Auditors of the Literary and Historical Society (University College Dublin)

The Auditor of the Literary and Historical Society at University College Dublin, Ireland is a position elected by the members of the society. In this setting, the term auditor has no connection with accounting but means "a position corresponding to that of President of the Union at Oxford or Cambridge" (Oxford English Dictionary). Some former auditors of the society have gone on to careers of high distinction in law, politics, medicine, academia, journalism, and other endeavours.

This is a list of the auditors from when the society was founded by John Henry Newman in 1855 to the present:


 * 1856–1857   Henry S. Bethell
 * 1857–1858   Augustus P. Bethell
 * 1858–1859   Hugh Hyacinth MacDermot
 * 1859–1860   Richard Fennelly
 * 1861–1862   Philip Farrelly
 * 1862–1863   John Kean
 * 1863–1864   John Butler
 * 1864–1865   Morgan B. Kavanagh
 * 1865–1866   Robert Wogan MacDonnell
 * 1866–1867   Patrick J. O'Connor
 * 1867–1868   Charles Dawson
 * 1868–1869   N. J. Gossan
 * 1869–1870   William Dillon
 * 1870–1871   George Fottrell
 * 1871–1872   Michael Charles Aughney
 * 1872–1873   Michael Francis Cox
 * 1873–1874   Michael O'Meara
 * 1874–1875   John Dillon
 * 1875–1876   Gerald Griffin
 * 1876–1877   John Francis O'Carroll
 * 1877–1878   Michael Duff
 * 1878–1879   Ignatius O'Brien
 * 1880–1881   J. D. McFeeley
 * 1882–1883   Joseph McGrath
 * 1883–1884   Thomas A Finlay, S. J.
 * 1884–1885   Robert Donovan
 * 1885–1886   Edmund Young
 * 1886–1887   Joseph J. Farrell
 * 1887–1888   Patrick Lennox
 * 1888–1889   William Magennis
 * 1889–1890   John F. W. Howley
 * 1890–1891   Luke Nolan
 * 1897–1898   Charles Griffin / Francis Skeffington
 * 1898–1899   Thomas M. Kettle
 * 1899–1900   Arthur E. Clery
 * 1900-1901   Hugh Kennedy
 * 1901-1902   Robert Kinahan
 * 1902-1903   William Dawson
 * 1903-1904   John P. Doyle
 * 1904-1905   Richard Sheehy
 * 1905-1906   Thomas F. Bacon
 * 1906–1907   Francis Cruise O'Brien
 * 1907–1908   Maurice Healy
 * 1908–1909   Thomas Bodkin
 * 1909–1910   Michael McGilligan
 * 1910–1911   Michael Davitt
 * 1911–1912   John A. Ronayne / Patrick McGilligan
 * 1912–1913   Arthur Cox
 * 1913–1914   Michael J. Ryan
 * 1914–1915   James R. MacDonnell
 * 1915–1916   James G. O'Connor
 * 1916–1917   Joseph Mooney
 * 1917–1918   H. Garrett McGrath
 * 1918–1919   Thomas F. Aird
 * 1919–1920   Daniel Binchy
 * 1920–1921   John Farrell
 * 1921–1922   James Skehan
 * 1922–1923   David H. Travers
 * 1923–1924   John Charles Flood
 * 1924–1925   Bernard J. M. MacKenna
 * 1925–1926   Anthony J. Malone / Richard K. Boylan
 * 1926–1927   Patrick Byrne
 * 1927–1928   John J. Nash
 * 1928–1929   Thomas A. O'Rourke
 * 1929–1930   William Binchy / Thomas A. O'Rourke / Robert Dudley Edwards
 * 1930–1931   John Kent
 * 1931–1932   Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
