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The Ballybane Community Hub will host an information evening on life in the Defence Forces on Thursday April 24 at 6.30pm.

A solution to the controversial closure of a pathway near Renmore Barracks could be in sight with the Defence Forces and Galway City Council expected to meet on the issue.

Éamon Ó Cuív lives up the Seanbhóthar behind Corr na Móna, in a small, well-sited bungalow himself and his wife, Áine, built in 1980, six years after moving to Joyce Country, where Éamon landed a job establishing an ill-fated lamb fattening station which later became a successful sawmill.

The last months of 1920, were the most vicious and bloody in the War of Independence in Galway. There were a lot of killings, burnings, shootings and beatings.

On this day, October 10, 1937, Coláiste Éinde opened on Threadneedle Road for the first time. The school had been founded by the State in 1928 shortly after the State itself was founded. The aim was to teach boys through the medium of Irish so that they would go on to St Patrick’s Teacher Training College, get secure employment for life and, in turn, educate a new generation of boys through Irish.

English indie rockers The Bluetones will play the Róisín Dubh next Saturday, October 12, at 8.30pm.

This Church of Ireland school is situated in Waterside beside the courthouse and the Town Hall, The earliest existing school records date back to 1901 to the Model School which was situated on Upper Newcastle Road. It had opened in 1852 with 400 pupils, many of whom were Catholics. This proved too much for the then Catholic bishop who set out to make way for explicitly Catholic education in Galway. He invited the Mercy Sisters and the Patrician Brothers to set up schools here and made it a ‘reserved sin’ for Catholic parents to send their children to the Model School. This resulted in 199 pupls withdrawing and meant the end of multi-denominational education in the city.

We know from the Corporation record books that theatrical performances were given in the Tholsel, the Town Hall of the day, as far back as 1619-20. These groups of ‘strolling players' were usually sponsored by local gentry and were regarded as an important feature of festive gatherings.

BY JAMIE CONLON