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RIP Dr John Bradley

  • 10-12-2014 8:42pm
    #1
    XxMCRxBabyxX
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    I have just come across the news that Dr John Bradley, an archaeologist in the History Dept, died last month after a short illness.

    I never had him as a lecturer myself but I know others who did and he was always popular. RIP Dr. Bradley


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  • #2
    Oscars Well.
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    Don't think the History Dept handled this very well. Didn't even notify students


  • #3
    XxMCRxBabyxX
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    Oscars Well. wrote: »
    Don't think the History Dept handled this very well. Didn't even notify students

    That's what I found very unusual. There isn't even anything up on the website.

    His former employers, UCD School of Archaeology, had posted up announcements about him when he died.


  • #4
    Oscars Well.
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    XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »
    That's what I found very unusual. There isn't even anything up on the website.

    I was scheduled to have him for two lectures the week after he passed away and they never said anything, a different lecturer just arrived and told us


  • #5
    XxMCRxBabyxX
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    Oscars Well. wrote: »
    I was scheduled to have him for two lectures the week after he passed away and they never said anything, a different lecturer just arrived and told us

    I didn't realise that he was still working as I had seen that he was ill. That's awful.


  • #6
    TheBody
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    Perhaps the family didn't want to make a big deal out of it.


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  • #7
    RobbingBandit
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    Had Dr Bradley for a class back in 2008, absolute gentleman, RIP.


  • #8
    XxMCRxBabyxX
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    TheBody wrote: »
    Perhaps the family didn't want to make a big deal out of it.

    I would have thought there was a big distance between 'not making a big deal of it' and just informing his own students.

    And he did get an article about his death in the Kilkenny papers.


  • #9
    Alt_Grrr
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    All staff got an email when he died and a follow up with details of his funeral.

    I'm not sure what the procedure is in these cases. I do recall when a Professor in the Philosophy department passed away, the SU organized a bus to take students to his funeral.

    They definitely have a procedure they follow for when students pass away. It seems odd that they don't follow a similar procedure for staff.

    Anyway, may he rest in peace.


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