19/06/2024
UKE-fest, this weekend
Engaging, humorous and often fascinating, guided walking tour of Galway City. Ed Sheeran Galway Girl Tour
Tours are available to join everyday.
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Each tour lasts 1-2 hours and can be booked online at www.GalwayWalks.com or via phone +353863273560. Galway Walks was started by Brian Nolan, a local to Galway with years of experience dealing with visitors from all over the world, introducing them to the CRAIC (Irish for fun)in Ireland and helping visitors trace their ancestors and experience the life their ancestors lived. With Brian you can wa
lk in the footsteps of the Celts, the Irish, Vikings, Normans, English and more. Brian guides groups every day, morning and evening, or even at night, all year round. He combines a quick wit, a vivid imagination and a great interest in history to paint a picture of Galway in every age.
'It's not about the city, it's about the people who lived and died here; lived, loved and laughed, it's their stories I love to tell'. Brian Nolan
Tours:
- Galway City Walking Tour
- The Claddagh Experience including Tea at Katie's Cottage, a Galway Bay Boat Trip and a City Walking Tour
- The Shortest Walking Tour in Ireland (O'Connors Pub, Salthill)
- NEW!! Bookings can be made via telephone or online. We recommend you book ahead, but we will always try to fit you in!
18/06/2024
Galway City Council has prepared a Draft Galway City Heritage Plan 2024-2029. Feedback on the draft plan is invited by 25 July 2024.
View the Plan:
💻Online - at (link in bio) Consult.GalwayCity.ie
📌Galway City Council, City Hall, College Road, Galway H91 X4K8
📖Galway City Library, Westside Library and Ballybane Library
Give Feedback:
✏️ In writing to: Heritage Officer, Planning Department, Galway City Council, City Hall, College Road, Galway, H91 X4K8
📧 By email - to [email protected] with the subject “Draft Galway City Heritage Plan 2024-2029”
💻Online at (link in bio) Consult.GalwayCity.ie
All submissions should include your name and address, and where relevant, details of any organisation, community group or company and so on, which you represent.
As this is a public consultation process, submissions may be made available for public viewing - personal details such as address, email address, and phone number should be submitted on a separate sheet with the submission or observation.
The closing date for receipt of submissions or observations is Thursday 25 July 2024.
Queries?
For more info, please contact the Forward Planning Section:
[email protected]
+353 91 536 400
17/06/2024
12 fathers and 12 sons, alumni of Gonzaga high school in Washington DC, on my of on Fathers Day, also , were delighted to meet our newly re-elected councillor, and current Mayor of Galway, Eddie H***e when he attended a reading at Nora Barnacles house on Bowling Green last evening. Made their day! Thank you Mayor!
Brian Nolan Walking Tours of Galway
16/06/2024
A CONNEMARA MASTERPIECE VANISHES AND RE-APPEARS (c1881)
Aloysius O'Kelly was a Dublin-born illustrator, journalist and painter who trained in London and Paris.
Born in 1853, he achieved some success in his lifetime, counting Vincent Van Gogh amongst his fans, and today his pieces are critically acclaimed, some selling for huge sums.
O'Kelly was also strongly linked with Connemara in the late 1870s and spent several years living here on and off.
It is thought that O'Kelly stayed in Lugnanaugh, in a cottage nestled below Garraun Mountain on the shores of Lough Fee near Leenane.
O'Kelly painted both the people and the scenery of Connemara and even managed to learn some Irish on his visit.
O'Kelly ultimately departed Connemara in 1884 having painted many incredible paintings including this one 'Mass in a Connemara Cabin.'
The painting appears to be set in the same cabin as some of O'Kelly's other works, and features people from Connemara in prayer as the priest says a station Mass in one of their homes.
Some suggest that it might even have been O'Kelly's own rented lodgings and that the painting is a symbol of his growing sense of Irish nationalism.
This painting was the only Irish painting ever exhibited in the famous Paris Salon and it featured in various other exhibitions in cities around the world before disappearing mysteriously around 1895 when the artist emigrated to America.
It re-emerged in 2002 in the presbytery of St. Patrick's Church in the strongly Irish Cowgate district of Edinburgh.
It had been hanging on the wall of a priests' house for decades, its value unnoticed by the occupants of the house until an eagle-eyed visitor urged them to consult an art expert who confirmed it was an original O'Kelly.
Some sources suggest that the painting had been a present from the artist to a former priest, Canon Hannon, who had helped the Irish nationalist cause.
It now hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland and is believed to be worth over half a million pounds.
16/06/2024
Happy
I imagine the Valerian was in full bloom when James Joyce fell headlong in love with Nora Barnacle on the 16th of June 1904 on the footpath outside Finns Hotel in Dublin, though he doesn’t mention those beautiful flowers in at all, but he could be forgiven as perhaps his attention was distracted by another blooming Galway beauty!
