Galway Cathedral
Limestone cathedral with a soaring dome, raised on the site of a demolished county jail.
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This guide to Galway Cathedral follows Michael Browne, the forceful bishop who ran the diocese for almost forty years, and the riverside county jail he set his sights on as it closed in the late nineteen thirties. It touches the jail's darkest chapter, the Maamtrasna case of eighteen eighty-two, and a stone church rising decades later under the eye of de Valera and a Boston cardinal. Stand beneath the dome to begin, then look for President Kennedy in mosaic.
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