Honorary Degree Recipients 1972 - 2023
Year |
Ceremony |
Degree |
Recipient |
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| 2023-24 | 1 December 2023 | ScD | Michael Coey |
| LittD | Susan McKay | ||
| LittD | Fergus Sheil | ||
| LLD | Mary Irvine | ||
| 2022-23 | 16 June 2023 | ScD | Ugur Sahin |
| ScD | Beate Schuler | ||
| ScD | Joan Steitz | ||
| ScD | Özlem Türeci | ||
| 6 April 2023 | LLD | Jonathan Powell | |
| LLD | Martin Mansergh | ||
| LLD | Monica McWilliams | ||
| LLD | Nancy Soderberg | ||
| 2 December 2022 | LittD | Dorothy Cross | |
| LittD | Alan Rusbridger | ||
| LLD | Noeline Blackwell | ||
| DD. | David Ford | ||
2021-22 |
17 June 2022 |
ScD | Adrian V S Hill |
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ScD | David McGrath |
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LLD | Susan J G Denham |
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8 April 2022 |
ScD | Mary Kelly |
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LittD | Terry Neill |
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LittD | Micheal O'Siadhail |
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LLD | Yvonne Murphy |
8 December 2021 |
ScD |
David Wallach | |
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LittD |
James Ivan McGuire |
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LittD | Deirdre McLoughlin |
2020-21 |
29 April 2021 |
LittD |
Martha Dow Fehsenfeld |
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LLD |
William Duncan |
| 2019-20 | 17 January 2020 | LLD | Prokopios Pavlopoulos, President of Greece |
| 6 December 2019 | ScD | Michael Gazzaniga | |
| ScD | Terry Hughes | ||
| LittD | Fintan O'Toole | ||
| LLD | Joan Freeman | ||
| LLD | Mary Harney | ||
| 2018-19 | 18 April 2019 | ScD | David Cabot |
| LittD | The Grafton Architects, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara | ||
| LittD | Carmel Naughton | ||
| LittD | Cormac Ó Gráda | ||
| LLD | Patricia O'Brien | ||
| 7 December 2018 | ScD | Michal Lipson | |
| LittD | Thomas A Kinsella | ||
| LLD | Catherine Corless | ||
| 2017-18 | 22 June 2018 |
MLitt | Ann Martha Rowan |
| DEd | Tony Scott | ||
| ScD | James Harris Simons | ||
| LLD | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| LLD | Paul Drechsler | ||
| 8 December 2017 | ScD | Gero Miesenböck | |
| ScD | George Kildare Miley | ||
| LittD | Catriona Crowe | ||
| LLD | Brian O'Driscoll | ||
| LLD | Olivia O'Leary | ||
| 2016-17 | 23 June 2017 | ScD | Terence Dwyer |
| ScD | James P Smith | ||
| LittD | Marianne Elliott | ||
| LLD | Bob Geldof | ||
| LLD | Patricia Oliver | ||
| 9 December 2016 | ScD | Eric Kinsella | |
| LLD | David Puttnam | ||
| LLD | Louise Mary Richardson | ||
| LLD | Peta Mary Taaffe | ||
| 2015-16 | 24 June 2016 | LLD | Joseph Biden, Vice-President of the United States |
| LittD | J P Donleavy | ||
| ScD | Peter Higgs | ||
| LLD | Hina Jilani | ||
| LLD | Lia Mills | ||
| MA | Josef Veselsky | ||
| 27 November 2015 | LLD | Graça Machel | |
| LLD | Peter McVerry | ||
| LLD | David Norris | ||
| LLD | Rory O'Neill | ||
| LLD | Tomas Reichental | ||
| 2014-15 | 26 June 2015 | ScD | Margaret Murnane |
| LittD | Grigory Kruzhkov | ||
| LittD | Camille Souter | ||
| LLD | Stanley Quek | ||
| 5 December 2014 | LittD | Paul Muldoon | |
| LLD | Nancy Hopkins | ||
| LLD | Mary Lawlor | ||
| LLD | David O'Sullivan | ||
| 2013-14 | 27 June 2014 | ScD | Craig Barrett |
| ScD | Atsuo Fukuda | ||
| LittD | Amos Oz | ||
| LLD | Mary Redmond | ||
| 6 December 2013 | ScD | Jane Goodall | |
| LittD | Lelia Doolan John Laver |
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| LLD | Michael John 'Johnny' Giles David Went |
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| 2012-13 | 28 June 2013 | LLD | President Michael D Higgins Liisa Kauppinen |
| LittD | Margaret Mac Curtain | ||
| MusD | John Sheahan | ||
| 07 December 2012 | DEd | Valerie Coghlan | |
| LLD | Christine Buckley | ||
| LittD | Lynne Brindley Sam Shepard |
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| 6 September 2012 | LLD | Chuck Feeney | |
| 2011-12 | 29 June 2012 | ScD | William C Campbell |
