Engineering Graduate Class, 1956

Item

Format

JPEG

Title

Engineering Graduate Class, 1956

Identifier

VHG0011

Depiction

Twenty seven men in four rows, wearing academic gowns

Description

A picture of the Engineering Graduation Class of 1956 is shown.
Class names are given below which includes William Hillary Prendergast, whose biographical details are given (William Hillary Prendergast, Asset Id 13732).
Pictured here from left to right:
Back Row: Paddy Hoare; Con McCawley; Joe Kinneen; George Lee; Unidentified
Third Row: Frank Furey; Joe Dalton; Tom O’Sullivan; Des Sweeney; Gerry Mahony
Second Row: John Considine; Joe Curley; Brian Murphy; Prof. 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 Donnelllan; Seamus Horan

References

Personal Communication: Tom Furey, Patsy Clancy.
Paul Duffy, 'Engineering' in Tadhg Foley (ed.), From Queen's College to National University (Dublin, 1999), pp 125-41.
J. Conroy, 'William Hillary Prendergast', Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 13732, Archival Record Id VHRS

Contributor

event

Engineering Graduation

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 13888, Archival Record Id VHRS

Spatial Coverage

Temporal Coverage

Period

1950s

Category

b&w
group
on-campus
indoors

Language

English

Creator

Tom Furey
Patsy Clancy

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/