Kirwan's Lane
Medieval stone laneway named for a merchant tribe, once home to an eighteenth-century theatre.
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This guide to Kirwan's Lane in Galway starts with the Kirwans, the one merchant tribe among the fourteen that claimed Irish ancestry, and the walled town their families ruled. It then moves to the seventeen-eighties, when Richard Martin, later known as Humanity Dick, opened a small theatre here and his wife Elizabeth took the stage. You'll meet the young tutor hired by the Martin household one summer, and the August night he walked on as her leading man. Best heard halfway down the lane, between the old stone walls.
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