I have recently met up with the local history and culture enthusiast, Tom Kenny, at his gallery and bookshop in Liosban estate. As most of you know, this wonderful man has been publishing his works for 25 years now.

Most of those are available on his website and, here comes the best part, he has agreed for some of his works to be published on our website! Does it get any better than that?! So, take a seat and enjoy some professional articles writtten by the author of numerous pieces as well as books on history of Galway.

If you're hungry for more and perhaps would like to purchase some books related to local history, visit Tom's website http://kennys.ie Also, look out for Tom's weekly contribution in the Galway Advertiser!

We have tested technical factors and solutions to installing speech synthesizer that would all our text materials into speech. This will help people with visual impairments or reading disabilities be efficient users of the website. Having acquainted ourselves with our users opinions, we decided on a female voice, Jennifer, with an English accent. In the nearest future, a licence will be bought for a programme called "Expressivo" that will allow us to generate audio-books in the shape of MP3 files with gathered texts. Our users will be able to listen to such files online, on our website.

We proudly inform you that we have recently met up with one of the most interesting contemporary Galway people, a great local culture and history enthusiast and a wonderful publicist, Ronnie O'Gorman. He is an author of a series of fascinating articles on the history and culture of Galway thar are regularly published in the Galway Advertiser. The good news is that Ronnie has given us permission to publish his work on our website. You will now be able to access even richer archives gathered here, on GalwayHistory.info