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Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology library, Ballybane: 2007: Grace Weir Individual counters affixed to the interior walls of the library showed the distances of each of the planets to the library, as they moved continually in real time. [17] Lord Dunkellin: Eyre Square: 1873: John Henry Foley: Destroyed in 1922 [18] Pádraic Ó Conaire: Eyre ...
Joyce Country highlighted in green, and Connemara highlighted in red. Joyce Country (Irish: Dúiche Sheoighe) is a cultural region in counties Galway and Mayo in Ireland.It is sometimes called Partry, after the former tribal territory of the Partraige, which it largely matches. [1]
Mayo is the third-largest of Ireland's 32 counties in area and 18th largest in terms of population. [5] It is the second-largest of Connacht's five counties in both size and population. Mayo has 1,168 km (726 mi) of coastline, or approximately 21% of the total coastline of the State.
The house at Moore Hall was designed by John Roberts, an architect from Waterford who also designed Tyrone House in County Galway in a similar style. It was built between 1792 and 1796, [10] and was occupied by various members of the extended Moore family until the turn of the 20th century.
The case of the Craughwell Prisoners during the Land War in Co. Galway, 1879–85, Pat Finnegan, 2012; Loughrea, that den of infamy: The Land War in County Galway, 1879–82, Pat Finnegan, 2014. East Galway agrarian agitation and the burning of Ballydugan House, 1922, Anne O'Riordan, 2015. Rebellion in Galway – Easter Rising 1916 Kevin Jordan ...
The Tribes of Galway (Irish: Treibheanna na Gaillimhe) were 14 merchant families who dominated the political, commercial and social life of the city of Galway in western Ireland between the mid-13th and late 19th centuries.
The Atlantic Technological University (also known as ATU or Atlantic TU; Irish: Ollscoil Teicneolaíochta an Atlantaigh; OTA) [106] was established in 2022 through the merger of Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT), Sligo Institute of Technology and Letterkenny Institute of Technology. [107] Its administrative headquarters are in Galway.
Toormakeady [2] or Tourmakeady (Irish: Tuar Mhic Éadaigh, the official name) [3] [4] [5] is a Gaeltacht in south County Mayo in the west of Ireland.It is located between the shores of Lough Mask and the Partry Mountains, and covers 172.26 square kilometres (66.51 sq mi). [6]