Galway Advertiser 1989/1989_05_11/GA_11051989_E1_002.pdf 

Extracted text

City Will Mark Columbus' Great Voyage !
1 9 9 2 may not b e such a fearsome landmark in t h e busi n e s s w o r l d as m a n y p e o p l e fear. T h e y e a r a l s o marks t h e 5 0 0 t h Anniversary of Colum bus' great v o y a g e of d i s c o v e r y and t h e r e a r e already e x t e n s i v e plans t o c e l e b r a t e t h e e v e n t in Italy, S p a i n and A m e r ica. The Mayor of Galway, Cllr. Fintan Coogan, suggested during the recent meeting of the City Council that Galway should also prepare plans to commemorate Christopher Columbus' visits t o Galway. H e suggested a suitable memorial should be erected at the new

appearance w h o m he took to b e from Cathay (China). T h e translation of his note reads: "Men

The Columbus v o y a g e to the City of the Tribes also included Bristol and Iceland. Indeed, Taviani conjectures that the trip to G a l w a y in 1477 w a s not Columbus's only visit to w h a t w a s then a port of s o m e commercial significance doing good trade and traffic with Lisbon and the Spanish occurred from the ports. researches of Criostoir In his scholarly work, M a c Aonghusa, a School Taviana mentions Teacher from the G a l w a y more than 25 Midlands w h o taught for times, indicating that the years in Connemara experience w a s of before taking himself off paramount importance to enjoy his retirement in to Columbus w h e r e he Spain. He published learned about the tides, The Galway articles in the Irish Press weather conditions, a number of years a g o Connection exotic plants, the seeds arising from research An interesting histor- h i c h he conducted in of w h i c h must have been w icml note_ on the Spain about borne across the Columbus 7 Galway Columbus. Christopher A t l a n t i c , t h e G u l f connection has been Stream, bird flight and added by Mr. Gerry Lee. T h e r e i s f u r t h e r the movements of winds confirmation in a book Buildings Officer. and currents, all of which published by Senator U.C.G. convinced Columbus Paolo Emilio Taviani that there w a s land not " M a n y thought that titled Christopher far distant from t h e the C o l u m b u s / G a l w a y Columbus The Grand meridians of Iceland and connection w a s m e r e Design. T h e w o r k of I r e l a n d . C o l u m b u s legend, but it is n o w T a v i a n i , an Italian beyond doubt that h e himself mentions his scholar, w a s researched visited Galway, at least visit to Ireland in a note to over a period of 4 0 years once, in 1477 and the Historia rerum of from t h e early thirties possibly on other Piccolomini preserved in w h e n he first entered occasions. the Biblioteca Colomthe University of Genoa. bina. Columbus men The first confirmation Taviani states "Col tions being in Galway of this in the popular umbus certainly visited observing a man and and mind appears to have Galway, situated on the w o m a n of strange a

of Cathay came towards We west coast of Ireland, the East. and saw many a wonders especially strategic point either for Galway. Ireland, in the commercial voyages husband and wife of towards the northermost or for the legendary surprising aspect borne on two rafts. gaelic expeditions writes, the The Author Northern towards the imaginary Ocean is not frozen and islands of the Atlantic". navigable". is
The book makes very interesting reading and is a v a i l a b l e at the Library, U.C.G. Professor Taviani also donated an exhibition of s o m e 2 8 w o r k s to the College, giving both a pictorial and written review of the life, times and v o y a g e s of Columbus".

WEEKEND
SPRING LAMB'S LIVER
A team of Junior School Wardens from Mervue, Galway. competed in the Galway Regional Final of the P.M.P.A./N.S.C. Junior School Warden Competition which was held recently. Members of the team pictured are (left to right) Olivia Delargey. Gemma Blake. Teresa Hardiman, Caroline O'Riordan. Michelle Conboy. Cindy Park. Also included in the picture are Garda Martin O'Shea. Padraic O'Toole. P.M.P.A.. Galway. Eamon Doyle, Area Officer. National Safety Council. P. J. Wheeler, Western Regional Manager, New P.M.P.A., Clr. Angela Lupton. Deputising for the Mayor. Padraic Feeney. R.S.O., Galway Corporation, Ms. Flaherty, School Principal, Chief Supt. John Mitchell, Jim Kelly, Marketing Director, National Safety Council. The competition is organised by the National Safety Council and sponsored by New P.M.P.A. Insurance Co.

89p pep lb.

SEAN LOUGHNANE'S
56 DiMMck St., W . 84437/88531

at

The Famine Recalled
Ireland's Great 'Fam ine' experience of 18451849, has many tangible parallels with the contemporary suffering of 'Third W o r l d ' nations. The cause of the Great 'Famine' and its subse quent effect on the poor, provides Irish people with a disturbing reflection on the experience of threequarters of humanity today.

AFrl (Action From -Ireland) will once again recall the T r a g e d y at Doolough' again this year. T h e walk, from Louisburgh, Co. Mayo, to Delphi, follows the actual route taken by s o m e 6 0 0 starving men, w o m e n and children, who perished in the Spring of 1849, in a single day and night of horror, while seeking food and shelter. This will take place on Saturday, 20th May, 1989, from Louisburgh, Co. Mayo, at 1.00 p.m. Participants will be addressed by Vietnam Veteran, Brian Wilson, w h o had both his legs severed by a munitions train in 1987, w h i l e protesting the shipment of U . S . a r m a m e n t s bound for Central America.

A team of Junior School Wardens from Renmore. Galway. com peted in the Galway Regional Final of the P.M.P.A./N.S.C. Junior School Warden Competition which was held recently. Members of the team pictured are (left to right) Claire O'Connor. Alan Benson. Cliona Ni Fhatharta, Sean Kelly. Philip Carthy. Josephine Lavelle. Also included in the picture are Garda Martin O'Shea, Padraic O'Toole. P.M.P.A.. Galway Branch Manager. Padraic O'Grady. School Principal. P. J. Wheeler. Western Regional Manager. New P.M.P.A.. Clr. Angela Lupton. Deputising for the Mayor. Padraic Feeney. R.S.O.. Galway Corporation, Eamon Doyle, Area Officer, National Safety Council, Chief Supt. John Mitchell, and Jim Kelly. Marketing Director. National Safety Council. The competition is organised by the National Safety Council and sponsored by New P.M.P.A. Insurance Co.

MEAT HANGS A R O U N D HERE FOR WEEKS W I T H O U T BEING SOLD -but mats only a sign of a good Butchers maturity! we have a policy of buying only the highest quality young Beef (guaranteed free of hormones) and hanging it in our cold rooms until ^ X we're satisfied it's mature and tender enough for our valued customers which explains why it never lasts long on the counter!

1