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This year’s Ballinasloe Fair & Festival lecture 📍 Gullane’s Hotel 🗓️ Tuesday, 8pm ‘Snapshots of Ballinasloe Fair and Galway Life from Newspaper Reports, 1750–2000’ Free commemorative booklet available on the night. All welcome! #Ballinasloe #BallinasloeFair #Galway

The Ballinasloe Fair & Festival 2026 lecture this year is titled ‘Snapshots of Ballinasloe Fair and Galway Life from Newspaper Reports, 1750–2000’. The lecture takes place at Gullane's Hotel on Tuesday next, at 8pm. All are welcome.

Article from today's @CTribune on next week's @BallinasloeFair lecture titled 'Snapshots of Ballinasloe Fair and Galway Life from Newspaper Reports, 1750–2000'. The lecture is on Tuesday (6th) at 8pm in @HotelGullanes . There will be a free booklet launched, and all are welcome.

🐎 Step back in time at this year’s Ballinasloe Fair & Festival 2026! LECTURE: “Snapshots of Ballinasloe Fair and Galway Life from Newspaper Reports, 1750–2000” At Gullane's Hotel, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway. 8pm (sharp) 🕖

Pictured is the Countess of Aberdeen taking a photograph from her car at Dominick Street in Galway City during the industrial exhibition. - from the Irish Independent of 30 June 1908.

The Wynne Collection of postcards provide an invaluable snapshot of Loughrea town in the early twentieth century. That legacy, and a range of other topics are discussed in 'Loughrea 1926'. The booklet is the last of 100 @HeritageWeek booklets produced for charity over the 10 yrs.

This is also the final year of our charity booklets for Heritage Week, and for 2026 the booklets are:

Among our booklets for @HeritageWeek next month is one on the 1928 Tynagh county hurling winning side. This year will be our final one producing booklets, with 10 charity titles rounding off 100 over the past decade.

Among our booklets for @HeritageWeek next month is one on Timothy Dolan, one of the unsung heroes of the Land League movement in Co Galway. This year will be our final one producing booklets, with 10 charity titles rounding off 100 over the past decade.

Among our booklets for @HeritageWeek next month is one on Taylor and Skinner's road maps of the county in 1777. Next year will be our final one producing booklets, with 10 titles rounding off 100 over the past decade.

Among our booklets for @Heritage Week next month is one on Loughrea in the 1926 census. This year will be our final one producing booklets, with 10 charity titles rounding off 100 over the past decade.

Among our booklets for @HeritageWeek next month is one on the Galway United winning sides of 1986 (40 years) and 1991 (35 years). This year will be our final one producing booklets, with 10 charity titles rounding off 100 over the past decade.

Among our booklets for @HeritageWeek next month is one on Galway's first national league crown. This year will be our final one producing booklets, with 10 charity titles rounding off 100 over the past decade.

Among our booklets for @HeritageWeek next month is one on Galway 'Wild Geese', focusing on Galway soldiers fighting in battles across the globe. This year will be our final one producing booklets, with 10 charity titles rounding off 100 over the past decade.

Among our booklets for @HeritageWeek next month is one on Castlegar's 1957 county hurling champions. This year will be our final one producing booklets, with 10 charity titles rounding off 100 over the past decade.

Among our booklets for @HeritageWeek is one on the Ballinasloe seven-in-a-row county football winning sides. This year will be our final one producing booklets, with 10 charity titles rounding off 100 over the past decade.

Among our booklets for @HeritageWeek next month is one on 'Reports on the Night of the Big Wind in Galway, 1839'. This year will be our final one producing booklets, with 10 titles rounding off 100 over the past decade.

Among our booklets for 2026 is one on Loughrea town a century ago (following those on the town in 1791, 1824, and 1846). This year will be our final one producing booklets, with ten more charity titles rounding off 100 over the past decade.

Among our booklets for 2026 is one on Castlegar's 1957 county hurling champions. This year will be our final one producing booklets, with ten more charity titles rounding off 100 over the past decade. @CastlegarGAA @Galway_GAA @Galwaygaareport @officialgaa