This book tells the story of University College Galway from 1930 to 1980, through the reminiscences of dozens of people who were there. Interviews were conducted with everyone from college presidents to grounds staff, from students who began their college lives in the 1930s to the post-free-education student activists of the 1970s.

Jackie Uí Chionna teaches history at the National University of Ireland Galway. Her biography of Galway businessman and politician Martin ‘Máirtín Mór’ McDonogh, He was Galway, was published by Four Courts Press in 2016.