Episode 50 - Eyre Square Cattle Fair & Smallpox Riots in East Galway.

In this episode, Tom is still looking at a photo of a farmer at Eyre Square cattle Fair in 1885. Ronnie is looking at a riot that took place during the a smallpox outbreak in East Galway.

You can find the articles referenced in this podcast on www.advertiser.ie/galway:

A fair day in Eyre Square, c1885

Smallpox patient sparks riot in Loughrea

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Ronnie O'Gorman

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Tom Kenny

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The Old Galway Diary podcast is available on the Advertiser Podcasts and most recently on the Galway City Museum website on a weekly basis.

It is brought to you by two of Galway’s finest writers and storytellers, Ronnie O’Gorman and Tom Kenny. Elaborating on topics they have covered in the paper in the Galway Diary and Old Galway section, and many other aspects of Galway life and history, they bring their inimitable style to allow you relax, listen and enjoy.

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