UCG Camogie Team with Professor Elizabeth (Nellie) Lee

Item

Format

JPEG

Title

UCG Camogie Team with Professor Elizabeth (Nellie) Lee

Identifier

VHJ0015

Depiction

Group of 13 young sportswomen in a field, wearing team kit and holding hurls, accompanied by two older women in non-sporting dress. A sports trophy stands in front of the team.

Description

This is the 1968 Ashbourne Cup winning camogie team from UCG. There are 134 members of the team depicted, and they are accompanied by, on the left, Prof. Elizabeth (Nellie) Lee of the Chemistry Department, who mentored the team, and on the right of the photo Mrs. Mary O'Driscoll, the Lady Superintendent who normally accompanied the team to all matches. As of 2023 the Ashbourne Cup has been won by the UCG Camogie team on 15 occasions, the last in 1994.

People

Back row, l-r: Prof. E. Lee, Ollie Hanniffy. Bernadine Ottara, Ann Nestor, Eileen Naughton, Grace Divilly, Rita Hanniffy, Kathleen Pyne, Mrs. Mary O'Driscoll.
Front row, l-r: Jane Murphy, Mary Canavan, Kay McMahon, Barbara Glynn, Bridie Carr, Bernie Clarke.

Contributor

University of Galway Library

event

Official photo of the victorious 1968 Ashbourne Cup winning team from UCG.

Bibliographic Citation

Uí Chionna, J., An Oral History of University College Galway, 1930-1980: A University in Living Memory, Four Courts Press Dublin, 2019.

Spatial Coverage

Unknown

Temporal Coverage

1968

Period

1968

Category

colour
landscape team photo

Subject

Camogie
Ashbourne Cup

Keywords

UCG Camogie
Professor Elizabeth (Nellie) Lee
Mrs. Mary O'Driscoll
Ashbourne Cup
1968
Professor Elizabeth (Nellie) Lee

Creator

Unknown

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/

Rights Holder

The Library, University of Galway

Item sets

Visual History Retired Staff Collection IMAGES