2012 Issue 33

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Editor: Christine Brennan
Editorial Board: Brian Brennan, Dick Burke, Mossey
Clabby, Paddy Cooke, Mary Counihan, Maura Helebert, Monica McGrath, Marty
O’Connor, Evelyn Roche, Colm Ward, Josephine Ward.

Cover: View of Gort from the Pound Road, Lavally by Josephine Ward.

Contributors: Tom Fahy, Mary Lynskey, Mary Moran, Angela Donoghue, Renee Brennan, Josephine Ward, Fiona Buckley, Patrick McLoughlin, Dick Burke, Mike O’Connor, Mossey Clabby, Edel Nolan, Yvonne Nolan, Sheila Walsh, Anthony Coppinger, Jerry Sheehan, Pat Flaherty,
Áine O’Loughlin, Mary Hawkins, Eileen O’Connor, Peadar Ó Conaire, Brian Brennan, Howard McCarthy, Tony
Lannon, Pauline Della Chiesa, Michael O’Grady, Stephen Cunniffe, Anne Burke, Michelle Fitzmaurice, Margaret Walsh, Gerry Tuohy, Mary F. Long Moore, Cathal
Broderick, Austin McInerney.

Illustration: Dick Burke, Josephine Ward.

Photographs: Tony Lannon, Sean Curtin, Richard Wall, Frank Cahill, John Scarry, David O’Reilly, Brian Brennan, Josephine Ward, Mike Muldoon, Jim Earley.

Designer: Brainstorm Design
Print: Swiftprint & Design

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Contents

Journey to the Past
Oyster Fishing - How World War II Benefited South Galway
Winning Streak
Gort & District Show 1981 - 2012
Seamus Clandillon and the early years of radio broadcasting
Kilbrencah - Gort’s Newest Musical Group
In the days of Jack Charlton
The Trees of Coole
Coole Music
Gort Gathering 2013
Hard To Know Really
Down Memory Lane
A tribute to Rynal Coen
Gort Public Library - at the heart of the community
Artur Kozlowsky (1977 – 2011)
Gort No Name Success
Trains, Gort Station and Me.
Country Life
A stroll down Queen Street
Guess who's coming for dinner
Gort's family fun day
The Bus
Tribute to Hubert Courtney (1939-2012)
2012 Law Enforcement Courage Award
The County Final - An 'Ex Pat's Perspective'
Hurlers on the ditch
Gort GAA Club
St Colman's Camogie Club
An Post Ras hits Gort
South Galway Athletics Club
Garda 7 a-side National School Hurling Competition
Guaire Cup Celebrates 60th Anniversary
Coole F.C.
Gort I.C.A. Guide Celebrates 64 years
Camino: way, trail, path.
Gort Cancer Support Opens New Centre
Vicious Circle
Jenny Wren - a childhood memory
Poetry
Gort Golf Club Awards Honorary Life Membership