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Galway Station (Railway and Bus) Eyre Square Forster Street Galway Arts Festival Shop Street The Nora Barnacle House, Bowling Green St. Nicholas' Anglican Church High Street Spanish Arch On the way to Rossaveal |
Galway, the largest county in the province of Connacht, lies to the west of Ireland by the coast. The area has been inhabited since prehistoric times in places like Connemara. Galway City is known as the capital of the west. It is a magical city as even its name comes from Gallaimh, a mythological princess who drowned in the river nearby. In 1477 Christopher Columbus stopped over in Galway city with a fleet of ships and was given a blessing in St. Nicholas's Church. The Spanish Armada also stopped in Galway to take shelter, and Galway soon established good trading links with Spain. By the middle of the seventeenth century Galway was a great city until an English ruler named Cromwell invaded. Galway was soon became poor and over-crowded as Cromwell had seized all the wealth of the city. The final blow was the great Famine 1846-1849. It is only today that Galway has fully recovered.
Nora Barnacle, Joyce's wife, was born there to parents in Sullivan's Lane on March 21, 1884. Her father was a baker, an also a heavy drinker, kept his large family poor, according to Richard Ellmann's biography James Joyce (rev. 1982, p.157).
Coole Park, the home of Lady Gregory, and also the setting of W. B. Yeats' famous poem "Wild Swans at Coole" is about twenty-four miles outside Galway on the Gort/Limerick road. Moreover, Yeats' tower Thoor Ballylee is very close to the park.
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Galway Station | Galway Station | |
(Wednesday 26 July) Inside of Galway Station | ||
Eyre Square | Eyre Square: It is known as Kennedy Park, in honor of John F. Kennedy (1917-1963: the 35th US President, 1961-1963), who visited the city in 1963, five months before his assassination. | |
(Wednesday 26 July) Eyre Square: It is known as Kennedy Park, in honor of John F. Kennedy (1917-1963: the 35th US President, 1961-1963), who visited the city in 1963, five months before his assassination. | ||
(Wednesday 26 July) Eyre Square | ||
Forster Street | Forster Street | |
(Wednesday 26 July) Forster Street | ||
(Wednesday 26 July) New Dragon Court (a Chinese restaurant), Forster Street | ||
Galway Arts Festival | Galway Arts Festival | |
(Wednesday 26 July) A scene from Galway Arts Festival, William Street | ||
(Wednesday 26 July) A scene from Galway Arts Festival, William Street | ||
Shop Street | Shop Street | |
(Wednesday 26 July) A street musician, Shop Street | ||
(Wednesday 26 July) Street entertainer, Shop Street | ||
(Wednesday 26 July) Shop Street | ||
(Wednesday 26 July) The Kiernan's (meat master), off Shop Street | ||
Nora Barnacle House | The Nora Barnacle House, Bowling Green | |
(Wednesday 26 July) The Nora Barnacle House, Bowling Green | ||
(Wednesday 26 July) The Nora Barnacle House, Bowling Green | ||
(Wednesday 26 July) Inside of The Nora Barnacle House. Sheila Gallagher is telling about Nora. | ||
St. Nicholas' Anglican Church | St. Nicholas' Anglican Church | |
(Wednesday 26 July) St. Nicholas' Anglican Church | ||
(Wednesday 26 July) St. Nicholas' Anglican Church | ||
(Wednesday 26 July) Back of St. Nicholas' Anglican Church, Market Street | ||
High Street | High Street | |
(Wednesday 26 July) High Street | ||
(Wednesday 26 July) Kenny's Bookshop & Art Gallery, High Street | ||
Spanish Arch | Galway City Museum & the Spanish Arch | |
(Wednesday 26 July) Galway City Museum & the Spanish Arch | ||
(Wednesday 26 July) The Spanish Arch | ||
(Wednesday 26 July) Backward of the Spanish Arch | ||
(Wednesday 26 July) Backward of the Spanish Arch | ||
(Wednesday 26 July) Claddagh Quay: a scene from the Long Walk (in the side of the Spanish Arch) | ||
On the way to Rossaveal | Near Rossaveal, the port to the Aran Islands | |
(Wednesday 26 July) Near Rossaveal |