Every week we shine a light on a different object from our collections that you may not have seen before. This week we have a selection of posters acquired by the Museum in 2018. The posters date from the 1970s and 1980s and were used to advertise gigs/events in Galway. This particular selection is for [...]
During the first weeks of the Covid-19 Pandemic the Museum saw its doors shut to the public. We moved towards our online platform and focused our efforts on bringing the museum into people’s homes. Museum-from-home initiatives began springing up across Ireland and although the Galway City Museum website already let people browse the collection online, [...]
This beautiful photograph of the wedding of schoolteacher Delia Josephine O’Donohue and RIC constable Matthew Colgan was taken in Galway on 10 June 1906. They married at St Joseph’s Church, Presentation Road and would go on to have four children: Francis Gerard (1907), Mary Kathleen (1911), Irene Mary (1914) and Gerald Joseph (1916). Their youngest [...]
Victorian silver teapot presented by the Galway District Income Tax Collectors - a squat baluster shaped teapot, the panelled body etched with arabesques, engraved, 'Presented to James A Shaw Esq. as a mark of Esteem by the Income Tax Collectors of the Galway District 1863'. Sheffield, 1861, 23oz troy (735g). Reg.: GCM2019:010 Location: Storage
On the evening of 19 October 1920, one hundred years ago today, Michael Walsh – an urban councillor and proprietor of the Old Malt House at High Street, Galway – was taken from his premises by Crown forces, marched to the Long Walk and shot dead. His body was recovered from the River Corrib the [...]
Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Galway played an important role as a market and fair location for the people of the town and surrounding areas. On various market days, vegetables, butter and fowl were sold on the streets surrounding St. Nicholas’s Collegiate Church, cattle, pigs, hay and turf were sold in Eyre Square, willow baskets and [...]
An intriguing object on loan to Galway City Museum from the Dominican Sisters, Galway, is a silver eighteenth-century reliquary, complete with a key, containing a human skull. The reliquary has three glass panels framed in silver with a hinged copper door at the rear. The base panel is also copper and the reliquary stands on [...]
Inspired by our new exhibition The Corrib: Myth, Legend and Folklore, we are inviting 3rd to 6th class pupils to research a tale from their locality, to retell it, and illustrate it. Have you seen Galway City Museum's new exhibition The Corrib: Myth, Legend and Folklore yet? Beautifully illustrated by artist Sadie Cramer, the exhibition [...]
This exhibition guest-curated by Prof. Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, NUI Galway explores aspects of Gaelic Culture in Ireland between AD1200 and 1600
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