Queen’s Collage Galway was founded in 1845. In its opening year in 1849 it welcomed just 68 students as compared with more than 18000 that study there today.

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It’s located in the heart of beautiful Galway city and along one of the city’s picturesque waterways. The university sits on 105 hectares of land and has over 90 buildings and even encompasses part of Galway's river Corrib into the campus.

The university changed its name from Queen’s collage Galway to UCG (University of Galway) after the Irish universities act in 1908. Since 1997 is has been called the NUI Galway – one of the National Universities of Ireland. The university was visited in 2015 by Prince Charles, whose great great great grandmother had issued the royal charter for the original college here.

In 2016 the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, theatre and performance on the university's campus was named Ireland’s favourite building.

The university had a reputation early on of making appointments to female lecturers and in 1920 female students outnumbered male students for the first time in any Irish University.

The current president of Ireland, Michael D Higgens, studied and lectured here until he entered politics in 1977.

Among notable persons receiving an honoury degree from the university is US President Ronald Reagan and his visit here on that occasion gave rise to a protest by staff and students. Nelson Mandella received an honourary degree in person 2003

The quadrangle, the earliest part of the university to be constructed, is the most beautiful and well worth a visit. The construction of this beautiful quadrangle building in 1846 was devised as a famine relief project. This building contains the Aula Maxima which was damaged by fire in 1988, destroying the grand piano.

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