UCG Medical Society Dress Dance, February 1965
Item
Format
JPEG
Title
UCG Medical Society Dress Dance, February 1965
Identifier
VH0011
Depiction
Twenty-eight men and six women in four rows, wearing evening dress.
Description
This, the first UCG Medical Society Dress Dance, was organized by Eoin Ó Dochartaigh. It took place in the Warwick Hotel ('The House that Jack Built'), Salthill, in February 1965. The undergraduates in the photo were all Final Year Medical students.
The Warwick was for many years a centre of social activity including student dances. It was demolished in 2019.
Pictured here, from left to right:
Back row: Des Collins, Gus O’Gorman, Noel Browne, Ger Cloherty, Dick O’Connell, Kieran O’Connor, Bill Curtin.
3rd row: Peadar O’Kelly, Terry Kavanagh, Bart Moloney, Brendan Healy, Myles McEvilly, Eoin Ó Dochartaigh, Tim Sheridan, Charlie Kickham, Luke Clancy, Louis Byrne, Terry Langan, Donal McGoldrick, Karl Fung.
2nd row: Staff members Jimmy Cranny, Dr Jim Doyle, Prof. Stephen Shea, Prof. Neil McDermott, Prof. Bill McHugh, and student John O’Donnell.
Front row: Kieran Tobin, Moya O’Donnell, Anne O’Shaughnessy, Milano twins (Nana and Nina), Doreen Dunleavy, Eithne O’Gorman, Marion Vujevich.
The Warwick was for many years a centre of social activity including student dances. It was demolished in 2019.
Pictured here, from left to right:
Back row: Des Collins, Gus O’Gorman, Noel Browne, Ger Cloherty, Dick O’Connell, Kieran O’Connor, Bill Curtin.
3rd row: Peadar O’Kelly, Terry Kavanagh, Bart Moloney, Brendan Healy, Myles McEvilly, Eoin Ó Dochartaigh, Tim Sheridan, Charlie Kickham, Luke Clancy, Louis Byrne, Terry Langan, Donal McGoldrick, Karl Fung.
2nd row: Staff members Jimmy Cranny, Dr Jim Doyle, Prof. Stephen Shea, Prof. Neil McDermott, Prof. Bill McHugh, and student John O’Donnell.
Front row: Kieran Tobin, Moya O’Donnell, Anne O’Shaughnessy, Milano twins (Nana and Nina), Doreen Dunleavy, Eithne O’Gorman, Marion Vujevich.
References
Personal communication: Eoin Ó Dochartaigh, by email, 2021
Publications:
'End of an era as landmark Warwick Hotel in Galway is demolished', Irish Times, 23 Aug. 2019, at https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/end-of-an-era-as-landmark-warwick-hotel-in-galway-is-demolished-1.3995492, accessed 13 June 2023.
Contributor
Bibliographic Citation
E. & N. Ó Dochartaigh, J. Conroy, ‘UCG Medical Society Dress, February 1965’, Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 13599, Archival Record Id VHRS
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
Period
1960s
Category
b&w
group
off-campus
indoors
Subject
Keywords
dances
evening dress
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/