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THE NUNS Island Centre will host a concert of Irish trad tonight while on Monday there will be a classical music concert with music performed on a piano owned by composer Clara Schumann.

For a country that is often highly conservative, Ireland has produced many important and influential socialist activists, thinkers, and politicians, and many of them have come from Galway.

FREGOLI THEATRE Company are in Nuns Island theatre from tonight to Saturday with New Works, a trilogy of short plays from upcoming Galway-based writers.

The Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust will celebrate three very special birthdays at Merlin Park Hospital this weekend.

FROM SHAKESPEARE to history’s forgotten women, and from Gombeens to Brian Friel, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature promises Galway a feast of theatre from Tuesday April 21 to Sunday 26.

The Galway Alliance Against War will protest against the air display by the RAF’s Red Arrows, during the Volvo Ocean Race stopover.

As the enormity of recession hits us, and belts begin to tighten, one glimmer of hope remains in the centre of Galway city. Surrounded by the madness of ordinary life it is easy to forget the ray of light that beams from one of the citys oldest establishments. The occupants may be hidden from view, but the building’s grandeur is certainly not.

In the early 17th century there were no convents of nuns in Ireland or Britain... you had to go to the Continent to become a nun.

Galway city based agent Property Partners Maxwell & Heaslip is preparing for the second of the summer auctions tomorrow in the Imperial Hotel in Eyre Square. Four more properties are expected to fall under the hammer in what is expected to be a busy afternoon for the local agents.

With standing room only at a busy auction room in the Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway city based auctioneers Property Partners Maxwell & Heaslip concluded its latest round of summer auctions with two out of the four properties being offered to the market achieving excellent prices. These latest sales show a 65 per cent success rate for the year so far and there is no doubt that Property Partners Maxwell & Heaslip has a proven formula for success and is leading the way when it comes to getting results.