‘NUI presents Awards and Scholarships, valued at over €1 million at its annual Awards Ceremony’

 

 

 

The Chancellor of the National University of Ireland, Dr Maurice Manning presented Awards and Scholarships valued at over €1 million to graduates and students of the NUI.

 

Dr Manning stated that the NUI was pleased to offer this level of support for scholarship in these straitened times, ‘We regard our awards as an investment in academic excellence and we are very confident that this investment will pay handsome dividends not just for the individuals concerned. There will also we hope be lasting benefits for Ireland, for our society, our culture and our economy’.

 

Speaking at the event, he congratulated the recipients of the awards on their academic achievement and introduced the inaugural NUI Dr Garret FitzGerald Post-Doctoral Fellowships, ‘I am particularly pleased that for the first time we are awarding the NUI Dr Garret FitzGerald Post-Doctoral Fellowships, in honour of our late great Chancellor. As Chancellor, Garret greatly enjoyed this ceremony as an endorsement of so much that he valued: intellectual challenge and rigour, and the opportunity to meet the brightest minds of the rising generation’.

List of Award Winners – NUI Maynooth

 

• Dr Mark Empey  - NUI Dr Garret FitzGerald Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (graduate of UCD, he will will take up Fellowship in NUI Maynooth)

 

• Dr John Healy – NUI Post – Doctoral Fellowship in the Sciences (a graduate of UCD, he will take up the Fellowship in NUI Maynooth)

 

• Ms Therese Lynn – NUI Travelling Studentships in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Aogán Ó hIarlaithe - Scoláireacht Chiste Theach an Ard Mhéara sa Ghaeilge

 

• Ms Michelle Maher – Mansion House Fund Scholarship in Irish History

 

• Ms Niamh Keating – French Government Medal and NUI Prize for Proficiency in French

 

 

NUI Dr H H Stewart Literary Scholarships and Prizes

 

The Dr H H Stewart Literary Scholarship in English

Michael James Craughwell

NUI Maynooth

 

2nd prize

Thomas Scott

NUI Maynooth

Scoláireacht an Dr Henry Hutchinson Stewart sa Ghaeilge

3ú Duais 

Eimear Thornton,

Ollscoil na hÉireann, Má Nuad

 

 

The Dr H H Stewart Literary Scholarship in German

Commendation

Michael James Craughwell

NUI Maynooth

 

The Dr H H Stewart Literary Scholarship in Latin

Conor McDonough

NUI Maynooth

 

The Dr H H Stewart Literary Scholarship in Spanish

3rd prize

Fionnuala O’Higgins

NUI Maynooth

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