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Museum staff, volunteers and others share stories and insights that explore Galway City Museum’s collection and exhibition themes, along with all the latest museum news.
Collections Spotlight – A 1964 GAA Ticket for the Hogan Stand
July 21, 2022
This week’s Collections Spotlight, for the week that’s in it, is a ticket for admittance to the Hogan Stand, Cro...
The Children of Carrowbrowne – A Tamara Eckhardt Exhibition
July 11, 2022
The Children of Carrowbrowne exhibition is a set of portraits by award-winning documentary photographer, Tamara Eckhardt...
Richard Joyce’s Claddagh Ring
July 4, 2022
This Claddagh ring is thought to be the oldest in existence. It dates from c. 1700 and was made by renowned Galway golds...
Day 3 of the Civil War – the fall of the Four Courts
June 30, 2022
On 30 June 1922, after 60 hours of shelling by the Free State Army, the Republican garrison in the Four Courts surrender...
Day 2 of the Civil War, 29 June 1922
June 29, 2022
The republican daily, Poblacht na h-Eireann (sic) was first published on 28 June, the ‘Seventh Year of the Republic’...
The Civil War, 28 June 1922
June 28, 2022
The Irish Civil War began 100 years ago today. On 28 June 1922, after several months of uneasy tension between Free Stat...
Oration by Liam Mellows on the eve of the Civil War
June 22, 2022
On 20 June 1922, Liam Mellows – who had just lost his Galway seat in the recent general election – delivered an orat...
The Civic Guard by Commissioner Eoin O’Duffy
June 18, 2022
This week, in conjunction with Galway County Council and An Garda Síochána, the Museum launched its new temporary exhi...
TREATY / CONRADH 100, now open!
June 15, 2022
One hundred years since the public vote on the Anglo-Irish Treaty The 16 June marks the centenary anniversary of the gen...
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