The occasion of a Biological Society Quiz during College Week in a lecture room setting. Two pictures are included with names given from left to right: Picture 1: Unidentified; James Houghton (Lecturer); Pat Hoade; Mick Loughnane Picture 2: Pat Hoade; Mick Loughnane; Geraldine O’Shea; Unidentified; Unidentified James (Jim) Houghton, who is in Picture 1, was Professor of Microbiology & Cytogenetics at UCG

The picture shows five people, mostly 4th year Science students, around a table. The two women are eating food. There are others at tables in the background. The Science Society party was held possibly in the Fo’castle Ballad /Folk Club, Hotel Enda in Dominick Street. Participants’ names are given from left to right below: Unidentified; Pádraig Feirtéir; Kathleen O’Sullivan; Josephine (Jo) Lombard; and Gerry Morgan

3rd Science students mostly are included in this picture attending the Science Dress Dance in 1975. Names are given from left to right below: Three men at the very back: Steve __ (?); Johnny McArdle; Gerry Nihil Back row: Unidentified, Mary Hynes (?); Susan Gallagher; Unidentified; Colette McDonagh; Unidentified (Army Officer?); Anne Hanahoe; Pat Curran (partially hidden); Unidentified; Tom Donaghy (standing on far right) 2nd row from the back, four persons standing on the left side (l-r): Kevin McLoughlin; Jim McCormack; Mary Riordan 2nd row from the front: Chrissie Kileen; Mick Brougham; Frank ___(?) (Army Officer(?); Angela Kilduff; Mary O’Malley (?); Pat Hoade; Gerry Morgan; John Wood; Anne O’Donohue; Unidentified; Breda Hoban (looking sideways); Unidentified; Liam Cousins; Siobhán Mooney (?); Tom McGee Front row: Tommy Kelly; Gráinne McGlinchey; Marian Whelan; Marie Killeen; Catherine Caulfield; Justin __(?); Geraldine O’Shea; Unidentified; Máirín Connelley; Maria Reid On the ground in front: Mick Loughnane

The Department of Physics (as with other Departments) marked the 150th year of the University’s existence and foundation as Queen’s College Galway in 1845, with a variety of events. A reunion of graduates in Physics was held on the weekend of July 7 – 9 in the Department. More than 80 graduates and their partners, spread over a number of decades, attended. Three pictures are shown: Picture 1: A complete Group; Picture 2: A smaller Physics Group; Picture 3: an Atmospheric Physics Group. Names are given from left to right. Picture 1: Back row: Unidentified; Richard Coughlan (1972); Karl Flannery; Conor McDonagh (1989); John Goode (Technician); Richard Sherlock (1991); Conor Donnelly (probably); Unidentified 2nd row: Paul McBride (1990) with reddish hair; Unidentified (between two persons with glasses); Unidentified (between person with red shirt and woman); Unidentified (Below the 4th person on the left in back row); Unidentified (between person with white coat and the person with reddish hair and reddish tie); Gerard O’Connor (1989) with white top and glasses; Unidentified; John Geaney (1986) 3rd row: Gerard Scully (1973); Jarlath Feeney (1980); Unidentified woman; Unidentified; Unidentified; Unidentified; Catherine Walsh (1983) and above the 2nd person to the left in front row; Unidentified; Paddy Fleming (1966) with red shirt; Áine Reilly (1974); Bob O’Connell; Vincent Flanagan; Unidentified; Unidentified; Unidentified; Unidentified; Parker Reist; John O’Dea; Philip Walton Front row: Liam Kelly (1971); Tom Glynn (1968); Elaine Morris (1989); Aodhagán Ó Rodaighe (1962); Stephen G. Jennings (1965); Deirbhile Ní Bhrolcháin; Mairéad Uí Bhrolcháin; Tom O’Connor; Fr Gerard McGreevy; Frank Imbusch (1956); Josephine Lombard (1974); Gerard Morgan (1976) Year in parenthesis ( ) indicates the year of graduation Picture 2: Jo O'Connell (wife of Bob O'Connell); Unidentified; Unidentified; Bob O’Connell; Niamh Imbusch; Frank Imbusch; Mary Imbusch; Mairéad Uí Bhrolcháin; Stephen G. Jennings; Deirbhile Ní Bhrolcháin; Tom Lonergan Picture 3: Aodhagán Ó Rodaighe; John O'Dea; Tom O’ Connor; Vincent Flanagan; Stephen G. Jennings; Fr Gerard McGreevy; Gerard Scully; Parker Reist Bob O'Connell graduated in 1953 and is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, U.S.A. Fr Gerard McGreevy was awarded a Ph. D. degree from UCG in 1965 and was Prof. of Physics in St. Patrick's College Maynooth (O'Connor, 1999, p. 207). Parker Reist, Prof. of Industrial Hygiene and Air Engineering at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, was awarded a Fullbright Scholarship and spent the year 1984-5 in the Dept. of Physics, UCG (O'Connor, 1999, p. 210).

