Archaeology field trip, 1946
Item
- Format
- JPEG
- Title
- Archaeology field trip, 1946
- Identifier
- VH0006
- Depiction
- Nine young men and ten young women, standing, kneeling or reclining, in front of a limestone wall with sparse trees to the right.
- Description
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Members of the Archaeological Society 1946.
Back row: Unidentified; Unidentified; Patrick McSweeney; Eamon Joyce; Noel Keane.
Middle row: Ms Gillespie; Aideen Timoney; Pete McCaffrey; Unidentified; Mrs Molloy (née O'Malley); Unidentified.
Front row: Tadhg O'Sullivan; Ms Coyle; Carmel Kelly; Dr Colm Ó hEocha (later President); Cecily McNally (reclining); Daiden Fahy (with headscarf); Unidentified; Unidentified.
Colm Ó hEocha and Daiden were married some 10 years after this photograph was taken and Colm was appointed Professor of Biochemistry in 1963. He was President of the University from 1975 to 1996.
Archaeology Society outings attracted students taking Archaeology as a subject for their degree and other people who were simply interested in the general area. The impetus for these excursion from the late 1940s on came from Michael Duignan who was appointed to the Chair of Celtic Archaeology in 1945. - References
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John Waddell, 'Professor Michael V. Duignan, 1907-1988', Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 41 (1987-88): 1-4.
Jim Faherty, 'A Guide to Ireland 1962' at https://www.rte.ie/archives/2022/0308/1285154-shell-guide-to-ireland/. Accessed 2023.04.13
Patricia M. Byrne, 'Colm O hEocha', Dictionary of Irish Biography at https://doi.org/10.3318/dib.006371.v1. Accessed 2023.04.13
- Contributor
- John Waddell
- Bibliographic Citation
- J. Waddell, J. Conroy, ‘Archaeology field trip, 1946’, Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 13589, Archival Record Id VHRS
- Spatial Coverage
- Unidentified location
- Temporal Coverage
- 1946
- Period
- 1940s
- Category
- b&w
- group
- off-campus
- outdoors
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Galway Library
- Rights
- This image may be used for non-commercial purposes under CC BY-NC-SA see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
