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Galway Fringe Festival FundIt campaign
THE GALWAY Fringe Festival online FundIt campaign, to support the upcoming festival which runs from July 11 to 27, runs until Tuesday June 2, and the festival is appealing to the public for support.
Women’s history lecture tonight
The lives of Irish women a century ago will be the subject of a discussion featuring leading historians at the Galway Mechanics Institute, Middle St, on this evening at 8pm.
Public lecture on 1913 Galway lockout
Most people know something of the Dublin lock-out of 1913, in which James Larkin’s ITGWU faced an Employers’ Federation led by William Martin Murphy.
Those who sing pray twice
A friend once told me that the quality of choral singing in her local church was such that even the most familiar hymns sounded unfamiliar. For those who frequent the Augustinian church on Sunday mornings, the reverse is true as each Sunday is made special by the wonderful four-part harmonies and beautiful singing of the choir there. A century ago they were referred to in the local press as ‘magnificent’ and even then were singing works by Haydn, Mendelsshon, and Weber.
