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Galway City has lately been a European Capital of Culture. But, Galway City has always been a County seat, the Capital of Connacht, and the gateway to the Connemara Gaeltacht. In fact, once you cross the River Corrib, you’re officially in Connemara.

In the 1920s a family named Healy from College Road built three houses on Forster Street. The owner of the first house (next door to Harry Clare’s stonemason’s yard) was a Jewish man named Isaac. He did piano repairs and his daughter was an opera singer. He worked from a shed at the back of the house. In the 1930s he sold the house to John McDonagh from Glann near Oughterard, who was married to Mary Anne Spellman from Fermoyle. They opened a grocery shop and a lending library.