Gordon Clarke, widely acknowledged as the first IT professional in Ireland, has died on Friday 20 January. Clarke will be remembered for his contribution to the development of computing in Ireland, which began in 1958 when he was first trained by British Tabulating Machine (BTM) Company (later ICL) for supporting a new machine that it had delivered to Irish Sugar. From 1960, Clarke was based in Dublin where he soon became one of the Ireland’s leading computer systems professionals.Clarke left his first job at ICL in early 1969 and moved to Aer Lingus as a senior systems consultant, where he helped set ...