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Shanaglish is a village in the parish of Beagh in the south of
Sonny Glynn (born 1903 Shanaglish - died 1953 New York) and Matty O’Shaughnessy (born 1901 Shanaglish - died 1978 Shanaglish) emigrated to
County Galway
"Righteousness and Justice"
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, Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
, close to the border with County Clare. The name Shanaglish comes from the Gaelic 'Sean Eaglais', meaning 'old church'. The village was formerly in the parish of St Anne's and there is now a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Anne.
Ardamullivan Castle
Ardamullivan Castle is a tower house and National Monument located in County Galway, Ireland.
Location
Ardamullivan Castle is located south of Gort and southwest of Lough Cutra.
History
Ardamullivan Castle was built in the 16th century ...
is located nearby.
Notable residents
The Irish nationalist brothers, Patrick and Harry Loughnane, farmed in Shanaglish before they were kidnapped and executed by the Auxiliaries in November 1920.
Sonny Glynn (born 1903 Shanaglish - died 1953 New York) and Matty O’Shaughnessy (born 1901 Shanaglish - died 1978 Shanaglish) emigrated to New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
from Shanaglish in the early 1920s. Both found construction work on the Rockefeller Center and have been identified by documentary film maker, Seán Ó Cualáin
Seán Ó Cualáin is an IFTA-award-winning Irish documentary and feature film film director. He directed ''Dara Beag — File Pobail'' in 2004, ''Rí an Fhocail'' in 2007, '' Lón sa Spéir''/''Men at Lunch'' in 2012, ''Mise Raiftearaí an Fío ...
, in the film Lón sa Spéir
''Men at Lunch'' ( ga, Lón sa Spéir , ) is a 2012 Irish language documentary on the history behind the 1932 ''Lunch atop a Skyscraper'' photograph, its Irish connections, and the story of immigration in New York at the turn of the century. It ...
, as two of the eleven men in the iconic 1932 photograph, Lunch atop a Skyscraper
''Lunch atop a Skyscraper'' is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam above the ground on the sixty-ninth floor of the RCA Building in Manhattan, New York City. It was arranged ...
. A copy of the photograph hangs in Whelan's Bar in Shanaglish.
References
Towns and villages in County Galway {{Galway-geo-stub