When the ivy-covered Quadrangle opened in 1849, it was the entrance to Queen’s College. Its Tudor Gothic design by John Benjamin Keane features a central tower with a crown of pinnacles. In 1997, the school’s name was changed from University College, Galway to the National University of Ireland, Galway. Approximately 17,000 graduate and undergraduate students attend NUIG. I was one of them during the summer of 1971.