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Our Lady Queen of Peace Church Coosan to mark milestone anniversary

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To mark its 50th anniversary, Our Lady Queen of Peace Church in Coosan will host a number of celebrations as the month of August draws to a close.

St Patrick’s National School

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On January 15, 1827 two Patrician Brothers, Paul O’Connor and James Walsh, took up residence in Lombard Street and set up the Monastery School. The attendance on that first day was 300 boys, many of whom had little interest in learning because they were poor and hungry. So the Brothers set up The Poor Boy’s Breakfast Institute in May 1830. It continued seven days a week, 365 days a year for many years after the founders' time. The breakfast consisted of porridge with molasses or treacle, and during the Famine, they fed 1,000 boys every day. The ‘Old Mon’ became a vital cog in education in Galway.

Lifesaving in Galway

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Organised water safety in Ireland really began in Milltown Malbay, Co Clare in the 1930s when a lady drowned there. This galvanised the local community into forming a Water Safety Association to help swimmers who got into trouble. The idea spread through Co Clare and eventually to the whole country. The national water safety section, set up by the government, was run by the Red Cross.

The Hat Factory

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In the 1930s, Ireland instructed all of its consul officials in Europe not to issue visas to Jewish refugees, but the country was also in a state of economic stagnation at the time and Seán Lemass realised that new industries would help the country. An Irish Jewish businessman, Marcus Witztum, offered to help him and went to Paris, met Henri Orbach there who owned a small hat factory and suggested he open a business in Ireland, a safer place for people of the Jewish persuasion than continental Europe. Orbach agreed.

The ‘Gaelicising’ of Galway city

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Galway University? a ‘godless College’

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After Catholic Emancipation where for the first time Catholics won the right to be elected and to sit in the House Of Commons, the English government, led by an enlightened Robert Peel, believed it would be worth extending emancipation to third level education.

All set for gathering of Kearney Clan at Lackagh

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Family gatherings have been taken place for centuries and for the most part, over many years they have been mainly at weddings and funerals. However, in the rushed life of so many, not even the weddings and funerals brought families together.

Pearse Stadium, Páirc an Phiarsaigh

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Sixty six years ago this week, on June 16 1957, Pearse Stadium opened.

Coláiste Chiaráin secondary school to be officially opened on Friday

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Coláiste Chiaráin co-ed secondary school will be officially opened on Friday afternoon.

 

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