'Galway's Institutions': The Magdalen Asylum by Lorraine Grimes
Send us Fan Mail Recorded on Culture Night 2026 in challenging weather conditions, the historical tour of Galway, featuring eight speakers, focused on various institutions that operated in the city with the emphasis on the lived experience of people confined in these establishments. Dr Lorraine Grimes tells us that the original Galway Magdalen Asylum, founded in 1824, was located in Lombard street. She outlines how women could end up in such an institution and notes how the function of ...
15 Oct 2026
'Galway's Institutions': Institutions in the writings of Pádraic Ó Conaire by Brendan McGowan
Send us Fan Mail Recorded on Culture Night 2026, in challenging weather conditions, the historical tour of Galway, featuring eight contributors, focused on various institutions that operated in the city with the emphasis on the lived experience of people confined in these establishments. Brendan, the Galway City Museum Education and Outreach Officer, discusses some Ó Conaire stories which demonstrate the Galway writer's concern for the poor who ended up in workhouses, asylums or M...
15 Oct 2026
'Galway Institutions': The Galway Workhouse by Sorcha Clarke
Send us Fan Mail Recorded on Culture Night 2026 in challenging weather conditions, the historical tour of Galway, featuring eight speakers, focused on various institutions that operated in the city with the emphasis on the lived experience of people confined in these establishments . In this episode Dr Clarke gives an account of the system that prevailed in the Galway workhouse established in 1842. Sorcha is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Galway. The walkabout w...
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