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A visual arts exhibition inspired by the Claddagh and the area’s experience of the Famine, originally exhibited in the Galway City Museum, is to be shown in London.

The Galway City Museum is hosting a range of family fun activities for the summer, starting with a Japanese origami workshop tomorrow from 11am to 1pm.

A new cycling event will be held this year in Galway in memory of the late Jarlath McInerney.

The summer is upon us if one follows the Irish calendar, or, according to meteorologists, June is the starting point for the three summer months. No matter which is correct, Galway has come to expect a steady stream of tourists wanting to experience Galway’s unique atmosphere and cultural highs.

THE GALWAY Camera Club’s new exhibition, Images For Life, will open in The Kenny Gallery, Liosbán, on Saturday at 1.30pm.

There was a very good ethnological study on the fishermen of the Claddagh published in the Ulster Journal of Archaeology in 1854, which among other things stated that: “The people of the Claddagh are, in my opinion, purely Irish, of the most ancient Celtic type. The village at the present day is like any ordinary Irish village, and that it was a mud city when Rome was being founded, is more than probable. That the Claddagh men are not Spaniards any one might see at a glance; and it is astonishing to me how the theory of their Spanish origins could have kept ground for so long. A Spanish face may still be seen in and about Galway — once in a week or so; but it appears to me that the Claddagh, above all other people, had no intermarriage with Spaniards.

Number 16 Frenchville, The Claddagh, is an executor sale and comes to the market with an attractive price tag that is open to offers.

The Claddagh National School will mark the passing of Polish president Lech Kaczynski and the other victims of this week’s air disaster with a special Mass tomorrow (Friday).

A Musicthon organised last month by local musician Richard Murray on behalf of charity Camp Claddagh, turned out to be a wonderful success story. Richard enlisted the support of his friends and colleagues in the traditional Irish music world to play music continuously for one full day in Galway hostelry Tí Coilí on Mainguard Street.

The Claddagh National School’s website has enjoyed more than 3,600 hits from web users from more than 70 countries across the globe in its first year in existence.