Shop Street
Lively pedestrian shopping street of the medieval core, famed for its buskers and street performers.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Shop Street in Galway follows a fight over sound: the shopkeepers who wanted quieter pavements, the buskers who played through a wet December day in protest, and the city council that had to decide between them. It turns on a single ordinary object you can probably spot from where you stand. Best heard near a busker at the top of the street.
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