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The Galway Urban District Council was highly critical of the influence of ‘professors of enemy nationality’ in the University.
Professor Valentine Steinberger, College Librarian and Professor of Romance Languages, died shortly after his release from prison in 1916

1910-1916
University College Galway’s Irish Volunteer Company, circa 1918

1918
Connacht Tribune, one page emergency edition. "Is it Insurrection?"

1916-04-25
A draft resolution, written in haste by the University’s Governing Council, following the arrest of a number of students and staff during Easter Week

1916
Brian Cusack was a medical graduate of UCG and was elected to the first Dail as a Sinn Fein representative for North Galway in 1918. He was a founder member of the Volunteers in Galway and was deported in May 1918, and again during the War of Independence.
George Nicholls, the Irish Republican Brotherhood centre for Galway town, was arrested during the Rebellion
Michael O’Dea (1900-1981), Clarinbridge
Larry Lardiner (1882-1936), Church Street, Athenry
Katie Armstrong, nee Glynn (1885-1977), Caherwilder, Kilcolgan
A drawing in the prison notebook of Jack Comer, a medical student at UCG, who was later imprisoned for his revolutionary activities
Maisie Shackleton and her parents were living in Moyode Castle when it was commandeered by rebels
Over 600 rebels garrisoned Moyode Castle near Athenry during Easter Week
Liam Mellows (1892-1922), was 23 years old when he led the Galway rebels in 1916

1916
Republican anti-recruitment flyer
Republican anti-recruitment flyer
Republican anti-recruitment flyer
When are the other boys coming?
Irishmen don't you hear it
Join an Irish regiment today
Soldiers paying their respects at the graves of their fallen comrades on the Western Front circa 1915

1915
Men from Galway fought in many regiments. This photo shows soldiers of the Royal Irish Regiment at the Somme in July 1916

1916-07-01
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.