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Nestled in the rolling hills just outside the charming town of Ballinamore in County Leitrim, the Glenview Folk Museum is a delightful and thought-provoking window into Ireland’s recent past. Lovingly curated by the Kennedy family since its founding in 2000, the museum offers visitors a vivid and immersive glimpse into 20th-century Irish life — a time not so distant, yet fast disappearing from living memory.

Nestled in the rolling hills just outside the charming town of Ballinamore in County Leitrim, the Glenview Folk Museum is a delightful and thought-provoking window into Ireland’s recent past. Lovingly curated by the Kennedy family since its founding in 2000, the museum offers visitors a vivid and immersive glimpse into 20th-century Irish life — a time not so distant, yet fast disappearing from living memory.

Although based on a story set in rural Leitrim, a new film shot in County Galway is winning accolades, with its stunning landscapes a major factor.

University of Galway has announced the appointment of Monica Crump as University Librarian. Ms Crump becomes the 12th Librarian in the University’s history dating back to 1845.

At a packed-out Station House Theatre in Clifden last week, the Connemara community paid tribute to Dr Brendan Flynn who has driven the Clifden Arts Festival into its 47th year.

The archive of Conradh na Gaeilge, Ireland’s oldest Irish language organisation, has been launched by NUI Galway. The archive, which extends to 600,000 pages of documents, books, photos, and ephemera collected throughout the organisation’s nearly 130-year history, has been fully catalogued and is now available to researchers.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Sasha de Buyl, director of Cúirt

Declan Kiberd has long been one of our most lively and illuminating literary critics and next week, at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature, he will discuss his latest book, After Ireland.

This week’s title borrows from John Kells Ingram’s famous 1843 political ballad, "The Memory of the Dead". In his poem, Ingram posits that later generations turned their fattened backs on the memory of the rebels of 1798, "Who Fears to Speak of '98?" Ingram was not a republican, but he penned his piece for the nationalist paper The Nation because he sympathised with what the United Irishmen had attempted to do and he had always pledged to defend brave men who opposed tyranny.