This week’s header image on le craic

This weeks header image was taken at Eyre Square in Galway and shows some of the flags of the 14 tribes of Galway.

The O’Flaherty crest should be there but we were driven out to the wilds of Connemara and all these usurpers were drafted in to the town to take our place.

Galway town was walled off from the natives, and it is said that over one of the entrances an inscription read :

“From the ferocious O’Flaherty’s O Lord deliver us.”

It’s a phrase that pops into my head when I head west. I always feel like I’m home.

Photograph owned by Boocal and used under the terms of a CC License.