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unusual facts about NUI Galway



Conor McGahon

He attended NUI Galway (then UCG) where he became Auditor of the Law Society and graduated in 1986 with a BA in Legal & Political Science and again in 1988 with an LLB.

Cromwell in Ireland

The series consultants included John Morrill, Professor of History at University of Cambridge, Jane Ohlmeyer, Professor of History and Vice Provost at Trinity College, Dublin, Pádraig Lenihan, Lecturer in History at University of Limerick, Nicholas Canny, Professor of History at NUI Galway and Ronald Hutton, Professor of History at University of Bristol.

Dieter Fensel

Subsequently he worked as an assistant professor at Amsterdam, and as a professor at NUI Galway (Ireland) (2003–2006) and at the University of Innsbruck.


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Education in the Republic of Ireland

Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge is the Irish language Department of the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway) and it has different off-campus centres throughout the Gaeltacht regions.

Free Education for Everyone

A visit by Bertie Ahern to NUI Galway on 2 February 2009 was disrupted by FEE activists, forcing the former Taoiseach to cancel a scheduled lecture on the campus.

Politicians such as the former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, and Ministers Batt O'Keeffe, Éamon Ó Cuív, Brian Lenihan and his brother Conor Lenihan have all been targeted, with NUI Galway and UCD having the most widely reported rate of activism against visiting Ministers.

National University of Ireland, Galway

Martin Sheen, Hollywood actor, who had not previously attended University, enrolled at NUI Galway in 2006 for one semester to study philosophy, English literature and oceanography.