One of the finest places to learn & drink

This is the beautiful main building of Galway University. It was built using the local limestone and is a replica of Christ Church College in Oxford. It opened its doors in 1849 to 63 students and was then known as Queen’s College. This was one of the three ‘Queen’s Colleges in Ireland, the other two are Cork University and Queens in Belfast. The oldest part of the university is known as ‘The Quad’ and was designed by John Benjamin Keane in a Gothic Tudor style. In 1906, Alice Perry graduated from here and is believed to be the first female in the world to receive a first-class honors degree in civil engineering.