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Galway - ‘The only city that raised a statue to an author’
During the first 20 years of the 19th century Maria Edgeworth was the most successful and celebrated living novelist. With her friends Sir Culling Smith and his lady wife they had travelled from Edgeworthstown, Co Longford, to Galway, and from there they planned a leisurely holiday in Connemara.
'It was in the air'
Prior to 1961, public performance of Irish traditional music in Galway took place primarily in the form of céilís in large dancehalls — namely in the Hangar, the Commercial and the Astaire. These were enormously popular — remember the hundreds of bicycles parked outside the Hangar on a Sunday night — but they began to go out of fashion in the sixties and were regarded as old fashioned and backward.
City native makes fiction debut with stunning rural noir whodunnit
It was a sort of homecoming for Galway-native writer Michelle McDonagh last week as she savoured the atmosphere of Cuirt the week in which her debut novel was launched in her native city.
Maigh Cuilinn secure vital play-off win
Maigh Cuilinn retained their status in Basketball Ireland Men’s Superleague after they prevailed in a tense relegation play-off battle against UCD Marian in Dublin’s National Basketball Arena last weekend.
Maigh Cuilinn’s Superleague credentials on the line in play-off
It is win or go down for Maigh Cuilinn’s Superleague basketballers this Sunday (4pm) as they head into their relegation play-off game against UCD Marian in Dublin’s National Basketball Arena.
Moycullen heads to Leitir Móir for crucial home game
Leitir Móir hosts ts first Basketball Ireland Superleague match in almost 15 years with Maigh Cuilinn to play their crucial final home game of the season in theSportlann Michael Mhóir.
Crunch time for Moycullen basketball with trip to Kerry
Maigh Cuilnn hit the road for Kerry this weekend on the back of a dramatic home win, but the close of the Basketball Ireland Men’s Superleague and a relegation dogfight is starkly in view.
Moycullen must give St Vincent's a 'a real rattle'
This Sunday the University of Galway Sports Arena plays host to a Maigh Cuilinn Superleague basketball game for the last time this season and it may well be the biggest game of the campaign to date for the Connemara men.
Maigh Cuilinn need a massive 'W' this weekend
Maigh Cuilinn play host this Saturday at 7pm in University of Galway Sports Arena to one of the favourites for the Basketball Ireland men’s Superleague crown, Ballincollig from Cork.
