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It is a dark and stormy night that finds us crossing the overflowing Corrib to Pálás - and the premier of the highly anticipated original RTÉ drama The Galway Bay Murders.

Father Griffin Road is a relatively new road. It was built in the early 1930s. Fr Griffin was a young priest who was abducted, tortured and killed by the Black and Tans during the War of Independence and he was an obvious choice when it came to naming the road.

A vigil at the gates of Galway Cathedral will be held in solidarity with activists who will walk from Galway to Cork this weekend to remember children who died in two institutions ran by religious orders.

FOR DOLORES

Galway Travellers and Galway Traveller Movement will be celebrating Traveller identity, culture and heritage as part of Traveller Pride by hosting two events in Galway this week.

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by J.M. Synge

One of Ireland's most acclaimed and influential middle of the road, folk and traditional bands, The FUREYS will play two concerts in Galway in January, 2025.

Our first illustration today is of the cover of the sheet music for the song ‘Galway Bay’ as sung by Bing Crosby. It was written by Dr Arthur Colohan, apparently in memory of his brother who was drowned somewhere near Seapoint. I have also been told that it got its first airing in the hotel at the top of Prospect Hill. It seems Colohan, a medical student, was in there with a group of his fellow undergraduates when he told them he had written a song and sat down at the piano to play and sing it for them. The legend is that they fell all over the place laughing. He of course had the last laugh as his song became one of the world’s best sellers, topping the charts in Britain in1950.

University of Galway has launched Imirce, a digital repository of thousands of Irish emigrant letters and memoirs dating from the late 1600s through to the mid-20th century.