The National University of Ireland will confer honorary doctorates on
the following recipients at the University’s honorary conferring
ceremony on Friday, 4 June 2004.
PIERCE BROSNAN, Film Actor, Producer, Director [LLD]
Born in Co Meath, Pierce Brosnan moved to London where he trained as an
actor. He has had a highly successful and distinguished career as
a film actor in the United States, most famously in the James Bond
movies but he has also enjoyed critical acclaim for other works such as
John Boorman’s The Tailor of Panama. His production company,
Irish Dream Time, has made a number of films in which he has starred,
including Evelyn, filmed in Ireland.
LOUIS MULCAHY, Potter [LLD]
Louis is founder and director of Potadóireacht na
Caolóige, a craft pottery in the West Kerry Gaeltacht. The
pottery employs sixty full-time staff and makes a significant
contribution to the economy of the Gaeltacht of Corcha Dhuibhne.
Louis Mulcahy’s work has been critically acclaimed and is in high
demand internationally. Bronnfar an chéim oinigh ar Louis
Mulcahy as ucht a bhfuil de thacaíocht á tabhairt aige do
phríomh-Ghaeltacht na Mumhan.
MICK O’CONNELL, Kerry Footballer [LLD]
A holder of four All-Ireland Senior medals, Mick O’Connell earned
national renown as a player of Gaelic football for his skill and
dedication and for the honesty and integrity with which he played the
game. He has also made a significant contribution in support of
people with learning disabilities. He is an avid supporter of
Irish language and culture.
HILARY PYLE, Art Critic and Biographer [DLitt]
Hilary Pyle, art critic and biographer, is Curator of the Yeats Museum
in the National Gallery of Ireland. From Cork, she has written
extensively on Irish art. Previous books include Portraits of
Patriots and biographies of both the writer James Stephens and of Jack
B. Yeats. She is also author of The Sligo-Leitrim World of Kate
Cullen 1832-1913 and Red-Headed rebel: Susan L. Mitchell, Poet and
Mystic of the Irish Cultural Renaissance.
CARL E. THORESEN, Psychology Professor [DLitt]
Professor Carl E. Thoresen of Stanford University has been one of the
leading scholars in the field of Counselling Psychology and a founding
scholar in the new fields of Health Psychology and Behavioural
Medicine. The author of eight books and over one hundred and
fifty articles and monographs, he has recently served as a Fulbright
Scholar at University College Cork.
ROBERT WOODROW WILSON, Nobel Prizewinner [DSc]
Robert Woodrow Wilson was awarded, jointly with Arno Penzias, the Nobel
Prize for Physics in 1978 for their work at Bell Laboratories in radio
astronomy. Their research has contributed to a better
understanding of the origins of the universe. Robert Wilson is
currently Head of the Radio Physics Department at Bell and Adjunct
Professor at the State University of New York.
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