• Old Galway - the original, weekly column by Tom Kenny, which also appears in the Galway Advertiser.
• 1842 Ordnance Survey of Galway, from Galway County Council.
• Hardiman's History of Galway  (online)
•  and how could we forget Wikipedia's entry for the City of the Tribes?

News and Events

• The Galway Advertiser - local news.

• The Galway Races - for a flutter on the nags...
• Galway Arts Festival - every July when things go a bit crazy!
•  The Augustinians
  - including the Forthill Cemetery burial records for any genealogists out there.

Schools and Colleges

• NUI Galway.
• The Bish, my old alma mater.
• The Pres...
• The Mercy...
• The Jes.
• Scoil Bhride - a great online photo archive.

Other Stuff

• St. Patrick's Band - my great-grandfather, Michael Spelman, was one of the founders.
• Live Search Maps - a great mapping tool with bird's-eye views of Galway.
• Galway 1965 - an old cine-film reel unearthed by Paschal Newell from around the time the Cathedral was opened... great stuff!

And some other, non-Galway stuff, I just happen to be interested in...

• Pharyngula - entertaining evolutionary biology blog, and plenty of cephalopods
• apinchofscience - food and other science analysis.

• Slashdot - news for nerds, and other stuff.
• Lichen Pages and the British Bryological Society- yes, lichens.
• Plus - a very digestible site, covering mathematics, of all things.

• Nice Art Things - I love ceramics (and make some myself), but here is a Galway-based potter with, as the name suggests, some very nice things.

• FreeRice - a great way to improve your vocabulary, and donate to the UN World Food Program. What's your high score?