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Westward Ho! A Ramble Through Galway, 1840-1950, centres around travel writers and travel literature, focusing on the work of several extraordinary and very different writers, who rambled through beautiful County Galway and ‘exotic’ Conamara, from the mid-1800s to mid-1900s.

The authors and their works are Ireland: Its Scenery, Character etc, published in 1843, by the husband-and-wife team of Anna Maria (1800–81) and Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889), Lough Corrib, Its Shores and Islands: With Notices of Lough Mask by Sir William Wilde (1815-1876), published in 1867, and The Corrib Country (1943) and Connacht and the City of Galway (1952), written by Richard Hayward (1892-1964).

Westward Ho! A Ramble Through Galway, 1840-1950 is comprised of a series of five talks, and a corresponding publication of Collected Essays, which will be available in libraries countywide from January 2022.

Anne Hodge, from the National Gallery of Ireland, discusses the use of art in early travel writings and provide a visual tour of the Halls work through the lens of the magnificent watercolours of the artist William Evans of Eton (1798-1877) and tells us that “The enthusiasm and curiosity of the artist and his determination to record clearly and accurately the beauty of the landscape, the homes of the people and their traditional way of life is clearly visible in his original drawings”. A collection of Evans material was acquired by the National Gallery of Ireland in 2008.

Westward Ho! A Ramble Through Galway, 1840-1950 is produced by Galway Public Libraries, in partnership with Galway County Council Archives, for Galway’s Great Read 2021 programme, and is funded by Creative Ireland through Galway County Council Cultural and Creativity Strategy, 2018-2022.