Thomas (Tom) Glynn was awarded a B.Sc. Honours Degree in Experimental Physics at University College Galway in 1968. The picture shows from left to right: Tom Glynn, Tom O’Connor and Frank Imbusch. Tom O’Connor was Lecturer in Experimental Physics (1962-1996). Frank Imbusch was Assistant Lecturer in the Dept. of Experimental Physics (1957-1959); Lecturer in Experimental Physics (1967-1970); Associate Prof. of Physics (1970-1974); Prof. of Experimental Physics (1974-2001); Vice President [Human & Physical Resources], (1992-1998).

The young man in the centre of the group is Tommie Lee, brother of Elizabeth (Nellie) Lee, who was later a professor of Chemistry, and uncle of Michael J. Brennan, Lecturer in Engineering. Information provided in 2016 by Michael J. Brennan: 'In 1939, Nellie Lee's brother, Tommie Lee, won the Pierce Malone Scholarship in Engineering. [...] Tommie Lee's son, Frank, my first cousin, and retired consulting engineer, recently found the correspondence from the College, UCG, to Tommie informing him of his success [...]. Graduation, as you will see from the photo, was noted in the Connacht Tribune on the 4th November 1939 with a photo of Tommie being elevated by his classmates in front of the Engineering School. The award amounted to £27. This might sound like a paltry sum, but it converts to € 2,149 today. The original negative of the photo and many more were destroyed in the fire that occurred in the Connacht Tribune Offices in 1969. ' The Pierce Malone Scholarship in Engineering was revived by the NUI in 2021. There is also a long-standing Pierce Malone Scholarship in Philosophy. Both of these prestigious Scholarships were established with funds willed to the University by Pierce Malone.

This photograph, taken at the 5th Eurobitumen Congress, shows (l. to r.) Dr John Killeen, CEO Colas Group; Ned Flynn, County Engineer, Tipperary South Riding, and Dr Michael J. Brennan, Senior Lecturer, University of Galway.

Present in this photograph are (l. to r.): Seán Lenihan, postgraduate in Civil Engineering; Dr Michael J. Brennan, Senior Lecturer in Ciivil Engineering; and Bozenna Kierus, Bialystok University of Technology. Michael Brennan notes tha this photograph was taken in 'the Highway Laboratory that was attached to the Wind Tunnel, where the old Handball Alley used to be for decades. On that occasion, we had a visitor, Bozenna Kierus, who worked with asphaltic materials at the Bialystok University of Technology, Poland. Seán Lenihan, a graduate who was learning to perform laboratory tests on asphaltic materials, was in the laboratory. [...] The Highway Laboratory has produced postgraduates who have become leaders in the Highway Industry, and many internationally acclaimed research publications.'

The young man is the white coat is Seán Lenihan, a postgraduate in Civil Engineering. Beside him is Dr Michael J. Brennan, Senior Lecturer. The woman beside them is undoubtedly Bozenna Kierus, a visitor from Bialystok University of Technology, Poland. This photo was taken at the same time as another in this Collection where the Laboratory is featured and its work described. See below, 'The Highway Laboratory , NUI Galway, 1991'.

