Máire Mulcahy

Máire F. Mulcahy was an Irish zoologist and ecologist, with an expertise in fish and shellfish health and disease. She was the first female vice-president of an Irish University and the founding chair of the Marine Institute Ireland. She served as a vice-president of University College Cork.
The Mulcahy medal for the highest achieving zoology student in UCC is named in her honour.

Background

Mulcahy attended St Angela's College and graduated from University College Cork in 1958. She attained a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Manchester.
She married Edmund Mulcahy in 1958. Noel, a national chess master, died in the Aer Lingus Vickers Viscount crash in 1968.

Career

Mulcahy was made a professor of Zoology at UCC. During her tenure she reinstated L. P. W. Renouf's natural history museum there. In 1989 she was made a vice-president of UCC. In 1990 she was appointed chair of the newly founded Marine Institute, having worked on its creation since the 1970s. Mulcahy was instrumental in the foundation of Science Foundation Ireland's Marine and Renewable Energy Ireland programme.

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