Old Master Remembered

Exhibition to honour bareknuckle trailblazer, Molineaux

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EXACTLY 200 years after his death in the west of Ireland, freed American slave turned pugilist Tom Molineaux is being remembered with an exhibition of his life at Galway City Museum. A commemorative plaque, commissioned by the museum and Galway Civic Trust, has been erected at St Patrick’s national school, built on the site of a British Army barracks where Molineaux spent his final days. He died, aged just 34, on August 4, 1818. He was buried in an unmarked grave at St James’ cemetery in Mervue, a Galway suburb.