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Leaving Certificate students from the Presentation Convent, Tuam, with their project showing the Old Fish Market at the Spanish Arch in Galway, which won them first prize in the senior section in the Old Galway Society Quincentennial Youth Preject in October 1984. They are: Martina Reynolds, Mary Burke, Marie Mohan (teacher), Maura Fallon and Una Burke.

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Galway In Days Gone By

Enda Cunningham - April 6, 2017

1917 Trees cut down On the night of 5th inst., 10 peach and 86 vine canes, which were growing in Miss Lynch’s garden in Barna, were...

Dr Colohan Road in Salthill with the Beach Hotel on right in July 1977.

Galway in Days Gone By

Galway In Days Gone By

Enda Cunningham - May 19, 2016

1916 Battle of Clarenbridge Owing to the isolation of parts of the country quite closely connected at normal times, the people of Galway did not know...

Two policemen walk the streets of Ahascragh around 1900.

Galway in Days Gone By

Galway In Days Gone By

Enda Cunningham - March 31, 2016

1916 Infant mortality It is a melancholy reflection that the death rate amongst infants in Galway bids fair this year to rank next to some of...

Main Street in Athenry in the early days of the last century.

Galway in Days Gone By

Galway In Days Gone By

Enda Cunningham - February 18, 2016

1916 Appeal to farmers In a powerful speech at yesterday’s Recruiting Conference at the Mansion House, Dublin, Mr. Redmond said they had raised from Ireland, counting...

A snapshot of a very different Galway from the early 1960s, long before the city centre streets were pedestrianised. Not only was traffic allowed on the street then, but it went both ways – and parking was allowed, too.

Galway in Days Gone By

Galway In Days Gone By

Enda Cunningham - October 8, 2015

1915 Sociable ducks At the City Petty Sessions, Delia MacEvaddy, Salthill, summoned Mary Kelly, of the same place, for the larceny of a duck. Miss McEvaddy...

Fortune reader Gypsy Lee at Ballinsloe Fair in 1996.

Galway in Days Gone By

Galway In Days Gone By

Enda Cunningham - September 10, 2015

1915 Street hurlers At the City Petty Sessions, before Mr. Joseph Kilbride, R.M., and Sir James O’Donohoe, three young men named Griffin, King and O’Connor were...

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Galway In Days Gone By

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