UCG Graduates group photo 1935

Item

Format

JPEG

Title

UCG Graduates group photo 1935

Identifier

VHJ0019

Depiction

A group of 80 students (37 women, 43 men) posing in four rows. Those in the front row are seated, the others are standing on the steps of the doorway to a stone building. All of those depicted are wearing academic graduation robes and caps. 8 of the men depicted wear clerical garb under their graduation robes. The date "1935" is written on the bottom part of the photo surround.

Description

This is a graduation photo taken on the steps of the entrance to the Aula Maxima, in the Quadrangle of University College Galway. The handwritten date on the photograph indicates that this was the graduation class of 1935, which according to the UCG College Calendars comprised of B.A., B.Comm. B.Sc. MA and H.Dip.Ed. graduates.

People

Row 1 - Sitting (l-r):
1. Bridget M. Byrne B.Comm 1921, B.A. 1922, M.A. 1935, H.Dip Ed. 1940
12. Catherine Courtney, B.Comm, H.Dip. Ed. 1935.
Row 2 - Standing (l-r)
9. James Kyne B.Sc. 1935, H.Dip. Ed. 1936
14 Bro. Killian Hackett B.A. 1932, H. Dip. Ed. 1933, M.A. 1935.
19 Bro. Valarian Whelan B.A. 1932, H.Dip. Ed. 1933, M.A. 1935
23. Catherine O'Connor (half hidden) B.A. 1934, H.Dip. Ed. 1935
Row. 3 standing (l-r)
22. John Lovett B.Comm. 1933
21. Thomas Leonard B.A. 1935, H.Dip. Ed. 1937, M.A. 1938
16. Sylvester J. Gaffney (Rev.) M.A. 1935
13. Thomas P. Keane B.E. 1935, B.Sc. 1936
11. Joseph Egan B.E. 1935
10. John C. O'Malley B.Sc. 1934. B.E. 1935
7. Patrick B. Sullivan B.A. 1934, H.Dip.Ed. 1935

References

UCG College Calendar 1941-42

event

Graduation ceremony

Bibliographic Citation

The Library, University of Galway
https://aran.library.nuigalway.ie/bitstream/handle/10379/2925/UCG_1941-1942_wmark.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Text in image

The date 1935 on mounting at bottom of photograph.

Temporal Coverage

Period

1935

Category

b&w
group >5
formal
on-campus
outdoors

Keywords

Graduation
Aula Maxima
Quadrangle

Creator

Simmons Photographers Galway

Publisher

The Library, University of Galway

Rights Holder

The Library, University of Galway