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Thursday, May 19, 2022

Patricia Burke Brogan - An Archive of a "Renaissance Woman".

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Patricia Burke Brogan (c) Joe Shaughnessy T he playwright, poet, and artist, Patricia Burke Brogan is to receive the Freedom of Galway City ...
Monday, April 25, 2022

Eoghan Ó’Tuairisc - The Archive of a Bilingual Writer

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  Born in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway in April 1919, Eoghan Ó’Tuairisc (Eugene Watters) was a bilingual writer, with a prolific output through b...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Joyce's Masterpiece in Print - Ulysses: A Century Later

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  James Joyce's Ulysses Shakespeare and Co., Paris. Special Collections, University of Galway Library As Leopold Bloom began his odyssey...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Strand House and The Treaty - Story of a Photograph

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Back Row L to R: Mary Rynne, Michael Rynne, Eamon De Valera, Richard Mulcahy Front Row L to R: Stephen O'Meara, Cathal Brugha. Rynne Fam...
Thursday, December 9, 2021

Mary Robinson Archive: Phase 1

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In January 2020 the task of processing the Mary Robinson archive in NUI Galway began. As project archivist, I am privileged to have this hon...
Thursday, May 6, 2021

Remembering Tom Hickey - From the Archives

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  Defender of the Faith by Stuart Carolan, Abbey Theatre Archive,  2004.  The passing of actor Tom Hickey has been met by an outpouring of t...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Victorian Britain and Ireland - Sources from Special Collections

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  22 January 2021 marked the 120 th anniversary of the death of Queen Victoria. The Library has many resources which our readers can use to...