Auditors of the Literary and Historical Society (University College Dublin)

The Auditor of the Literary and Historical Society at University College Dublin, Ireland is a position elected by the members of the society. In this setting, the term auditor has no connection with accounting but means "a position corresponding to that of President of the Union at Oxford or Cambridge" (Oxford English Dictionary). Some former auditors of the society have gone on to careers of high distinction in law, politics, medicine, academia, journalism, and other endeavours.[1][2]

This is a list of the auditors from when the society was founded by John Henry Newman in 1855 to the present:[3]

  • 1856–1857    Henry S. Bethell
  • 1857–1858    Augustus P. Bethell
  • 1858–1859    Hugh Hyacinth MacDermot
  • 1859–1860    Richard Fennelly
  • 1861–1862    Philip Farrelly
  • 1862–1863    John Kean
  • 1863–1864    John Butler
  • 1864–1865    Morgan B. Kavanagh
  • 1865–1866    Robert Wogan MacDonnell
  • 1866–1867    Patrick J. O'Connor
  • 1867–1868    Charles Dawson
  • 1868–1869    N. J. Gossan
  • 1869–1870    William Dillon
  • 1870–1871    George Fottrell
  • 1871–1872    Michael Charles Aughney
  • 1872–1873    Michael Francis Cox
  • 1873–1874    Michael O'Meara
  • 1874–1875    John Dillon[4]
  • 1875–1876    Gerald Griffin
  • 1876–1877    John Francis O'Carroll
  • 1877–1878    Michael Duff
  • 1878–1879    Ignatius O'Brien
  • 1880–1881    J. D. McFeeley
  • 1882–1883    Joseph McGrath
  • 1883–1884    Thomas A Finlay, S. J.
  • 1884–1885    Robert Donovan
  • 1885–1886    Edmund Young
  • 1886–1887    Joseph J. Farrell
  • 1887–1888    Patrick Lennox
  • 1888–1889    William Magennis
  • 1889–1890    John F. W. Howley
  • 1890–1891    Luke Nolan
  • 1897–1898    Charles Griffin / Francis Skeffington
  • 1898–1899    Thomas M. Kettle[5]
  • 1899–1900    Arthur E. Clery[6]
  • 1900-1901    Hugh Kennedy[7]
  • 1901-1902    Robert Kinahan
  • 1902-1903    William Dawson
  • 1903-1904    John P. Doyle
  • 1904-1905    Richard Sheehy
  • 1905-1906    Thomas F. Bacon
  • 1906–1907    Francis Cruise O'Brien
  • 1907–1908    Maurice Healy
  • 1908–1909    Thomas Bodkin
  • 1909–1910    Michael McGilligan
  • 1910–1911    Michael Davitt
  • 1911–1912    John A. Ronayne / Patrick McGilligan[8]
  • 1912–1913    Arthur Cox[9]
  • 1913–1914    Michael J. Ryan
  • 1914–1915    James R. MacDonnell
  • 1915–1916    James G. O'Connor
  • 1916–1917    Joseph Mooney
  • 1917–1918    H. Garrett McGrath
  • 1918–1919    Thomas F. Aird
  • 1919–1920    Daniel Binchy[10]
  • 1920–1921    John Farrell
  • 1921–1922    James Skehan
  • 1922–1923    David H. Travers
  • 1923–1924    John Charles Flood
  • 1924–1925    Bernard J. M. MacKenna
  • 1925–1926    Anthony J. Malone / Richard K. Boylan
  • 1926–1927    Patrick Byrne
  • 1927–1928    John J. Nash
  • 1928–1929    Thomas A. O'Rourke
  • 1929–1930    William Binchy / Thomas A. O'Rourke / Robert Dudley Edwards[11]
  • 1930–1931    John Kent
  • 1931–1932    Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh[12]
  • 1932–1933    James Meenan
  • 1933–1934    Vivion de Valera[8]
