Tim Collins

Director Centre for Landscape Studies

Timothy Collins is Director of the Centre for Landscape Studies, which he co-founded with the late Prof. Pat Sheeran in 1990.   A graduate in marine sciences, Tim has published much on the subject of Irish science, especially natural history and bibliography.   Both as a researcher and teacher, Tim has also ensured that the Centre has been an active part of many projects both on and off campus.   Current programmes which he is involved in are the New Survey of Clare Island with the Royal Irish Academy, as well as supporting various modules in NUI, Galway’s  Earth and Ocean Sciences BSc programmes.

Publications:

Floreat Hibernia: a bio-bibliography of Robert Lloyd Praeger 1865-1953.  Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1985.  ISBN 086 0270 173.

Transatlantic triumph & heroic failure: the story of the Galway Line.  Cork: Collins Press, 2002.  ISBN 190 3464 20X.

Decoding the landscape: contributions towards a synthesis of thinking in Irish studies of the landscape; edited by Timothy Collins.  3rd ed. Galway: Centre for Landscape Studies, 2003.  ISBN 095 4397 800. 

Papers (Landscape - related) 

’”The results greatly exceeded the expectations of the promoters”: the Clare Island Survey of 1909-1911’ In: Edward Heron-Allen and the Clare Island Survey; edited by Timothy J. McCann and John E. Whitaker. Chichester: Heron-Allen Society, 2010: 5-18. (Opusculum XIV).

’Robert Lloyd Praeger’ In: Darwin, Praeger and the Clare Island Surveys; edited by Roisin Jones and Martin Steer.  Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2009: 5-10.

’The Clare Island Survey of 1909-1911’ In: Darwin, Praeger and the Clare Island Surveys; edited by Roisin Jones and Martin Steer.  Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2009: 17-20.

’A multidisciplinary success: the Clare Island Survey’ In: Fauna and flora of Atlantic islands: proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on the fauna and flora of Atlantic islands, [held] Dublin, 24-27 August 2004; series editor J.P. O’Connor.  Dublin: Irish Biogeographical Society, 2006: 155-165. (IGS Occasional Publication, no. 9).

’Early marine research off the west of Ireland 1858-1914’ In: Diversity: Proceedings of Hydr04: 14th Biennial International Symposium of the Hydrographical Society (International Federation of Hydrographical Societies); edited by Victor J. Abbott and Helen L. Atkinson.  Plymouth: Hydrographical Society, 2005: 1-5.

’A footnote in history: HMS Valorous and her links with the west of Ireland’. Hydrographic Journal, 118 (2005): 25-27.

’Bridget Lyons Thornton’ In: Women emerging: a decade of Irish feminist scholarship; Alan Hayes, Rebecca Pelan editors. Galway: Women’s Studies Centre, 2005: 242-245.

’Dick Dowling: Galway’s hero of Confederate Texas’, by Ann Caraway Ivins and Timothy Collins. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 57(2005): 113-138.

’Rhymes and races: a biographical note on Richard John Anderson, Professor of Natural History, Geology and Mineralogy 1884-1916’.  Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 56(2004): 190-212.

’Irish women naturalists’, marine research’ deepsea surveys’. In: The encyclopaedia of Ireland’; edited by Fergal Tobin.  Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2003.

’From anatomy to zoophagy: a biographical note on Frank Buckland’.  Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 55 (2003): 91-109.

’The Helga/Muirchu: her contribution to Galway maritime history’.  Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 54 (2002): 141-167.

’John Philip Holland, submarine pioneer, inventor’ and ’Robert Lloyd Praeger, natural historian’. In: Irish innovators in science and technology; edited by Charles Mollan, William Davis and Brendan Finucane.  Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2002: 153-154, 196-197.

’From hoekers to hookers: a survey of the literature and annotated bibliography on the origins of the Galway Hooker’.  Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 53 (2001): 66-83.

’Melville, Hart and Anderson, early teachers of natural history 1849-1914’.  In: From Queen’s College to National University: essays on the academic history of QCG/UCG/NUI, Galway, Tadhg Foley editor.  Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999: 266-302.

’The Clare Island Survey of 1909-11’.  In: New Survey of Clare Island.  Volume 1: History and cultural landscape; edited by Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh and Kevin Whelan.  Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1999: 1-40.

An annotated bibliography of the writings of Richard John Anderson, Professor of Natural History, Geology and Mineralogy, 1883-1914. Galway: Centre for Landscape Studies, 1999. (Occasional publications, 3).

An annotated bibliography of the writings of Alexander Gordon Melville, First Professor of Natural History at Queen’s College Galway 1849-1882. Galway: Centre for Landscape Studies, 1999. (Occasional publications,21).

’Dodos and discord: a biographical note on A.G. Melville of Queen’s College Galway’.  Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 50 (1998): 90-111.

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