‘Some student days from UCG, 1920’

A talk entitled ‘Some student days from UCG, 1920‘, organized by the NUI Galway Retired Staff Association, will be presented by Patrick Larkin.

Formerly, President of the Galway Archaeological & Historical Society, Patrick Larkin, is a Galway native and a chartered chemist who graduated from University College Galway with a B.Sc. degree in chemistry, and now with favourite hobbies of photography, boating and archaeology.

‘Some student days from UCG, 1920′

The talk will be illustrated with several photos of the period, which will be a highlight of the presentation. The talk is really your classic love story; it’s about when, where and how Patricks’ parents got together, and the extraordinary context in which this took place. They were both British subjects as undergraduates; he a blacksmith’s son from East Galway (who became Professor of Education at UCG), she a Galway girl. When they graduated, they were both citizens of the Free State. Luckily, the Galway girl (Rita) was a keen photographer, and she left many photos to illustrate the story from that period.