| MD | Peter C Doherty | ||
| 18 June 2012 | LLD | Aung San Suu Kyi | |
| 03 November 2011 | MD | Charles Dinarello Michael Marmot Esther Sternberg Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson |
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| LLD | Lord Ara Warkes Darzi of Denham | ||
| DEd | Parveen Kumar | ||
2010-11 |
01 July 2011 | LLD | Jonah Barrington |
| LLD | Lubna Olayan | ||
| DEd | Micheal Johnston | ||
| 10 December 2010 | MA | Norah Kelso | |
| DEd | Josephine Ann Mooney | ||
| ScD | Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs | ||
| LLD | Patrick Dominick Matthews | ||
| 2009-10 | 02 July 2010 | ScD | Kristina M. Johnson |
| LLD | Mohamed ElBaradei | ||
| LittD | Lynne Parker | ||
| 11 December 2009 | LittD | Paul Durcan Geraldine Kennedy Ismail Serageldin |
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| ScD | Michael Griffith | ||
| 2008-09 | 10 July 2009 | DEd | Robert Dunbar |
| LLD | Amartya Sen | ||
| LittD | Patrick Scott | ||
| ScD | Janet Browne J. Fraser Stoddart |
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| 12 December 2008 | ScD | Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell Ann Patricia Dowling David Philip Farrington |
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| LittD | David Frederick Attenborough Terry David John Pratchett |
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| 2007-08 | 11 July 2008 | MusD | Donal Lunny |
| LittD | Robert William Fisk Robert Redford |
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| LLD | John Hume Melissa Dorothy Webb |
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| 14 December 2007 | MusD | Veronica Dunne | |
| LLD | Shirin Ebadi Liam Mulvihill Vaira Vike-Freiberga |
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| LittD | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala | ||
| 2006-07 | 06 July 2007 | LLD | Louise Asmal Carol Bellamy Mark Charles Pigott |
| ScD | Gyan P Johari | ||
| LittD | Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill | ||
| DEd | Sir Michael L Rutter | ||
| 15 December 2006 | LittD | Neil Jordan | |
| ScD | Peter N Mugyenyi | ||
| MA | Jean O'Hara | ||
| 2005-06 | 07 July 2006 | ScD | Gunnar Fant |
| LLD | Maureen Harding Clark Charles Handy Paul Michael Haran Jeffrey David Sachs |
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| 16 December 2005 | DEd | Jostein Gaarder | |
| ScD | Wilson Sibbett | ||
| LittD | Michael Adams Jane Roberts |
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| MD | David Edward Thomas | ||
| 2004-05 | 05 September 2005 |
ScD | Alec Nigel Broers Frances Anne Cairncross Dianne Edwards Robert Maurice Winston |
| LLD | Brendan Parsons, Earl of Rosse | ||
| 08 July 2005 | LittD | Michael Bogdanov | |
| LLD | William D Walsh | ||
| ScD | Alan J Heeger Cecilia Jarlskog Timothy Shallice |
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| MusD | John O'Conor | ||
| 17 December 2004 | ScD | Ahmed Zewail | |
| LittD | Michael David Viney | ||
| LLD | Judith Chavasse Christina Noble John Lawrence Sutton |
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| MusD | Evelyn Glennie | ||
| 2003-04 | 09 July 2004 |
ScD | Shirley Ann Jackson |
| LittD | Eavan Boland Garry Hynes |
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| LLD | Alison Elliot Fidelma Macken Mary Peters Hilary Weston |
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| 12 December 2003 | MA | Joseph Anthony O'Connell Patrick Reid Elizabeth Watson |
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| ScD | Alfert Fert | ||
| LittD | Edna Mary Longley |
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| LLD | Robert Brendan McDowell | ||
| 2002-03 | 11 July 2003 | LittD | Judi Dench |
| LLD | Pat Cox |
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| 13 December 2002 | ScD | John Goodby Patrick Moore |
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| LittD | Onora O'Neill |
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| LLD | Michael Galwey | ||
| 2001-02 | 12 July 2002 | LittD | George Eogan Desmond FitzGerald Patrick Mason |
