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Artists from Shambles Art Studio in Athlone and their Westmeath colleagues have been critically assessing their collected artwork and have decided that a selection “from the back of the studio” should be offered for sale at an affordable price, works which reveal the artists development during their career to date.

After Catholic Emancipation where for the first time Catholics won the right to be elected and to sit in the House Of Commons, the English government, led by an enlightened Robert Peel, believed it would be worth extending emancipation to third level education.

Have you ever sat with an elderly Irish Traveller and asked them what their life was like?

A recent visit to the Eyre Square Shopping Centre has brought to our attention to staff and stock issues in Galway’s retail industry. Speaking to shop workers through glass screens, although something we’ve become accustomed to, reminded us of the ways in which businesses are trying to adapt to the ‘new normal’.

In the days before cigarettes were invented, clay pipes were very popular and could be found in most houses in the country. They were mainly used by working class people, easy to purchase, mass produced, cheap and light, and smoked by men and women. The short stemmed version was known as a dúidín or dudeen in Ireland, as a cutty in Scotland, and a ‘nose warmer’ in England. The longer version was known as the Beannacht Dé pipes or ‘The Lord ha’ mercy’ pipe, as that was how people invariably responded when you gave them one, “Beannacht Dé leat”.

Gadget Gear is an Irish business that has been operating out of Corbett Court Shopping Centre in the heart of Galway city since 2011. Owned by a husband and wife team – Victoria and Laurence have created something special with their fantastic staff, most of whom have been with Gadget Gear from the very beginning.

In the 1920s a family named Healy from College Road built three houses on Forster Street. The owner of the first house (next door to Harry Clare’s stonemason’s yard) was a Jewish man named Isaac. He did piano repairs and his daughter was an opera singer. He worked from a shed at the back of the house. In the 1930s he sold the house to John McDonagh from Glann near Oughterard, who was married to Mary Anne Spellman from Fermoyle. They opened a grocery shop and a lending library.