Peter Curran, Men's Club, 1971
Item
Format
JPEG
Title
Peter Curran, Men's Club, 1971
Identifier
VH0087
Depiction
A man wearing a tweed cap, seated on concrete steps in front of a large tree trunk.
Description
Peter Curran was a much-liked member of staff, known to generations of students and staff. He was caretaker of the Men's Club. As noted in the Galway Advertiser (see attached extract), he lived above the club, and took care of the Boat Club, and gave out rowing boats 'to students who were in love or not too pushed about exams' as Tom Kenny put it in the Galway Advertiser. The attached photo shows him with a pair of oars, as a sign of that role he played. He also controlled the snooker room, the table tennis room and 'the inner sanctum where the kind of students who shouted "Wah!" at each other, played card games - especially poker and don' (Galway Advertiser).
People
Peter Curran
References
Jackie Uí Chionna, An Oral History of University College Galway (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2019) pp. 134-5, 210, 232, 19.
Tom Kenny, 'Institutions at UCG', Galway Advertiser (date not known).
Contributor
Bibliographic Citation
F. Imbusch, 'Peter Curran, Men's Club, 1971’, Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14748, Archival Record Id VHRS
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
Period
1970s
Category
b&w
portrait
on-campus
outdoors
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/
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