Ronald Cox
Research Fellow
Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Dr Ronald Cox is a Chartered Engineer and well-known civil engineering historian. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering at Trinity College Dublin. Until 1995, he was a Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering at TCD and was a former Dean of Engineering. Between 1995 and 2009, he was a Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Civil Engineering Heritage, which he founded on retirement from the full-time staff in 1995. He is a founder member and former President of the Industrial Heritage Association of Ireland, the current Chairman of Engineers Ireland Heritage Society, and a member of the Board of the Irish Architectural Archive. Recent publications include Ireland's Bridges (2002)(with M.Gould), Engineering Ireland (2006)(Editor), Civil Engineering at Trinity (2009), Ireland's Civil Engineering Heritage (2013)(with P.Donald), and Called to Serve (2015)(with D.O'Dwyer).
Research Interest
Civil Engineering; Civil Engineering Heritage; Engineering Biography
Publications
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Cox, Ronald & Gould, M, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland, 1st, London, Thomas Telford Publications, 1998, 1 - 296pp
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Cox, Ronald, Engineering Ireland, 1st, Cork, The Collins Press, Cork, 2006, 1 - 371pp
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Sir William Anderson (19-20), Sir John Benson (80), William Bindon Blood (100-101), Henry Brett (126-127), Sir John Fox Burgoyne (153-155), Charles Philip Cotton (199), James Dillon (236), Samuel Downing (252-253), James Barry Farrell (279), Barry Duncan Gibbons (333-334), Richard Boxall Grantham (345-346), William Jeremiah Hall (360), Richard Hassard (376), George Willoughby Hemans (391-392), John Hill (406-407), Sir Harry David Jones (435-436), Christopher Bagot Lane (451), William Richard Le Fanu (461), Robert Mallet (515-517), Robert Manning (519-520), William Hemingway Mills (543), Alexander Mitchell (544-545), John Neville (576), Parke Neville (577), Charles Nixon (582-583), Richard Boyse Osborne (595-596), Jacob Owen (597-598), James Price (632), Samuel Usher Roberts (667), Joseph Philip Ronayne (673), John Chaloner Smith (718), Bindon Blood Stoney (757-759), Francis Goold Stoney (759), and Charles Tarrant (767), Peter Cross-Rudkin and Mike Chrimes, Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: 1830- 1890, 1st, 2, London, Thomas Telford Publishing for The Institution of Civil Engineers, 2008, pp1 - 907, [Ron Cox]
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Dermot ODwyer and Ronald Cox, Old Ennisnag Bridge, Proceedings of the First Construction History Society Conference, First Conference of the Construction History Society, Queens College, Cambridge, 11-12 April 2014, edited by James w p Campbell et al. , Shport Run Press, Exeter, 2014, pp301 - 311
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Dermot ODwyer, Jay Cummins and Ronald Cox, John Rennies Dublin cast-iron trusses, Proceedings of the First Construction History Society Conference, First Conference of the Construction History Society, Queens College, Cambridge, 11-12 April 2014, edited by James W P Campbell et al. , Short Run Press, Exeter, 2014, pp313 - 322
