238:(UCG). Being the only botanist on the staff, de Valéra taught all of the botanical courses, with the work load doubling when the lectures were offered in Irish. Due to the workload, and her isolation from other phycologists, she did not publish during this time, but continued with fieldwork. In 1942, she reported the first record of
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in 1951. She served as the society's vice-president in 1969, and was awarded a life membership in 1977. The involvement in the society spurred de Valéra to conduct a number of new field studies of algae, and she produced a number of papers until she retired. In 1949, she helped organise the first
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fund. Upon the establishment of the chair of botany at UCG in the 1960s, de Valéra was the first to hold it, and she was the professor of botany from 1962 until her retirement in 1977, when she was appointed professor emerita at
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to study science. Graduating with a first-class honours degree in botany in 1935, she commenced her postgraduate research with Joseph Doyle. She completed an MSc in 1936, investigating a comparison of the conifer genera
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De Valéra, M.; Pybus, C.; Casley, B.; Webster, A. (1979). "1979. Littoral and benthic investigations on the west coast of
Ireland.X. Marine algae of the northern shores of the Burren, C. Clare".
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A topographical guide to the seaweed of Co. Galway Bay with some brief notes on other districts on the west coast of
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