| LLD | Beulah Bewley |
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| 8 January 2002 | LLD | Mikhail Gorbachev | |
| 14 December 2001 | MEd | Br James Nolan | |
| LittD | Anthony Cronin Mary Pollard |
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| LLD | Joss Lynam Peter Wilson |
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| 2000-01 | 6 July 2001 | ScD | Thomas A. Connors James D Watson |
| LittD | Fiona Shaw | ||
| DD | Enda McDonagh | ||
| LLD | Carol Moffett-Vasseur Frank H.T. Rhodes |
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| DD | Enda McDonagh | ||
| 4 December 2000 | ScD | Christopher J Horn | |
| LittD | Garech D. Browne Ian J.A. Graham |
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| MD | Robert C. Gray | ||
| 1999-2000 | 7 July 2000 | MA | Thomas Smail |
| LLD | Lord C Haskins Michael Colgan |
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| LittD | T Pakenham M Hengel |
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| ScD | J E Sulston P Johnson-Laird |
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| 11 April 2000 | LLD | President Mary McAleese Nelson Mandela |
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| ScD | Sir James Black | ||
| 15 December 1999 | MA | T.A. Cullen | |
| LLD | R.J.D. Gageby Lewis Glucksman Gordon Lambert |
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| ScD | J.H. Whitelaw | ||
| LittD | Michael Longley | ||
| 1998-99 | 9 July 1999 | MA | Myrtle Allen |
| LLD | Chief Ameka Anyaoku |
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| MD | W.H. Bowen | ||
| ScD | Gordon E Moore | ||
| 29 April 1999 | LLD | William Patrick Deane | |
| 18 December 1998 | LLD | Ian Howie Dame Veronica Sutherland Howard L Temple |
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| LittD | Barry McGovern |
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| 1997-98 | 3 July 1998 | MA | J A Walmsley |
| LLD | Kader Asmal Noel Pearson Colin Smythe |
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| ScD | Michael J Flynn | ||
| LittD | Vassos Karageorghis Tom Murphy |
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| MusD | Louis Stewart | ||
| 1 May 1998 | LLD | George Mitchell | |
| 12 December 1997 | ScD | J.H.Calderwood E.P. Cunningham George W.P. Dawson |
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| MD | Peter Hach | ||
| LLD | K Maly | ||
| LittD | Wendy Walsh | ||
| 4 December 1997 | LLD | Syndey Gruson | |
| 1996-97 | 11 July 1997 | ScD | Hubert Markl |
| LLD | Loretta Brennan Glucksman | ||
| LittD | Donal McCann Patrick O'Brian Paul Ricouer |
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| 13 December 1996 | ScD | Michael V Berry | |
| LittD | Tim Severin | ||
| MA | Daphne Dillon Wormell | ||
| 1995-96 | 12 July 1996 | MD | Harold J C Swan |
| ScD | Cathleen Synge Morawetz | ||
| LittD | George Steiner | ||
| LLD | Bridget Ogilvie Peter Sutherland |
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| 28 June 1996 | LLD | Vaclav Havel | |
| 13 December 1995 | MA | Sean P Ó Conchuir | |
| LittD | Victoria Glendinning Pierre Petitmengin Gordon Williams |
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| LLD | Robert P Willis William Wynne |
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| 14 November 1995 | LLD | Daniel Elmo Gill | |
| 1994-95 | 07 July 1995 | LittD | Derek Mahon Wolfgang Fruhwald Else Roesdahl |
| LLD | Michael Hurley Martin L Naughton |
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| DD | Hans Küng | ||
| ScD | Helmut Ringsdorf | ||
| 12 December 1994 | MA | Mary Boydell | |
| 1993-94 | 08 July 1994 | ScD | Hubert Curien |
| LittD | Isaiah Berlin Marianne McDonald Tony O'Malley |
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| LLD | Dermot Nally Rolv Einar Ryssdal Jan D Timmer Franz C W Winkelmann |
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| 13 December 1993 | MA | Rose May Deegan Dorothy Ruth Heard Frederick Charles Tiedt |
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| LittD | Kieran A Kennedy John Jeremiah Slocum |
