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University Images, Mid-1950s
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The following are images taken from a booklet published by the University in 1955. Its purpose was to encourage donations during a period of serious overcrowding, the result of the post-War influx of students. The point was well made with this shot of the notoriously crowded Mayo Refectory:
Mayo Refectory, 1955. (Note the line up).
The booklet gave a potted history of the University and made the case for its continued reliance on ‘the munificent benefactions of individuals and the massive sum of many small gifts.’ Interspersed were a number of rather nice images of the institution of the era: