-
Format
-
Jpeg
-
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.
-
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
-
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
-
Period
-
1980s
-
Category
-
Colour
Portrait
On-campus
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/
-
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
