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Galway (town)

Galway (town)

Fishing port and county town of County Galway, Republic of Ireland; 200 km/124 mi west of Dublin; principal city of Connacht province; population (2002) 65,800. It produces textiles and chemicals, and there is salmon and eel fishing; Galway has recently become important for its computer industry. Queen's College (founded in about 1845) was renamed University College in 1908, and is part of the National University of Ireland; teaching has been bilingual, conducted in both English and Irish, since 1929. Galway is an important centre of the Irish language; Galway Theatre, An Taibhdhearc, only stages plays in Irish.

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