Galway Public Libraries
Through the Irish countrywide library network, the Healthy Ireland at Your Library programme will provide a range of resources, services and support to users and communities.
Book stock
A comprehensive collection of books on health and wellbeing will be available in all public libraries.
Online resources
New e-books, e-audiobooks and e-magazines will be accessible in every library and by remote access
Health information services
Trained staff will be able to provide information guidance and direction to users with health and wellbeing queries and promote health awareness in the community.
Branding and Promotion
National and local campaigns, promotional materials including roll-up banners and bookmarks, and online promotion through the Libraries Ireland website and social media.
Programmes and events
Talks, discussions and workshops with a focus on physical health, mental health and health literacy.
Staff training
Training sessions for each local authority will build the knowledge and skills of library staff to meet user needs for health information and to respond confidently to user requests and provide direction to relevant health resources.
Ballinasloe Library Official Opening
The new public library in Ballinasloe has been officially opened by Galway County Cathaoirleach Peter Roche.
The building which has been in operation since last November was converted from the old Mercy Convent and Church which was bought by Galway county council almost a decade ago.
County councillor for Ballinasloe, Tim Broderick, described the new library as a breath of fresh air for town. “It’s bringing resources and people into the town to avail of the facilities that are housed within it,” said councillor Broderick.
Public funding for the project came from Ballinasloe Town council, Galway County council and a grant of €200,000 was obtained from the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government.
The library comes equipped with high speed fibre broadband on nine public PCs, Wi-Fi and self-service RFID machines. The ‘Surfbox’ printing solution is also available which enables members to print from their home or mobile devices and collect printouts at the library using a unique code.
The Church Gallery, which is another feature of the structure, is fitted with state-of-the-art audio visual system which inculdes a HD projector with screen and a PA system.
There are also offices, community meeting rooms, and the Europe Direct Centre available for use at the library.
Galway County Council Council Chamber
Galway County Council
Council Chamber
The twin challenges of the project was to extend the existing council chamber within the confines of the Aras An Chontae building to accommodate an increased council of 39 members and the long-standing tradition that Galway’s County Council sits in a single row so that there is no hierarchy amongst the elected members.
simon j kelly + partners architects set the design intent for the new chamber carpet to artistically interpret the unique landscape of County Galway - from the grey horizon of the wild Atlantic to the purple gorse of Connemara, from the green fields of Athenry to the municipal maroon of the county’s GAA jerseys - A delight of contours mapping the palette of the county’s unique colour spectrum - all linked by ripples of water as it flows from our western skies into our rivers, lakes, rock pools and back to the sea.
Connemara Carpets responded to this creative challenge.
The chamber is coordinated with the oval desk design made by EMP Furniture
It is a credit to the skill of the design team and the construction team lead by Carey Construction that extended chamber appears to have been made so effortlessly
The collaboration of architecture and craft unifies underfoot
in the renewed Council Chamber.
The Council Chamber project opens a new chapter of design quality by simon j kelly + partners architects.
Galway County Council
Council Chamber
Photography Credits:
Ros Kavanagh for simon j kelly + partners architects
Aoife Herriott for Connemara Carpets
Project Credits:
Design: simon j kelly + partners architects
Directors: Dermot McCabe, Elaine Naughton, Edel Tobin.
Construction: Carey Building Contractors
Carpet: Connemara Carpets
Furniture: EMP Furniture
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Galway (drone footage)
As I am preparing to leave this place which I called home for a year, I thought I’d share a few last images. Going on a half-year off of full-time travelling. Stay tuned for more videos like this one!
This is a video made of self-recorded drone shots of Galway including Landmarks such as the Galway Cathedral, Claddagh, Mutton Island, National University of Ireland Galway, Salthill Public Park, River Corrib, New Cemetery (Bohermore)
Big thank you to everyone who appeared in the video!
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Roger Casement and Galway in 1916
On Thursday 7th April 2016 in Galway City Library The Liam and Tom O'Flaherty Society hosted a lecture on 'Roger Casement and Galway in 1916' presented by Angus Mitchell, the foremost authority on Casement.
Angus Mitchell, who was born in Africa and educated in England, has lived for over two decades in Ireland, where he has studied the life and legacy of Roger Casement and a group of associated radicals, pacifists, feminists, cosmopolitan nationalists, internationalists and other critics of empire. To date, his published research has focused largely on Roger Casement's work in Africa and South America.