  • 1934–1935    R. N. Cooke
  • 1935–1936    Desmond Bell
  • 1936–1937    Vincent Grogan[13]
  • 1937–1938    Richard Walsh
  • 1938–1939    Thomas F. O'Higgins[7]
  • 1939–1940    Tomas P. Ó Siaghail
  • 1940–1941    Patrick N. Meenan[14]
  • 1941–1942    Frank Roe[7]
  • 1942–1943    Francis Meenan
  • 1943–1944    Richard Cremins / Peter Hogbin
  • 1944–1945    Walter Treanor
  • 1945–1946    Eamonn Walsh
  • 1946–1947    Frank Martin
  • 1947–1948    Kevin Burke
  • 1948–1949    Patrick J. O'Kelly
  • 1949–1950    Patrick J. Connolly
  • 1950–1951    Richard Ryan
  • 1951–1952    Dermot Ryan
  • 1952–1953    Diarmuid Ó Sioradain
  • 1953–1954    Gerard Sheehy
  • 1954–1955    Micheal Ó Riain
  • 1955–1956    Henry Kennedy
  • 1956–1957    Desmond P. H. Windle
  • 1957–1958    Myles McSwiney
  • 1958–1959    Owen Dudley Edwards
  • 1959–1960    Brian McSwiney
  • 1960–1961    Dermot Bouchier Hayes
  • 1961–1962    Desmond J. Green
  • 1962–1963    Louis B. Courtney
  • 1963–1964    Anthony W. Clare[15]
  • 1964–1965    Patrick Cosgrave[16]
  • 1965–1966    Henry Crawley
  • 1966–1967    Anthony D. Glavin[17] / J Harold Owens
  • 1967–1968    Henry Kelly
  • 1968–1969    Dermot Gleeson[18]
  • 1969–1970    Gerald Barry
  • 1970–1971    Mary E. Finlay
  • 1971–1972    Declan O'Donovan
  • 1972–1973    Adrian Hardiman[19]
  • 1973–1974    Kevin Cross
  • 1974–1975    J. Gerard Danaher
  • 1975–1976    Michael Moloney
  • 1976–1977    Paul O'Higgins
  • 1977–1978    Frank Callanan
  • 1978–1979    Maev-Ann Wren
  • 1979–1980    Gerard Stembridge[20]
  • 1980–1981    Charles Meenan
  • 1981–1982    Laurence Ward
  • 1982–1983    Cormac Lucey
  • 1983–1984    Shane Murphy
  • 1984–1985    Dermot Meagher / Isobel Murray
  • 1985–1986    Eamon Delaney
  • 1986–1987    Richard Humphreys[21]
  • 1987–1988    Denise McDonald
  • 1988–1989    Oliver O'Brien
  • 1989–1990    Jason A. Devitt
  • 1990–1991    Pat O'Keeffe
  • 1991–1992    Sinéad E. Canning
  • 1992–1993    Marcus Dowling
  • 1993–1994    Tabitha Wood
  • 1994–1995    Padraig Francis; Dara Ó Briain[22]
  • 1995–1996    Ian Walsh
  • 1996–1997    Alastair McMenamin
  • 1997–1998    Tom Wright
  • 1998–1999    Barry Ward[23]
  • 1999–2000    Patrick E. Smyth
  • 2000–2001    J. Paul Brady
  • 2001–2002    Brian Flanagan
  • 2002–2003    Jarlath Regan[24]
  • 2003–2004    Ciaran Lawlor
  • 2004–2005    Frank Kennedy
  • 2005–2006    Louisa Ní Eadeáin
  • 2006–2007    Ross McGuire; David O'Connor [Vice-Auditor]
  • 2007–2008    Michael MacGrath
  • 2008–2009    Ian Hastings
  • 2009–2010    Conor McAndrew
  • 2010–2011    Niall Fahy
  • 2011–2012    Christine Simpson
  • 2012–2013    Daisy Onubogu
  • 2013–2014    Alex Owens
  • 2014–2015    Eoin MacLachlan
  • 2015–2016    Conor Rock
  • 2016–2017    Donal Naylor
  • 2017–2018    Aisling Tully
  • 2018–2019    Ella McLoughlin
  • 2019–2020    Anthony Tracey
  • 2020–2021    Samuel Ajetunmobi[25]
  • 2021–2022    Rob Fitzpatrick
  • 2022–2023    Adrianne Ward
  • 2023–2024    Ayman Memon
  • 2024–2025    Stéphane de Bairéid
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