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By ANNE SHERIDANTAOISEACH Brian Cowen has officially opened the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. Located on the Clare side of the campus, the 5,000 square metre building was specifically designed to combine the elements of research, performance and teaching by…

The University of Limerick Foundation gave out €8.2 million in grants last year, after a sharp rise in donations and gifts, writes Gavin Daly. The foundation’s figures for the 12 months to the end of August last show an increase in income and expenditure compared…

       Gerry Adams, the former President of Sinn Féin, has paid tribute to Chuck Feeney, the Irish American philanthropist who died on Monday, October 9 at the age of 92. “I am deeply saddened at the news of the death of my good friend Chuck Feeney,"…

By Ailish O’Horaand Programme leaders from Trinity College Dublin met their benefactor - philanthropist and former billionaire Charles 'Chuck' Feeney - at the Global Brain Health Institute conference in San Francisco last week. They were among 70 programme leaders who gathered together from across the…

Chuck Feeney's 'historic act of extraordinary generosity' financed transformational change.

Note: In 2017, we published an updated version of this report as part of our Country Books series. Between 1987 and 2014, Atlantic invested over $1.2 billion in the Republic of Ireland to strengthen and grow the higher education system, stimulate a knowledge economy, protect…

[caption id="attachment_83474" align="aligncenter" width="581"] Patrick Feeney carries the ashes of his father, Chuck Feeney, at the funeral in Glasnevin Cemetery. Photograph: Naoise Culhane[/caption] By Paul Cullen Chuck Feeney left the world better than he found it through his “incredible” compassion for the less fortunate, a funeral…

Irish-American philanthropist Chuck Feeney has died at the age of 92. Through Atlantic Philanthropies, Feeney gave almost $9 billion to various causes. Feeney was born in New Jersey in 1931 during the Great Depression of Irish American parents. He was the first in his family…

[caption id="attachment_81715" align="aligncenter" width="620"] In 2003, Chuck Feeney signed off on a decision to spend all of his fortune in his lifetime. “Giving while living,” he called it.[/caption] By Conor O'Clery Chuck Feeney today is a man of no property. He and his wife Helga live…

This book tells the story of The Atlantic Philanthropies’ 30 years of grantmaking in the Republic of Ireland — investments totaling $1.3 billion to help breathe life into university research, support major advances in human rights, and underwrite joint efforts with government to improve services…