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Galway City Poetry Trail - Grattan Beach

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In 2015 an extract from the novel 'Deoraíocht' by Pádraic Ó Conaire was unveiled by the Irish actor Pádraic Breathnach on a wall by Grattan beach in Salthill, Galway. Pádraic Ó Conaire was an Irish writer and journalist whose production was primarily in the Irish language. In his lifetime he wrote 26 books, 473 stories, 237 essays and 6 plays. His acclaimed novel Deoraíocht has been described by Angela Bourke as 'the earliest example of modernist fiction in Irish.