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The Galway Film Fleadh is a platform for international cinema in Ireland and an advocate for Irish national cinema, for which the festival's identity has become synonymous. [57] The Galway Film Fleadh is an industry festival, with many industry events taking place under the name of the Galway Film Fair. [58]
In Irish, Galway is also called Cathair na Gaillimhe ("city of Galway") which is a modern creation to prevent confusion with Contae na Gaillimhe / County Galway which is often incorrectly called Gaillimh in Irish. There are multiple alternative derivations of the name, some conjectural and some mythical:
County Galway (/ ˈ ɡ ɔː l w eɪ / GAWL-way; Irish: Contae na Gaillimhe) is a county in Ireland.It is in the Northern and Western Region, taking up the south of the province of Connacht.
University of Galway is the setting for, and is referred to in, numerous works of fiction. Breandán Ó hEithir's novel Lig Sinn i gCathú, set in a thinly disguised Galway and telling the story of student life over four days in April 1949, has featured on the secondary school Leaving Certificate syllabus.
Galway's urban elite gained a restoration of some of their power during the reign of the King Charles II (1660–1685) and his successor James II. However, Jacobite defeat in the War of the Two Kings (1689–91), marked the end of the Tribes' once overwhelming political influence on the life of the city.
Galway (Irish: Gaillimh [1]) is a barony in Ireland, comprising Galway city and surrounding parts of County Galway [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The barony is coterminous with the former County of the Town of Galway , [ 3 ] a county corporate created by the town's 1610 charter and abolished by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 .
Galway City Council (Irish: Comhairle Cathrach na Gaillimhe) is the local authority of the city of Galway, Ireland. As a city council , it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001 . The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, and environment .
Galway was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1921 to 1937. The method of election was proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).