The Long Walk
Colourful row of quayside houses along the river mouth, beside the old stone arches.
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This guide to the Long Walk in Galway begins on All Saints' Day in seventeen fifty-five, far to the south, in a Lisbon full of candles and churchgoers. It touches a prophecy made three years earlier, a messianic movement that gained converts, and the Eyre family who pushed Galway's quays out along this stretch. Along the way you'll meet the ropemaker who once gave this street another name. Best heard standing by the water, facing the stone arches at the quay's end.
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