Maureen O'Hara Blair, DLitt honoris causa, 1988
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Title
Maureen O'Hara Blair, DLitt honoris causa, 1988
Identifier
VHS0001
Depiction
Man and woman standing in academic garb, she holding a parchment, with a monumental ivy-clad building in the background
Description
Maureen O'Hara Blair with Dr Colm Ó hEocha, President of UCG, following conferral by the NUI, on the proposal of UCG, of the honorary degree of DLitt on her in UCG on June 26, 1988. The citation was given by Dr Ó hEocha, who here is wearing the robe appropriate to his office as one of the three Pro-Vice-Chancellors of the NUI.
In an interview on that occasion with Jim Fahy of RTÉ, Maureen said, 'This particular honour here - I have won many, many awards all over the world, I have been honoured in Spain, in Mexico, in Australia, in Cuba, but never in Ireland, and so it's really a great, great thrill to be honoured by this country that I was born in, and particularly by Galway, where we made The Quiet Man'. The photograph was taken in the Quadrangle.
In an interview on that occasion with Jim Fahy of RTÉ, Maureen said, 'This particular honour here - I have won many, many awards all over the world, I have been honoured in Spain, in Mexico, in Australia, in Cuba, but never in Ireland, and so it's really a great, great thrill to be honoured by this country that I was born in, and particularly by Galway, where we made The Quiet Man'. The photograph was taken in the Quadrangle.
People
Colm Ó hEocha and Maureen O'Hara Blair
References
RTÉ Film Archives news report reproduced on the Maureen O'Hara Magazine Facebook site, https://www.facebook.com/100064747114349/videos/in-1988-nui-galway-conferred-maureen-ohara-with-an-honorary-degree-a-doctor-of-l/226787898774895/?locale=zh_HK, accessed on December 13, 2023
Contributor
event
Honorary Conferring
Bibliographic Citation
C. Walsh, S. Mac Mathúna, 'Maureen O'Hara Blair, DLitt honoris causa, 1988', Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14409, Archival Record Id VHRS
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Temporal Coverage
Period
1980s
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Colour
Portrait
On-campus
Outdoors
Portrait
On-campus
Outdoors
Subject
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/
Provenance
Image provided by Clare Walsh from the President's Office to Séamus Mac Mathúna and scanned by Séamus Mac Mathúna for the Visual History Retired Staff Collection in 2023