 * 1932–1933   James Meenan
 * 1933–1934   Vivion de Valera
 * 1934–1935   R. N. Cooke
 * 1935–1936   Desmond Bell
 * 1936–1937   Vincent Grogan
 * 1937–1938   Richard Walsh
 * 1938–1939   Thomas F. O'Higgins
 * 1939–1940   Tomas P. Ó Siaghail
 * 1940–1941   Patrick N. Meenan
 * 1941–1942   Frank Roe
 * 1942–1943   Francis Meenan
 * 1943–1944   Richard Cremins / Peter Hogbin
 * 1944–1945   Walter Treanor
 * 1945–1946   Eamonn Walsh
 * 1946–1947   Frank Martin
 * 1947–1948   Kevin Burke
 * 1948–1949   Patrick J. O'Kelly
 * 1949–1950   Patrick J. Connolly
 * 1950–1951   Richard Ryan
 * 1951–1952   Dermot Ryan
 * 1952–1953   Diarmuid Ó Sioradain
 * 1953–1954   Gerard Sheehy
 * 1954–1955   Micheal Ó Riain
 * 1955–1956   Henry Kennedy
 * 1956–1957   Desmond P. H. Windle
 * 1957–1958   Myles McSwiney
 * 1958–1959   Owen Dudley Edwards
 * 1959–1960   Brian McSwiney
 * 1960–1961   Dermot Bouchier Hayes
 * 1961–1962   Desmond J. Green
 * 1962–1963   Louis B. Courtney
 * 1963–1964   Anthony W. Clare
 * 1964–1965   Patrick Cosgrave
 * 1965–1966   Henry Crawley
 * 1966–1967   Anthony D. Glavin / J Harold Owens
 * 1967–1968   Henry Kelly
 * 1968–1969   Dermot Gleeson
 * 1969–1970   Gerald Barry
 * 1970–1971   Mary E. Finlay
 * 1971–1972   Declan O'Donovan
 * 1972–1973   Adrian Hardiman
 * 1973–1974   Kevin Cross
 * 1974–1975   J. Gerard Danaher
 * 1975–1976   Michael Moloney
 * 1976–1977   Paul O'Higgins
 * 1977–1978   Frank Callanan
 * 1978–1979   Maev-Ann Wren
 * 1979–1980   Gerard Stembridge
 * 1980–1981   Charles Meenan
 * 1981–1982   Laurence Ward
 * 1982–1983   Cormac Lucey
 * 1983–1984   Shane Murphy
 * 1984–1985   Dermot Meagher / Isobel Murray
 * 1985–1986   Eamon Delaney
 * 1986–1987   Richard Humphreys
 * 1987–1988   Denise McDonald
 * 1988–1989   Oliver O'Brien
 * 1989–1990   Jason A. Devitt
 * 1990–1991   Pat O'Keeffe
 * 1991–1992   Sinéad E. Canning
 * 1992–1993   Marcus Dowling
 * 1993–1994   Tabitha Wood
 * 1994–1995   Padraig Francis; Dara Ó Briain
 * 1995–1996   Ian Walsh
 * 1996–1997   Alastair McMenamin
 * 1997–1998   Tom Wright
 * 1998–1999   Barry Ward
 * 1999–2000   Patrick E. Smyth
 * 2000–2001   J. Paul Brady
 * 2001–2002   Brian Flanagan
 * 2002–2003   Jarlath Regan
 * 2003–2004   Ciaran Lawlor
 * 2004–2005   Frank Kennedy
 * 2005–2006   Louisa Ní Eadeáin
 * 2006–2007   Ross McGuire; David O'Connor [Vice-Auditor]
 * 2007–2008   Michael MacGrath
 * 2008–2009   Ian Hastings
 * 2009–2010   Conor McAndrew
 * 2010–2011   Niall Fahy
 * 2011–2012   Christine Simpson
 * 2012–2013   Daisy Onubogu
 * 2013–2014   Alex Owens
 * 2014–2015   Eoin MacLachlan
 * 2015–2016   Conor Rock
 * 2016–2017   Donal Naylor
 * 2017–2018   Aisling Tully
 * 2018–2019   Ella McLoughlin
 * 2019–2020   Anthony Tracey
 * 2020–2021   Samuel Ajetunmobi
 * 2021–2022   Rob Fitzpatrick
 * 2022–2023   Adrianne Ward
 * 2023–2024   Ayman Memon
 * 2024–2025   Stéphane de Bairéid