Winner of the Pierce Malone Scholarship, 1939
Item
- Format
- JPEG
- Title
- Winner of the Pierce Malone Scholarship, 1939
- Identifier
- VH0078
- Depiction
- A newspaper photo showing a group of men in academic gowns lifting one of the group shoulder-high; a large doorway in the background.
- Description
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The young man in the centre of the group is Tommie Lee, brother of Elizabeth (Nellie) Lee, who was later a professor of Chemistry, and uncle of Michael J. Brennan, Lecturer in Engineering.
Information provided in 2016 by Michael J. Brennan:
'In 1939, Nellie Lee's brother, Tommie Lee, won the Pierce Malone Scholarship in Engineering. [...] Tommie Lee's son, Frank, my first cousin, and retired consulting engineer, recently found the correspondence from the College, UCG, to Tommie informing him of his success [...]. Graduation, as you will see from the photo, was noted in the Connacht Tribune on the 4th November 1939 with a photo of Tommie being elevated by his classmates in front of the Engineering School. The award amounted to £27. This might sound like a paltry sum, but it converts to € 2,149 today. The original negative of the photo and many more were destroyed in the fire that occurred in the Connacht Tribune Offices in 1969. '
The Pierce Malone Scholarship in Engineering was revived by the NUI in 2021. There is also a long-standing Pierce Malone Scholarship in Philosophy. Both of these prestigious Scholarships were established with funds willed to the University by Pierce Malone. - References
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Personal communication:
Michael J. Brennan, by email, 2016. -
National University of Ireland, 'NUI Presentation of Awards, 2021', at https://www.nui.ie/awards/docs/awards2021/NUIAwardsCeremony2021%20Programme.pd, accessed 25 March 2024.
- Contributor
- Michael J. Brennan
- Bibliographic Citation
- M.J. Brennan, J. Conroy, ‘Winner of the Pierce Malone Scholarship, 1939’, Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14668, Archival Record Id VHRS
- Text in image
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DEGREE DAY at University College, Galway. — Engineers on whom degrees had been conferred, chairing their fellow-graduate, Mr. T. Lee, Mainguard-street, Galway, who won the Pierce Malone Scholarship. Mr. Lee was educated in St. Joseph’s Seminary, Galway.
The Connacht Tribune, Saturday, November 4, 1939. - Spatial Coverage
- The Quadrangle
- Temporal Coverage
- 1939
- Period
- 1930s
- Category
- b&w
- group
- on-campus
- outdoors
- Subject
- University of Galway
- Academic ceremonies & events
- Awards & Award ceremonies
- Conferrings & graduation
- Engineering
- Keywords
- celebration
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Galway Library
- Rights
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Photographic credit: the Connacht Tribune.
For any intended re-use permission must be obtained from the Connacht Tribune.
