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Aran Island chef wins healthcare's award

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Nora O’Malley has won Aramark Ireland’s Healthcare Chef of the Year 2022.

‘My dear little runaway Nora..’

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Like all widows Nora had barely time to grieve. There was so much to be done. Both she and Giorgio and her grandson Stephen, were in a state of shock at Joyce’s sudden death. Joyce suffered indifferent health all his adult life, and endured a series of painful eye operations which had little effect on his looming blindness.

Launch of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce: The Galway Story

Galway Public Libraries has announced the launch of ‘1922: Nora Barnacle & James Joyce: The Galway Story’, in conjunction with Dublin City Libraries and its One Dublin One Book Initiative.

Nora Barnacle

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Nora Barnacle was born on the night of March 21/22 1884 in the maternity ward of the workhouse, part of which served as a hospital. At the time her family were living in Raleigh Row. Her parents were Thomas Barnacle, an illiterate itinerant baker whose heavy drinking kept the family in poverty, and Annie Healy, a member of a family of substance who believed in education and hard work. They married in 1881 and for the next 26 years, led a nomadic life as they moved from tenement to tenement almost with the birth of each child. They had eight children in all, one of whom, John Patrick, died in infancy.

‘Nora is not always visible behind James Joyce. I wanted her in the foreground’

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MENTION NORA Barnacle and four things come to mind: she was from Galway; she was sexually adventurous and advanced for her day; she was the partner and muse of James Joyce; and she never read a word he wrote.

The saucy encounters of James and Nora

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THE SEX life of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, as well as their love and romance, is the stuff of a new exhibition currently running in the Town Hall Theatre bar.

Well done for remembering Nora

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Can I compliment you and the Galway Advertiser for the beautiful and heartwarming tribute that you paid last week to Nora. For decades, she has been a mainstay of the streetscape of Galway city. Everybody encountered her.

Being Nora — west loses one of its great characters

It was only about two months ago when I was sitting scribbling in a comfy chair in a corner of Renzo cafe and gallery on Eyre Street, when I looked up and saw her face looking down at me.

Being Nora — city loses one of its great characters

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It was only about two months ago when I was sitting scribbling in a comfy chair in a corner of Renzo cafe and gallery on Eyre Street, when I looked up and saw her face looking down at me.

Athlone Film Club returns to the Dean Crowe Theatre

Athlone Film Club returns for their eleventh season at the Dean Crowe Theatre & Arts Centre on Tuesday, September 18 at 8pm with the showing of the Petra Volpe directed ‘The Divine Order’.

 

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