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| LLD | Michael D M Staunton | ||
| 1992-93 | 09 July 1993 | ScD | Eva E Paproth |
| LittD | Helen H Vendler | ||
| LLD | Sir Alfred L Beit Joseph Benefact Carr Donald E Panoz |
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| DD | Very Rev John Dunlop | ||
| 25 June 1993 | Donald R Keough | ||
| 02 June 1993 | Mario A N Lopes Soares | ||
| 14 December 1992 | MA | Patrick J Fagan Andree G Sheehy Skeffington |
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| LittD | Ian Gibson | ||
| 1991-92 | 10 July 1992 | ScD | Klaas C W van der Lee Anthony B Walsh |
| LittD | Jennifer Johnston | ||
| LLD | George S Kurkjian | ||
| DD | V Rev Victor G Griffin | ||
| 12 May 1992 | ScD | Friedrich E P Hirzebruch John McCarthy Dame Sheila Patricia V Sherlock Maurice H F Wilkins |
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| LittD | Yves J Bonnefoy Brian Friel Anthony John P Kenny Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Arnaldo Pomodoro |
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| LLD | Richard H Helmholz | ||
| 10 April 1992 | LLD | Gordon S G Beveridge Rt Rev Mons Miceal F Ledwith Patrick Masterson Michael P Mortell Daniel O'Hare Tevor A Smith Edward M Walsh |
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| 13 March 1992 | LLD | Mary Terese Winifred Robinson Cardinal Cahal B Daly Thomas A Finlay Most Revd Robert H A Eames Sean Kenny |
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| LittD | Patrick Collinson | ||
| ScD | John S Doyle Dervilla M X Donnelly |
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| LittD | Aidan Clarke | ||
| LLD | Javier Pérez de Cuellar | ||
| 15 November 1991 | MAI | Francis M Brennan Patrick F Callanan Plevna A R Ellis Edmund O'Connell Michael A Peirce Derek Harry Roberts Morgan Sheehy Brian Noel Sweeney John Twomey |
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| 1990-91 | 12 July 1991 | LLD | Alexander Dubcek Dermot Egan Gerald Henry Henzell Giltrap |
| LittD | John McGahern | ||
| ScD | Samuel Frederick Edwards Gerard F Gearty |
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| MA | Raymond Warren Houghton | ||
| 1989-90 | 6 July 1990 | LLD | Seamus Henchy Muriel Hilda Mary Tweedy |
| LittD | Peter R L Brown Robertson Davies Arthur Derek Hill |
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| ScD | Francis Graham-Smith Yasutsugu Takeda |
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| 23 February 1990 | LLD | Jacques Delors | |
| 1988-89 | 7 July 1989 | LLD | Ellis E Bradford Daniel J McAuley |
| LittD | Pierre E Vidal Naquet Derek Walcott |
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| ScD | Kornelis Bulthuis Patrick M Conneally Victor William Graham |
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| MA | Hermann P D Kreplin | ||
| 1987-88 | 8 July 1988 | DD | Donald Arthur Richard Caird |
| LLD | Francis G Brennan | ||
| MD | Cecily Saunders | ||
| LittD | Patrick Collins
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| ScD | John Stewart Bell |
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| 3 March 1988 | MusD | Bernadette Greevy Patrick Moloney |
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| ScD | James Dooge |
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| LittD | Gabriel (Gay) Byrne John Keyes Byrne Maureen Potter |
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| LLD | William Bermingham Kevin P Heffernan Fergal Quinn Carmencita Hederman |
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| 1986-87 | 10 July 1987 | LLD | Colm O hEocha Thomas Philip O'Neill Tony Ryan |
| LittD | Marvin Leonard Colker Yukio Oura David Shaw Smith |
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| MD | Thomas H Bewley | ||
| 1985-86 | 11 July 1986 | LLD | Kurt Adolf Koppenhofer Nagendra Singh |
| LittD | Trevor William Cox John Leslie Melville Trim |
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| ScD | Thomas John Parker Arthur Leonard Schawlow |
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| 1 July 1986 | LLD | Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon |
