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Galway’s historic Druid Lane will come alive with voices, music, and stories on Saturday, August 23 as the city gathers to honour the life and legacy of Peadar O’Dowd, the beloved historian, author, and champion of Galway’s heritage.

Galway has always been a city of stories—tales whispered through stone walls, sung across the bay, and told beside fire and pub counter. But few told them as lovingly and thoroughly as Peadar O’Dowd. Historian, teacher, author, environmentalist, tour guide, columnist, and tireless ambassador for Galway’s past, Peadar passed away on January 4, 2024, leaving behind a city immeasurably richer for his life’s work and immeasurably poorer in his absence.

Peadar O’Dowd’s credentials for writing about Galway were impeccable. One of four children, Nono, Willie, Martin and Peadar, born to their parents John and Bridget, he grew up in Bohermore and was always grateful for the fact. He lived his life there and throughout that life would celebrate the area and its people in hundreds of articles and interviews he published in various newspapers and journals.

Peadar Monaghan Auctioneer is offering for sale approximately 12 acres of good quality farming land with shelter, situated off the N83 and close to Cloonacauneen Castle.

An audiobook version of the recently released novel The Confession of Peadar Gibbons is now available on Audible and iTunes.

THROUGHOUT THE noughties writer/director/performer Peadar de Burca was a familiar presence on Galway's theatre scene with a string of shows under the Morwax Productions banner.

Conradh na Gaeilge, also known as the Gaelic League, was founded by Douglas Hyde and Eoin McNeill in July 1893. Their aim was to keep the Irish language alive and preserve the Gaelic elements of Ireland’s culture. It was open to all creeds, was non-political, and accepted women on an equal basis. It used a broad approach, organising classes and competitions in Irish music, dancing, literature, and games. After a sluggish six years in existence, it suddenly morphed into a mass movement.

Tommy McKearney, who took part in the first IRA H Block hunger strike in 1980, spending 53 days on the fast for political status, will address a public meeting in Galway.

INISHBOFIN SINGER and songwriter Peadar King, and his band, play An Taibhdhearc tomorrow night.

A special evening of literature and music, featuring award-winning author and playwright Colm Tóibín, takes place on Saturday.