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Buccaneers Seconds suffer Connacht Junior Cup final woe in close showpiece encounter
BUCCANEERS SECONDS 24 CONNEMARA 34
Galway Film centre rebranded as Ardán, with a vision for growth
Galway Film Centre takes to the Ardán (gaeilge for stage) with a new vision to grow the film, TV, games and animation industry in the west of Ireland.
FORUM Connemara welcomes MEP Chris McManus to Letterfrack
Farming issues in Connemara was the focus of a visit from Sinn Féin MEP for the Midlands and Northwest, Chris MacManus, to FORUM Connemara this week.
Historic year for O’Donnellan and Joyce auction department
The year 2021 started with offices closed and Ireland in lockdown. O’Donnellan & Joyce continued to stream its auctions live online by David Brandt Studios and used video tours of all its auction properties which enabled people to purchase homes without physically viewing them. Despite bidders not being able to attend auctions in person, this did not dampen their enthusiasm to buy and they continued to bid online and by phone to secure the property of their dreams.
‘Can any romance equal the romance of real life?’
After her Connemara tour Maria Edgeworth kept up a correspondence with the Martins. She followed their fortunes and misfortunes with all the attention of an enthralled novel-reader. There was plenty to hold her attention. In the spring of 1835 the Martins travelled to London where Mary was presented at court and moved in fashionable society, attending dinner parties and charity events, of which a cynical Lord Byron remarked that these galas were nothing less than a marriage market.
‘One of the most extraordinary persons’ Maria Edgeworth ever met
As the legendary Colonel Richard Martin neared the end of his life in Boulogne, where he had fled to escape his numerous creditors, a large four-horse carriage, on which two postilions, in jackets of dark-blue frieze, guided the coach on horse-back, arrived at the front door of Ballynahinch. It was dark, and its occupants were in a state of near exhaustion.
New anthology of children’s stories by working class writers
LAND OF The Ever Young is a new anthology of writing for children by working class authors - the final volume in a trilogy of working people’s writing from contemporary Ireland.
Annual artworks auction for Madra goes online
Art works by some of Ireland’s top artists including Padraig McCaul, Connacht Rugby coach Jimmy Duffy, renowned RHA Connemara artist Dorothy Cross and Galway artist Grace Cunningham will go under the hammer at the annual MADRA Dog Rescue Charity Art Auction.
No shortage of drama as Naomh Anna Leitir Móir promoted
Naomh Anna Leitir Móir have been crowned the Galway intermediate football champions for 2021 after a last-gasp victory over Dunmore MacHales on Saturday afternoon in a rain swept Pearse Stadium.
‘Dublin can be heaven’, when you stay at Brooks Hotel
I have to confess my expectations were high. A few months ago, my wife and daughter had stayed in Brooks Hotel, and returned to Galway wondering why anyone visiting Dublin would stay anywhere else.