Máire Mulcahy

Máire Mulcahy
Born1937 (1937)
Cork, Ireland
Died28 November 2023(2023-11-28) (aged 85–86)[1]
Wilton, County Cork
Occupations
Years active1950s–2023
Spouses
  • Edmund Noel Mulcahy
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    ​
    (m. 1958⁠–⁠1968)​
    [2]
  • Brian McCarthy
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    ​
    (m. 1993; died 2011)​
    [3]
Children1, 3 step-children

Máire F. Mulcahy[4][5] (1937 – 28 November 2023) was an Irish zoologist and ecologist, with an expertise in fish and shellfish health and disease.[6] She was the first female vice-president of an Irish University and the founding chair of the Marine Institute Ireland.[2][7] She served as a vice-president of University College Cork (UCC).[3]

The Mulcahy medal for the highest achieving zoology student in UCC is named in her honour.[2][8]

Background

Mulcahy attended St Angela's College and graduated from University College Cork (UCC) in 1958.[9][3] She attained a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Manchester.[3]

She married Edmund (Noel) Mulcahy in 1958.[2] Noel, a national chess master,[10][11] died in the Aer Lingus Vickers Viscount crash in 1968.[2]

Career

Mulcahy was made a professor of Zoology at UCC. During her tenure she reinstated L. P. W. Renouf's natural history museum there.[12] In 1989 she was made a vice-president of UCC.[13] In 1990 she was appointed chair of the newly founded Marine Institute,[2] having worked on its creation since the 1970s.[14] Mulcahy was instrumental in the foundation of Science Foundation Ireland's Marine and Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI) programme.[2]

Publications

  • Davenport, John; Black, Kenneth D.; Burnell, Gavin; Cross, Tom; Culloty, Sarah; Ekaratne, Suki; Furness, Bob; Mulcahy, Maire; Thetmeyer, Helmut (2009). Aquaculture: The Ecological Issues. Germany: Wiley. ISBN 9781444311259.
  • Culloty, S.C.; Mulcahy, M.F. (2007). "Bonamia ostreae: a review". Marine Environment and Health Series (29). Galway: Marine Institute.
  • Culloty, S.C.; Cronin, M.A.; Mulcahy, M.F. (2003). "Possible limitations of diagnostic methods recommended for the detection of the protistan, Bonamia ostreae in the European flat oyster, Ostrea edulis". Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists (23): 67–71.
  • Culloty, S.C.; Cronin, M.A.; Mulcahy, M.F. (2001). "An investigation into the relative resistance of Irish flat oysters Ostrea edulis L. to the parasite Bonamia ostreae (Pichot et al. 1980)". Aquaculture. 199 (199): 229–244. Bibcode:2001Aquac.199..229C. doi:10.1016/S0044-8486(01)00569-5.
  • Culloty, S.C.; Novoa, B.; Pernas, M.; Longshaw, M.; Mulcahy, M.F.; Feist, S.W.; Figueras, A. (1999). "Susceptibility of a number of bivalve species to the protozoan parasite Bonamia ostreae and their ability to act as a vector for this parasite". Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 37 (37): 73–80. doi:10.3354/dao037073. hdl:10261/26131.
  • Mulcahy, M. F.; Kelly, T.C.; Holland, C. (1998). "Parasites and pathology of Irish freshwater animals". Studies in Irish Limnology. Dublin: Congress of Societas Internationalis Limnologiae.
  • Culloty, S.C.; Mulcahy, M.F. (1996). "Season-, age-, and sex-related variations in the prevalence of bonamiasis in flat oyster (Ostrea edulis L.) on the south coast of Ireland". Aquaculture. 144 (144): 53–63. Bibcode:1996Aquac.144...53C. doi:10.1016/S0044-8486(96)01290-2.
  • Reilly, P.; Mulcahy, M.F. (1993). "Humoral antibody response in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) immunised with extracts derived from the ectoparasitic caligid copepods, Caligus elongatus (Nordmann, 1832) and Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Kroyer, 1838)". Fish & Shellfish Immunology. 3 (3): 59–70. Bibcode:1993FSI.....3...59R. doi:10.1006/fsim.1993.1006.

References

  1. ^ "Death Notice of Prof. Máire Mulcahy (Wilton, Cork)". RIP.ie. Archived from the original on 27 November 2024. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Obituary: Professor Máire Mulcahy, leading zoologist and ecologist who paved the way for women in academia". Independent.ie. 17 December 2023. Archived from the original on 9 June 2025. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d "Máire Mulcahy obituary: One of our most prominent scientists, who paved the way for women in academia". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 20 March 2024. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
  4. ^ "M.F. Mulcahy". scispace.com. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
  5. ^ (UCC 2023)
  6. ^ "Tributes to the Late Prof Máire Mulcahy, First Chair of the Marine Institute". Afloat.ie. Archived from the original on 12 June 2025. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
  7. ^ Wood, Brian (1999). "Book Review". Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 99B (3): 205–7. JSTOR 20500068.
  8. ^ "School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences awards students". UCC.ie. 24 November 2021. Archived from the original on 12 December 2022. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
  9. ^ "Prof. Máire Mulcahy (b. 1937)". Irish Life & Lore. 1 February 2017. Archived from the original on 27 November 2024. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
  10. ^ "The chess games of Edmond Noel Mulcahy". Chessgames.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2025. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
  11. ^ "Edmond Mulcahy chess games". 365Chess.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2025. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
  12. ^ Byrne, Patricia M. (2009). "Renouf, Louis Percy Watt". Dictionary of Irish Biography. DIB.ie. doi:10.3318/dib.007632.v1. Archived from the original on 12 November 2024. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
  13. ^ "Vice-Presidents". University College Cork. Archived from the original on 12 June 2025. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
  14. ^ "Institute Affairs". Fisheries Management. 9 (3). Wiley: 105. August 1978. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2109.1978.tb00248.x. ISSN 0141-9862 – via EBSCOHOST.
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