Picture taken at the opening of Áras na Gaeilge in 1993

Item

Format

JPEG

Title

Picture taken at the opening of Áras na Gaeilge in 1993

Identifier

VHG0041

Depiction

One woman and three men standing and formally dressed

Description

The picture shows the following persons (l to r) at the opening of Áras na Gaeilge in 1993: Pat 'the Cope' Gallagher; An Dr Colm Ó hEocha, President of University College Galway; Máire Geoghegan Quinn; and Michael D Higgins.

Pat 'the Cope' Gallagher graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce Degree at University College Galway in 1970. He was Minister of State at the Department of the Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, at the time of the opening of Áras na Gaeilge (Wikipedia/Pat the Cope, Nov. 2023).

Dr Colm Ó hEocha was President of University College Galway from 1975 to 1996.
Maire Geoghegan Quinn was the Minister of Justice at the time of the opening of Áras na Gaeilge (Wikipedia/Geoghegan-Quinn, Nov. 2023).

Michael D Higgins was Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, at the time of the opening of Áras na Gaeilge (Wikipedia /Michael_D._Higgins, Nov. 2023).

References

Wikipedia contributors, ‘Picture taken at the opening of Áras na Gaeilge in 1993’, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_%22the_Cope%22_Gallagher, accessed 7 November 2023.
Wikipedia contributors, ‘Picture taken at the opening of Áras na Gaeilge in 1993’, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ire_Geoghegan-Quinn, accessed 7 November 2023.
Wikipedia contributors, ‘Picture taken at the opening of Áras na Gaeilge in 1993’, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Higgins, accessed 7 November 2023

Contributor

Bibliographic Citation

Patsy Clancy, S.G. Jennings, ‘Picture taken at the opening of Áras na Gaeilge in 1993’, Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14269, Archival Record Id VHRS

Spatial Coverage

Temporal Coverage

Period

1990s

Category

colour
group
on-campus
indoors

Keywords

University President
Minister

Language

English
Irish

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/