Congratulations to our 2024 Medal Recipients
Aoife Byrne, a 2024 graduate from the MA in Art History, Collections and Curating has been awarded the Michael McCarthy Medal. Established in 2004 in honour of Professor Michael McCarthy who held the chair of Art History at UCD from 1994-2004. His commitment to post-graduate students is recorded in this medal, awarded annually to the candidate who obtains the highest GPA in the taught MA in Art History programme.
Kaori Matsuda, a 2024 graduate from the MA in Cultural Policy and Arts Management, has been awarded The Joan Duff/Irish Museums Trust Medal in memory of the distinguished founder of the Irish Museums Trust, Joan Duff, who passed away in 2018. The Diploma in Arts Administration at UCD, from which our MA originates, was inaugurated in 1986 with the support of the Irish Museums Trust. It is therefore an honour that the Irish Museums Trust has produced this medal for awarding to the outstanding student of the year in the MA.
Medals for 2024 were also awarded to the following undergraduate Art History students: Françoise Henry Memorial Medals, Deirdre Danaher (1st Place) and Oonagh Delaney (2nd Place); Donal Byrne Memorial Medal, Jeanne Printems.
The 2024 Purser-Griffith Medals in the History of European Painting were awarded to Paula Collins (1st Place) and Caoimhe Martin and Caroline Ward (joint 2nd Place). The Purser-Griffith Medals honour the endowment of an art history scholarship in 1934 by the artist Miss Sarah Purser and Sir John Griffith and are awarded to the candidates who achieve first and second places respectively having completed the two-year Diploma in the History of European Painting.