First Vice-President

​​​​​​​Dr Kieran McCarthy

Member of the Cork City Council


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​Dr Kie​ran McCarthy is an elected Independent member of Cork City Council.

​For the past twenty years, he has written a weekly heritage column in the Cork Independent ‘Our City Our Town’ which has addressed the local history of Cork City and its surrounding region. He has also written 24 books dedicated to Cork. Kieran’s historical walking tours of the city focus on the landscapes and memories within 24 neighbourhoods, which one can read about on his dedicated Cork heritage website www.corkheritage.ie. In 2003, Kieran founded the "Discover Cork: Schools’ Heritage Project" which is now annually implemented in 25 schools in Cork City with 1,200 students participating each year.
Kieran holds a PhD in Geography from University College Cork and has interests in ideas of landscape, collective memory, heritage construction, narrative and identity structures.

Within the CoR, Kieran holds membership of the Commission for Social Policy, Education, Employment, Research and Culture (SEDEC) and the Commission for Territorial Cohesion Policy and EU Budget (COTER). 

He has personal interests in the New Skills Agenda, informal and formal education, lifelong learning, the Digital Single Market, Smart Specialisation, science and innovation in regions and cities, cities and regions of the future, youth and sport, and the socio-cultural effects of the Internet of Things. ​Within COTER, he is active in representing small cities and rural regions in Cohesion Policy, and the dissemination to EU citizens of the work of EU structural funds. 

He has so far produced the following CoR opinions:


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