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The James Hardiman Library at the University of Galway houses around 350 archived and/or digitised collections including the Thomas Kilroy Collection, the Brendan Duddy Papers on the Northern Ireland conflict, the John McGahern archive and the manuscript Minutes of Galway City Council from the 15th to mid-19th centuries.
Charlie Byrne's is a bookshop located in the Cornstore Mall on Middle Street in Galway, close to Shop Street and the Augustinian Church. As of 2019, it reportedly contained more than 100,000 new and used books. [1]
The building was designed by Ciaran O’Connor and Ger Harvey, architects with the Office of Public Works, who were contracted by the Galway City Council. The new museum is located along the River Corrib beside the Spanish Arch, a protected monument which formed part of the defensive medieval wall that once surrounded the city of Galway. The ...
Galway (Irish: Gaillimh) is a city in the province of Connacht in Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's west coast, at the mouth of the River Corrib.
Galway Arts Centre is a non-profit cultural organization established in 1982, dedicated to promoting the arts in Galway City, Ireland. It aims to provide "year-round access" to a number of artistic disciplines in an "inclusive, welcoming hub in the heart of Galway City".
Alfred (Alf) MacLochlainn was born in 1926 in Dublin to Alfred Vincent MacLochlainn, [3] who was a photographer, and Marcella Dowling. Marcella's brother was Séan Dowling, also known under the alias of John Philip Dowling, who was involved in the Irish Revolutionary Period spanning 1916 up until 1923. [4]
This is a list of public art on permanent display in Galway City Ireland. The list applies only to public art accessible in a public space; it does not include artwork in display inside museums. Public art may include sculptures, statues, monuments, memorials, murals and mosaics.
In 1984, he suggested to the Galway City Manager of the time, Seamus Keating, that there should be a significant celebration of the 500th anniversary of Galway's first charter, having discovered the original document in the British Library in 1947. They took the idea to Galway Corporation, who embraced it as a means of encouraging cultural ...