Galway City Museum
Riverside museum of local history, medieval stonework, maritime craft and a beloved writer's statue.
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This guide to Galway City Museum, beside the Spanish Arch, follows a limestone statue of the Irish-language writer Pádraic Ó Conaire, carved by Albert Power and unveiled by Éamon de Valera in Eyre Square in nineteen thirty-five. It ends up in April nineteen ninety-nine, on an ordinary night in the square. Along the way you'll meet the dockside pub where Ó Conaire was born and the little black donkey that wandered through his stories.
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