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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.

A major exhibition celebrating the life and legacy of Galway-native Irish scholar and professor Tomás Ó Máille is open at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. Culture & Citizenship: Tomás Ó Máille was commissioned by the Department of Irish in the University of Galway and produced in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy and the National Library.

A new website featuring extracts from Bailiúchán Béaloidis Árann (the Árainn Folklore Project), a community folklore collection that is more than twenty years a-growing, will be launched next month in Inis Mór, the largest of the three Aran Islands. Partnering on the project are Gaois, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU, and the National Folklore Collection at UCD, the co-creators of the website dúchas.ie.

A GROUNDBREAKING new book on Irish traditional music, particularly the music of the Aran Islands, will be launched next week.