Professor Adrian Dixon
Professor Adrian Dixon was born in Cambridge to Irish parents in 1948. He is now Master of Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge, Editor-in-Chief of European Radiology and Consultant Radiologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital. The son of a distinguished pathologist, Professor Kendal Dixon, and the grandson of a famous Irish scientist, Henry Horatio Dixon, he graduated from King's College, Cambridge in 1969 before undertaking clinical studies at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He then pursued general medicine in Nottingham, before specialising in radiology. After spells in paediatric radiology and computed tomography (CT) in London, he became a Lecturer in the University of Cambridge Department of Radiology where he was Professor of Radiology and Head of Department between 1994 and 2009. He was made a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998 and an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Radiology in 2009.
Professor Dixon is to be bestowed with a degree of Doctor of Medicine

Commodore Frank Lynch (Rtd)
A native of County Galway, Commodore Lynch joined the Naval Service in November 1968 and was commissioned in 1970. After a further two years of training ashore and afloat in the Naval Service and at Britannia Royal Naval College, he qualified as an Operations Officer. He completed the Command & Staff course in the Military College at the Curragh during 1984/85. Commodore Lynch holds a higher Diploma in Information Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Technology from Dublin City University in 1994. He completed an MSc in Operations Management through Dublin City University in August 2002. Commodore Lynch’s career has spanned great changes in the development of Ireland’s maritime domain:

From a small 360 personnel navy with no operational ships and a 12 mile limit; to a 1000 plus, 8 ship navy, a continental shelf claim of over 400 miles and a significant role in the exploitation of Ireland’s offshore resources.
Commodore Lynch is to be bestowed with a degree of Doctor of Laws

Ms Harriet O’Donovan-Sheehy
Harriet O’Donovan-Sheehy, widow of Writer, Frank O’Connor, has made an enormous contribution to the world of literature and arts through her stewardship, custody and management of the legacy of Frank O’Connor as well as her key role in the initiation of worldwide recognition of the importance and centrality of the short story and its importance to the place of Cork and to UCC. She has made a number of very significant donations to UCC over the past 15 years, as well as providing the finance to establish the official UCC Frank O’Connor website in 2008 www.frankoconnor.ie  Her extremely generous bequests to UCC’s Boole Library have consisted of rare manuscripts, rare books, and specialist archival material. By her actions, she has entrusted to UCC the custodianship of part of Ireland’s priceless literary heritage.
Ms O’Donovan-Sheehy is to be bestowed with a degree of Doctor of  Literature

Dr Sha Hailin
Sha Hailin, former Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Ireland, was born in Shanghai in 1957 and graduated from Shanghai Normal University and Tongji University with a Master of Engineering, Doctor of Management.  In the course of his career, he has served as Deputy Secretary of the Communist Youth League of Shanghai, Dean of the Shanghai Institute of Young Cadre; Chairman of the Shanghai Youth Federation; and Standing Member of All-China Youth Federation.  He served in the Chinese Embassy Minister Counsellor in the US and later Chinese Ambassador to Ireland. He was Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Municipal Government after returned to Shanghai and more recently, Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce.
Dr Sha Hailin is to be bestowed with a degree of Doctor of Laws

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