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Martin Brennan came from Kildysart in County Clare and was apprenticed in a drapery shop, probably in Ennis, in 1861. In 1881/82, he moved to Galway and set up business on Shop Street. Twenty years later, he had a fire in his premises and had to organise a major Salvage Sale in which to sell off all goods left after the recent fire, some partly burned and a large portion damaged by water. He obviously recovered and made a success of the business as you can see from this advertisement c1910, his premises had taken up a good portion of the street. He brought his nephew Martin into the business in 1906.

The inaugural festival will run from next Thursday, October 15, to Sunday, October 18, and will feature talks and readings on fiction, essays, historical fiction, poetry, history and music. All events are in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Middle Street. Everything is free but booking is required.

Luan Gallery hosted an informative Artists’ Talk with artist, curator, writer and arts consultant, Neva Elliott, in conversation with exhibiting artists, Swiss-Italian photographer, Ugo Ricciardi and Irish artists, Sarah Edmondson, Mary Martin and Niamh McGuinne, working collaboratively as the Midden Collective.

Luan Gallery is delighted to host an Artist Talk with artist, curator, writer and arts consultant, in conversation with exhibiting artists, Swiss-Italian photographer Ugo Ricciardi and Irish artists Sarah Edmondson, Mary Martin and Niamh McGuinne, working collaboratively as the Midden Collective.

Students of Calasanctius college are ‘Joyful Joyful’ with the return of the school musical after a three year break due to the pandemic, with the countdown to curtain call of ‘Sister Act,’ a musical we are familiar with which stars Whoopi Goldberg.

Luan Gallery’s new exhibitions opened to the public on Saturday, October 1.

Luan Gallery is delighted to present ‘Nightscapes’ by Swiss-Italian photographer Ugo Ricciardi and ‘Midden’ by Irish artists Sarah Edmondson, Mary Martin, and Niamh McGuinne - the exhibitions opening on Saturday, October 1, at 2.30pm and continuing to Sunday, November 20.

The public has been urged to give what they can this Daffodil Day in support of crucial services provided by the Irish Cancer Society to patients and their families in Mayo.

After her Connemara tour Maria Edgeworth kept up a correspondence with the Martins. She followed their fortunes and misfortunes with all the attention of an enthralled novel-reader. There was plenty to hold her attention. In the spring of 1835 the Martins travelled to London where Mary was presented at court and moved in fashionable society, attending dinner parties and charity events, of which a cynical Lord Byron remarked that these galas were nothing less than a marriage market.

Last weekend saw plenty of good scoring around the golf clubs in Mayo.