Medical student, Brian Cusack, was a founding member of the Volunteers in the College but was on holiday when the Rebellion erupted

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Part of Brian Cusack was a medical graduate of UCG and was elected to the first Dail as a Sinn Fein representative for North Galway in 1918. He was a founder member of the Volunteers in Galway and was deported in May 1918, and again during the War of Independence.