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The Cliffs From The Prom

#103, March 2017

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Clouds & Shadows

#102, February 2017

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Salthill Dunes

#101, February 2017

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Playing for Pigeons

#100, 2nd December 2016

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Browne Doorway

#99, 2nd December 2016

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Christmas Market

#98, 2nd December 2016

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Mutton Island Causeway

#97, 24th November 2016

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Heron Statue

#96, 24th November 2016

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Claddagh Lock

#95, 24th November 2016

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Sunset at the Famine Memorial

#94, 24th November 2016

There are some astounding sunsets on the Prom these evenings if anybody’s interested.

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Arch in the Dark

#93, 21st November 2016

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Spire & Dome

#92, 21st November 2016

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Fog on the Wolfe Tone Bridge

#91, 21st November 2016

This is the weather that prevented me from seeing the Super Moon a few days back. But I forgive it.

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Galway Skyline

#90, 28th September 2016

I’ve known for weeks what to use for the last post on this blog - a city skyline. However, I’d planned to take one at night, from the roof of a city centre car park, but when I was up in Menlo yesterday I passed this brief view and doubled back to snap it. I had no idea that the Cathedral so dominated the urban horizon from such a distance. Where are the nearby big buildings, like the hospital, or the university? They’re certainly not on this blog. I never got around to them. Plenty of other things I never got around to either, but that’s the nature of this wee project. However, unlike my Kraków blog, I have no immediate plans to leave Galway. I may pop something up from time to time, though no longer daily. We’ll see if anything especially tickles my fancy, but for now, this is the end. Go raibh míle maith agaibh!

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Menlo Castle Wall

#89, 27th September 2016

Quietly hiding away in that not-quite-suburban, not-quite-rural zone known as Menlo are the ruins of the eponymous castle. They’ve actually only been ruins for about a hundred years. For almost four centuries, Menlo Castle had been the home of the Blakes, one of the Tribes of Galway, but it wasn’t rebuilt after the fire that destroyed it and it’s been deteriorating ever since. This is a part of the surrounding walls, rather than the castle itself, and can come as a bit of a surprise if you don’t know it’s there when you round that bend.

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Moon Over The Bay

#88, 26th September 2016

With the nigh-permanent overcast weather Galway has had over the past three months, interesting cloud photographs have become something of a fad on local social media. My facebook feed has been full of great mornings and sunsets, and since I’m coming to the end of this blog I suppose I should toss up a photo of my own to represent not just the city, but the summer it’s had this year.

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Barna Wind Farm

#87, 25th September 2016

The construction of wind farms are, like everything else, typically mired in controversy and protest. That hasn’t stopped them from being built in a number of spots across Connemara, though mostly in the less traveled patches of rock and bramble. I have to admit I like windmills myself. They’re narrow enough that they don’t really blot the landscape, in my opinion, and their slow, regular rotation is hypnotically peaceful....