Art Cosgrove, (born 1 June 1940) in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland, was president of University College Dublin (UCD) between 1994 and 2003.
[1] He graduated from Queen's University Belfast in 1961 with a first class honours BA in History,[1] and attended the Institute of Historical Research, in London from 1961 to 1962.
[1] He was awarded a PhD by Queen's in 1971 and an LLD honoris causa in 1975 for distinction in historical work.
[1] In 2007 Cosgrove obtained the Barrister-at-Law degree qualification from King's Inns but declined to take the statutory Irish exams needed to be called to the Bar by the Chief Justice of Ireland.
[3] Cosgrove was understood to be fluent in Irish but considered that the exam required by legislation passed in 1929 to be inappropriate in 2007.