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

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

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/