Mitchell's extensive writings on Roger Casement have helped to retrieve the former diplomat into the history of human rights and placed him firmly within the progressive anti-colonial forces of pre-First World War Britain. Mitchell's work has also reinvigorated academic interest in Casement and the controversies associated with his life.
Much of the early research for his body of work was undertaken while Mitchell was resident in South America, where he travelled widely on the Amazon and revisited the principal locations where Casement stayed when consul general in Brazil.
His work has cast vital new light on Casement's entanglement with British intelligence and the enduring puzzle over the authenticity of the nefarious Black Diaries, the documents that have largely defined Casement's myth in the public imagination. Mitchell has long made the argument, along with other reputable historians, that these documents are forgeries.
Corrib Village - Galway - County Galway - Ireland
Corrib Village - Galway - Comté de Galway - Irlande
Coordonnées GPS: 53°17'17.3N 9°03'59.3W
Après avoir visité le monastère Clontuskert, nous nous sommes dirigés vers Galway, plus précisément au Corrib Village qui est un campus universitaire situé à une vingtaine de minutes à pied du coeur de la ville. C'est à cet endroit que nous passerons la nuit.
Le bâtiment abritant la réception n'est pas facile à trouver. Il s'agit d'un bâtiment bleu situé en face d'un autre bâtiment qui contient une petite épicerie, un restaurant, une salle à manger ainsi qu'un salon avec plusieurs fauteuils et table de billard.
Le personnel à la réception était très sympathique.
Nous avons choisi ce type d'hébergement car le prix était très attrayant. Nous avons obtenu une petite chambre avec le strict minimum: lit, bureau, lampe, téléphone ainsi que quelques tablettes pour le rangement, ce qui nous convenait parfaitement. Nous n'y passons qu'une seule nuit.
La chambre était propre, le lit confortable et le calme y régnait.
La toilette et la douche sont situées dans une autre pièce et elles sont partagées avec les autres occupants de l'immeuble s'il y a lieu.
Le petit déjeuner est inclus. On y retrouve, entre autres, du pain, des céréales, des fruits, de la marmelade, café, jus et lait.
Un service de navette est offert gratuitement pour ceux qui désirent se rendre en ville.
En ce qui nous concerne, nous avons préféré nous y rendre à pied par le petit sentier qui longe la rivière Corrib. Ce sentier est situé à proximité du campus.
Nous avons été satisfaits de l'ensemble des prestations offertes par ce campus.
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The Importance of Public Libraries in Society - Pat McMahon
An excerpt from Pat McMahon's, former Galway County Librarian, talk on the Importance of Libraries in Society at the Galway City International Heritage Conference 24th -26th September, 2014.
This year the theme of the 4th Annual Heritage Conference is A Millennium and Half of Irish Literary Heritage.
The events included a sparkling-line up of Conference speakers who speaking on a wide variety of aspects of Irish literature from Ogham stones to medieval manuscripts, medieval libraries, the origins of printing, literature in Irish and English, Gaelic manuscripts, the Celtic Revival and Gaelic Revival, modern Irish writing and writers, and the place of Ireland in the World of Literature.
Some of the World's most important writers, poets and academics, artists and selected calligraphers shared their knowledge over two days and there will be a tour of Dublin Literary sites on the third day hosted by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Co. Council.
Galway Line scenes 1980s
Scenes from the mid 1980s mainly filmed on the former MGWR line to Galway along with some WRC scenes too.
Your Council, Working for Everyone
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Patrick McGill's 'The Great Push' (Part 1) Galway's Great Read
On Thursday, 19 November 2015 in Tuam Library, Galway, actor and teacher Gerry Conneely delivered a dramatic presentation of ‘The Great Push.’ Using Patrick McGill’s novel of the same name as a backdrop, Gerry gave a fascinating presentation of the experience of the Irish ‘Tommy’ of the First World War.
Scully Fitness - Annaghdown, Co. Galway
Here's what an average day at the gym looks like.
Short tour inside the Monivea Mausoleum, Galway, Ireland
A brief tour inside the ffrench mausoleum at Monivea Woods, County Galway, Ireland
Moylough Library
Moylough Branch Library
Even in the smallest town the public library is the institution which builds a sense of local community.
Galway County Council has in Moylough a library which is alive and welcoming.
Under the skilful direction of Patricia Conneely, the Moylough Librarian, the library is giving a real service.
