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O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers' next auction is taking place tomorrow, Friday November 4, at 12 noon in the Harbour Hotel, New Dock Road, Galway, and will see an incredible selection of properties going under the auction hammer.

O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers has just launched its November auction which is taking place on Friday November 4 at 12 noon in the Harbour Hotel, New Dock Road, Galway. Buyers will be out in force to view the incredible selection of properties which are being put under the auction hammer including family homes and investment opportunities.

The 38th annual Conamara Sea Week takes place in Letterfrack from October 22 to 31. This annual celebration of the wonderful marine and cultural heritage of Connemara has something for everyone with workshops, art, music, talks, walks, and more. This year’s festival will also focus on climate action and aims to engage and empower young people to become agents of positive change.

The Connemara-based winner of the €1,005,000 draw plans to use prize money to visit Graceland, the Memphis home of Elvis Presley.

O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers' next auction is taking place tomorrow, Friday September 16, at 12 noon in the Harbour Hotel, New Dock Road, Galway, and will see an incredible selection of properties going under the auction hammer.

When Mitchell Henry entered Westminster parliament in 1871 he went with hope in his heart and a mission to tell the British people the precarious circumstances of the Irish tenant farmer. In many ways he resembled Jefferson Smith in the Frank Cappa film ‘Mr Smith Goes to Washington’ where a naive, idealistic young man has plans to change America.* Mitchell Henry, a liberal, kindly man, had plans to be a voice for the Irish tenant farmer within, what he believed, was a paternalistic landlord system, but he walked into a political cauldron, waiting to explode.

It must have been an extraordinary sight in the 1860s to see Kylemore castle rise from a bog in the heart of Connemara’s Twelve Pins, barely a decade following the devastation of the Great Famine. More than 100 men were employed, some coming from as far away as Renvyle and further, at a handsome wage of seven to 10 shillings a week, turning rough, soggy land, only good for shooting wild fowl and for fishing in its nearby lakes, into a magnificent building. Today it stands more like a palace than a castle, and is still a show-stopper on the Letterfrack road.

O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers has just launched its September auction which is taking place on Friday September 16 at 12 noon in the Harbour Hotel, New Dock Road, Galway. Buyers will be out in force to view the great selection of properties which are going under the auction hammer including family homes, a licensed premises, and investment opportunities.

Six artists will create and perform works related to the theme of Performance Ecologies during a two day event in the Inagh Valley.

Connemara National Park will host regular information sessions on the Connemara pony this month, with sessions taking place at the park every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.