Highlights from Lá na Cruite, Harp Day 2024 at Red Earl’s Hall, Saturday 19 October 2024. Featuring poet Mairin Ni Dhonnchadha, harpers Kathleen Loughnane and Catriona Cannon. Included a ‘Hands on Harps’ taster session. As our national emblem and a symbol of our cultural heritage, the Irish harp has long Read more…
Today 11.30am – 1.00pm at Hall of the Red Earl, Druid Lane, Galway Civic Trust / Dúchas na Gaillimhe
Free Event – Lá na Cruite, Harp Day 2024 SATURDAY, 19th OCTOBER 11.30 AM – 1.00 PM The Red Earl’s Hall, Druid Lane, Galway Harp and Bard: Kathleen Loughnane, Catriona Cannon. As our national emblem and a symbol of our cultural heritage, the Irish harp has long been cherished Read more…
By Ian Brophy, Galway Civic Trust On this day, 29 July, 1326, Richard de Burgo, the ‘Red Earl’, died at Athassel Priory in Co. Tipperary, and was buried there. Athassel Priory was founded by the Augustinians under the patronage of William de Burgo, sometime in the late 1100’s. William de Read more…
By Ian Brophy On this day, 15 June, 1919, a plane landed in a bog outside Clifden, Co. Galway. It sluggishly came to a stop, up-ended, and took a nose-dive. This most inhospitable, barren landscape – Derrigimlagh Bog – was already the home of the first transatlantic wireless station. Read more…
On this day, 16 May, we celebrate the Feast Day of St. Brendan. By Ian Brophy, Dúchas na Gaillimhe Brendan was born during the Middle Ages in 484 A.D.in Co. Kerry. He was baptised near Ardfert,Co. Kerry by Bishop Erc. At the tender age of one, he was sent to Read more…
By Ian Brophy, Galway Civic Trust On this day, 23 April, 1937, a Salmon was caught in the traps on the Galway Fishery. This specimen fish weighed in at 43 lbs, was 4 ft in length and 27 inches in girth. The Galway Fishery is a severed (several) Read more…
On this day, Isabella Augusta Persse was born. She was born into wealth, her family being the wealthy Persse family, the distillers of Persse’s Galway whiskey. She was the 12th of 16 children. She received her education at home, where her future was strongly influenced by the family nanny, Mary Read more…
For it was on a Tuesday, a cold day; there was a bite in the air. He requested an extra garment to protect him from the chill in the air; lest the crowd see him shivering and mistake it for cowardice. He left his home and was escorted to Whitehall, Read more…
On 6 December we mark the Feast Day of St. Nicholas (of Myra). St. Nicholas of Myra was a 4th-century bishop of Greek descent from Myra, now in Turkey. Relatively little is known about the life of Nicholas. While on a visit to the Holy Land, a storm almost destroyed Read more…