Patricia welcomes all visitors to Moylough Library with warmth, affection, a sense of scholarship, and knowledge.
We invite you to view this video in which Patricia Conneely talks about the library service in Moylough
Kylemore Abbey
Kylemore Abbey (Irish: Mainistir na Coille Móire) is a Benedictine monastery founded in 1920 on the grounds of Kylemore Castle, in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. The abbey was founded for Benedictine Nuns who fled Belgium in World War I. The current Mother Abbess of the Benedictine Community is Mary Margaret Funk.
History:
Kylemore Castle was built as a private home for the family of Mitchell Henry, a wealthy doctor from London whose family was involved in textile manufacturing in Manchester, England. He moved to Ireland when he and his wife Margaret purchased the land around the Abbey. He became a politician, becoming an MP for County Galway from 1871 to 1885. The castle was designed by James Franklin Fuller, aided by Ussher Roberts. Construction first began in 1867, and took one hundred men four years to complete. The castle covered approximately 40,000 square feet (3,700 m2) and had over seventy rooms with a principal wall that was two to three feet thick. The facade measures 142 feet (43 m) in width and is made of granite brought from Dalkey by sea to Letterfrack and from limestone brought from Ballinasloe. There were 33 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 4 sitting rooms, a ballroom, billiard room, library, study, school room, smoking room, gun room and various offices and domestic staff residences for the butler, cook, housekeeper and other servants. Other buildings include a Gothic cathedral and family mausoleum containing the bodies of Margaret Henry, Mitchell Henry and a great grand-nephew.
The Abbey remained in Henry's estate after he returned to England. The castle was sold to the Duke and Duchess of Manchester in 1909, who resided there for several years before being forced to sell the house and grounds because of gambling debts. In 1920, the Irish Benedictine Nuns purchased the Abbey castle and lands after they were forced to flee Ypres, Belgium during World War I. The nuns, who had been based in Ypres for several hundred years, had been bombed out of their Abbey during World War I. The nuns continued to offer education to Catholic girls, opening an international boarding school and establishing a day school for girls from the locality. The school acted as the main educator for most girls from Renvyle, Letterfrack and further afield for almost a century but it was forced to close in June 2010.
Walled Victorian Gardens, Kylemore Abbey
The Estate includes large walled Victorian Gardens. Since the 1970s these have been open for public tours and 'nature' walks. The Benedictine community has restored the Abbey's gardens and Cathedral with donations and local artisans in order to be a self-sustaining estate.
Garavan's Pub in Galway
In Galway we met Eammon McAllister, singing Simon and Garfunkle and tapping out the beat on the bar. We loaned him a guitar and started the cameras rolling.
Galway + Connemara Road Trip
Went on a little road trip through Ireland up to the beautiful Connemara. We also had a tittle stroll through Galway. :)
As always I hope you like it.
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Tuam - An Enterprising Town
Tuam has always shown great resilience in business coupled with immense entrepreneurial spirit and drive.
The closure of the Irish Sugar Company in January 1987 dealt a heavy blow to the town and its rural hinterland but Tuam has since gone from strength to strength drawing on its rich ecclesiastical heritage, vibrant arts and cultural scene, and solid indigenous and international business community.
Tuam has benefited from key infrastructural upgrades in recent years with an investment of €28million to upgrade water and sewerage infrastructure as well as installation of both gas and high-speed broadband network. The recent opening of the M17 motorway has directly connected Tuam with Shannon Airport, Limerick, and Dublin.
This transformation of Tuam has resulted in a town that is primed with capacity and opportunities for people to work and live in the town, supporting the Atlantic Economic Corridor’s drive towards a low carbon, high value economy ideally located to serve and collaborate with the significant growth areas of Galway, Sligo and Athlone.
Tuam’s symbol is that of the Broken Wheel, a legend associated with St Jarlath. We are proud that the wheels of industry and innovation keep on turning. We invite you to visit Tuam, Co. Galway - an enterprising town with a warm welcome, ready and willing to embrace the opportunities and challenges of the future.
Adventures in Galway, Ireland
Exploring in Galway
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Welcome to NUI Galway
Take a look around our beautiful campus in the heart of Galway city. Explore some of our areas of expertise and get a feel for life in our unique University. It was filmed on campus, in Galway city and around Connemara by Galway-based company, Bula Bosca.