Posted 17 June 2013
UCD marks Bloomsday by awarding honorary degrees to Patrick Mason, Conor McPherson, Sinead Cusack, and Bob Crowley
UCD Ulysses Medal
The UCD Ulysses Medal, the highest honour the university can bestow. The award was inaugurated in 2005, as part of the university’s sesquicentennial celebrations, to highlight the ‘creative brilliance’ of UCD alumnus James Joyce.
It is awarded to individuals whose work has made an outstanding global contribution. Previous recipients of the UCD Ulysses Medal include: Nobel-prizewinner, Seamus Heaney; Irish playwright, Brian Friel; and former US President, Bill Clinton.
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