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unusual facts about University College Galway



Billy Timmins

He was educated at Patrician College, Ballyfin, County Laois; and University College Galway where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Legal Science, and at the Military College, Curragh.

Maureen O'Carroll

A school teacher and mother of eleven children (including Brendan O'Carroll), O'Carroll was educated at University College Galway and entered politics as a founder of the Lower Prices Council, which campaigned against high prices, scarcity and black marketeering in the aftermath of World War II.

Panu Petteri Höglund

He studied at the National University of Ireland in University College Galway in the period 1998-1999, and became an activist on behalf of the Irish language.


see also

James Friedman

Friedman, a graduate of Brown University and The University of Chicago School of Law, has served as a visiting Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point; and the Faculty of Law, University College, Galway Ireland.

Martin Newell

Martin J. Newell (1910–1985), Irish mathematician and educationalist, who served as President of University College Galway from 1960 to 1975