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Daylight murder in Dublin
FROM THE TIMES DECEMBER 8, 1922
Turloughmore celebrates its sole senator
Seanad Eireann is celebrating its 100th anniversary and in that hundred years some of the greatest and most noted people took their place in the Higher House of the Irish Parliament.
Galway event marks 200th anniversary of world’s first animal welfare law
A special ceremony took place outside Tigh Neachtain last Friday, July 22, to mark the 200th anniversary of the world’s first piece of legislation concerning animal welfare.
Galway’s secret ministry during Penal Times
The Treaty of Limerick, October 3 1691, which was mainly a military success for the Irish/Jacobite army, was indecisive on its civil articles; and those which were agreed were soon ignored by a vengeful Protestant parliament.
Christabel Pankhurst in Galway
Our image this week is of a newspaper advertisement for an extraordinary meeting that took place in the Town Hall 100 years ago today.
Christobel Pankhurst tells Galway audience: ‘Now is the time’
At a time of feverish debate about Home Rule, and noisy Sinn Féin meetings, the fact that Christabel Pankhurst addressed a well attended meeting in Galway’s Town Hall on October 21 1911 was an important event in the political history of the town.
