • 'The Record of Cattle Epizootics in Ireland up to 1856' (2015)
  • 'The Impact of Severe Weather on Settlement and Society in Ireland' (2015)
  • 'Tsunami Case Studies' (2015)
  • 'The Weather and Climate of Co. Donegal' (2013)
  • 'The Impact of Hurricane Debbie (1961) and Hurricane Charley (1986) on Ireland' (2012)
  • 'Ireland will be Hurt by Sea-Level Rise due to Global Warming' (2012)
  • 'The Impact of Hurricanes on the Weather of Western Europe' (2011)
  • 'Where have all the Wolves gone?' (2009)
  • 'Flooding in the City' (2005)
  • 'The Climate of Cork' (2005)
  • 'The Night of the Big Wind: The Impact of the Storm on Loughrea' (2003)
  • 'Water Quality Issues in the West of Ireland' (2002)
  1. ^ Hickey, Kieran. "Biography". UCC. University College Cork. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  2. ^ Hickey, Kieran. "Kieran Hickey, University College Cork". tcd.ie. Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  3. ^ Ring, Evelyn (24 June 2020). "Record Arctic temperatures will have 'devastating effects', UCC scientist warns". Irish Examiner.
  4. ^ Hickey, Kieran. "Kieran Hickey, University College Cork". ResearchGate. Retrieved November 15, 2023.