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'A Life Lived on the Line' - Remembering John O'Mahony
Titled 'A Life Lived on the Line', O'Mahony's legacy as an All-Ireland winning manager and the future of Gaelic football will be discussed in St Nathy’s College, Ballaghaderreen, on Friday, August 8. The evening will be hosted by Marty Morrissey.
Graduate Frank gets to attend his conferring — just sixty years on
As part of NUI Galway’s Autumn Conferring, which saw more than 1,700 graduates return to campus, the University today recognised and celebrated one of the oldest graduates to have attended a conferring ceremony.
The professor in his wife’s overcoat
Tom Dillon, originally from Co Sligo, married Geraldine Plunkett, on Easter Sunday 1916. The Plunkett family were practically all committed to the Rising, and the subsequent War of Independence. Tom qualified from UCD as a chemist, worked with the Volunteers, and supplied them with a steady stream of hand grenades and bombs. In May 17 1918 he was arrested and interned with other Irish Rebels, in Gloucester prison, England.
