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Conferring of Honorary Degrees at NUI Galway |
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Liam Connellan |
 A native of Strokestown, Co Roscommon, Liam Connellan graduated in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from UCD in 1957. Following graduate training overseas he returned to Ireland to work as a production engineer in the electrical engineering industry. He joined the Irish Management Institute in 1965 lecturing on production management and business development.
In 1972 he became Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, a position he held during the first twenty years of Ireland’s membership of the European Union. He was a member of various national bodies including the National Economic and Social Council and the Central Review Committee of the first two National Recovery Programmes. He was a founding member of the North-South Joint Business Council in 1991. He has held many positions in Irish and European public life including membership of the Executive Committee of Business Europe (1972-92); the Economic and Social Committee of the European Communities (1990-95); the Irish American Partnership; the Irish College in Paris, as well as President of the German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce. He has served as board member and Chairman of the National Roads Authority (1994-2001); a member of the Irish Universities Quality Board (2003-06) and the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (2001-06). Deeply involved with the engineering profession for over forty years, he has served as President of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland in 2001; was a founding member of the Irish Academy of Engineering in 1997 and was elected President of the Academy in 2004. He served as President of the Royal Dublin Society from 1995 to 1998. He has been Chairman of companies within the Veolia Environment Group in Ireland from 1994 to date. He is Chairman of the Energy Institute in the Republic of Ireland. He is a member of the Board of the Peter McVerry Trust. In 1998 he was conferred with the Knight Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 2007 he became Chevalier of the Order of Merit of the Republic of France. He is married to Marie Crehan, and they have five children: Rachel, Paul, Brendan, Liam and David. Text of the Introductory Address delivered by Professor Pádraic O’Donoghue, Dean of Engineering and Informatics, NUI Galway |
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 Brian Joyce is a native of Headford, Co. Galway. He was educated at St Mary’s College, Galway and studied at UCG from 1959 to 1963, graduating with BA and BComm degrees and a Higher Diploma in Education. He qualified as an accountant in 1966 and went on to work in a range of management positions in Ireland and the UK, in organisations including Ford Motors, RTÉ, Adams Foods and An Bord Bainne where he was managing director from 1978 to 1989. Among the many non-executive positions which Brian Joyce has held are directorships of Irish Life plc, Irish National Petroleum Corporation, Allegro plc, Williams Group and Tara Meats. He has also served as director and Chairman of EBS Building Society, Mater Private Hospital, CIÉ, Celtic Anglian Water, Nutricia Manufacturing and National Hardware. He is currently Chairman of Clancourt Holdings and Director of Noonan Service Group.
He is a former director of COFORD - the National Council for Forest Research and Development (1994-99); former President of Galway Graduates Association (1989-91) and was President of CIMA Ireland in 1989-90. He is currently a member of the board of Galway University Foundation. He is married to fellow Galway graduate, Peggy and they have two children, Fiona and David. Text of the Introductory Address delivered by Professor Jim Ward, Registrar & Deputy President of NUI Galway |
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 Pádraic MacKernan was born in Limerick on 24 April, 1940 and educated at Crescent College SJ, University College Galway (BA 1962, MA 1963) and the University of Paris (Sorbonne). He joined the Department of External Affairs as a Third Secretary in 1964.
He was Vice- Consul of Ireland in Boston from 1965 to 1968 and Deputy Consul-General in New York from 1968 to 1974. He wassuccessively Counsellor, Assistant Secretary and Political Director in the Department of Foreign Affairs and a regular member of the Irish Delegation to the United Nations until his appointment as Ambassador of Ireland to the United States and Mexico in 1985. He was appointed Permanent Representative to the European Union in Brussels in 1991 and returned to Dublin as Secretary-General of the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1995. He became Ambassador to France in 2001, a post he held until his retirement in 2005. As a student, Paddy was Auditor of the University’s Literary and Debating Society in 1961-62. He is married to Caitríona (née Gavin), also a UCG graduate. They have three sons, the eldest of whom, Dr Donal MacKernan, is also a UCG graduate. Text of the Introductory Address delivered by Professor Patrick Finnegan of NUI Galway. |
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 Anna Ó Coinne was born in Killowen, Co. Offaly. She was educated at local schools and having chosen nursing as her career, she trained and qualified as a nurse at the Mater Hospital in Dublin. In 1978 with her husband Liam she formed Connaught Security Group Limited. Her role in the Group focused on the development and implementation of human resource structures and policies. She continued in that role until 1999 when the business, which had become the largest privately owned security organisation in Ireland, was sold to Chubb. From 1996 to 2006 Anna served two terms as a director of Galway Harbour Company. Having been actively involved in the formation and growth of the Galway and District Business and Professional Women’s Club, Anna was elected President of Club in 1996. During her term as President she brought many notable speakers to the Club, including Supreme Court Judge Catherine McGuinness and the then American Ambassador to Ireland, Jean Kennedy Smith.
In 1989 Anna was asked to become involved in raising funds to support research by Professor Fred Given at the National Breast Cancer Research Institute (NBCRI) in Galway. Working with a voluntary group of like-minded people, she became Chairperson of the Finance and Planning Committee of the NBCRI. With an outstanding team of dedicated individuals, this fund raising group has raised over €12 million for the NBCRI. In 2008 a total of €1.3 million was raised by NBCRI. Funds are uniquely focussed on education and research into breast cancer with a strong emphasis on improved patient outcomes. It is conducted in collaboration with several international partners under the direction of its current Clinical Director, Professor Michael Kerin. As Chairperson of the NBCRI, Anna has guided the Institute forward. During 2010 the Institute will move to a new purpose built Translational Research Facility being constructed by NUI Galway on the grounds of University Hospital Galway. This project is being financed by major philanthropic donations and includes a major contribution from NBCRI. Anna lives in Galway with her husband Liam. They have two daughters Gillian and Susan and three grandchildren Joe, Zoe and Jack. Text of the Introductory Address delivered by Professor Michael Kerin, Professor of Surgery, NUI Galway |
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 Philip O’Leary is a native of Worcester, Massachusetts. After undergraduate study at the College of the Holy Cross, he received his PhD in Celtic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in 1978. He taught secondary school for 16 years before joining the faculty of the Irish Studies Program at Boston College, where he is currently Professor of English.
From 1991-2002 he was the director of the Boston College / Abbey Theatre Summer Program in Dublin, and from 1991 to 2005 he directed Boston College’s MA program in Irish literature and culture. He has been an Andrew J. Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard (1985-86), an Irish-American Cultural Institute Fellow at NUI Galway (2006), and a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame (2007). In addition to dozens of articles and reviews on Irish literature from the medieval period to the present, he has written The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival 1881-1921: Ideology and Innovation (1994), which won the 1995 Donald Murphy Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies and was nominated for The Irish Times Prize for non-fiction; Déirc an Dóchais: Léamh ar Shaothar Phádhraic Óig Uí Chonaire (2005); Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State 1922-1939 (2004), which won the Michael Durkan Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies; Irish Interior: Keeping Faith with the Past in Gaelic Prose 1940-1951; and Writing beyond the Revival: Facing the Future in Gaelic Prose 1940-1951, the last two forthcoming from University College Dublin Press. He was also the co-editor, with Margaret Kelleher, of The Cambridge History of Irish Literature. Text of the Introductory Address delivered by An tOllamh Nollaig Mac Congáil, NUI Galway |
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Nuashonraíodh an leathanach seo 14 / 08 / 2009
Nuashonraíodh an leathanach seo 14 / 08 / 2009