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Dhírigh na comhairleoirí ar agóidí Fhaiche na Coróiní agus Pictiúrlann an Pálás i rith a gcéad chruinniú as Gaeilge

There was a light-hearted, spring atmosphere at the March plenary meeting of Galway City Council this week, as the city's leaders attempted their assembly solely in Irish for the first time in seven centuries of civic government.

Military historian Dr Pádraig Lenihan will give a talk next week on the 1812 sack of Badajoz, when an Anglo-Portugese army, spearheaded by Galway’s Connaught Rangers, went on a three-day rampage in Spain.

During a recent visit to the Isle of Man, I was struck by a substantial monument in Douglas, commemorating a maritime rescue in 1830. Aware of another heroic rescue in Galway the same year, I realised both took place during the same storm.

A new Autograph Tree dedicated to the late Ronnie O’Gorman will be planted in the Walled Garden at Coole Park this weekend as part of the Lady Gregory-Yeats Autumn Gathering.

Corrib Beo will hold a programme of events during Heritage Week to celebrate the Corrib and its role in Galway life through the ages.

When is a swimming pool not for swimming? When it is a multi-million euro renovation project to re-open an old tidal swimming spot in Salthill, obviously.

You reach the summit of Diamond Hill, or somewhere similar along the many spectacular locations on Galway's stunning coastline, and what you see takes your breath away. You want to capture the beauty of this sight before your eyes, and you reach for your camera. But, no matter what angle you look from, or how many photos you take, you cannot do justice to the view before you. The camera lens is not wide enough, your eyes barely are, and you realise the scene cannot be adequately captured.

Galway’s town hall was occupied by housing protesters in 1922, and a soviet declared. Land seizures across the county shocked the government of the newly independent state, while a huge bronze statue in Eyre Square was dragged by a mob into the sea.