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The Roundstone Community Centre buzzed with excitement last week as it hosted the Roundstone’s Hidden Heritage 1824 - 2024 Conference, an event that saw people from all parts of the county and the local community gather in remarkable numbers to celebrate a significant bicentennial milestone.

A conference commemorating Alexander Nimmo’s founding of Roundstone and Hely Dutton’s Statistical Survey of Galway will be held next week. The event on Wednesday July 24 at Roundstone Community Centre, Roundstone, Co. Galway H91 C99W is titled Roundstone’s Hidden Heritage, 1824-2024.

The National Museum of Ireland - Country Life is located at Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co Mayo, and is just a 30 minute drive from Mayo's section of the Wild Atlantic Way.

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In 1887 Arthur J Balfour, a quintessential English unionist, was appointed chief secretary of Ireland by his uncle Lord Salisbury, the Conservative prime minister. No one expected much from this man whose appointment appeared so nepotistic as to suggest he was an incompetent. He was far from that.

The Citie of the Tribes was the name given to the first steamboat to sail on the bay. She was built in South Shields and registered on December 24, 1872, for the pioneering Galway Steamboat Company and her arrival here was hailed as the precursor of the new shipping millennium, the era of steam.

In 1851, the Mayo Gaeltacht stretched west across the county from a line between Kilasser and Ballindine, excluding the town of Ballina. The official census figures for that year record that 65.8 per cent of the county’s population could speak the Irish language. By 1926, that figure had plummeted to 36.8 per cent and today, 47.2 per cent of the Mayo population claim the ability to speak the language, though to vastly different standards. Statistics for where the language is living and in everyday use are more important and telling. In that regard, the Mayo Gaeltacht is now confined to the Erris region, the eastern half of Achill Island, the Corraun Peninsula and a pocket around Tourmakeady on the western shore of Lough Mask.

George Nicholls was a young solicitor who worked in G.C. Conroy’s office in Francis Street. In 1912, he set up a pipe band known as “Cumann Píobairí naGaillimhe”, the only band with an Irish language name to play at O’Donovan Rossa’s funeral to which they travelled in the company of Padraic Pearse.