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| 1984-85 | 12 July 1985 | LLD | Michael Smurfit |
| LittD | Prionsias Mac Cana Iris Murdoch |
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| ScD | Paul Janssen Bernard Crossland |
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| 31 August 1984 | LittD | D R Shackelton Bailey Jacqueline de Romilly George L Huxley Helen North Gregory Vlasto |
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| 1983-4 | 6 July 1984 | LittD | Claude Pichois George Zarnecki |
| LLD | James Leslie Alexander Colhoun | ||
| 24 February 1984 | ScD | Lord Flowers | |
| 9 December 1983 | ScD | Wallace Spencer Pitcher | |
| 1982-3 | 8 July 1983 | LLD | James Frazer Dukes Arthur William Bourn Vincent |
| LittD | Crystal-Margaret-Bennett Stefan Sonderegger |
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| 1981-2 | 8 July 1982 | MCh | Keith Meares Shaw |
| ScD | Michael Francis Atiyah Wolfgang Pfleiderer |
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| LittD | Niall O Donaill | ||
| LLD | Sr Stanislaus Kennedy | ||
| 1980-81 | 9 July 1981 | DD | John Ward Armstrong |
| LLD | Peter Froggatt | ||
| LittD | Bernard Arthur Owen Williams | ||
| ScD | Robert Francis Ruttledge Frederik Hendrik Sobels |
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| MA | Muriel McCarthy | ||
| 12 December 1980 | LLD | Charles Frederick Carter | |
| 1979-80 | 10 July 1980 | LLD | Desmond Walter Guinness Gerald Samuel Magahy |
| LittD | Cyril James Cusack Mairin Ui Dhalaigh George Mills Harper |
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| ScD | Thomas Walsh | ||
| MA | Berthold Dobiess | ||
| 7 December 1979 | LLD | Roy Harris Jenkins | |
| 11 September 1979 | LLD | Julius Kambarage Nyerere | |
| 1978-79 | 12 July 1979 | DD | Wolfgang Pannenberg |
| LLD | Patrick Lynch Brian Cathal Patrick Walsh |
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| ScD | David Robert Bates Thomas Gaskell Tutin |
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| 7 December 1978 | LLD | Anthony John Francis O'Reilly |
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| 1977-78 | 6 July 1978 | LLD | Michael Joseph Dargan |
| LittD | Christopher Murray Grieve | ||
| ScD | Frederick Charles Frank | ||
| MA | Charles William Gannon | ||
| 8 December 1977 | MusD | Mstislav Rostropovich | |
| 1976-77 | 7 July 1977 | ScD | Charlotte Auerbach Martin Roth |
| LittD | John Brendan Keane William George Scott |
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| LLD | Ruaidhgri Roberts | ||
| 30 June 1977 | LLD | Padraig Sean O hirighile (Uachtarán) | |
| 1975-6 | 8 July 1976 | ScD | John warcup Cornforth |
| LittD | Nathalie Sarraute | ||
| LLD | Victor Ernest Henry Bewley John David Alexander Robb Thomas Kenneth Mary Whitaker |
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| 31 May 1976 | MusD | Charles Rosen | |
| ScD | Neil Aiden Armstrong | ||
| LittD | Saul Bellow Robert Lowell |
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| LLD | Kingman Brewster Walter Joseph Patrick Curley |
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| 10 July 1975 | ScD | William Oliver Baker Jack Leonard Strominger |
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| LittD | John Betjeman Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf |
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| LLD | Tarlach O Raifeartaigh | ||
| 1973-4 | 11 July 1974 | LittD | Hilton Edwards |
| LLD | James Johnston Auchmuty Liam Cosgrave |
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| 30 May 1974 | LLD | Erskine H Childers (Uachtarán) | |
| 6 December 1973 | LLD | Francis Arthur Vick | |
| LittD | Heinrich Böll | ||
| 1972-73 | 12 July 1973 | ScD | Robert Charles Geary John Kenneth Sinclair St Joseph |
| LittD | Thomas Wellsted Copeland Norah McGuinness |
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| LLD | Egbert Udo Udoma | ||
| 1972 | 6 July 1972 | ScD | Vincent Christopher Barry Jacques Simon Gottlieb William Hunter McCrea |
| LittD | Gilbert Ryle | ||
| MusD | Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich |