Liam Carey was an Irish Roman Catholic priest and educator. He was the son of William and Mary Josephine Carey. Carey was appointed to the ''Dublin Institute of Catholic Sociology (DICS)'' as director in 1963, he went for further study Adult Education to the Teachers College,

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, New York, and returned to Ireland in 1966 renamed it the Dublin Institute of Adult Education. In 1969 he founded

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, the National Association for the promotion of Adult Education. In 1974 he became the first director of the Adult education department in Holy Ghost College, (

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), which evolved into the

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. In 1974 he was awarded a PhD from the

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, for his thesis on adult education in ireland since Vatican II. In 1975 Carey became the first staff member of the new Centre for Adult and Community Education at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, which he served until 1993 when he retired. In 1979 he wrote the Aontas Review of Adult Education in Ireland. Following his retirement from Maynooth he served in Ballyroan Parish as a curate. Carey bequeathed over 2000 books to

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Library.Annual Report of the Librarian to the Academic Council 2004-2005
www.maynoothuniversity.ie He died in on February 4, 2005, and is buried in Deans Grange Cemetery.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carey, Liam Date of birth missing 2005 deaths 20th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests Irish sociologists Irish educators Irish educational theorists Alumni of the University of Manchester Columbia College (New York) alumni