On the Town: The newly appointed president of UCD, Dr Hugh Brady, came bearing gifts. He presented the first bursary in memory of the late Dónall Ó Móráin in Newman House, Dublin, this week. It has been donated by Gael Linn and the Ó Móráin family.
It will "enable students to pursue postgraduate studies at this university in the subject of Irish folklore", he said when Rónán Ó Gealbháin, who is studying at UCD's Irish Folklore department, stepped up to receive the €2,500.
Ó Móráin, who founded Gael Linn, was a man of action and vision - "fear físe agus fear gnímh", said Antoine Ó Coileáin, chief executive of Gael Linn, which has just celebrated its first 50 years.
Daithí Ó Dufaigh, secretary of Gael Linn, recalled Ó Móráin as "dynamic and tireless".
"He was a man of great commitment, and very, very strong in his support for Irish and innovative because Gael Linn was a wonderful new organisation which did great work," said the economist and public servant T.K. Whitaker.
"Duine uasail, duine crua, duine macánta," said lexicographer Éamonn Ó hÓgáin, formerly of the Royal Irish Academy.
Former Gael Linn chief executive and author Brian Mac Aongusa and his wife, Máire, were at the reception, along with Séamus Ó Catháin, professor of Irish Folklore at UCD, Patricia Kelly, dean of the faculty of Celtic Studies, and Prof Fergus D'Arcy, UCD's dean of Arts. Dónall Ó Móráin's widow, Máire, his daughter, Muireann and his son, Feargal, of Enterprise Ireland, were at the presentation.