These are the two versions of the College Tie. The original tie, on the left, is believed to have been introduced in the early 1970s. It was 55 inches in length and 3 inches at the widest point. Displayed on the blade, in white, were the College Arms (including the DEO FAVENTE motto), with a narrow white diagonal stripe underneath. That pattern was repeated on the back and, as shown in this image, on the neck (twice). The tie, carrying the Hortex label, was 100% polyester and made in Ireland. The later version of the College Tie, on the right, was introduced in the period 1995-99, when the sesquicentenaries of the College's foundation in 1845 and the arrival of the first students in 1849 were being celebrated , in 1995 and 1999, respectively. This tie was 58 inches in length and 3.75 inches at the widest point. Displayed on the blade, but in green and blue, were the College Arms, with a diagonal stripe in green, white and blue above and underneath. The DEO FAVENTE in the motto was, however, replaced by a series of dots. That version of the College Arms, but in black, was repeated throughout the rest of the jacquard 100% polyester fabric, which again carried the Hortex label but was made in the EU.

Frank Imbusch records that after the Mace Head site had been acquired as a place to conduct atmospheric research 'much work had to be done. Tom O'Connor and Frank Gaffney cleared the site, which involved moving stones and boulders to improve accessibility to the station. Electricity had to be installed and windows repaired before equipment could be brought in. Eventually, in 1958, research activity began at the Mace Head Atmospheric Research Station. This photograph shows the station in 1958 with its newly installed windows, while a closer inspection of the foreground shows Tom taking a little rest from his labour.'

Tom O’ Connor was instrumental in establishing a site on the west coast of Ireland for examining properties of the air. His account of that is described (F. Imbusch, J. Conroy, Asset Id 13591), (F.Imbusch, Asset Id 14679). Tom O'Connor and colleague Aodhagán Ó Rodaighe organised the Ninth International Conference on Atmospheric Aerosols, Condensation and Ice Nuclei in UCG in Sept., 1977. The Mace Head Management Committee was set up with members: Tom O’Connor, (Chair), Aodhagán Ó Rodaighe and S. Gerard Jennings (Secretary) which led to the refurbishment of the cottage by the University in 1985. In 1988, construction of the first shore laboratory took place along with a 23m high sampling tower. Enlargement of the cottage laboratory and construction of a second laboratory near the shore took place in 1990. Mace Head has been host to several major international campaign based projects including the following up to and including 1995: GAGE [1987 – 1995] Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment AEROCE [1988 – 1994] Air Ocean Chemistry Experiment NOAA [1991 - GHG Flask sampling programme LSCE-CEA [1992 - CO2, radon continuous programme BMCAPE [1993 – 1994] Background Maritime Contribution to Atmospheric Pollution in Europe AGAGE [1995 - Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment Mace Head has achieved International Organisational Status as: - A WMO Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) Station since 1994 – GAW’s remit includes long-term trends of aerosols and greenhouse gases - A European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) designated supersite – a research based Level-3 site (including campaigns) - One of 5 global sites studying the lifetimes of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases in the atmosphere as part of the Advanced Global Gases Experiment (AGAGE) - Continuous Carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements in collaboration with CNRS, France since 1994. Mace Head has become a centre for international collaborations involving scientists from around the world who have participated in intensive long-term measurement campaigns, shorter term projects and international workshops. The research work performed at Mace Head has been documented widely in the international scientific literature. Data from Mace Head is used by climatologists around the world to predict global climate change, is central to several international research networks, and is a baseline station for the Global Atmosphere Watch of the World Meteorological Organization.

Among the graduates here are four future professors: John Shanahan, Prof. of Mathematics, Boston College; Michael Hayes, Prof. of Mathematical Physics, UCD; Frank Imbusch, Prof. of Experimental Physics, UCG; Michael Raftery, Prof. of Biochemistry, Cal. Tech. Centre front: the older man in a light suit is Cilian Ó Brolcháin, Prof. of Physics

Image taken at the official opening of the Applied Geophysics Unit in the Quadrangle in 1980 by the Minister for Energy. This pioneering Unit (established as a Unit within the Department of Geology in the southeast corner of the Quadrangle, rather than as a separate Department) was set up, with special HEA funding, as the national Centre for education and research in applied geophysics. It aimed at providing education, training and research in geophysics applied to mineral and hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation, so that an indigenous pool of skilled personnel would be available to fill key jobs in Ireland's growing onshore and offshore exploration industry. Professor Andrew Brock was recruited as Professor of Applied Geophysics (1979-2000), and its flagship programme was the MSc in Applied Geophysics. In 2003, the Unit was merged with the Departments of Geology and Oceanography to form the new Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences.

Éamon de Valera, President of Ireland from 25 June 1959 to 24 June 1973, visited NUI Galway in 1959. He is seen here acting in his capacity as Chancellor of the National University of Ireland (NUI). He was elevated 'on the eve of the treaty split, to the chancellorship of the NUI (a post from which he was separated only by death)' (DIB). The man on whom he is bestowing an honorary degree is thought to be Carl J.S. Marstrander, a noted Norwegian linguist, who received a DLittCelt from the NUI in 1959. Camilla McAleese, friend of Pádraig de Brún, who used to visit him in his presidential residence on campus, has identified him as the man on the left, seen in profile. She notes that 'Dev taught Dr de Brún maths in Rockwell and they remained close friends all their lives. [At the time of this photo] his term of office as President was over as he had reached his 70th birthday but he had to stay on until about Oct. 1959 in order to complete some work on the committees. Hence the reason why he did not appear in his Presidential robes'. To the right, standing in front of a screen, is Frank Imbusch, later Professor of Physics and Vice-President of NUI Galway. As suited the formality of the occasion, Yann Studios were called in to make a photographic record. Photographer Yann Guyomar or Guiomard, originally from Guingamp, had fled to Galway from Germany via Brittany (Foundation Yann Fouéré) after WWII. At first a free-lance photographer, he set up a photographic studio in 1959 (Henna, p. 64)

Stewards of the College Sports Day in Queen's College, Galway about 1872 in the Quadrangle outside the Chemistry laboratory - later the location of the Applied Geophysics Unit

To mark the sesquicentenary of the three Queen's Colleges in Ireland (Queen's College, Belfast; Queen's College, Cork; and Queen's College, Galway), founded in 1845, a reception, co-hosted by the two Heads of State, Queen Elizabeth II and President Mary Robinson, was held on 26 October 1995 in St James's Palace, London. This photograph shows (left to right) Queen Elizabeth and President Robinson conversing with the President of University College, Galway (Dr Colm Ó hEocha) and the Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast (Sir Gordon Beveridge). The President of University College, Cork (Dr Michael Mortell) was also present. The Presidents and Vice-Chancellor were each accompanied by a delegation drawn from their Governing Body and senior administration.

Distribution to a number of charitable organisations by An Ciste Carthanachta of funds it had raised from UCG staff. An Ciste Carthanachta (= 'The Charity Fund') was run by a staff committee as an annual fundraising drive among staff for a variety of charities. The photo was taken at the distribution of the £2,100 raised in 1984-5 to representatives of St Vincent de Paul Society (£500), An Cheathrú Rua Drowning Tragedy Fund (£100), the Parents and Friends Committee of the Holy Family Special School for Mentally Handicapped (Renmore), the Tagaste Youth Projects (£1,000), and the Simon Community (£100).

A porthole view of the Quadrangle, showing people, presumably students, sitting and relaxing on the lawn and others seated on benches in front of the Aula Maxima on a sunny day. The photograph probably dates from the early 1990s, as the ornate lamp standard erected at the centre of the Quadrangle in the late 1990s is not visible

Four men working on the conversion of the Greek Hall, with its tiered seating benches already seen to have been removed and work proceeding on removal of the substructure. Initially it was intended to become a flat-floored Council Chamber for Academic Council and Faculty meetings, but ultimately became the location for the administrative computing office. The Greek Hall was the best-known of the three terraced lecture theatres in the Quadrangle and was particularly renowned to generations of students as the location for the robust Thursday-night meetings of the Literary and Debating Society (the 'Lit.& Deb.'), the Monday-night meetings of An Cumann Éigse agus Seanchais and other Society meetings. It was the venue for the visit of Donogh O'Malley, Minister of Education on December 7, 1967 to announce a £1.3 million grant to UCG, enabling the first significant physical expansion of the College in many years. The RTÉ Seven Days crew were present to record the event. The Minister first addressed the Literary and Debating Society (the Lit. & Deb.), at its invitation, here in the Greek Hall. During the packed meeting, some seats at the rear of the tiered lecture theatre collapsed, but luckily nobody was injured. The meeting then transferred to the Aula Maxima, where the grant was announced. With the advent in the early 1970s of the new Arts/Commerce and Science complex, with their large theatres able to accommodate the greatly increased student numbers, the Greek Hall (and the Latin Hall and Physics lecture theatres) fell into relative disuse, leading to this decision to convert it.

