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The title of this photograph is “A Claddagh Family” and it dates from c1865. It is from an album discovered some time ago in Chetham Library in Manchester in which all of the photographs are of locations in Galway city or county. It is interesting to note that a photograph of this exact group in a different pose, almost certainly taken on the same day, is in a different album in the National Library of Ireland. This second  image is titled “The King of the Claddagh” but we do not know his name.

Heraldry: Coats of Arms Uncovered travelling exhibition is on show until Monday August 4 at Athlone Castle.

1916 AND All That is a new book by Galwegian Ciara Boylan, which takes a comic look at Irish history.

The National Museum of Country Life keeps up its wide range of education and demonstration programmes in the coming weeks. A textile craft demonstration will take place on Sunday January 28 from 11am to 4pm. The following Friday, February 3, the knitting circle will return. This drop-in event will take place from 11am to 1pm and is open to all. The following day, Saturday February 4, it is the turn of the music circle to strike up a tune from 3pm to 5pm.

The Labour Party’s presidential candidate Michael D Higgins this week presented his personal archive of writings and documents to the National Library of Ireland.

Kiltimagh native Mary Davis launched her bid for a nomination to contest the upcoming election for the Presidency of Ireland in Dublin yesterday morning at the National Library of Ireland on Kildare Street. The 56-year-old, who is best known as the person who brought the Special Olympics to Ireland in 2003, will be seeking the backing of four county councils to get her name on the ballot paper for the election later this year.

Images of daily life on the islands surrounding Ireland’s coastline are the subject of an exhibition entitled Island Life — The Islands of Ireland, assembled by the National Library of Ireland from its National Photographic Archive collections. Images of life in the early 20th century on Donegal, Mayo, and Galway islands form the exhibition which is currently on display at Áras Forbairt Acla, Keel, Achill Island, courtesy of The National Library.

Dazzling trad with Flook at the Linenhall

Irish Melodies concert

Top international pianist at the Linenhall