An tUachtarán Máire Mhic Róibín (President Mary Robinson) in Áras Mháirtín Uí Chadhain

Item

Format

Jpeg

Title

An tUachtarán Máire Mhic Róibín (President Mary Robinson) in Áras Mháirtín Uí Chadhain

Identifier

VHS0001

Depiction

A smiling woman shaking hands with a man, at the end of a line of people, accompanied by a smiling man in the foreground and other men, including one in military uniform, in the backg round. The lower image shows a woman delivering an address, standing behind a table at which three other men and a woman are seated, with a bookcase and a photograph of a man on the wall behind them.

Description

Uachtarán na hÉireann, Máire Mhic Róibín, ar cuairt chuig Áras Mháirtín UÍ Chadhain, An Cheathrú Rua, Co. na Gaillimhe, i 1993 le comhdháil ar an aosoideachas sa Ghaeltacht a oscailt agus le hóráid a thabhairt. Ba é seo an chéad Ionad Ollscoile sa Ghaeltacht ag an gColáiste. /
President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, on a visit to Áras Mháirtín Uí Chadhain, An Cheathrú Rua, Co. Galway, in 1993 to open a conference on adult education in the Gaeltacht and to deliver an address. This was the College's first Ionad Ollscoile (University Centre) in the Gaeltacht.

People

I lár baill an tUachtarán Mhic Róibín, ar dheis uaithi an Dr Colm Ó hEocha, Uachtarán an Choláiste, agus taobh thiar díobh aide-de-camp an Uachtaráin agus (i lár baill) Peadar Mac an Iomaire (Stiúrthóir na Gaeilge Labhartha sa Choláiste ag an am). Sa ghrianghraf ag bun, an tUachtarán Mhic Róibín i mbun a hóráide, agus ar chlé an Dr Colm ÓhEocha, ar dheis Peadar Mac an Iomaire, an Dr Séamus Mac Mathúna (Rúnaí um Ghnóthaí Acadúla) agus Treasa Uí Lorcáin (Riarthóir Áras Mháirtín Uí Chadhain). Taobh thiar, tá grianghraf de Mháirtín Ó Cadhain./
In the centre, President Robinson, to her right Dr Colm Ó hEocha, President of the College, and behind them the President's aide-de-camp and (in the centre) Peadar Mac an Iomaire (Stiúrthóir na Gaeilge Labhartha (Director of Spoken Irish) in the College at the time). In the lower photograph, President Robinson delivering her address, with Dr Colm Ó hEocha on the left and, on the right, Peadar Mac an Iomaire, Dr Séamus Mac Mathúna (Secretary for Academic Affairs) and Treasa Uí Lorcáin (Administrator of Áras Mháirtín Uí Chadhain). Behind, a photograph of Máirtín Ó Cadhain.

Contributor

Bibliographic Citation

P. Mac an Iomaire, S. Mac Mathúna, 'An tUachtarán Máire Mhic Róibín (President Mary Robinson) in Áras Mháirtín Uí Chadhain', Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14524, Archival Record Id  VHRS

Temporal Coverage

Period

1990s

Category

Colour
Group
On-campus
Outdoors and Indoors

Language

Irish
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

Images provided by Peadar Mac an Iomaire to Séamus Mac Mathúna, and scanned by the latter, for the Visual History Retired Staff Collection in 2024