... mother's family were quiet-spoken and rather introverted people and pledged teetotallers.

His result will probably never be equalled. Not only did he win at the first attempt, but he also won with a 100% record. The quality of his play was remarkable for a player who had never played outside of Cork prior to that event. According to Noel Mulcahy, a number of characteristic features can be seen in his games (see [3] for details of his games) at the championships. Firstly, a logical approach: he nearly always played what the position demanded, whether this involved a wild attack or precise manoeuvres. Secondly, a lack of nerves: in a crucial game (against J A Flood, see [3]) he played an incredibly risky-looking line where his King was badly exposed. It must have taken a great deal of self-confidence and reliance on his own judgement and calculations. Finally, patience and a willingness to work hard at a position to build up small advantage.

Very unusually he was not renewed as Demonstrator for 1950-51 and had to support himself by teaching in the Crawford Tech. This sowed the seeds of animosity in him towards those who made the decision.

... was also a very promising pianist. He had lessons in 1950 from Mrs Tilly Fleischmann and learnt very quickly to play Chopin. She said of him at the time that he was the only pupil she had had, who never played a wrong note. He was also very interested in listening to music, chiefly Beethoven, and his general conversation suggested the arts man rather than the scientist.

The following two years were very happy for us both. We were young and enthusiastic and had long conversations about functions walking in Rougemont gardens and other places around Exeter. I had recently returned from America full of the ideas of Maurice Heins (1915-2015) and put Paddy onto a question raised by Heins. This he solved in a thoroughly elegant manner. But the teaching was both ways. Heini Halberstam (1926-2014) and I and some of our other colleagues benefited from a course on probability and measure theory given by Paddy. Paddy was a wonderful conversationalist and tremendous good company. I have known few greater joys in life than sitting opposite him each smoking a cigarette and chatting, oblivious of time.

I wish to express my gratitude to Mr W K Hayman, whose guidance and advice were invaluable at all stages of the preparation of this paper. The author is a Travelling Student of the National University of Ireland.

Kennedy's objectives from the start in 1954 were to raise standards, to do rigorous mathematics, to modernise the courses, and to encourage and help all the other staff to be active in research.

I wish to express my warm thanks to Mr W K Hayman for much valuable advice during the preparation of this paper. ... The material of this paper forms part of a Thesis submitted for the Ph.D. degree of the National University of Ireland.

Research supported in part by the Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force, through its European Office ...

[Kennedy] was very enthusiastic about, and interested in, mathematics. He was an excellent teacher, committed to proof, explained clearly, was unhurried, gave model notes , exhorted, encouraged and inspired. He prepared a booklet on real analysis for students. He was informal with senior students; I had most of my post-graduate lectures from him on a 2ft × 2ft table in the College restaurant. He won the admiration and loyalty of repeated classes of students. I regard him as having been a watershed in the department. Before him there were oldish courses and little research for a long time. Soon after he arrived there was fairly normal activity.

Throughout his career as a university teacher Paddy threw himself with great gusto into academic politics. He saw things in black and white colours and had no hesitation in telling everybody that it would be iniquitous to do anything but A even when it was fairly clear that course B would in fact be adopted. Coming from a very young Professor such an attitude sometimes caused resentment. It also caused him a great deal of disappointment when some of the things he hoped for did not come off. He could not be above the battle. If he was in something, whether it was a committee or a problem in mathematics he was in it up to the neck. In this way he got a good deal done both mathematically and in building up the departments at both Cork and York, but at high cost to his nerves.

He was extremely conscientious and his final tragic breakdown can only be attributed to excessive and quite unnecessary worry about his students and his work.

... a falling off in the quality of his play in autumn 1949 and he resigned from the Cork Championship after playing (and winning) only two games. Mulcahy suggests this may have been down to a sense of anti-climax after the Irish coupled with unexpected difficulty in beating weaker players. About the same time, nerves began to affect him and his remaining formal competition results were poor.

This book gives a clear and attractive account of the theory of subharmonic functions in domains of Euclidean spaces $\mathbb{R}^{m} (m ≥ 2)$ and illuminates the connections and analogies with classical complex variable theory particularly well.

This project was started by my friend and former student Professor P B Kennedy. His tragic death in 1966 made it impossible for him to finish the work. I hope it may serve as a memorial to a deeply conscientious and extremely charming person whom I still miss greatly.