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Ghosts, zombies, vampires, demons, Michael Jackson, and all kinds of other strange beings will be taking to the streets of Galway’s ‘Latin Quarter’ on Friday October 30 and Saturday 31 for the city’s first Galway Abooo Hallowe’en Festival.

The Galway City Museum is set to pass the 50,000 visitor mark this year, putting it ahead of most other local authority museums in the country in terms of visitor numbers.

ANIMALS PERFORMING Aesop’s Fables, a film about shopkeepers, birds, and children, and the questions Arthur Miller and Bertolt Brecht faced from the House Committee of Un-American Activities, are just some of the things Galway can expect to see and hear at TULCA 09.

LITTLE RED Riding Hood, a sweet little girl or blood thirsty mass murderer? Wolfie, a monstrous beast or sensitive canine dude who eats grannies?

The City of Galway VEC Women’s Community Education Calendar was launched on Monday in the Galway City Museum by the award winning poet Rita Ann Higgins.

The Irish have played a major role in the British army from the late 1700s up to Independence and even beyond, fighting in the Napoleonic Wars, the Afghan War, the Crimean War, the South African Wars, World War I, and World War II.

Bernard Phillips, who was born c1835, was a widower who worked with Thomas McDonogh and Co in Merchants Road. He had been married to Mary Bowen from Galway, and they had five children. She unfortunately died, and some time afterwards Bernard was loaned by McDonogh’s to Craig and Gardiner, 41 Dame Street, Dublin, where he worked as a mercantile clerk. While he was there he met and married Teresa Hayes from Dublin. They came back to Galway and Bernard continued working for McDonogh’s.

Alan Titley, the writer, columnist and Professor of Modern Irish in UCC, will give a free public lecture on Breandán Ó hEithir’s Lig Sinn I gCathu on Saturday at 2pm in the Galway City Museum.

Taisteal le Tarlach sa Pholainn, the new children’s book from Laoise Ní Chomhraí will be launched in the Galway City Museum on Saturday December 12 at 3pm.

Johnny Giles and David O’Leary might be the most famous Irishmen associated with Leeds, but the Irish, and particularly Galwegians, have played a big role in the city’s development.