The Old Galway Diary – Episode 96
In this week’s episode of the Old Galway Diary Tom Kenny is looking at Joe Young’s Mineral Water Company, an old Galway business and Ronnie O’Gorman is taking a further …
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Herstory’s Light Show for Brigid
Herstory have created a spectacular Light Show in honour of Brigid, the matron saint of Ireland, and Galway women. It is happening in Galway city on Friday 27th January from …
Execution of four Galway men at Custume Barracks, Athlone, 20 January 1923
The Irish Free State executed thirty-four anti-treaty republican prisoners in January 1923; to put this figure into context, the British authorities executed twenty-four Irish republican prisoners between November 1920 and …
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The Old Galway Diary – Episode 95
In this episode of the Old Galway Diary, Tom Kenny takes a look at the Corrib Rowing and Yachting Club founded in 1864 and Ronnie O’Gorman explores the civil war …
The Old Galway Diary – Episode 94
In this week’s episode of the Old Galway Diary Tom Kenny takes a bird’s eye view of Salthill c.1945 and Ronnie O’Gorman delves into some Galway country lore. Advertiser.ie …
The Burning of Castlehackett House, 4 January 1923
One hundred years ago tonight, Castlehackett House, near Tuam, was burned by the anti-treaty IRA. Historian Terence Dooley has noted that there was a dramatic increase in the numbers of …
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Talks on Civil War in Galway and the Executions
Cormac Ó Comhraí, historian and author of Sa Bhearna Bhaoil: Gaillimh 1913-1923, will give two talks on the civil war in Galway as part of Galway City Museum’s programme of …
War of Friends – The Film
On Saturday 3 December 2022, Galway City Museum ran a short talk series on the subject of the new exhibition, ‘War of Friends, 1922–23: the civil war story of Pádraic …
Commemorative poetry created at Galway City Museum
In November 2022, Galway City Museum took part in an all-island project, ‘Poetry as Commemoration’, in which participants, under the expert guidance of poet Gerry Hanberry, responded creatively to local …
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