Photographic exhibition reflects life in UCD through the decades
Since the advent of photography, students and staff have been taking snapshots of life in UCD. But how many of these amateur photographers ever considered that their snapshots would serve as cultural signposts marking the way of development and change?
Over two years ago, UCD Women’s Graduates Association asked its members to gather their UCD photographs for a photographic archive they were creating of life at UCD. Having a history of more than 100 years at the university and having members that were always, and still remain, keenly involved in many aspects of life at UCD, it was sure to become a remarkable collection of images.
Relaxing at Earlsfort Terrace in the 1930s
The collection titled ‘Images of UCD’ is now on exhibit in UCD Quinn School of Business, Belfield. The exhibition is open to the public daily (excluding Sundays) until 16th November. Following the exhibition, the photographs will be lodged in the University Archives.
To donate photographs to the collection visit www.ucd.ie/alumni/wga
A sample of the photographs on exhibit include:- 1922 - Graduation Day
- 1930 - UCD Hockey Team
- 1930s - A Rag Day tableau on a float in Stephens Green
- 1930s - Engineering students on a Rag Day float in Grafton St
- 1930s - Engineering Workshop, Merrion st
- 1934 - On the steps of Earlsfort Terrace
- 1934 - ‘The Yeomen of the Guard’ UCD Musical Society
- 1934 - Blacksmith Workshop – 2nd year engineering students at work
- 1935 - Graduation BE(Mech&Elec)
- 1935 - A group of BA graduates on Graduation Day at Earlsfort Terrace
- 1936 - HDipEd Class, Earlsfort Terrace
- 1937 - The Crossley Engine, UCD Faculty of Engineering
- 1937 - 1st year Public Administration Diploma students visiting the furniture factory
- 1937 - Ceilidhe in Newman House, Stephens Green, to celebrate victory in Fitzgibbon Cup
- 1942 - Survey Field Trip by Engineering students to Glendalough
- 1946 - UCD Camogie Team, which won the Ashbourne Cup
- 1946 - Members of the Archaeological Society on a field outing
- 1946 - Commerce Rag Day
- 1948 - UCD Cricket team
- 1948 - Iveagh Gardens
- 1948 - History Students’ Society Outing
- 1948 - Striking a set for DramSoc
- 1948 - Ivor Hooper (goalkeeper) playing on a pitch in Belfield
- 1949 - BA graduation group in the courtyard at the back of Newman House
- 1949 - History Students’ Society Inaugural
- 1949 - The programme for the DramSoc production of “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme”
- 1950 - UCD Hockey 2nd XI, winners of the Peat Cup, March
- 1950 - Earlsfort Terrace
- 1950 - Engineering students on a Field Trip to Germany
- 1952 - Mech&Elec 4th Year’s on a tour of Dusseldorf, Germany
- 1956 - Boat Club Dress Dance in the Gresham Hotel
- 1956 - Graduation Day outside Earlsfort Tce
- 1957 - Pages from “The Student”
- 1957 - Horticulture Class
- 1958 - First Year Botany class on a field trip to the Botanical Gardens
- 1959 - Boat Club Dance in the Shelbourne Hotel
- 1960 - “Just Taking a Photo” in Stephens Green, at the start of the college year
- 1960 - Inter-varsity swimming Gala, Iveagh Baths.
- 1963 - Conferring of an Honorary Degree - President John F. Kennedy, Dublin Castle
- 1964 - Irish University History Students’ Association
- 1969 - Conferring of an Honorary Degree – Taoiseach, Jack Lynch
- 1975 - Ladies’ Interfaculty Rugby Challenge, Belfield
- 1978 - GAA team
- 1990 - Albert Reynolds (Taoiseach), Gregory Peck and John Kelly (Acting UCD President)
- 1991 - DramSoc. ‘A Clockwork Orange’
- 1991 - Archeology students relaxing on a Field Trip
- 1998 - John Kelly and the President of South Africa, F.W.de Klerk