Robert John Douglas Gageby (1918-2004) 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Education: Belfast Royal Academy and Trinity College, Dublin (read French and German). Enlisted in Irish Army as a private soldier at the outbreak of World War II. Commissioned later, he served as an Intelligence officer. Reported from postwar Germany for the Irish Press and went on to work under Conor Cruise O'Brien in the Irish News Agency. In 1954 he was the first editor of the Evening Press. In 1963 he moved on to become editor of the Irish Times, a post he held until 1986, having been brought back from a short retirement in 1974. He is credited with moving the Irish Times from a Unionist organ into a successful Irish journal of record. He was married to Dorothy, daughter of Sean Lester (last Secretary General of the League of Nations). Belfast Royal Academy is a co-educational, non-denominational grammar school situated in north Belfast. ... The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin or more commonly Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I, is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Irelands oldest university. ... The regular army of the Republic of Ireland has 8,500 personnel, and is divided primarily into three infantry brigades, each responsible for a geographical area of the country: Irish Army brigade areas In addition to the three brigades, there is also the Defence Forces Training Centre, which is responsible... The Irish Times is Irelands newspaper of record, launched in the late 1850s. ... Seán Lester Seán Lester (1889-1959) was an Irish diplomat and the last General Secretary of the League of Nations. ... The League of Nations was an international organization founded after the First World War at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. ...
DouglasGageby, who has died aged 85, was editor of the Irish Times for a total of 22 years, including the worst years of the recent violence.
Gageby attracted a wide range of journalists and writers, whose disparate views reflected the enormous changes in Irish society during the past half century.
Gageby was born in Dublin, before partition, the only son of Thomas Gageby, a Belfast-born civil servant, whose own father had stood as a Labour parliamentary candidate in Belfast North in 1906.
DouglasGageby, who transformed The Irish Times from the voice of Ireland's dwindling Protestant minority into the most respected newspaper on the island, has died.
Gageby, who edited the newspaper from 1963 to 1974 and again from 1977 to 1986, died Thursday after a two-year illness, his family and former co-workers announced.
Gageby avoided the cocktail-party circuit and appeared only rarely on television, insisting the editor's job was to criticize the ruling elite, not to befriend or join it.
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