UCC to honour fashion designer, furniture maker and historian Don O’Neill

A fashion designer whose gowns have been worn by Oprah Winfrey is to be honoured at University College Cork later this week, along with an accomplished furniture maker and a cultural historian.

Fashion designer Don O’Neill, furniture designer and maker Joseph Walsh and cultural historian, curator and philanthropist Nicholas Fox Weber are each to receive an honorary doctorate on Friday.

Mr O’Neill, a native of Ballyheigue in Co Kerry and the creative director of global label THEIA, will be conferred with a doctor of arts degree. Now based in New York, the designer is known worldwide for evening wear.