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Music Among Marine-Themed Events in Galway for Culture Night

22nd September 2022

Music and marine life in Galway Atlantaquaria and jazz hosted by Claddagh hooker sailors are among events with maritime themes at this year’s Culture Night in the west on Friday, September 23rd.

After a summer of sailing, Bádóirí an Chladaigh return to the Claddagh basin as hosts of a “rip roaring” music session at Raven Terrace from 7pm to 9pm on Friday.

Music Among Marine-Themed Events in Galway for Culture Night

Music will be provided by BackWest, Galway’s ” trad super group”, along with Róisín Mulliez, a jazz vocalist, accompanied by Jimmy Fitz (Fitzgerald), guitarist, music producer and music teacher.

The 16-piece Sonics Strings Youth Orchestra of Coole Music under the artistic direction of Katharina Baker are also special guests at the Claddagh Basin.

Earlier on Friday, Soapbox Science, a novel public outreach platform for promoting women and non-binary scientists and the science they do, will take place at the Spanish Arch from 4pm.

Thalassa – Sounds of the Sea – is title of a night of music and marine life in the deep ocean at Galway Atlantaquaria, Salthill, from 5 pm to 8 pm.

Featuring Francis Heery, Galway Ukers, and Eugene Lambe, it promises to be an eclectic mix of sea and sound.

Guided events at Galway City Museum from 6 pm include a tour of the “Monument” exhibition by director Eithne Verling from 7 pm. For booking, email [email protected] or call (091) 532460

Old Aran in Colour, a presentation of a colourised collection of photographs from the three Aran islands, will be presented by Dr John Bresling Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley at University of Galway’s Arts Millennium Building from 6pm to 7.30pm.

Old Aran in Colour, a presentation of a colourised collection of photographs from the three Aran islandsOld Aran in Colour, a presentation of a colourised collection of photographs from the three Aran islands

There will also be a collaboration with Inis Oírr-based composer MacDara Ó Conaola to co-create a soundtrack around the exhibition photographs.

Details of the events are on these links

https://culturenight.ie/event/the-claddagh-basin-session-raven-terrace/

https://culturenight.ie/event/galway-soapbox-science-2022/

https://nationalaquarium.checkout.roller.app/products/culturenight2022?date=20220923#/sessions

https://culturenight.ie/event/thalassa-sounds-of-the-sea/

https://culturenight.ie/event/pictiuir-daite-darann-arsa-old-aran-in-colour/

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Galway Port & Harbour

Galway Bay is a large bay on the west coast of Ireland, between County Galway in the province of Connacht to the north and the Burren in County Clare in the province of Munster to the south. Galway city and port is located on the northeast side of the bay. The bay is about 50 kilometres (31 miles) long and from 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) to 30 kilometres (19 miles) in breadth.

The Aran Islands are to the west across the entrance and there are numerous small islands within the bay.

Galway Port FAQs

Galway was founded in the 13th century by the de Burgo family, and became an important seaport with sailing ships bearing wine imports and exports of fish, hides and wool.

Not as old as previously thought. Galway bay was once a series of lagoons, known as Loch Lurgan, plied by people in log canoes. Ancient tree stumps exposed by storms in 2010 have been dated back about 7,500 years.

It is about 660,000 tonnes as it is a tidal port.

Capt Brian Sheridan, who succeeded his late father, Capt Frank Sheridan

The dock gates open approximately two hours before high water and close at high water subject to ship movements on each tide.

The typical ship sizes are in the region of 4,000 to 6,000 tonnes

Turbines for about 14 wind projects have been imported in recent years, but the tonnage of these cargoes is light. A European industry report calculates that each turbine generates €10 million in locally generated revenue during construction and logistics/transport.

Yes, Iceland has selected Galway as European landing location for international telecommunications cables. Farice, a company wholly owned by the Icelandic Government, currently owns and operates two submarine cables linking Iceland to Northern Europe.

It is "very much a live project", Harbourmaster Capt Sheridan says, and the Port of Galway board is "awaiting the outcome of a Bord Pleanála determination", he says.

90% of the scrap steel is exported to Spain with the balance being shipped to Portugal. Since the pandemic, scrap steel is shipped to the Liverpool where it is either transhipped to larger ships bound for China.

It might look like silage, but in fact, its bales domestic and municipal waste, exported to Denmark where the waste is incinerated, and the heat is used in district heating of homes and schools. It is called RDF or Refuse Derived Fuel and has been exported out of Galway since 2013.

The new ferry is arriving at Galway Bay onboard the cargo ship SVENJA. The vessel is currently on passage to Belem, Brazil before making her way across the Atlantic to Galway.

Two Volvo round world races have selected Galway for the prestigious yacht race route. Some 10,000 people welcomed the boats in during its first stopover in 2009, when a festival was marked by stunning weather. It was also selected for the race finish in 2012. The Volvo has changed its name and is now known as the "Ocean Race". Capt Sheridan says that once port expansion and the re-urbanisation of the docklands is complete, the port will welcome the "ocean race, Clipper race, Tall Ships race, Small Ships Regatta and maybe the America's Cup right into the city centre...".

The pandemic was the reason why Seafest did not go ahead in Cork in 2020. Galway will welcome Seafest back after it calls to Waterford and Limerick, thus having been to all the Port cities.

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