Editing University of Galway (section)

==In literature and other media==
University of Galway is the setting for, and is referred to in, numerous works of fiction.

[[Breandán Ó hEithir]]'s novel ''[[Lig Sinn i gCathú]]'', set in a thinly disguised Galway and telling the story of student life over four days in April 1949, has featured on the secondary school [[Leaving Certificate (Ireland)|Leaving Certificate]] syllabus.

Tom Curtin's novel ''Melting Pot: An Irish Odyssey'' tells the story of three lads from University College Galway who leave Ireland for New York in 1969.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.londubh.ie/?p=2650|title=Melting Pot: An Irish Odyssey|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171024160738/http://www.londubh.ie/?p=2650|archive-date=24 October 2017}}</ref>

The university has also faced the legal consequences of gender inequality after a number of female lecturers starting proceedings against the university as gender as a grounds of discrimination is prohibited by Irish law.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/discrimination-action-involving-female-nuig-lecturers-resolved-1.3576043|title=Discrimination action involving female NUIG lecturers resolved|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref><ref>Employment Equality Act 1998, section 6</ref>