Jamesie O'Connor, Clare hurler, honoured by President Colm Ó hEocha following Autumn 1995 Degree Conferring ceremony
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Jamesie O'Connor, Clare hurler, honoured by President Colm Ó hEocha following Autumn 1995 Degree Conferring ceremony
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A man in academic dress shaking hands with another man, with both holding a crystal plate
Description
Dr Colm Ó hEocha, President of UCG but here wearing his robe as a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the NUI following the degree conferring ceremony on September 20, 1995, congratulating Clare hurler and recent graduate Jamesie O'Connor, BComm (1993), HDipEd (1994), to whom he had presented this Galway crystal plate during the ceremony, to mark the historic achievement of the Clare hurling team in winning the All-Ireland hurling championship on September 3, 1995 for the first time since 1914. The plate contained the arms of the College and of Co. Clare, with the inscription, 'Do Jamesie O'Connor, i gcuimhne ar bhua stairiúil Iománaithe an Chláir, Meán Fómhair 1995'.
In his Conferring speech, the President referred to the many connections between the College and Co. Clare, including the fact that, under the College's Charter, Clare had a representative on the Governing Body, that
6% of its enrolment, more than from any other County except Galway and Mayo, was drawn from Clare, that it had provided over the previous 25 years a range of Extramural Diploma courses in all towns of Clare, and that it had recently entered into an agreement with Shannon College of Hotel Management for the joint provision of a BComm degree course to students at Shannon College, the first graduates of which would, having spent the final year of their programme at UCG, be conferred at the following day's ceremony. Accordingly, he said, that in this milestone year of its own, it was appropriate for the College to honour its neighbouring County's historic achievement, one of the main architects of which was our own recent graduate.
In his Conferring speech, the President referred to the many connections between the College and Co. Clare, including the fact that, under the College's Charter, Clare had a representative on the Governing Body, that
6% of its enrolment, more than from any other County except Galway and Mayo, was drawn from Clare, that it had provided over the previous 25 years a range of Extramural Diploma courses in all towns of Clare, and that it had recently entered into an agreement with Shannon College of Hotel Management for the joint provision of a BComm degree course to students at Shannon College, the first graduates of which would, having spent the final year of their programme at UCG, be conferred at the following day's ceremony. Accordingly, he said, that in this milestone year of its own, it was appropriate for the College to honour its neighbouring County's historic achievement, one of the main architects of which was our own recent graduate.
People
Colm Ó hEocha and Jamesie O'Connor
References
File in Secretary's Office archive
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event
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Bibliographic Citation
S. Mac Mathúna, 'Jamesie O'Connor, Clare hurler, honoured by President Colm Ó hEocha following Autumn 1995 Degree Conferring', Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14483, Archival Record Id VHRS
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On-campus
Outdoors
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On-campus
Outdoors
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English
Irish
Irish
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University of Galway Library
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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 retrieved from Secretary's Office archive and scanned by Séamus Mac Mathúna for the Visual History Retired Staff Collection in 2023