Nuns’ Graduation, 1968
Item
Format
JPEG
Title
Nuns’ Graduation, 1968
Identifier
VHG0086
Depiction
Two nuns with habit and academic hood
Description
Two Sister of Mercy nuns, Winifred Kearney (Sister Raphael) and Mary B. Forde (Sister Bernadette, probably) are shown left to right in the picture. They are wearing a habit with the coif headpiece (Wikipedia, Religious habit, 2024) and an academic hood. They graduated with an Honours B.Sc. Degree in Physics along with a Franciscan (James Malone), a Redemptorist (Brendan Callanan) and Tom Glynn (Tom Glynn, Asset Id 14665).
People
Winifred Kearney
Mary B. Forde
References
Wikipedia contributors, ‘Nuns’ graduation, 1968’, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_habit#:~:text=Coif%3A%20This%20is%20the%20garment's,thin%20layer%20of%20black%20cr%C3%AApe, accessed 29 Mar. 2024.
Tom Glynn, S.G. Jennings, ‘Tom Glynn Graduation_1968’, Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14665, Archival Record Id VHRS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_habit#:~:text=Coif%3A%20This%20is%20the%20garment's,thin%20layer%20of%20black%20cr%C3%AApe, accessed 29 Mar. 2024.
Tom Glynn, S.G. Jennings, ‘Tom Glynn Graduation_1968’, Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14665, Archival Record Id VHRS
Contributor
event
Conferrings & graduation
Bibliographic Citation
Tom Glynn, S.G. Jennings, ‘Nuns’ Graduation, 1968’, Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14703, Archival Record Id VHRS
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
Period
1960s
Category
colour
group
on-campus
outdoors
Keywords
Nun
nun's habit
acdemic hood
Language
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/
see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/