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14/06/2024
ALWAYS LEARNING
Big thank you to Brian Nolan from ‘Galway City Walking Tours’ for such an enjoyable afternoon yesterday exploring the history of our gorgeous Galway City.
Highly recommend- A truly engaging and entertaining way to see and experience the history and culture of Galway.
14/06/2024
GCC Arts Office is inviting applications for this year’s Culture Night on Friday 20 September.
More info and applications -
https://galwaycity.ie/news/3803/59/Galway-City-Council-Culture-Night-Listing-and-Event-Fund-/d,NewsDetail
Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir is brought to you by the Arts Council
The nineteeth edition of Culture Night will take place on Friday 20 September 2024. Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir is brought to you by the Arts Council; it is a national moment, celebrating culture, creativity and the arts and seeks to actively promote the belief that this rich and varied culture...
12/06/2024
Goodbye Richardsons - Hello Foleys
12/06/2024
Nora Barnacle, James Joyce and Bloomsday in .
My interview on GalwayBayFM today with John Morley on GalwayTalks Galway Bay FM
Listen to the final ten minutes!
On today's show: 11am - 12pm Financial Advice With Dave McCarthy, McCarthy & Associates Woodquay Mary Kate O Flanagan brings her one woman show, Making a Show of Myself, to Galway An insight into Nora Barnacle’s life in Galway ahead of Bloomsday this weekend 'Galway Talks with John Morley' bro...
12/06/2024
11/06/2024
Do you remember Galwegian Enda O'Coineen sailed a rubber dingy from America to Ireland in 1985? And what about Damian Browne, rowing solo from New York to Galway in 2022?
What's with Galway and crazy voyages?
Well, there's another Irish 'adventurer' you should meet!
Kevin O’Sullivan, a retired airline pilot, was bored with his daily routine, so he decided to kayak around Ireland in 2019.
He has recounted his circumnavigation of Ireland adventure in a page-turning book titled 'Big Dream, Little Boat'.
Meet Kevin this Thursday evening, 13th June, at 6pm in Charlie Byrnes bookshop. and hear him recount some of the very humorous and interesting anecdotes from his epic voyage.
Charlie Byrne's Bookshop
08/06/2024
Can someone help throw some light on this unusual photograph? The shed is untypical of buildings in Ireland in 19tg century and tge ladies headscarves, also a little odd.
‘I collect and restore Magic Lantern Slides. The title on the slide is "Connemara Peasant, Home Spun Industry, teasing wool" I cant date it exactly but likely to be late 1800's early 1900's. Original post by John Short.’
08/06/2024
Galway County Council invites individuals, groups and organisations to submit funding applications for free Culture Night events taking place in Galway County. This year Culture Night is on Friday 20th September 2024, 4pm - 12am.
The deadline for applications is Thursday 27 June at 4pm.
Individuals, groups and organisations can apply to pay for artist fees and production costs for an online or in person event. The minimum amount is €300 and the maximum amount is €1,500.
Click here for more information and application forms: https://galwaycoco.submit.com/show/57
If you have questions about submitting your application please contact [email protected].
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Free tour this Monday at 2pm
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29/05/2024
My brother Paul and I enjoying two 99’s outside what was originally our grandfather’s shop in Killimor, county Galway. Our mum’s father, Michael Brody and his wife Julia opened their grocery and general store in Killimor, M A Brody & Co, in May of 1914, 110 years ago this month.
Though the business was sold to a local family, the Duffy’s in the 1990’s, after my uncle Pauric passed away, they kindly left the iconic name over the door.
I always stop in for an ice cream and to buy a pot of locally made jam every time I pass. Such warm memories of my mums family here.
(Lovely photo memory from August 2021)
29/05/2024
6pm tomorrow Thursday
Please join us this Thursday May 30th at 6pm for a very special event around Patrick Joyce's groundbreaking book of historical memoralization "Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World''. Joyce is emeritus Professor of History at Manchester University and one of the leading social historians of his generation. His motivation to study the history of the Peasant came from a sense of respect for his own forebears 'My Grandparents lived this life before my parents emigrated from Ireland to England. But it also came out of a recognition that the history of Peasants is one of their silence or their being silenced'. Annie Proulx has said 'A dozen pages in, I realised that I'd been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book'. The evening will consist of 3 speakers, social documentary film-maker Donal Haughey, Niall O'Dochartaigh, Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Galway and Patrick himself. All are welcome to this fascinating look at a forgotten part of our own recent and unacknowledged history.
