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Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, t he  visit of the  Gale Primary Sources/Dissertation Roadshow scheduled for Tues 18th November has been cancelled.  The event will be rescheduled for semester II. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Collection Development ___________________________________________________________________________   The   Gale Primary Sources/Dissertation Roadshow   will be visiting on   Tuesday 18th November from 09:30 - 13:00   in  the  Hardiman Research Building Foyer  (Library entrance).   Experts from Gale publishing will provide one-to-one content advice and assistance for any of Gale's primary source collections that the Library subscribes to.  Students, researchers and academic staff are welcome to drop by anytime. The roadshow is a fantastic opportunity to have an informal chat with product experts who will explain the breadth of primary source content available for your ...

The Library has acquired perpetual access to Women's Studies Archive: Issues and Identities. This collection traces the path of women's issues from past to present—pulling primary sources from manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals, and more. It captures the foundation of women's movements, struggles, and triumphs, providing researchers with valuable insights, focusing on the social, political, and professional achievements of women throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century.  Women's Studies Archive: Issues and Identities covers a variety of topics   including: the history of feminist theory and activism domestic culture lay and ordained church women women in industry women’s sexuality and gender expression women’s education women’s movements women’s health and mental health women and law women and the control of their bodies women’s roles and interactions within society This collection contains content from sources like The New York Public Library, The National Wo...

The Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of the two-part ' Refugees, Relief and Resettlement ' primary sources collection from Gale.  It brings together 900,000 digitised pages that recount the causes, effects and responses to refugee crises before, during and shortly after World War II. It uses a range of sources including legal briefs, refugee reports, pamphlets and letters.  Refugees, Relief and Resettlement ' comprises of two collections addressing the refugee crises across different periods. 1.  Forced Migration and World War II  The archive contains 590,000-plus pages of pamphlets, ephemera, government documents, relief organization publications, and refugee reports spanning 1935 to 1950.   The database draws on six major collections from the UK National Archives, the British Library, the U.S. National Archives, and the World Jewish Relief.  It details  the refugee experience from within Europe, also including Burma, the Middl...

  Exhibition - Máirtín Ó Cadhain: Life and Work Dr. Chris McCann The 3rd of October 2025 saw the launch of a new bilingual exhibition, Máirtín Ó Cadhain: Life and Work, in the Hardiman Research Building exhibition space. Máirtí Ó Cadhain (1906-1970) was a giant of Irish-language culture, and the exhibition tells his story by weaving together the many strands of his highly accomplished life. Dr. Chris McCann of Roinn na Gaeilge curated the exhibition with the support of Research Ireland, Iontaobhas Uí Chadhain, and members of the Special Collections team. Amongst other artefacts, it includes Ó Cadhain’s personal possessions and material from the University of Galway archives. Artworks made specially by the artist and poet Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha enhance the exhibition’s storytelling aspect. Here is a selection of the most noteworthy items on display: Portrait The exhibition begins in An Cnocán Glas, Ó Cadhain’s birthplace, with a powerful new portrait by the artist Seán Ó Flaith...

  Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Taispeántas - Máirtín Ó Cadhain: Saol agus Saothar Dr. Chris McCann Ar an 3 Deireadh Fómhair 2025, seoladh taispeántas dátheangach nua, Máirtín Ó Cadhain: Saol agus Saothar, sa spás taispeántais i bhforhalla Fhoirgneamh Uí Argadáin, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe. Fathach de chuid chultúr na Gaeilge a bhí sa gCadhnach (1906-1970), agus déanann an taispeántas a scéal a insint tríd na snáitheanna a bhaineann le gnéithe éagsúla dá shaol ildánach a fhí le chéile. Is é an Dr. Chris McCann, Roinn na Gaeilge, a choimeád an taispeántas le tacaíocht ó Thaighde Éireann, Iontaobhas Uí Chadhain, agus bhaill foirne sna Bailiúcháin Speisialta. I measc neart ábhar eile, cuimsíonn sé sealúchais de chuid an Chadhnaigh agus earraí ó Chartlanna Ollscoil na Gaillimhe. Cuireann saothair ealaíne a rinne an t-ealaíontóir agus an file Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha go speisialta go mór le modh scéalaíochta an taispeántais. Seo rogha de na taispeántáin is suntasaí atá le fáil ann: An phortr...

