HOWARD BRIAN CLARKE ACADEMY

A graduate and postgraduate of the University of Birmingham, he was awarded the Kendrick Prize in History in 1960. As a postgraduate he was granted a bursary by the University of Aix-Marseille, as a result of which he was presented with the town medal of Draguignan (Var) for his pioneering research. Having taken up a post in the Department of Medieval History at University College Dublin in 1968, he began serious work on Irish history by becoming a founder member of the Friends of Medieval Dublin and later its chairman. Since 1990 he has been a general editor of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas and most recently the co-author of Cork/Corcaigh. He remains an honorary member of the International Commission for the History of Towns. In 1992 he became a director of the Medieval Trust, the parent body of the visitor centre Dublinia, which received the Best Smaller Museum Award of the Gulbenkian Foundation in 2001. He has long been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and continues to work on Medieval English history.