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BLOOMSDAY ACCOLADES Honouring Arts Achievements
UCD awards the Ulysses Medal and Honorary Degrees to mark Bloomsday, a day synonymous with James Joyce and his novel Ulysses, and a significant day in the University calendar. Awarded this year to playwright and theatre director Tom Murphy, the Ulysses Medal is the highest honour the University can bestow and is reserved for individuals whose work has made an outstanding global contribution. “Without doubt, over a 50-year period, Tom Murphy has produced a body of work that matches the very best of those writing in the English language since the turn of the 20th century,” said Dr Eamonn Jordan of UCD School of English, Drama and Film. Previous winners include Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel and Bill Clinton. Irish theatre producer and director Patrick Mason, formerly of the Abbey Theatre, was also present to receive an honorary degree alongside playwright Conor McPherson, actor Sinéad Cusack and theatre designer and director Bob Crowley.
2 1: Bob Crowley. 2: Patrick Mason, Conor McPherson, Sinéad Cusack, Bob Crowley and Tom Murphy. 3: Conor McPherson and Dr PJ Mathews. 4: Tom Murphy receives the Ulysses Medal. 5: Finola Cronin, UCD School of English, Drama and Film and Patrick Mason.
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6: Dr Eamonn Jordan, UCD School of English, Drama and Film and Tom Murphy. 7: Conor McPherson, Bob Crowley, Deputy President Professor Mark Rogers, Sinéad Cusack, Patrick Mason and Tom Murphy.
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