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On 30 April, 1901 a wedding took place at the Roman Catholic church in Castlegar, three miles from the centre of Galway City. It would, perhaps, have been unusual for that church to see such a fashionable wedding party, accustomed as it was to the more restrained and plainer outfits of its parishioners, most from humbler or middle-class farming families. The bride on this occasion was Henrietta Kathleen Joyce, daughter of Pierce Joyce of Merview House. The eagle-eyed reader will spot that this photograph was taken in front of Merview/Mervue House, known to Galwegians in more recent times as Royal Tara China. Kathleen was marrying a “neighbour’s child”: Thomas David Wilson-Lynch, of the Lynch family of Renmore House though at the time of his marriage he indicated he was living at Kilcornan House in Clarinbridge, the family home of his mother, Frances Redington.   Though he was the son of a family who had and still held a large landed estate, it is telling that Thomas reco...

To help with Study & Research during this period of Covid-19 publishers have made freely available a number of online resources and collections. These include a variety of formats, e.g. teaching videos,   eBooks including textbooks, journal articles, theses and dissertations. Note that in some cases we are being offered an enhanced access and not full access. Listed below is a selection of these resources  available via the  Library Catalogue  (remember to login). Skills For Study helps students with core academic skills such as Critical thinking and Academic writing to broader skills like Group work and Personal development. Cite Them Right shows how to reference all types of items from eBooks to Twitter. It covers the usual formats such as books and journal articles as well as formats such as legal documents, speeches, annual reports, RSS feeds, theses, blog posts, manuscripts, parish registers, and many more. Styles covered include Harvard,...

Academic Video Online provides unlimited access to more than 69,000 videos all cross-searchable from a single platform. This database includes scholarly video material of virtually every video type:  documentaries interviews performances news programmes and newsreels field recordings commercials demonstrations original and raw footage including tens of thousands of exclusive titles Academic Video Online contains thousands of award-winning films, Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners along with the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.  *Please note some titles on Academic Video Online may not be available due to territory restrictions.* Access to Academic Video Online is available until 30 June via the  library catalogue. Please help us evaluate Academic Video Online by completing the feedback form available via the  library catalogue. ...

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A sample thesis from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global The Library now has access to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global until June 30th. This is in addition to the normal bibliographic access we have to this resource (Abstract & Index). ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world with over 5 million entries. The full text PDF of more than 2.5 million of these titles are  now available, until June 30th as a generous response to the COVID-19 situation by ProQuest. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global facilitates: post-graduates students to do carry out background research on proposed theses or dissertations  students, faculty, and other researchers to search for titles related to their scholarly interests instant access to high-quality, multidisciplinary research materials It includes works from nearly 100 countries and more than 50 languages. To ac...

Is mór ag Leabharlann OÉ Gaillimh a fhógairt go bhfuil ár gcatalóg ar fáil anois ar líne i nGaeilge. Is féidir teacht ar an gcatalóg Ghaeilge anois ar library.nuigalway.ie/anleabharlann .  Faoi láthair is é seo an t-aon chatalóg Ghaeilge ar líne atá ar fáil in institiúid tríú leibhéal ar fud an domhain. Is léiriú é an tionscadal ar thiomantas na Leabharlainne do OÉ Gaillimh mar ollscoil dhátheangach a bhfuil ról sonrach aici i neartú na Gaeilge mar chuid thábhachtach de náisiún, cultúr, agus sochaí na hÉireann. Íomhá de chatalóg Ghaeilge na Leabharlainne Is toradh é catalóg Ghaeilge Leabharlann OÉ Gaillimh ar chomhpháirtíocht idir an Leabharlann, díoltóir ár gcóras cuardaigh ExLibris , agus an tSeirbhís Aistriúcháin in OÉ Gaillimh. Cuireadh an comhéadan nua ar an gcatalóg Ghaeilge ar fáil agus forbraíodh leathanach baile Gaeilge do láithreán gréasáin na Leabharlainne chomh maith. Dá thoradh seo is féidir tabhairt faoi chuardach leabharlainne comhtháite agus iontaofa i ...

NUI Galway Library is proud to announce that our catalogue is now available online in the Irish-language. The catalogue in Irish can now be accessed via library.nuigalway.ie/anleabharlann .  This is currently the only Irish-language online catalogue available at a third-level institution in the world. The project is a demonstration of the Library's commitment to NUI Galway as a bilingual university with a special role in the strengthening of Irish as a vital component of the Irish nation, culture, and society. Screenshot of the new Iris-language Library catalogue The NUI Galway Library Irish-language catalogue is the result of a partnership between the Library, our discovery system vendor ExLibris , and an tSeirbhís Aistriúcháin at NUI Galway. Implementation of the new Irish-language catalogue interface was conducted in conjunction with the development of an Irish language homepage for the Library website. The result is an integrated and authentic library search exper...

Inter-Library Loan update due to Covid-19* Due to the Library being physically closed,  print  materials cannot currently be supplied on inter-library loan. Inter-library loans of  electronic  journal articles, or supply of book materials as an ebook, may be possible on a case-by-case basis. Requests may be placed in the usual manner via the Library website. Please note that this service is dependent on other institutions maintaining their document delivery services and as such may be withdrawn at short notice if additional restrictions are implemented. We reserve the right to enforce a cap on requests if demand makes it impossible to fulfil all requests. Unfortunately NUI Galway will not be in a position to fulfil requests to external Libraries at this time. More information on ILL available here Queries can be directed to ill@nuigalway.ie For information on additional Library services which are available during COVID19 please click here ...

Some of the excellent Galway history sources digitized by Galway County Archives have now been indexed by the family history website Find My Past , to which the Hardiman Library has a subscription. These resources include some surviving Galway Poor Law Union and Galway County burial records. While these have been available in pdf format on the County Archives website for some time they have now been indexed and transcribed by Find My Past , meaning it is easier to search for individual names of people and places within the documents. Much of the Poor Law Union records are the minutes of Board of Guardians meetings  These provide an insight into how public health was managed as well as the provision of relief to the poor in 19 th century County Galway.   Geographical areas covered in the Poor Law Union or Workhouse area records include Clifden, Glenamaddy, Gort, Mountbellew, Portumna and Tuam.  Find My Past can be accessed by signing in to the library catalo...