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University of Galway Student Life
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About:
This building is home to the J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics which now has over 2,800 undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The School houses four major Research Institutes, namely the Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change, Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, the Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit and the Irish Centre for Rural Transformation and Sustainability.
See room list is at the bottom of this page.
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Directions and GPS:
The Cairnes Building is located on North Campus across from the Alice Perry Engineering Building and is adjacent to St. Anthony's.
Location Coordinates:
53°28'40.5"N 9°06'56.7"W
Student Calendar:
What's Inside This Building?:
Rooms Social Catering Offices
CA-101
CA-111
CA-112
CA-113
CA-114
CA-115
CA-116A
CA-117
CA-118
CA-001
CA-002
CA-003
CA-004
J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Accountancy & Finance
Economics
Management
Marketing
Business Information Systems
Friars Restaurant
Map of the building:
Lower Ground Floor
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Ground Floor
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First Floor
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Second Floor
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Fun Facts:
This building is named after one of NUI, Galway's earliest academics, John Elliot Cairnes.
He was an Irish economist who restated the key doctrines of the English classical school in his last and largest work, Some Leading Principles of Political Economy Newly Expounded (1874).
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