Day #6: The National University if Ireland (Galway)
The university opened for teaching in 1849 as Queen’s College, Galway with 37 professors and 91 students. A year later it became part of the Queen’s University of Ireland. The Irish Universities Act (1908) made this college a constituent college of the new National University of Ireland, and under a new charter the name of the university changed to University College, Galway. It retained the title of University College, Galway until the Universities Act (1997) changed it to the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Located close to the city centre, it stretches along the River Corrib. The oldest part of the university, the Quadrangle building with its Aula Maxima was designed by John Benjamin Keane; it is a replica of Christ Church, one of the colleges at the University of Oxford. The stone from which it is built was supplied locally.
In my novel, Sins of the Son, the sister of my main character Robert studies nursing at NUI Galway.
Kate Kelsen 