Dear people of #Galway, this weekend there will be an Tóstal festival in #Salthill. Please come to see the traditional currach racing and the parade of our beauties, the Galway Hookers. If you participate in #darknessintolight2024, you'll also be able to see the Hookers sailing into the sunrise in support of the cause.
Please see the schedule (it seems like tiny traders market was canceled, but everything is according to the plan.
4 Apr 1683: d. Sir Edward Eyre #otd buried in St Nicholas church #Galway - his surname, through his grandson’s donation of land - still lives on in the modern Eyre Square (NLI).
26 Mar 1653: Having fled #Ireland after the fall of #Galway Richard Archdekin of Kilkenny City, the #Jesuit hagiographer of St. Patrick arrives in the #Spanish Netherlands #otd where he would later record miracles wrought by the relics of St Francis Xavier at #Mechlin
26 Mar 1653: Having fled #Ireland after the fall of #Galway Richard Archdekin of Kilkenny City, the #Jesuit hagiographer of St. Patrick arrives in the #Spanish Netherlands #otd where he would later record miracles wrought by the relics of St Francis Xavier at #Mechlin
19 Mar 1647: Julia Nolan of #Galway having separated from her husband by mutual consent professes #otd as #Dominican. He became a friar. She re-established the #Galway convent 1686-98 after which it became a clandestine community.
13 Jan 1580: Fearganainm Ó Domhnalláin of #Galway enters #Cambridge University #otd under the name Nehemiah Donnellan - later Archbishop of #Tuam, he was involved in early 17thC printed translations of the New Testament and the Book of Common Prayer into #Gaeilge#Irish
11 Dec 1697: d. Dominic Lynch of #Galway Dominican at the Colegio de Santo Tomás Sevilla #otd He was Regent of the College for 18 years but before he could take up the post he had to journey home to being back proof of his pedigree
8 Dec 1647: Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh completes his translation of Poor Clare Declarations & Ordinances into #Irish#Gaeilge#otd for Sr. Bonaventure Browne of #Galway.
On this day in 1690, Rose Carthy Gerreaghty died. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Ross Abbey, Co. Galway, in the Journals: https://bit.ly/ger1690
In Claddagh, #Galway, we are witnessing a unique evolutionary event: #StormDebi has prompted the evolution of boats. Once quiet marine creatures, they are rapidly evolving to walk on land and starting to leave the ocean.
In the natural history of the world, this has only happened once before, 430 million years ago.
Please keep your distance and do not disturb boats if you encounter them on land!
On this day in 1780, Stephen Radcliff became vicar of Athleague, Fuerty and Kilbegnet in Cos. Roscommon and Galway. Find out more about the early ministers of this parish in the Journals: https://bit.ly/rad1780
On this day in 1838, Patrick Cullinane died aged 28. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Claregalway Abbey, Co. Galway, in the Journals: https://bit.ly/cull1838