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Galway company Aria Stained Glass has received the coveted Royal Institutes of the Architects of Ireland’s award in the Adaptation and Re-use category, for it part in the conservation of the Honan Chapel.

A priest is appealing to mindless vandals, who are continuously breaking a valuable window at a city centre church, to consider the impact of their actions. There has been 20 separate incidents recorded at the Augustinian Church over the past 18 months.

A stained glass course will take place on November 16, 17, and 18 in The Glasshouse Westport. This course covers the two basic methods of putting glass together to make stained glass panels. No experience or artistic ability is expected. Most participants will be beginners. The price of €280 includes all glass and materials and endless cups of coffee. www.blueglasshouse.com.

Join other beginners at a three-day stained glass course on July 13 to 15 at The Glasshouse, Westport.

The Painter’s Palette Gallery and Studio in Moycullen will host a one-day stained glass course with stained glass artist Deirdre Cairns.

The busy city of Harbin is the 10th largest city in China, and regularly features on our TV screens for its famous winter ice sculptures. In the 1920s, Harbin, practically on the borders of Russia, was a refuge for thousands of émigrés, fleeing the Bolshevik revolution and the blood bath that followed. The Russians, many of them wealthy, brought style and glamour to this once far flung post on the Trans-Siberian railway. Among those seeking refuge was a 74-years- old Galway/Russian woman Kathleen ffrench, who was not only the chatelaine of Monivea Castle and its 10,000 acre estate in Co Galway, but who also had inherited vast estates on the Volga from her Russian grandparents.

This property is in a very attractive and convenient location just two miles from Athenry on the main Athenry/Monivea road and within easy commuting distance of Galway city, which is approximately 15 miles away.