Background
Roseingrave was born at Gort, County Galway, to Thomas Roseingrave (an engineer) and Nora McMahon, in 1918.
Roseingrave was born at Gort, County Galway, to Thomas Roseingrave (an engineer) and Nora McMahon, in 1918.
University College Dublin.
He was educated at the O"Brien Institute, Dublin, between 1928 and 1934, later working for the Dublin Portuguese and Milling Company, and later still for Ceimici Teoranta, in 1965. He earned a Master"s Degree in social science at University College Dublin, in the early 1960s, where he would later become a senior research fellowship In 1967 he became director of manpower studies in the Department of Labour.
lieutenant was in this capacity that he published a number of influential reports on Irish regional development, such as Manpower in an industrial growth centre: a survey in Waterford.
His reports while at Munintir na Tire were well received at government level and played a significant part in the examination of the problems current in rural Ireland in the 1970s. His work was recognised by an award of the gold medal of the Foundation for European Merit in 1982.
Five years later, he was distinguished when made a Grand Officer of the Institute for Diplomatic Relations. Through Home Truth, an Raidió Teilifís Éireann programme that ran from 1966 to 1968, and his weekly broadcasting work on Raidió Teilifís Éireann radio, he became associated in the public mind as the public face of Irish social sciences.
A member of Muintir na Tíre, he was in 1968 made its second national director Ireland joined the European Economic Community in 1973, and from then till his death, Roseingrave was a member of the European Economic Community"s Economic and Social Committee, acting as a rapporteur for many of its opinions, particularly in new areas pertaining to community and technology. A keen Irish language enthusiast and a member of the Gaelic League, Roseingrave was a member of the Gaelic Athletic Association, the RTÉ review committee and a member of the Dublin Institute of Adult Education.