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
Just three of the people assembled here have been identified:
Toby Joyce (back row, 2nd from r); Colm Ó hEocha (front row, reclining in the centre); Madeleine ('Daiden') Fahy (front row, with headscarf).
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.
Toby Joyce (back row, 2nd from r); Colm Ó hEocha (front row, reclining in the centre); Madeleine ('Daiden') Fahy (front row, with headscarf).
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.
People
References
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
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
Temporal Coverage
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/