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Tonnta - Galway’s newest festival, celebrating the Irish language and Galway as a bilingual city will run from today February 1 to Feb 4. Given the weekend that is in it, there are a number of themes, but the primary one is to celebrate Galway’s status as a bilingual city.

In 2016 The Stinging Fly magazine described Kevin Higgins as ‘likely Ireland’s most read Irish poet’. Kevin who passed away this week was a passionate and popular poet, a satirist, a fine wordsmith, a romantic with real powers of evocation and a gentle presence too.

St. Nicholas’ Parochial School is currently taking enrolments for the academic year, 2021/22.

By the 16th century Galway was a compact, well laid out town with handsome buildings. The wealth of the Tribal families, built up over decades of canny and adventurous trade, was reflected in their luxurious homes; fragments of which, in delicate carved limestone, remain around the old town.

Working out of Library Headquarters in Island House, Galway county librarian Peter Rabbitt oversees a service that comprises 29 libraries across the city, county, and islands, one which has a membership of some 40,000 regular users. The City Library in Hynes Building alone issues some 90,000 books each year, while the total for the county is some 600,000.