Vincent McBrierty


Vincent J. McBrierty, a Knight of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, is an Irish academician, author, educator, physicist, and researcher.
An alumnus of St. Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School, Belfast, he attended Queen's University Belfast BSc, University in London PhD and Trinity College Dublin ScD. He began teaching at Trinity College Dublin in 1967, and where he is now Fellow Emeritus, Physics. McBrierty was the first catholic on the academic staff of the physics department in trinity and has served as a Professor, Dean, and Bursar at the College.
McBrierty specializes in Irrigation and Water Management and Soil and Environmental sciences. He co-authored The World in Crisis: the Response of the Church, The Furrow. Vol. 63, No. 9, pp. 391–400.
Prof. McBrierty was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1983.