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• UCG alumnus and eminent military surgeon Sir Peter Freyer, pictured here at Solingen in Germany in August 1919 with the occupying British Army of the Rhine
• Professor Frank Sharman Rishworth was one of a number of academic staff who fought in the Great War.
• University President Alexander Anderson was a committed supporter of the war effort and encouraged students to enlist.
• The Gaelic Alliance
  Gaelic revivalists were very aware of the power of imagery, song and literature in creating a unique aesthetic that projected the vibrancy of Gaelic culture
• Long life to our Gaelic, long! Gaelic League rallying song
  Gaelic revivalists were very aware of the power of imagery, song and literature in creating a unique aesthetic that projected the vibrancy of Gaelic culture
• The Irish Ireland Song Book
  Gaelic revivalists were very aware of the power of imagery, song and literature in creating a unique aesthetic that projected the vibrancy of Gaelic culture
• The annual Oireachtas of Gaelic League was held in Galway Town Hall, now the Town Hall Theatre, in 1913. (Courtesy of the Curran family, Dublin)
• Tomás Ó Máille, a native of Connemara, became the College’s first Professor of Irish in 1909
• Students and Soldiers: where they lie today
• UCG Camogie 1916
• Student, Minnie Tennant, in costume for the students’ production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in 1914
• The Galway Munitions factory was situated on the present site of Áras na Mac Léinn
• Brigid Lyons was an Arts student when she helped found Cumann na mBan in Galway town in 1915
• The victorious University College Galway team that won the Ashbourne Cup for camogie in 1916
• Mary Donovan became the first female Professor in Galway in 1914
• A biology lesson in progress in the quadrangle at the turn of the century
• The College hockey team pictured in 1914
• University Corps of the Irish Volunteers on the front lawn of the College
  The University Corps of the Irish Volunteers on the front lawn of the College in 1918. Medical student and future TD, Brian Cusack, is at the head of the group
• UCG College Annual 1916-1917
  The College Annual reflected the conflicting allegiances of the student body with obituaries of students who fell during the War printed alongside political leaders executed after the 1916 Rising.
• This exert from the College Annual is typical of the students’ grievances and sense of mischief
• A chemistry lab in session in the Quadrangle at the turn of the century
  A chemistry lab in session in the Quadrangle at the turn of the century
• UCG Student Tim Healy
  UCG Student Tim Healy was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s medal for rescuing a child who was drowning in the River Shannnon in 1915.
• This impressive gathering was photographed in front of the Aula Maxima in the Quadrangle at the turn of the century.
• Campus map in 1914
  This map of the campus was published in 1914. The site was considerably smaller than the current campus.
• Eyre Square, Galway
  Cattle dominated Eyre Square on market day.