Some Articles on the Left in Galway September 14, 2012
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Some interesting material about The Left in Galway on John Cunningham’s site . A few that might be of specific interest here.
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Some interesting material about The Left in Galway on John Cunningham’s site . A few that might be of specific interest here.
Thanks, irishelectionliterature, for putting up that link – it certainly boosted traffic to my nascent website for the last couple of days.
While we’re on the subject of Galway history, I’m posting the programme of an event that I’m organising for Culture Night, 21 September, in the Galway City Museum. Entitled ‘Galway: an incomplete history,’ it’s an eclectic mix. And it’s free.
5.02 Peadar O’Dowd: ‘Ancient Galway as revealed by the River Corrib’
5.10 Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha: ‘Vikings in Galway Bay, 807: what did they see?’
5.18 Nollaig Ó Muraíle: ‘The name of Galway / Gaillimh (and adjacent places)’
5.26 Kieran Hoare: ‘Galway: from seigneurial borough to royal port’
5.40 Joe Mannion: ‘The shiring of Co. Galway’
5.48 Padraig Lenihan: ‘A city beset: Galway 1651-52 and 1691’
5.56 Orla Power: ‘Galwegians in the Caribbean: merchants, traders,pioneers’
6.04 Willie Henry: ‘Famine in Galway’
6.20 Cathal Smith: ‘Galway landlords and tenants in the 19th century’
6.28 Tom Kenny: ‘Woodquay, 1850, in a painting by William Joseph J.C. Bond’
6.36 Jackie Uí Chionna: ‘Water, water, everywhere!’Fisheries & industry on the Corrib’
6.44 Geraldine Curtin: ‘Galway behind bars’
7.00 Tadhg Foley: ‘Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: poet and political prisoner in Galway gaol’
7.08 Conor Montague: ‘Galway in the New Century: an occasion for free drink’
7.16 Mary Clancy: ‘Nora Barnacle lived here’
7.24 Dara Folan: ‘“Gaillimh na nGael”: The 1913 Oireachtas & the Gaelic revival in Galway’
7.35 Cormac Ó Comhraí: ‘Galway gaol during the revolution, 1919-23’
7.43 John Cunningham: ‘Lord Dunkellin and the Galway soviet of 1922’
7.51 Laura Pomeroy: ‘Mary Devenport O’Neill: writing the Free State’
7.59 Caitriona Clear: ‘Galway women and childbirth, 1924-48’
Brilliant John, Looks like a very interesting evening. I’ll post details of that as a separate post.
As an aside, I’ll be posting an old pamphlet by yourself “Mayday! Galway and the origins of International Labour Day” on my own site later this evening.
So, the real juvenilia is to be given an airing!