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I Heart My City: Molly’s Galway

Posted by I Heart My City in Beyond the Guidebook on June 5, 2013
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A street of shops in Galway (Photograph by Jen-the-Librarian, Flickr)

Molly McCluskey divides her time between Washington, D.C. and various cities in Europe — but keeps returning to the land of her ancestors, Ireland. She lived in Galway City last summer and will be returning for a second dose of Irish hospitality this summer. Here are a few of her favorite things about the “City of the Tribes.”

Galway: A Hundred Thousand Welcomes

Posted by Annie Fitzsimmons in Urban Insider on January 31, 2013
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Outside the Tigh Neachtain on Cross Street in Galway. (Photograph by Tamara Polajnar, Flickr)

Céad míle fáilte, Ireland’s oft-repeated blessing, means “a hundred thousand welcomes.” That promise of hospitality has rung true wherever I’ve traveled in the Emerald Isle, but I’ve never felt more welcome than I did in Galway. And nothing embodies that spirit quite like Frank Maher of the Petra House Bed & Breakfast. Here are a few of Frank’s favorite things about his hometown.