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Monday, July 27, 2020

Riders Upon Galloping Horses - The Galway Races from the Archive

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Cover of programme, Galway Races, 1969 An evening at the Galway races over a century ago inspired the poet W.B. Yeats to write a poem ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

CFP New Journal Issue: 'Performing in Digital' - Archives and Education

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Druid’s production of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, in a version by Tom Murphy, directed by Garry Hynes. 2020. Call for Pap...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

The Galway International Arts Festival - An Archive of Stories and Spectacle

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Mid-summer in Galway has become synonymous with one thing. For forty years the Galway International Arts Festival has grown to become not...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

A (Staycation) Travel Miscellany - Sources for History of Travel in Ireland

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As we are allowed to expand our horizons to travel anywhere in Ireland from 29 June, it is worth looking back at some of the touris...
Monday, July 13, 2020

Remembering 'Big Jack'

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The recent passing of the former Irish football team manager, Jack Charlton, has prompted an outpouring of memories and tributes from many ...
Monday, June 8, 2020

Public Health in Galway 150 years ago - new online source

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Some of the excellent Galway history sources digitized by Galway County Archives have now been indexed by the family history website '...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Podcast - John McGahern: The Writer and the Archive

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John McGahern John McGahern said of the world of the writer and of the reader "I think each of us inhabit a private world that othe...