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Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Markus Casey - A Life of (Re)Discovery

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Markus Casey posing in front of a float plane in Lough Erne, August 2002. (P164/4/12) Perhaps no one made an impact on the field of aerial a...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

'Athair na Tuaithe' - The John Canon Hayes Archive

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The archives of the University of Galway Library are home to the archives of Muintir na Tíre (‘People of the Country’). Founded as a rural r...
Monday, July 17, 2023

The Galway International Arts Festival Archive - Out of the Western World

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The Festival Big Top. The last two weeks of July means that the Galway International Arts Festival is once again spilling through the street...
Friday, July 14, 2023

The First Galway Film Fleadh

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Summer in Galway is never complete without a series of cultural festivals. From theatre to visual arts, music and more, streets and venues a...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

JFK in Galway 1963 - Looking West from Galway to Boston

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On the 19th June, 1963, the streets of Galway were filled with young and old making their way to Eyre Square. The occasion was a special one...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

W.B Yeats, Mary O'Malley, and the Lyric Theatre - "Look Up in the Sun's Eye"

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'Yeats Day' on the 13 June annually has become a day of celebration of the works and life of Ireland's Nobel-Prize winning poe...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Presidents Robinson, Biden and the Ballina connection

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The visit of President Joe Biden to Ireland has understandably brought great excitement, nowhere more so than Ballina, County Mayo, his ance...