Defence Forces Review 2008

Defence Forces Review 2008
American University of Beirut in June 2006. His literary includes The Point of No
Return: The Strike which Broke the British in Ulster, London: Times Books/Deutsch;
In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality, 1939-1945, London: Gill
& Macmillan; Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War London: Oxford University Press, The
Great War for Civilisation - The Conquest of the Middle East (2005) London. Fourth
Estate; and The Age of the Warrior: Selected Writings (2008) London, Fourth Estate.
4. Kevin Myers was born 30 March 1947. He is an Irish journalist who currently writes
for the Irish Independent, having previously contributed to The Irish Times newspaper,
where he wrote the “An Irishman’s Diary” column several times weekly for many
years. Kevin was born and raised in Leicester, England. He attended Ratcliffe College
and graduated from University College Dublin with a first class honours degree in
History. He began work as a journalist for Radio Telefís Éireann, and reported from
Northern Ireland during the height of the Troubles from 1971 to 1978. In the 1980s,
he covered on the Lebanese Civil War, and in the 1990s on the Bosnian War. He
is based in Dublin and lives in Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare. Over the years
Kevin has promoted an awareness of Irish soldiers who served in the British Armed
Forces, particularly in World War I, arguing that they believed they were doing their
patriotic duty as Irishmen. He has also faulted the official commemoration of the 1916
Easter Rising, and has raised concerns about uncritically celebrating Irish rebellions
of former times. During the 1990s he presented the Challenging Times television
quiz show on RTÉ and in 2000, he published a collection of his An Irishman’s Diary
columns. He has also published a novel Banks of Green Willow, and in 2006, he
published Watching the Door, about his time as a journalist in Northern Ireland
during the 1970s.
5. Dr. John Moriarty retired from the Defence Forces in 2002, with the rank of
Lieutenant Colonel. He was educated at the Christian Brothers School in Dingle and
in Rockwell College. He holds degrees in philosophy, psychology and education
from University College Dublin. During this time, he also attended the School
of Music, Chatham Road under the tutelage of the late Sydney Grieg. He studied
medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons and did post graduate work at the Irish
College of General Practitioners. John was commissioned into the army in 1977. He
holds a degree in law from University College Galway and a post graduate degree
from the Honourable Society of Kings Inns in Dublin. He was called to the Irish
Bar in 1988. In 2000, he also completed a diploma at the International Institute of
Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy. He still works in medicine and is particularly
interested in preventative medicine. In law, his main interests are public international
law, human rights and the law of evidence. He served in the Lebanon with the 44th,
49th, 64th, 65th, 68th, 70th, 74th, 80th, 84th, 87th, 88th and 89th battalions. He also
served in East Timor for short periods in January and in April/May of 2002.
6. Javier Pérez de Cuéllar de la Guerra (born January 19, 1920, in Lima) is a
Peruvian diplomat who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations
from January 1, 1982 to December 31, 1991. He studied in Colegio San Agustín
of Lima, and then at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. In 1995, he ran
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