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Galway
Contae na Gaillimhe City of Tribes
Aspectacularly beautiful county, Galway is a medley Just outside Galway city you can visit the magical
of contrasts – here you can enjoy the wildest and grounds of Coole Park, former home of the influential
remotest of countryside alongside one of Europe’s most playwright and a patron of Irish Nationalism, Lady
vibrant and popular cities. An Irish speaking region with Augusta Gregory. It was in these grounds that inspired
a cosmopolitan atmosphere, Galway has been a place of visions of a self-determined Ireland took hold of the
inspiration and retreat for generations of writers, artists, cultural imagination to find expression on the stage, in
and poets. poetry, and prose. Lady Gregory was a patron of the poet
Galway's people are known for a warm, soulful and W.B. Yeats, she was a founder of Dublin's Abbey Theatre
vivacious culture . Here is one of the strongest enclaves and an author in her own right. Undoubtedly she was a
where the Irish language holds fort -for generations the pivotal figure in Ireland's history.
rocky lands of Connemara remained largely inaccessible Today at Coole Park there is a visitor's centre and you
to the rest of the country save by boat. The current can still meet the Beech tree carved with the names of
Irish President, an tÚachtarán Micheál D. Uí hUigín, many of Irelands' cultural heroes of old who came to
or Michael D, as he is affectionately known, hails from visit here. Sadly Coolhouse itself was torn down at the
Galway. beginning of the last century
Anna Lynch, grandmother of South American Relax or take a dip on the beaches of Salthill just outside
revolutionary Che Guevara (1927-67), was also born Galway town, where an annual carnival never fails to
here in Co. Galway. Che's father, her son Ernesto delight the young and young at heart. Further west, the
Guevara Lynch said, in 1969: otherworldly landscape of the Connemara Gaeltacht lies
“The first thing to note is that in my son's veins flowed in wait – with much beautiful Galway scenery to enjoy.
the blood of Irish rebels.”
4* Star Boutique Hotel in the Heart of Galway City
Rooms from as little as €49pps
Lower Merchants Road, The Latin Quarter, Galway. Subject to availability
Tel: 091 538900 www.thehousehotel.ie
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Contae na Gaillimhe City of Tribes
Aspectacularly beautiful county, Galway is a medley Just outside Galway city you can visit the magical
of contrasts – here you can enjoy the wildest and grounds of Coole Park, former home of the influential
remotest of countryside alongside one of Europe’s most playwright and a patron of Irish Nationalism, Lady
vibrant and popular cities. An Irish speaking region with Augusta Gregory. It was in these grounds that inspired
a cosmopolitan atmosphere, Galway has been a place of visions of a self-determined Ireland took hold of the
inspiration and retreat for generations of writers, artists, cultural imagination to find expression on the stage, in
and poets. poetry, and prose. Lady Gregory was a patron of the poet
Galway's people are known for a warm, soulful and W.B. Yeats, she was a founder of Dublin's Abbey Theatre
vivacious culture . Here is one of the strongest enclaves and an author in her own right. Undoubtedly she was a
where the Irish language holds fort -for generations the pivotal figure in Ireland's history.
rocky lands of Connemara remained largely inaccessible Today at Coole Park there is a visitor's centre and you
to the rest of the country save by boat. The current can still meet the Beech tree carved with the names of
Irish President, an tÚachtarán Micheál D. Uí hUigín, many of Irelands' cultural heroes of old who came to
or Michael D, as he is affectionately known, hails from visit here. Sadly Coolhouse itself was torn down at the
Galway. beginning of the last century
Anna Lynch, grandmother of South American Relax or take a dip on the beaches of Salthill just outside
revolutionary Che Guevara (1927-67), was also born Galway town, where an annual carnival never fails to
here in Co. Galway. Che's father, her son Ernesto delight the young and young at heart. Further west, the
Guevara Lynch said, in 1969: otherworldly landscape of the Connemara Gaeltacht lies
“The first thing to note is that in my son's veins flowed in wait – with much beautiful Galway scenery to enjoy.
the blood of Irish rebels.”
4* Star Boutique Hotel in the Heart of Galway City
Rooms from as little as €49pps
Lower Merchants Road, The Latin Quarter, Galway. Subject to availability
Tel: 091 538900 www.thehousehotel.ie
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