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Galway has lost many of its great characters and citizens in recent years — those vivid, unruly, generous spirits who animated the city’s great ongoing soap opera. Each departure has thinned the patchwork a little more. These were people who might have disagreed ferociously on politics, art, or the proper way to make the perfect pot of tea, but together they helped shape a city that has always prided itself on principled dissent, on argument, on action. Galway has always needed its contrarians, its believers, its dreamers. Margaretta D’Arcy was one of the finest of them.