Clifden Extramural Studies Class, 1979

Item

Format

JPEG

Title

Clifden Extramural Studies Class, 1979

Identifier

VHS0001

Depiction

Large group of men and women standing on steps in four rows, some of them in academic dress

Description

Students of the Clifden Extramural Studies with their Tutors and other members of College staff, standing on the steps of the podium of the Library and Arts/Commerce and new Science buildings, following their Diploma conferral ceremony in Autumn 1979.

People

(Front row) Centre: Dr Colm Ó hEocha (President/Uachtarán) and, to his right, Dr Kieran Woodman (Dean of Faculty of Arts and Lecturer in Education); extreme right, Oilibhéar Ó hEidhin (CEO, Co. Galway Vocational Education Committee).
(Second row, extreme left) Séamus Ó Cathail (Academic Secretary / Rúnaí Acadúil).
(Third row): Extreme left, Dr James Houghton (Lecturer in Microbiology); extreme right, Dr Michael Cuddy (Lecturer in Economics).
(Back row), Extreme left, Séamus O'Grady (Adult Education Officer) and Dr Richard N. Butler (Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry); extreme right, An tOllamh Eustás Ó Héideáin (Professor of Education) and An tOllamh Seán Ó Cinnéide (Ollamh le Ceimic Neamhorgánach / Professor of Inorganic Chemistry).

References

NUACHT (internal official newsletter), Imleabhar 3, Uimhir 3, Nollaig 1979

Contributor

event

Graduation

Bibliographic Citation

C. Walsh, S. Mac Mathúna, 'Clifden Extramural Studies Class, 1979', Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14644, Archival Record Id VHR

Temporal Coverage

Period

Late 1970s

Category

b&w
group
on-campus
outdoors

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 provided by Clare Walsh to Séamus Mac Mathúna for the Visual History Retired Staff Collection in 2024 and scanned by him