  Access to British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800-1900, Part III: 1741-1950 and Part V: 1746-1950 is now available until September 2027 . British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900 and Part VI: Ireland, 1783-1950 were purchased outright a few years ago so permanent access to both these collections is available. Access to all the above British Library Newspapers collections is available via the library catalogue.   Collection Development / Forbairt Bailiúchán

The Library has added another significant primary source collection to to the State Papers Online series,  The Stuart and Cumberland Papers  from Gale Publishing. The Stuart and the Cumberland papers cover the 17th and 18th century Jacobite struggle for the throne and the efforts to suppress it. The resource  contains two remarkable collections,   The Stuart Papers The Cumberland Papers ,  The Stuart Papers c overs the history of the Jacobite movement from James's II's exile in 1688 to the death of the last Stuart heir, in 1807. The papers cover the 'Glorious Revolution', the Williamite war in Ireland and include the private and diplomatic correspondence of James II alongside that of his son, James Francis Edward Stuart and grandsons Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) and Henry Benedict Stuart.  Examples of the content and range of the historical documents: James II and VII and Mary of Modena’s letter books from 1688 Plans and correspondence surr...

The   Gale Primary Sources Roadshow   will be visiting on   Tuesday 18th November from 09:30 - 13:00   in  the  Hardiman Research Building Foyer (Library entrance).   Experts from Gale publishing will provide one-to-one content advice and assistance for any of Gale's primary source collections that the Library subscribes to.  Students, researchers and academic staff are welcome to drop by anytime. The roadshow is a fantastic opportunity to have an informal chat with product experts who will explain the breadth of primary source content available for your essays, projects and dissertations as well as demonstrating how to use the powerful Gale search tools to get the best results.  Browse the  full listing  of all our available  Gale primary source collections . This visit is particularly timely since we have recently added a number of new exciting primary resource collections from Gale and updated a number of others: ...

  Behind the Scenes: The E-Resources Predatory Journals Project - If you’ve ever searched for journal articles online, you’ve probably come across terms like  open access  or  peer reviewed . But there’s another term worth knowing —  predatory journals . These are the questionable ones that charge hefty author fees but also skip proper peer review. The y  look professional, but underneath, they’re more about profit than genuine scholarship. For students and researchers, that’s a major concern — because poor-quality or misleading research can slip through their pages and end up being cited as fact. Over the last year, our E-Resources team has been working on a project to identify and flag potentially predatory journals appearing in our library systems. It’s a bit like academic detective work. We’ve been pulling information from sources like Beall’s List and PredatoryJournals.org, reviewing titles one by one, and removing the more obvious offenders from our d...

The Library has recently acquired electronic access to the most recent edition of the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography ., published by Elsevier. The second edition of this encyclopedia (14 volumes in print), contains approximately 800 articles covering a range of related themes and topics.  Examples include: cultural geography postcolonial geographies economic inequalities Historical geographies of political/conflict/border-making events critical disability studies Cartography digital technologies  human/society and nature relations  climate change; natural disasters electoral geographies population growth and distribution  social theories urban social geography The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography is available via the Library Catalogue. Collection Development / Forbairt Bailiúchán

Treasures of the O’Gorman Special Collection Blog Series – Volume 4 Seamus Heaney A literary collection owned by the late entrepreneur, local historian and supporter of the arts, Ronnie O’Gorman, was recently donated to the University of Galway. This collection, spanning three generations of the O’Gorman family, includes countless items of literary and historic value. To read more about this donation, please see: O’GormanCollection donated to the University of Galway . Within the collection is an excellent selection of works and poetry volumes by the acclaimed poet Seamus Heaney. This blog post will highlight some of these volumes.   Previous editions of the Treasures of the O’Gorman Special Collection William Butler Yeats James Joyce A Selection of Literature   Poetry Death of a Naturalist Heaney’s first poetry collection The Death of a Naturalist was Seamus Heaney’s first published collection of poetry. Published by Faber & Faber. Hardback a...