Registrars, 1974-92
Item
Format
JPEG
Title
Registrars, 1974-92
Identifier
VHS0001
Depiction
Three men standing smiling
Description
This is a photograph of the three Professors who held the part-time statutory office of Registrar of the College, each for two terms of three years, over the period 1974-92. On the left is An tOllamh Déaglán Ó Caoimh (Professor J.D. O'Keeffe), Professor of Civil Engineering (1958-96), who served as Registrar from 1980 to 1986; in the centre is Professor Declan M. Larkin, Lecturer in Experimental Physics (1947-65) and Professor of Electron Physics (1965-86), who served as Registrar from 1974 to 1980; and on the right is Professor Patrick F. Fottrell, Lecturer in Biochemistry (1965-70), Associate Professor of Biochemistry (1970-76), Professor of Biochemistry (1976-96) and subsequently President (1996-2000), who served from 1986 to 1992. The photograph was taken at a function in 1986 to mark the retirement of Professor Larkin after 39 years' service.
The office of Registrar prior to 1969 was a part-time but permanent statutory appointment from among the Professors and Lecturers of the College. Under Statute LXXVIII (1969) - in the context set out under Image 14387 (Séamus Ó Cathail, Rúnaí Acadúil / Academic Secretary) - it became a three-year part-time appointment by the Governing Body, on the nomination of the Academic Council, from among the Professors and Associate Professors of the College, subject to a maximum of two terms or six years in any one case; the holder was also now formally ranked immediately after the President. Subsequently, under Statute CCX (1992), the office of Registrar was made fulltime and the office of Academic Secretary / Rúnaí Acadúil was replaced by the office of Secretary for Academic Affairs / Rúnaí um Ghnóthaí Acadúla. In 2001, under Statute CCLXVII, the office of Registrar was retitled the office of The Registrar and Deputy-President of the University / Meabhránaí agus Uachtarán Ionaid na hOllscoile, with revised provisions, including a four-year term, subject to a maximum of two terms, and the addition of Lecturers and College Lecturers to the academic grades from which the appointment is to be made.
The office of Registrar prior to 1969 was a part-time but permanent statutory appointment from among the Professors and Lecturers of the College. Under Statute LXXVIII (1969) - in the context set out under Image 14387 (Séamus Ó Cathail, Rúnaí Acadúil / Academic Secretary) - it became a three-year part-time appointment by the Governing Body, on the nomination of the Academic Council, from among the Professors and Associate Professors of the College, subject to a maximum of two terms or six years in any one case; the holder was also now formally ranked immediately after the President. Subsequently, under Statute CCX (1992), the office of Registrar was made fulltime and the office of Academic Secretary / Rúnaí Acadúil was replaced by the office of Secretary for Academic Affairs / Rúnaí um Ghnóthaí Acadúla. In 2001, under Statute CCLXVII, the office of Registrar was retitled the office of The Registrar and Deputy-President of the University / Meabhránaí agus Uachtarán Ionaid na hOllscoile, with revised provisions, including a four-year term, subject to a maximum of two terms, and the addition of Lecturers and College Lecturers to the academic grades from which the appointment is to be made.
People
(From left) An tOllamh Déaglán Ó Caoimh (Professor J.D. O'Keeffe), Professor Declan M. Larkin and Professor Patrick F. Fottrell.
References
Image and caption information from NUACHT (the official newsletter of the College), Imleabhar 6, Uimhir 11, 1985-86.
Contributor
Bibliographic Citation
C. Walsh, S. Mac Mathúna, 'Registrars, 1974-92', Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14619, Archival Record Id VHRS
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
Period
1980s
Category
b&w
group
on-campus
indoors
group
on-campus
indoors
Subject
Language
English and Irish
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/
Rights Holder
The Library, University of Galway
Provenance
Copy of NUACHT containing the image was provided by Clare Walsh to Séamus Mac Mathúna for the Visual History Retired Staff Collection in 2024 and scanned by him