Forthill Cemetery News Today

The Liam Mellows clubman won a national league medal and featured in three All-Ireland final defeats.

This photograph of St Patrick’s Church and part of Forster Street was taken from the Galway/Clifden Railway Line overlooking James Mahon’s Field where the circuses used to be long ago. It was taken c1920.

The site of the Augustinian House when the order first came to Galway in 1508 was on the hill we know as Forthill today. Margaret Athy, the wife of the Mayor Stephen Lynch, invited them and she built a church and steeple there too. Her husband was away in Spain and got a shock when he returned to see the finished new building on the hill. The friars moved into a house within the walled city but their church was still between the city and the bay.

Mental health is the central theme of a new exhibition at University of Galway which will run from next Wednesday, July 12, to Wednesday, August 2. Ten local artists have collaborated with 14 scientists from the Universities of Galway, Oxford, Edinburgh, Birmingham and London to create the works in Mindscapes. These pieces explore mental health […]

The backers of the game-changing Augustine Hill urban regeneration project to be built on lands at the rear of Ceannt Station have welcomed the news delivered this week that Galway City Council planners have approved the project, albeit with 53 conditions, most of which are standard.