Máirín de Valéra&#039;s Botany students on a fieldwork outing in a bog, 1940s

Máirín de Valéra's Botany students on a fieldwork outing in a bog, 1940s

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Title: Máirín de Valéra's Botany students on a fieldwork outing in a bog, 1940s
Depiction: Eleven women walking through heathery land
Description: Eleven female Botany students , two of them nuns, on a fieldwork outing in a bog, with a bank of turf in the distance. Two of them are holding a flower, probably bogcotton. The location is most likely a bog in Connemara. The photograph was probably taken by Máirín de Valéra herself, as she is not readily identifiable therein.; Botany at that time was predominantly a subject pursued by women, as indeed evidenced in the photograph. Clerical students, both male and female, constituted a prominent element of the student body of UCG up to and including the early 1960s.
Contributor: Michael D. Guiry
Bibliographic Citation: M.D. Guiry, S. Mac Mathúna, 'Máirín de Valéra's Botany students on a fieldwork outing in a bog, 1940s', Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14964, Archival Record Id VHRS
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/