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Naval officer returns to his home waters on special visit to sailing club
Irish Navy Lieutenant Jason Croke returned to his early sail training waters at Galway Bay Sailing Club recently.
Widow Wilkins and the delicate matter of her ‘breach of promise’
The case of Blake v Wilkins in 1817 was so eagerly anticipated that every lodging house in Galway, ‘even the humblest in the town was' was filled to overflowing.
The D&I Dramatic Society
The Dominican and Ignatian Dramatic Society (known as the D&I) was set up by Fr Peadar Feeney SJ in the late 1950s. Most of the members were past pupils of St Ignatius’ College or The Dominican Convent, Taylor’s Hill. They staged a play every year for several years with any profits accruing going to the two school funds.
Puccini’s Madam Butterfly at The Eye
PUCCINI'S MADAM Butterfly will be performed in New York's Metropolitan Opera and broadcast live to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, this Saturday at 6pm.
George Nicholls, Rising organiser and volunteer
George Nicholls was a young solicitor who worked in G.C. Conroy’s office in Francis Street. In 1912, he set up a pipe band known as “Cumann Píobairí naGaillimhe”, the only band with an Irish language name to play at O’Donovan Rossa’s funeral to which they travelled in the company of Padraic Pearse.
