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It will focus on the writings of Samuel and Anna Maria Hall, Sir William Wilde and Richard Hayward, the art of William Evans (aka Evans of Eton) whose work complimented the Halls\u2019 book, <em>Ireland its Scenery, Character etc. <\/em>and Richard Piper whose illustrations accentuated Hayward&#8217;s books, <em>The Corrib Country <\/em>and <em>Connacht and the City of Galway<\/em>. This project will take place from 22nd &#8211; 26th November 2021 online on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/librariesgalway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Galway Public Libraries Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/GalwayPublicLibraries\/featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Galway Libraries YouTube Channel<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speakers include:<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jim Higgins: Archaeologist &amp; Heritage Officer: <a>Travelling Westward; in the footsteps of the Halls, Wilde and Hayward<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr Am\u00e9lie Dochy:\u00a0Associate Professor, Dept of English, University of Toulouse II, France:\u00a0Imperial Gaze and Tourism in Galway, Anna Maria &amp; Samuel Carter Hall\u2019s exotic exploration in the 1840s<\/p>\n<p>Ann Hodge: Curator of Prints and Drawings,\u00a0National Gallery of Ireland:\u00a0William Evans of Eton\u2019s Galway watercolours and 19th\u00a0Century travel writing<\/p>\n<p>Paul Clements:\u00a0Literary journalist and author:\u00a0Richard Hayward: Galway &amp; Connacht<\/p>\n<p>Gerry Hanberry, Author &amp; Poet:\u00a0Sir William Wilde, An Amazing Life and his West of Ireland Roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16249,"template":"","class_list":["post-16248","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Westward Ho&quot;, a ramble through Galway, 1840-1950 - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Given that our ability to travel is curtailed, Galway Public Libraries will look at a cultural Ireland from c.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/westward-ho-a-ramble-through-galway-1840-1950\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Westward Ho&quot;, a ramble through Galway, 1840-1950 - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Given that our ability to travel is curtailed, Galway Public Libraries will look at a cultural Ireland from c. 1840-1950 through the social commentary of travel writers. 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