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ONE OF the main events at the Galway Fringe Festival this weekend is Emigrant Elegy. This event is a juxtaposition of emigrant history and human desire to love and belong, in the form of words and music, bringing together the rich multiculturalism of the past and present in Ireland.

IT IS always one of the main indie nights of the year, a chance to see and hear some of the best rising and emerging Galway and Irish bands around. It is the Strange Brew Summer Shindig in the Róisín Dubh.

ANGELS IN America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Tony Kushner’s multi-award winning, two-part play, running in Britain's National Theatre, will be broadcast live to Galway

America's high profile swim boss is heading across the Atlantic to take part in the Frances Thornton Memorial Galway Bay Swim on July 22.

BRIAN WILSON is not the only veteran of thrilling 1960s harmony-based singing coming to the Absolut Big Top in this year’s GIAF. Ladysmith Black Mambazo are flying in from Durban with their world-renowned celebratory sounds of South Africa.

DAVID MARTIN, known as Ireland’s ‘Singing Soldier’ takes to the stage of the Town Hall Theatre with his A Night At The Opera show, to perform an array of classical favourites.

Current county champions Corofin eased into the preliminary quarter-finals of the senior football championship once again after a underwhelming, yet highly effective display against Maigh Cuilinn, in Pearse Stadium, winning by 2-17 to 0-11.

Galway City Chiropractic has provided services of CAI registered chiropractic care to the public for the past 17 years.

This Saturday June 17, McDonoghs in Ballybane are holding a cookery demonstration and instructional talk on the use of the premium range of outdoor ceramic Primo grills.

Apart from overcrowding and disease, the biggest problem in many of the workhouses was the behaviour of young women. The women, who perhaps had been brought there as children, were now adolescent, many of them unruly and wild. They tended to be the most troublesome, involved in fighting and, on occasions, rioting. Their behaviour resulted from boredom. While males could be employed breaking stones, or farm work, there were not enough jobs for females, and no effort made to educate them or train them in any skill. By June 1850 in the Mountbellew workhouse, Co Galway, females made up 60 per cent of the inmate population. Three hundred and eighty two were adult; while 199 were aged between nine and 15 years.