Two Sister of Mercy nuns, Winifred Kearney (Sister Raphael) and Mary B. Forde (Sister Bernadette, probably) are shown left to right in the picture. They are wearing a habit with the coif headpiece (Wikipedia, Religious habit, 2024) and an academic hood. They graduated with an Honours B.Sc. Degree in Physics along with a Franciscan (James Malone), a Redemptorist (Brendan Callanan) and Tom Glynn (Tom Glynn, Asset Id 14665).

The picture shows Winifred Kearney (Sister Raphael) sitting with a notebook and Liam Kelleher in a Research Laboratory in Block R, which was behind the Men's Club and boat house. They were doing research on a microwave spectrometer.

Seo é an file Máirtín Ó Direáin (1910-88). Ceapadh é mar bhall lánaimseartha d'fhoireann na Nua-Ghaeilge don seisiún 1978-9. Bhí sé mar scríbhneoir cónaithe ann, léachtaí agus seimineáir á dtabhairt aige ar nua-fhilíocht na Gaeilge, go háirithe ar a chuid scríbhinní féin, agus ghlac sé páirt i ngnáthshaol an Choláiste leis. Ba as Árainn do Mháirtín, ach thosaigh sé ag obair in Oifig an Phoist i gcathair na Gaillimhe i 1928, áit a raibh sé ar dhuine de na haisteoirí tosaigh sa Taibhdhearc. I 1937 bhog sé go Baile Átha Cliath, áit ar oibrigh sé sa Roinn Poist agus Teileagraf agus ina dhiaidh sin sa Roinn Oideachais. Idir 1942 agus 1986 chuir sé amach mórán leabhar filíochta agus leabhar amháin próis, chomh maith le haistí, agus tugadh suas dó gurbh é an file ba mhó dá raibh ag scríobh sa Ghaeilge ag an am. I 1967 bhronn an Irish American Cultural Institute Gradam Annie Moore air, agus i 1970 rinneadh ball d'Acadamh Litríochta na hÉireann de. I 1977 bhronn Ollscoil na hÉireann céim DLitt oinigh air agus bhronn Fundúireacht FVS (Freiherr von Stein) i Hamburg an Ossian-Preis ('Duais Oisín') dá gcuid air. (This is the poet Máirtín Ó Direáin (1910-88). He was appointed as a fulltime member of the Modern Irish staff for the session 1978-9. He was a writer in residence there, giving lectures and seminars on Irish-language modern poetry and particularly on his own writings, and he also participated in ordinary College life. Máirtín was a native of Inis Mór, but in 1928 started work in the Post Office in Galway City, where he was one of the first actors in An Taibhdhearc. In 1937 he moved to Dublin, where he worked in the Department of Posts and Telegraphs and later in the Department of Education. Between 1942 and 1986 he published many books of poetry and one prose book, together with essays, and he was acknowledged as the greatest poet writing in Irish at the time. In 1967 the Irish American Cultural Institute honoured him with its Annie Moore Award, and in 1970 he was made a member of the Irish Academy of Letters. In 1977 the National University of Ireland conferred an honorary DLitt degree on him, and he was awarded the Ossian-Preis ('Oisín Prize') by the FVS (Freiherr von Stein) Foundation in Hamburg.

Two Estonian scientists, Prof. Matti Fischer and Dr Aadu Mirme from the University of Tartu visited the Atmospheric Physics Research Group in 1994. They were collaborating with the Group at the Mace Head Atmospheric Research Station for a number of weeks. The picture shows the two Estonian scientists with members of the Atmospheric Research Group, which was probably taken in the Arts-Science Complex at the University of Galway. Names of the persons in the picture are as follows, left to right: Brendan Kelly; Claudine Lloyd; Teri Donaghy; Michael Geever; John Conway; John Francis; Frank McGovern; Caroline Kenny; Aadu Mirme; Matti Fisher; Gerard Spain; Stephen G. Jennings; John Keary; Aodhagán Ó Rodaighe; Tom O’ Connor; Rosamund Jennings

The picture shows Tom Glynn (Experimental Physics), wearing a woollen cap, with his dog, standing outside the Block R Building (behind the Men's Club and boat house) in January 1969.