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William Butler Yeats died in the Hotel Idéal Beauséjoue in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in France on the January 28, 1939 aged 73. His wife Georgie and himself had often discussed his death, and he told her, “If I die, bury me up there at Roquebrune and in a year’s time when the newspapers have forgotten me, dig me up and plant me in Sligo.” His funeral was a discreet and private affair. His body was later exhumed and removed to the ossuary. Because of the outbreak of the war, it was not possible to bring his coffin back to Ireland for several years.

The waterworks building on Dyke Road is set to be transformed into a state-of-the-art watersports centre, with a floating pontoon on the River Corrib and a new greenway for walkers and cyclists, following Galway City Council’s issuing of a tender for the €2 million project.

The place-name Shantalla is derived from the Irish ‘Sean Talamh’ meaning old ground, though why Shantalla should be older than the ground around it is a mystery. Maybe a lot of it was never worked and left wild. Sometimes the name was written as Shantallow, and locally it was always known as ‘Shantla’.

Henry Street Playground was officially named last Friday in honour of former Mayor of the City of Galway, Mary Byrne (1917-2004) - who was the first female Mayor of Galway, and was also a resident of Henry Street.

Byrne (1917-2004), for decades a senior nurse in the Regional Hospital (now UHG), lived her entire life on Henry Street and nearby on St Mary's Road.

Galway’s longest-standing and most dynamic town twinning, with the Breton city of Lorient, will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2025. A vibrant lineup of events is planned to mark this milestone, bringing together the people of both cities in a true celebration of their shared Celtic heritage.

For sixty years Galway Film Society has been at the heart of culture in Galway and the west of Ireland. And at the heart of GFS for most of those years were Joe and Bridie McMahon.

The first bishop of the Diocese was George Browne (1831-1844). He was followed by Lawrence O’Donnell (1844-1855); John McEvilly (1955-1883); Francis Carr (1883-1888); Francis McCormack (1888-1908); Thomas O’Dea (1908-1923); Thomas Doherty (1923-1936); and Michael Browne (1937-1976).

The Poor Clares of Galway have commemorated the 375th anniversary of the granting to them of the Nuns’ Island site by the Galway Corporation, a landmark event that took place on 10th July 1649.

In 1639, the Corporation ordered that some of the shops and buildings adjacent to the market be pulled down and “all the same be reduced into a strong sufficient stone house, covered with slate and to be underpropped with good stone pillars, whereby way through it shall be to the said church”. The proposed building was to be opposite the present Anthony Ryan’s shop and was to be a Tholsel or premises for the town clerk, for the Corporation records and for meetings of the Common Council.