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'Building Works' and 'Turas' exhibitions at Westport Custom House
Two new exhibitions of work by sculptor Katherine Sullivan and painter Anastasia O'Donoghue Healy are now on display at Westport Custom House.
Galway Observer, May 27, 1922
“On Thursday night a crowd numbering several thousand assembled inside the Square, and two men set to work sawing at the base of life-size bronze monument of Lord Dunkellin, a brother of the notorious landlord, Lord Clanricarde of Portumna. In a scene reminiscent of the downfall of Saddam Hussain’s statue in Baghdad, shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a rope was fastened around Dunkellin’s neck, and with a mighty pull, down it fell amidst great applause.”
‘Every time I looked up I saw my father’
Even before it came to Galway the statue of Sean Pádraic Ó Conaire was causing a stir. As Albert Power carved away in his stone-yard at Berkeley Street, Dublin, word had got out that this was a work of exceptional standards.
Galway sculptor features in new designer paint collection
General Paints Group has launched its highly anticipated new designer paint brand, Curator, created in collaboration with some of Irelands’ finest designers and artisans.
Almost 18,000 visitors this year to Portumna Workhouse very encouraging for 2019, says Cannon
An East Galway TD has welcomed the fact that almost 18,000 people visited the Irish Workhouse Centre in 2018.
Swinford based sculptor’s statue is unveiled at The Barack Obama Plaza
Barack Obama’s former Chief Speechwriter, Cody Keenan recently unveiled a statue of the US former President and First Lady, Barack and Michelle Obama at the Visitors Centre at The Barack Obama Plaza by Swinford based Sculptor Mark Rode.
Suspension exhibition from Tim Kelly and Brenda Flannery
SUSPENSION, THE final show of its Oughterard Courthouse Summer Arts Programme, featuring the work by sculptor Tim Kelly and visual artist Brenda Flannery, opens tomorrow at 7pm.
'I once got asked to satirise every Pokemon character – in numerical order!'
POLITICS, SPORTS, puns, and just about any subject you care to mention, are all grist to the comic mill of satirist supreme Andy Zaltzman who is appearing at the Róisín Dubh on Saturday February 10.
Pádraic Ó Conaire: man and monument
On October 6 1928, writer, journalist, teacher, and raconteur Pádraic Ó Conaire died in tragic poverty in Richmond Hospital, Dublin, at the age of 46. Since the turn of the century he had established himself as one of the leading lights of the Gaelic Revival, an innovative writer who pioneered the short story in Irish.
