James Hardiman

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An expensive feasibility study in 2014 produced a detailed plan for transforming the library building. It estimated the transformation would cost NUI Galway €25 million.
‘Cramped, inflexible and uncomfortable… our students deserve better’

Students at NUI Galway have called for improved facilties at the university’s James Hardiman Library. While some improvements have been made recently(...)

Brendan Behan letter: the writer sent a note to Conradh na Gaeilge from what is now Theatre Royal Stratford East, the producer Joan Littlewood’s London theatre
Brendan Behan letter among treasures in donated archive

A letter from Brendan Behan, a ballot paper with Michael Collins among the candidates, and correspondence relating to Douglas Hyde, Patrick Pearse and(...)

Brendan Duddy (right) at the unveiling at NUI Galway of documents highlighting the secrecy involved in communications between the British government and IRA during the Troubles. File photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy
Former IRA-British government ‘go-between’ Brendan Duddy dies

Brendan Duddy, the Derry businessman who was the secret back-channel between the IRA and the British government during the Troubles, has died. Mr Du(...)

Niamh Lunny, Abbey Theatre head of costume, preparing a costume worn by Bob Acres played by Tom Vaughan Lawlor in The Rivals by Sheridan. It forms part of the Performance Ireland 1904-2014 exhibition at NUI Galway. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy.
Digitised Abbey Theatre archive exhibition due to open at NUI Galway

Scrapbooks kept by Lady Gregory, hundreds of set and costume designs, and an original prompt script for Sean O’Casey’s The Plough And The Stars are am(...)