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Holidaying in Connemara just after the Millennium, I read one of those small grey boxes in the Rough Guide they use to give additional information about a specific location; in my case Ballynahinch Castle where I was having lunch. The description of a previous owner – Richard ‘Humanity Dick’ Martin - was intriguing.

FOR 18 months the arts were in lockdown, but the autumn saw them return, and this weekend there will be events all over the city and county with Culture Night 2021, under the theme of ‘Come Together Again’.

CATHERINE CORLESS, the historian whose work brought to light the deaths and burials of hundreds of children at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, and which led to the establishment of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, will launch a memoir this month.

‘The bus comes at last with a great blaze of headlights, and figures emerge from the darkness and climb aboard….’

“THE COOKS, the cleaners, the porters: unsung heroes on the frontline” was one of the most memorable headlines to appear in an Irish newspaper this year - and perhaps the most pointedly accurate.

Kenny's Bookshop, Liosbán Retail Park, re-opens to the public from today, Monday June 8. Access will be for a set number of customers at the same time. Strict social distancing and hygiene standards in-store will be observed.

Chris Okeke is one of Galway’s leading Nigerian expats; in his many years here he has been a noted community development advocate who has contributed to many projects in the city.

Leisureland is delighted to present Old Salthill, a photographic exhibition by guest curator Tom Kenny of Kenny’s Bookshop and Gallery, who is well-known for his long-running and popular local-history column, Old Galway, in the Galway Advertiser.

Kennys Bookshop are delighted to give away this hamper of Summer Reads to one lucky winner! The hamper includes a mixture of new and second-hand books that are perfect for reading this Summer – whether on the beach, while travelling or simply for a nice read over the holiday season!

AHEAD OF Bloomsday, County Galway publishing house Doire Press will hold the launch of a new poetry collection, Furey, by James Joyce. The Joyce in question is not the author of Ulysses but Galway’s own James Martyn Joyce, and the collection revolves around the vivid, memorable, persona of Furey.