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‘If you want an anti-toxin for humbug, you will get it from the artist’

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In 1968 Des Kenny, a Galway bookseller, was preparing to open a commercial art gallery in Salthill, the first of its kind outside Dublin. He needed a star artist for its opening night. He made an unusual choice, and invited Seán Keating. Had he invited Keating 30 or 40 years previously he would have invited a giant of his trade. Then Keating was regarded as one of Ireland’s greatest painters who had, in large canvases, mythologised the fighting men of the War of Independence, and the builders and engineers of the great Ardnacrusha project; the harnessing of the Shannon’s energy to power the fledging Irish Free State. In 1968, however, he admitted to Kenny ‘ I am dead as far as the art world is concerned’.

He’s a Fianna Fáiler - get him out of here

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What kind of reception awaits Fianna Fáil on the doorsteps of Galway city and county once canvassing for June’s Local Elections really takes off?

Galway to suffer more than most from An Bord Snip cuts

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An Bord Snip Nua is where it’s at for the news media right now and the ‘big ticket items’ - public sector job cuts and social welfare cuts - that have got the attention to date. However the really interesting detail may be contained in the minutiae of the report - and there’s plenty there to excite people in Galway!

 

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