Nollaig Shona | Merry Christmas

Wishing all students & staff a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

For those who have their last exams tomorrow, keep going you're nearly there...

Christmas opening hours

We're open in Galway until 21.00 this evening, Friday 16th December and from 10.00 – 13.00 tomorrow Saturday 17th December.

Our Christmas hours kick in on Monday the19th December... 

Here's the hours for the Galway campus library, please see opening hours for all campus' Christmas opening hours.

'Digging' the poem chosen for GMIT

In 2014 the Library invited students and staff to choose a poem for GMIT. The poem with the most votes and chosen as ‘the poem for GMIT’ was ‘Digging’ by Seamus Heaney. 

In this, the fiftieth anniversary of its publication, we are delighted to have a print of the poem on display in the library on the Dublin Road. 

The print was created by Lynne O’Loughlin, with an image by Deirdre O’Mahony. 

‘Digging’ appeared in Seamus Heaney’s first major collection, Death of a Naturalist, published by Faber and Faber in 1966. 

 

'Digging'

Between my finger and my thumb   

The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.

Under my window, a clean rasping sound   

When the spade sinks into gravelly ground:   

My father, digging. I look down

Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds   

Bends low, comes up twenty years away   

Stooping in rhythm through potato drills   

Where he was digging.

The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft   

Against the inside knee was levered firmly.

He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep

To scatter new potatoes that we picked,

Loving their cool hardness in our hands.

By God, the old man could handle a spade.   

Just like his old man.

My grandfather cut more turf in a day

Than any other man on Toner’s bog.

Once I carried him milk in a bottle

Corked sloppily with paper. He straightened up

To drink it, then fell to right away

Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods

Over his shoulder, going down and down

For the good turf. Digging.

The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap

Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge

Through living roots awaken in my head.

But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.

Between my finger and my thumb

The squat pen rests.

I’ll dig with it.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47555

Best of luck with your exams!

With exams starting tomorrow library staff would like to wish you the best of luck and every success!

 

Here's 7 Last-Minute Exam Tips for Students from Time - http://time.com/3847660/last-minute-exam-tips

Looking for past exam papers? see http://gmitlibrary.blogspot.ie/2016/04/looking-for-past-exam-papers.html for help.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

The CCAM library has gone all out with their creativity for the Christmas decorations this year, drop-in a take a look!

Too Noisy to Study?

Late Night Study

From the Archives 1916: Revolution and Recollection

Galway County Council Archives travelling exhibition "From the Archives, 1916: Revolution and Recollection" is currently on display in our Galway campus library.

As part of the 1916 centenary programme of events Galway County Council Archives presents a small selection of material from it holdings, which relate in some way to the events or people involved in the 1916 Easter Rising.

The items depicted in the display are just a sample of the varied and wonderful collections in the Archives.

 Click here for more information.

Season’s Greetings from Emerald

Emerald is giving free access for the whole of December to the two most downloaded articles from 2016 in each of Emerald’s subject collections.

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