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Remembering Padraic Ganly — an evening of music and film in Moate

Patrick Ganly was born in the parish of Kilcleagh near Moate in 1857. At just 18 years of age, like thousands of others from Westmeath and Longford, he left for Argentina. In 1899 Patrick Ganly and his wife Mary (nee McGeoy) returned to Ireland and took up residence at Aghanagrit near Moate. During this time their daughter Ellen was born. In 1901 the family returned to Argentina, where they remained.

225th Anniversary of the Races of Castlebar

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On the road between Castlebar and Belcarra, near the village of Tully, a small stone bridge fords a slow-moving river. The river runs through low boglands in the townland of Logaphuill parallel to the Cottage Road and east of French Hill.

Clutching a candle, Tom Casey withdraws his evidence

The horrific Maamtrasna murders, the arrest of 10 men, the rush to ‘justice’, the evidence of the Cappanacrehas (known to be bitter enemies of the murdered Joyces), the two informers Anthony Philbin and Thomas Casey (whose false evidence led to penal servitude for life for five innocent men, and the execution of one innocent man), was followed in minute detail not only throughout Ireland, but in Britain and among the Irish communities in America. Yet nowhere did it impact more than on the mountainside community of Maamtrasna .

An outburst of unredeemed and inexplicable savagery

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In early October 1884 a journalist from The New York Times, whom we only know by his initials HF, left Galway for Cong by steamer, in the company of Mr TP O'Connor, MP for Galway, and Mr Healy, MP for Monaghan.

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt in Galway Gaol

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Blunt was an aristocratic English writer, a person of remarkable ability who, as “the best looking man in England was credited with having refreshed the blood of several ancient families”. He was always against colonialism and sympathetic to small nations, so it was no surprise that he became an ardent supporter of Home Rule for Ireland. In 1887, he was in Ireland to study the grievances of the people when he heard that evictions had recommenced on the 56,000-acre estate of Lord Clanricarde in Woodford.

War of Friends, Liam Mellows and Pádraic Ó Máille

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Today we are highlighting the careers of two men, both of whom were elected as TDs for Galway in 1918, both of whom fought on the same side in the Rising and the War of Independence and then, sadly, took different sides after the Treaty.

The only show in town was Charles Stewart Parnell

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Week IV

Pub Post idea gets stamp of approval at city launch

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Mike Fitzpatrick of Bullet Design is a constant innovator who has come up with a whole plethora of ideas, applications and designs over the decades. So in a sense, it was entirely appropriate that his latest one came up while he was enjoying a few leisurely pints in one of the city’s fine hostelries.

From Barna to Westminster

‘Definitely, I am a Galway girl, very much so, I’m from Barna’, Claire Hanna MP replies when asked where exactly she is from. Claire was on one of her regular visits from her home in Belfast to her birthplace in Barna, Co. Galway, when we sat down last week to discuss her journey from rural county Galway to the House of Commons in Westminster.

How Sir William’s ‘moral chloroform’ seduced a young woman

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‘ The case is exciting intense interest, and already the sheriff is over-powered with applications for admission to the court, but the police have taken precautions to prevent any undue overcrowding’.

 

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