[tei-council] Galway: recommendations.

[Dan O'Donnell]

Connemara is great (as are the islands). But a lot will be closed at
this point of the year. Even the pubs in the smaller villages.


On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 12:36 +0000, James Cummings wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I happen to know two people fairly familiar with Galway.  One, who 
> coincidentally is part of the project I'll be talking about when there, is 
> a Galway native, the other teaches falconry at a manor house not far away 
> from there most summers.  When they found I was going to Galway both 
> (unasked) gave me recommendations of pubs with good traditional music. 
> Some of their suggestions overlapped:
> The Crane Bar
> Taafe's Bar, Shop Street
> "Another one on Shop Street called Teach Ceol or Ceoil or Something"
> 
> and also
> 
> "There's also a lovely bakery on shop street, but I can't remember the name 
> of it. It's on the left side heading toward the harbour"
> 
> Both also recommended trips to Connemara and/or the Arann Islands (esp. 
> Inis Mor).
> 
> I pass those recommendations on in case they are useful for anyone.
> 
> -James
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