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Lecture on the university and the Great War
The experience of Galway university students and graduates in the First World War (1914-18) is the subject of the inaugural lecture in the winter series hosted by the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society. The speaker is Ronan McGreevy, and the lecture will be held in the Harbour Hotel at 8pm on Monday, September 8.
The ‘New’ Cemetery
In the second half of the 19th century, the overcrowded condition of the graveyards of Galway was an issue which faced the Town Commissioners. At a meeting in mid-April 1873, one person mentioned that in the previous 30 years, almost two and a half thousand burials had taken place in the little cemetery in The Claddagh, largely as a result of the Famine and its aftermath.
