Question: What year was the Irish politican, who Dr. Diarmuid Whelan wrote his doctoral thesis about, born?

The Pál Schmitt academic misconduct scandal refers to allegations of plagiarism concerning the 1992 doctoral thesis and the circumstances of the doctoral defence of the President of Hungary Pál Schmitt, which led to Schmitt's resignation from his presidential post.  The scandal broke in January 2012, when Hungarian news organizations published a number of articles claiming that about 197 pages of Schmitt's 215-page thesis had been lifted from works by other, foreign scholars, without giving appropriate credit. <SEP>  He wrote his doctoral thesis on Conor Cruise O'Brien. Dr. Diarmuid Whelan (11 August 1971 – 1 June 2010) was an Irish academic in the history department of UCC.  Born in Cork, he studied at Christian Brothers College, Cork and UCC. <SEP>  His opinion on the role of Britain in Ireland and in Northern Ireland changed during the 1970s, in response to the outbreak of The Troubles.  He saw opposing nationalist and unionist traditions as irreconcilable and switched from a nationalist to a unionist view of Irish politics and history.  O'Brien's outlook was always radical and the positions he took were seldom orthodox.  He summarised his position as intending "to administer an electric shock to the Irish psyche". Conor Cruise O'Brien (3 November 1917 – 18 December 2008) often nicknamed "The Cruiser", was an Irish politician, writer, historian and academic. <SEP> Univ.  Prof. Dr. Eva Schönbeck-Temesy (August 16, 1930 – August 27, 2011) was an eminent, Austrian botanist of Hungarian descent who made notable contributions to Karl Heinz Rechinger's magisterial Flora Iranica.  The fourth daughter of General Stefan Temesy and Ludovika Temesy née Messek, she was born in Győr, the most important city in northwestern Hungary.  She attended elementary school and afterwards (1940–44) "Szent Margit Leánygimnázium" (St. Margaret's School for Girls) in Székesfehérvár in central Hungary.  In the turmoil of the invasion of Hungary by the Red Army, the Temesy family left the country and settled in the Styrian capital Graz in eastern Austria, where the young Eva resumed her secondary education at BRG II for Girls in 1946 - from which she graduated with distinction in 1949.  In the same year, she enrolled at the University of Graz to study botany.  Her doctoral thesis, entitled "The Polytypic Species "Saxifraga stellaris" Linné" , which she wrote under the guidance of Professor Felix Joseph Widder, earned her in 1954 the degree of Ph.D. "Sub auspiciis Praesidentis" - the highest honour which may be bestowed by the Austrian University system.  On July 9, 1956 she married the zoologist Horst Schönbeck (1929–2009) by whom she had three children: Susanne (1957-), Stefan (1959-) and Pippa (1961-).  Up until 1964, the young Schönbeck-Temesy family lived in the municipality of Judendorf-Straßengel, in the district of Graz-Umgebung.  There then followed a work-related move to Vienna.  From January 1 1965 to December 1 1970 Eva worked on a research fellowship and then up until March 30 1973 on an "Arbeitsauftrag" in the botany department of the Natural History Museum, Vienna under the Directorship of Professor Karl Heinz Rechinger.  On March 1 1974 she became Keeper of the museum's Herbarium - a post in which she remained until her retirement in April 1993.  Dr. Schönbeck-Temesy benefitted greatly, during her academic career, from her polyglotism : in addition to her mother tongues of Hungarian and German she was also fluent in English, French, Italian, and Russian.  A true "Grande Dame" of the world of botany, she is commemorated in the name of the rubiaceous plant "Galium schoenbeck-temesyae" Ehrend.