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In May, 1924, Galway County Council resolved, ‘… the adoption of the Carnegie Rural Libraries Scheme in County Galway, and we, the members, undertake, individually and collectively, to press for the maintenance of the scheme of a County Library rate at the end of the two years during which it has been maintained by the Carnegie Trust’.

Unlike the men executed after the 1916 Rising, there was little of the same idealisation given to the hundreds of men and women who died in the War of Independence, or, more emphatically, those executed during the regretable Civil War.