Engineering Graduate Class, 1956
Item
Format
JPEG
Title
Engineering Graduate Class, 1956
Identifier
VHG0002
Depiction
Twenty-seven men in four rows, wearing academic gowns
Description
In this photograph of the Engineering Graduation Class of 1956 Professor W.H. Prendergast (third row, fourth from left) is seen surrounded by graduands.
William Hillary Prendergast took up the Professorship of Civil Engineering in 1947, vacated on health grounds by Professor Frank Sharman Rishworth. Professor Prendergast obtained degrees in Engineering and Science from UCG in 1915. He was involved with the Eastern Bengal-Assam Railway from 1920, as well as the railway line between Basra and Baghdad during WWII, details of which are further described by Paul Duffy. He died suddenly on 22 July 1957.
Key to people, left to right:
Back row: Paddy Hoare, Con McCawley, Joe Kinneen, George Lee, and one unidentified.
Third row: Frank Furey, Joe Dalton, Tom O’Sullivan, Des Sweeney, Gerry Mahony.
Second row: John Considine, Joe Curley, Brian Murphy, Prof, William ('Willie') Prendergast, Seán McDermott, Michael Lee, Tom Codyre, Pat Flood, Ernie Hession.
Front row: Michael Higgins, Pat Keating, Dickie Roche, Tom Leyden, Enda Conway, Seamus Martin, Johnny Donnellan, Séamus Horan.
William Hillary Prendergast took up the Professorship of Civil Engineering in 1947, vacated on health grounds by Professor Frank Sharman Rishworth. Professor Prendergast obtained degrees in Engineering and Science from UCG in 1915. He was involved with the Eastern Bengal-Assam Railway from 1920, as well as the railway line between Basra and Baghdad during WWII, details of which are further described by Paul Duffy. He died suddenly on 22 July 1957.
Key to people, left to right:
Back row: Paddy Hoare, Con McCawley, Joe Kinneen, George Lee, and one unidentified.
Third row: Frank Furey, Joe Dalton, Tom O’Sullivan, Des Sweeney, Gerry Mahony.
Second row: John Considine, Joe Curley, Brian Murphy, Prof, William ('Willie') Prendergast, Seán McDermott, Michael Lee, Tom Codyre, Pat Flood, Ernie Hession.
Front row: Michael Higgins, Pat Keating, Dickie Roche, Tom Leyden, Enda Conway, Seamus Martin, Johnny Donnellan, Séamus Horan.
People
References
Personal communications: Tom Furey, Patsy Clancy
Paul Duffy, 'Engineering' in Tadhg Foley (ed.), From Queen’s College to National University (Dublin, 1999), pp 125-41.
Contributor
Bibliographic Citation
P. Clancy, T. Furey, S.G. Jennings, 'Engineering Graduate Class, 1956', Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 13729, Archival Record Id VHRS
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
Period
1950s
Category
b&w
group
on-campus
outdoors
Keywords
academic gowns; scrolls
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/