Galway honour for Fionnuala Flanagan

Date Published: 03-Jun-2008

EMMY Award winning Irish actress Fionnula Flanagan is to receive an Honorary Doctorate at NUI Galway at the end of this month.

Ms Flanagan, who is also a Tony Award-nominated Irish actress, trained in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and has appeared in numerous films including The Others with Nicole Kidman, Transamerica and Waking Ned Devine, as well as television series and stage productions. She also recently guest starred in the episode ‘Flashes Before Your Eyes’ of Lost.

She established herself as one of the foremost interpreters of James Joyce in the 1967 film version of Ulysses.

Honorary doctorates will also be presented at NUI Galway on Friday, June 27, to ………