See the Guardian’s interesting Q&A with Patrick about the book : https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/03/patrick-joyce-remembering-peasants-a-personal-history-of-a-vanished-world-interview?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
24/05/2024
Truly a great and humble man.. he will be fondly spoken of, and sadly missed.
RIP Ronnie O’Gorman
Our hearts are broken at the Galway Advertiser after the passing of our founder, chairman, colleague and friend, Ronnie O’Gorman, after an illness bravely borne. Ronnie, whose foresight created this iconic newspaper, has documented and supported the change of the social and cultural landscape in Galway. Our sympathies to his family and friends. May he rest in peace.
https://rip.ie/death-notice/ronald-ronnie-ogorman-galway-salthill-557379
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Aran islands, the perfect day trip
On the boat to Inis Mór, Aran Islands, the morning sun catching the spume from the passing waves, and our silouhettes reflectiing in the water racing past the boat! We walked for 14kms along the cliff walk, from Dún Aonghus fort to Kilronan. A stunning gem on the #wildatlanticway #Aran
Hanging out in Galway 2023; in the Summer, in the city. Photos; Brian Nolan Walking Tours of Galway
Simply Spine-tingling! A song of emigration, of loneliness, of regret and love! Lisa Lambe vocalist. Live video from Monroes Tavern, Galway. Video Garry Monroe
No words.. just a purple-yellow-green-grey-brown-pink-ochre-blue-bee-buzz kinda sunset! #Connemara #flowers #gorse #heather #blackberry #fern #briar #furze #lichen #grass #wildatlanticway #Barna #Conamara #Galway #Ireland
The town is bursting at the seams with swarms of happy football fans. The Aer Lingus American College Football Classic takes place on this Saturday in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, between Navy and Notre Dame. Supporters of both teams have been touring the country this past week, taking in the sights, visiting friends and family, sipping beer and tasting whiskey all over Ireland and finishing up in Dublin tonight or tomorrow ahead of the game. Despite the 20 points spread in the betting in Notre Dame’s favour one should not write Navy off. They will go down fighting! I’ve had the pleasure of giving many of them the Walking Tours of Galway experience this week and it’s been great fun! Here are a few photos from the week. I met folks from every state, but of course especially from Indiana, home to the Fighting Irish. Great to see the fans and their families here in such numbers. Everybody in town got a twist, and our city looked great too, thanks to The Latin Quarter Galway and to Galway City Council for all their efforts to make this week so special and welcoming! Brian Nolan Walking Tours of Galway Galway Memories Galway City CouncilLatin Quarter, Galway Galway's Westend The Village Salthill
A baker’s dozen of traditional music players at the Friday sessiun at Monroe's Galway including three uileann pipe players, Francis, Sean and Charles. A rather unique sessiun with 3 pipers. Galway Memories Brian Nolan
Never fails! There’s always two messers at the back of the class! Pair of swans and seven cygnets on the sluice flowing into the Corrib river beside Fisheries tower on Wolfe Tone Bridge beside the Claddagh. #Corrib #Galway #Ireland #Wildatlanticway #Swans #cygnets #Claddagh #SpanishArch
For those of you sweatin’ in sunnier climes, here’s why you left ireland! It must be time for the Galway Races! July 31st 2023, the reservoirs are full.#Rain #Galway #GalwayRaces #deluge #summer2023 #showers #rainphotography #rainstorm #ireland #rainyday #rainydays #icsntstandtherain
Said to be the oldest extant song in the English language, ‘Scarborough Fair’ was said to have been sung by Ann Boleyn to Henry VIII, but the poor girl lost the head anyway! Played here by @vio.lina outside Lynch’s Castle on Shop Street in the heart of Galway. I wonder how many times a wandering minstrel played this melody and sang the lines ‘Are you going to Scarborough fair, parsley sage rosemary and thyme’ to a gathering of the wealthiest family in #Galway the Lynch family. The second part of the tune is a 13th c melody, Tourdion. Violinist Lisa Goldbach Lina Goldbach is visiting here from Germany Walking Tours of Galway Galway Memories This Is Galway Galway LIVEGalway, Ireland Violin; Lina Goldbach. Harp; Tyler Gabriel. Bodhran; Patrick Hazleton. Magical music on the streets of Galway during Galway International Arts Festival Video; Brian Nolan Walking Tours of Galway
