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A University in War & Revolution 1913-19 The Galway Experience / Ollscoil In Am Comhraic 1913-19 Cogadh agus Réabhlóid

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A University in War & Revolution 1913-19 The Galway Experience / Ollscoil In Am Comhraic 1913-19 Cogadh agus Réabhlóid

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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
Long life to our Gaelic, long! Gaelic League rallying song
The Irish Ireland Song Book
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)

1913
Tomás Ó Máille, a native of Connemara, became the College’s first Professor of Irish in 1909

1909
Students and Soldiers: where they lie today
UCG Camogie 1916

1916
Student, Minnie Tennant, in costume for the students’ production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in 1914

1914
The Galway Munitions factory was situated on the present site of Áras na Mac Léinn

1917
Brigid Lyons was an Arts student when she helped found Cumann na mBan in Galway town in 1915

1915
The victorious University College Galway team that won the Ashbourne Cup for camogie in 1916

1916
Mary Donovan became the first female Professor in Galway in 1914

1914
A biology lesson in progress in the quadrangle at the turn of the century

1900
The College hockey team pictured in 1914

1914
University Corps of the Irish Volunteers on the front lawn of the College

1918
UCG College Annual 1916-1917

1916
This exert from the College Annual is typical of the students’ grievances and sense of mischief

1908
A chemistry lab in session in the Quadrangle at the turn of the century

1900
UCG Student Tim Healy

1915
This impressive gathering was photographed in front of the Aula Maxima in the Quadrangle at the turn of the century.

1897
Campus map in 1914
Eyre Square, Galway