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On September 6, 1798, a division of the Leicestershire Militia comprising almost six hundred men under the command of the 5th Duke of Rutland, passed through Newcastle-under-Lyme.

On January 10 Galway United’s players and coaching staff reported for pre-season training in Drom. There was one notable absentee with Maurice Nugent embarking on a new journey to work in London.

POETS AND playwrights, and the launch of issue 15 of Skylight 47, will make up the first Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2022.

The Galway Camogie team received 12 nominations for this year’s All Stars. Congrats to Sarah Healy, Shauna Healy, Sarah Dervan, Dervla Higgins, Caitriona Cormican, Siobhán Gardiner, Emma Helebert, Niamh Kilkenny, Aoife Donohue, Siobhán McGrath, Orlaith McGrath, and Ailish O’Reilly. And the Galway manager Cathal Murray has been named the Manager of the Year. A mighty year’s work.

Storm Arwen passed through this week, and in Murrisk at least, it kicked up less of a fuss than many of the breezy evenings we have experienced since late September.

IN A time of Covid, when very little can happen, especially for musicians, David Keenan has remained active, with the close of the year proving a period of great industriousness.

Adele is finally releasing her fourth studio album, 30, tomorrow, Friday November 18. After the massive success of her previous albums, 30 is a highly anticipated release.

THE LOST Brothers, the RTE Folk Award nominees, are finally able to tour their album, After The Fire After The Rain, and will perform this critically acclaimed work in Galway this month.

Like the many, I too have travelled the route to England through the port of Holyhead and then onwards east through Wales until the seemingly unintelligible road signs suddenly appear comprehensible.

The 309 Connemara emigrants, selected by their local clergy as suitable for a new life in America, arrived at Boston June 14 1880, 11 days after departure from Galway Bay on the SS Austrian, an Allen Line ship. The settling of ‘The Connemaras’, as they became known, was a new venture prompted by a Liverpool priest, Fr Patrick Nugent renowned for his ‘philantropic and truly patriotic exertions to alleviate the social conditions of his fellow countrymen in England’; and Archbishop John Ireland, of St Paul, Minnesota, who was already settling thousands of Irish Catholics who were trapped in the ghettoes of New York and elsewhere, on rich prairie lands.