2019 Wabash Basketball Trip To Ireland - Galway
The Wabash College basketball team spent Wednesday on a walking tour of Galway, Ireland. The Little Giants at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Monument in Eyre Square.
The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Monument at Eyre Square in Galway.
The Browne Doorway in Eyre Square.
The 14 tribes of Galway are commemorated at the entrance to Eyre Square in front of the Browne Doorway.
The Lynch Castle. Now the location of a bank, it was once home to one of the most powerful families in Galway.
The Little Giants were told to experience history with all of their senses - to reach out and touch the history of Galway and to take that feeling with them forever.
Matt Chinn inspects an ancient map of the city of Galway inside Lynch Castle.
Evan Nichols connects with history - a fireplace inside the Lynch Castle. Note the date on the crest --- 1629.
The mayor of Galway hanged his son from the Lynch Castle window in 1493 after being found guilty of murder, thus the origin of the term lynching. The window is preserved as a memorial.
Professor Jon Baer knocks on the Barnacle Museum door to see if perhaps Nora Barnacle or her husband, Irish novelist James Joyce, might be home.
The Little Giants visited the Galway Cathedral, built on the site of the former Galway jail.
Caleb Dickey and Clark Tinder presented a brief history of the Galway Cathedral prior to a tour of the inside of the building.
Part of the Wabash group at the Galway Cathedral.
The sanctuary of the Galway Cathedral.
The team met Julie Crittenden, the daughter of former Little Giant basketball player Jay Crittenden '55, in the sanctuary of the Galway Cathedral. Jay still has a medical practice in Pensacola, Florida. He and his wife, Leta, co-chair an annual medical mission trip to Quito, Ecuador.
The sanctuary of the Galway Cathedral.
The dome over the sanctuary of the Galway Cathedral.
Visiting St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church in Galway.
The statues of Oscar Wilde and Eduard Vilde in the main street of Galway.
Game one versus Moycullen BC - Harrison Hallstrom with a shot in the lane for Wabash.
Kellen Schreiber drives to the hoop for two.
Parker Manges came off the bench to score 20 points for Wabash in its game against Moycullen BC.
Jack Davidson scores two of his 21 points in the Wabash victory. The Little Giants defeated Moycullen 86-66.
The Wabash and Moycullen BC teams after the game.