Boxing team, 1956-57, Morrow Cup winners
Item
- Format
- JPEG
- Title
- Boxing team, 1956-57, Morrow Cup winners
- Identifier
- VH0061
- Depiction
- Seven men standing, seven men crouching, one holding a cup.
- Description
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Back row (l.-r.): Unidentified; Brendan Mee; ? Dunleavy; Cody Gill; Unidentified; Frank Imbusch; Christy Townley.
Front row (l.-r.): Unidentified; Frank Brickhill; Unidentified; Benny Ruane ; Unidentified; Roy Cazabon ; Peter Ruane.
Frank Imbusch records that in the year this photograph was taken Christy Townley handled the club's finances and Frank organized the events.
A full record of the Morrow Cup competition has not been located. However, we know that a decade later, when the event was hosted in Galway, the UCG Boxing Club again won the team trophy, not without their rivals in TCD alleging favouritism on the part of the local referee, as reported by the undergraduate weekly Trinity News (p. 8). Several members of the Trinity team are mentioned in the article, but from UCG only 'Corcoran', the winner of the lightweight contest, is named.
Christy Townley was the University's seventh Librarian. To date (April 2024) their have been 12: James Hardiman (1845-1855); John Richardson (1855-1877); D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1877-1902); Valentine Steinberger (1902-1916); John Howley (1917-1935); Michael J. Fahy (1936-1960); Christopher Townley (1960-1982); Alf MacLochlainn (1982-1987); Patricia O’Connell (1987-1991); Marie Reddan (1991-2008); John Cox (2008-2023); and Monica Crump (2023-).
From the outset the standards set for Librarians were extremely high. The examination following which the second Librarian, John Richardson, was appointed makes impressive reading. It was held in the Office of the Queen's University in Dublin Castle in January 1856. Four very lengthy papers were set: Modern Languages and Literature (French and German); General Literature; 'Competitive examination' ( book history and librarianship); and History and English Literature. -
Examination for Librarianship, Queen's College, Galway, 1856
- People
- Cody Gill
- Frank Imbusch
- Christy Townley
- Roy Cazabon
- Brendan Mee
- Frank Brickhill
- Benny Ruane
- Peter Ruane
- References
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Personal communication: Frank Imbusch, interview, 2024
'Ref. aids Galway victory', Trinity News, Thursday 10 Feb. 1966, p. 8, http://www.trinitynewsarchive.ie/pdf/13-09.pdf, accessed 30 Nov. 2023.
- Contributor
- Frank Imbusch
- Bibliographic Citation
- F. Imbusch, J. Conroy, ‘Boxing team, 1956-57, Morrow Cup winners’, Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14339, Archival Record Id VHRS
- Text in image
- Boxing Team 1956-57, Morrow Cup winners
- Spatial Coverage
- Unknown location
- Temporal Coverage
- 1956-57
- Period
- 1950s
- Category
- b&w
- group
- 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/
- Media
1956-57 UCG Boxing team