Galway county bristles with ruined churches, abbeys, friarys, convents, monasteries and chapels. Just about every parish in the county boasts one or more of these buildings, most of which sites now double as cemeteries for their local communities. They form much of our built cultural and historic heritage and provide locals and tourists alike with endless enjoyment visiting these ancient sites, exploring, photographing, marvelling at the complex architecture, and the poignant beauty of the ruins. Most of the ruined ecclesiastical buildings in Ireland owe their ruinous state to the successive pogroms visited on the people of Ireland and the majority religion, Catholicism, in the 16th and 17th centuries, when, during the consecutive reigns of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Charles II, and William III, most of the vestiges of Catholic Ireland, an incredible rich heritage, were confiscated, repurposed or as evidenced by the number of ruins, outright destroyed! What an absolute shame, but that’s history for you, no going back now! Have you ever tried to imagine what these beautiful buildings looked like in their heyday? I certainly have, only to come up with two as yet unanswered questions! 1. Were these buildings roofed with thatch or slates? 2. Did they have stain glass in the windows? I’ll elaborate on the roof question here in this post. I recently came across some tweets by a UK based master thatcher, Nick Walker, @TheMasterThatch on Twitter, from East Anglia in England. He does amazing work, as indeed do our irish thatchers, although in the UK, the local government agencies and the British insurance companies actively support the community of thatchers and thatch building owners, while our agencies and insurance companies sadly do the opposite, at every turn, making it nigh on impossible to have a thatch roof on your house or heritage building. Anyway, Nick is currently employed putting a new thatch roof on a l
Swan convoy at the Eglinton canal, Galway. An adult swan and her seven cygnets paddling all in a row in the pouring rain yesterday! Video; Walking Tours of Galway #swan #cygnets #Galway #Ireland #swans #WildAtlanticWay #Irish #swans #birdwatching
Valerian root extract has been used in homeopathy for centuries as a sleep aid and to calm anxiety. To lift your spirits, simply walk by the precious pink parade of valerian flowers on the banks of the river Corrib in Galway. #valerian #wildflower #herb #Galway #WildAtlanticWay
Sunny Saturday morning in Galway city. Galway Memories
Blue skies over #Galway #bluesky #blueskies #mrbluesky #summervibes
Today, the 20th of May, is World Bee Day. It’s appropriate that #WorldBeeDay is celebrated during ‘No Mow May’. #NoMowMay Saint Gobnait is the patron saint of bee-keepers, bees and honey. (Feast day 11 February). Gobnait or Gobnat, a 6th century Irish saint, (nowadays Abigail or Deborah), was born in the Burren in county Clare, but fled for safety from persecution to Inisheer on the Aran islands. While there she had a dream, (perhaps after consuming some honey’d mead), in which she was told to build a convent in a field where she saw nine white deer. ‘Course out on Inisheer there weren’t any deer, let alone a decent field, so she set off wandering the country for months, rowing her currach up rivers all along the coast, until finally she found the nine white deer grazing in a big field beside a wood outside Ballyvourney in county Cork. She built her abbey there and made quite a name for herself, using bees and honey to protect and sustain her followers. And to think it all started with a little bumblebee warning her to take refuge out on Inis Oirr some fifteen hundred years ago. This bee in my little video was feasting on the nectar from the rhododendron in my garden yesterday. Hey, maybe I should head out for the day to the Aran islands!! We’ve no excuse now with all the new ferries. T’would bee just lovely out there today, listening to the bees feasting on the lovely flowers there. When were you out on Aran last? Video and story; Brian Nolan Walking Tours of Galway
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Galway Walks - Our Story
Galway Walks was started by Brian Nolan, a local guide and tourism professional from Galway with twenty years of experience dealing with visitors from all over the world, introducing them to the CRAIC (Irish for fun) in Ireland, telling stories, revealing our past, helping visitors trace their ancestors and learning about the lives their ancestors lived. With Brian you can walk in the footsteps of the Celts, the Irish, Vikings, Normans, English and more. Brian guides groups every day, morning and evening, and sometimes even at night, all year round. He combines a quick wit, a vivid imagination and a great interest in history, painting a picture of Galway in every age. As Brian says, 'It's not about the city, it's about the people who lived and died here; lived, loved and laughed, it's their stories I love to tell'. Popular Tours: - Galway City Walking Tour - The Shortest Walking Tour in Ireland - The Fireside tour of O'Connors Pub, Salthill - The Ed Sheeran ‘Galway Girl Tour’ - Ghost Tours and Horrible History Tours - The Salthill Tour and The Claddagh Tour - Student and Family group tours - Whiskey Tasting Tour and Pub Tour - Design your own tour, for your family, your party, your conference, or your friends - Step-on Tour Guide. Brian will join you on your coach or bus and guide you through the city or Connemara, East Galway, Aran Islands, or the Burren.
Tours are available to join everyday. Bookings can be made via telephone or online. We recommend you book ahead, but we will always try to fit you in!
Contact Details - Phone 086-3273560 - Email [email protected] - Twitter @GalwayWalks - Instagram @Galway_Walks - YouTube GalwayWalks - Website www.GalwayWalks.com - Blog www.galwaywalks.blogspot.com
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