Clarenbridge · Native Oysters
Galway Oysters
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The festival built around these oysters started in 1954 with just 34 people at a village pub — it now draws crowds who get through well over 100,000 oysters in a single weekend.
Native oysters grown in the bay beds around Clarenbridge and Galway are served raw, shucked to order, with a squeeze of lemon or a splash of stout. Stalls at the Galway International Oyster Festival and the city's markets sell them by the half-dozen, standing up, straight from the ice.
Why it's made this way: The sheltered, mineral-rich waters of Galway Bay have supported oyster beds for centuries, and the trade turned into a full festival tradition in the 1950s.
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