Brendan O'Donoghue
Brendan O Donoghue was a civil servant from 1960 to 1997 working briefly in the Departments of Social Welfare and Finance and then in the Department of Environment and Local Government, culminating in a seven-year term as Secretary General of that Department. He was Director of the National Library of Ireland from 1997 to 2003 followed by a period as member of the board of the Library until 2010. He was elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy in 2001 and is the author of books on engineering history – The Leahy family of Engineers (2006) and The Irish County Surveyors (2007).