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Articles

• Galway Culture & Science
  • St Mary’s College, almost one hundred years old
  • The Great Famine in Galway
  • Charles Lamb in Galway
  • St Nicholas’ Parochial School, a brief history
  • National University of Ireland, Galway
• Galway People & Families
  • When Michael D was vice president
  • People that my family knew...
  • ‘Lady Betty’ and the ‘ enemy of romance’
  • That strange English passion for Ireland
  • Lord Dunkellin’s statue
  • Father Michael Griffin
  • From Galway to New York in 1952
  • Dredging the river
  • Calling all Salerno past pupils
  • Fifty years of soccer in Mervue
  • The Dunne brothers busking in Galway
  • Claddagh fishermen
  • Galway hurlers, 1949
  • A Galway Textile Printers XV
  • Galway Gaol, April 1958
  • Some memories of a Galwegian
  • The village of Salthill in the 1920s
  • Joseph Phillips, Connaught Ranger
  • Galway supporters at the 1966 final
  • Galway vintners
  • The priests were on the ball...
  • Portrait of the writer as a young boy
  • The Tulip of Tuam and other flowers
  • The man who ran the ‘Corofin mile’
  • Prospect Hill en fete in the 1960s
  • Scholars from St Brendan's, 1956
  • Galway vintners
  • Guth na n-Óg town league
  • A risen people achieve their own miracle
  • Galway Rowing Club, one hundred years
  • The mighty men of Menlo
  • Thirty years of Renmore fun and entertainment
  • The Connacht Tribune, one hundred years
  • Of bishops and Claddagh rings
  • The Glynn Cup, 50 years on
  • Anthony Ryan’s, a one-hundred-year-old family business
  • Joe Togher, a Galway volunteer
  • Sean Broderick and the Black and Tans
  • Nano Nagle’s Galway legacy
  • Our Lady’s Boys’ Club sixty ninth camp
  • Fr Rhatigan strikes a blow for Rome
  • A King of the Jungle foiled by the King of the Jungle!
  • Saying the Rosary together...
  • Poor Father Moloney and Greek purity
  • Galway - embraced by Dr Strangelove?
  • ‘GALWAY! THE DIRTIEST TOWN I EVER SAW!’
  • ‘A moment’s memory to that laurelled head’
  • Two faces lean out of the window...
  • Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair
  • Lynch
  • Barrett
  • O'Shaughnessy
  • Hession (Ó hOisín)
  • Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh
  • O'Flaherty
  • Kings of Connacht
  • Alexander Young
  • John Sealy Townsend
  • William O'Halloran
  • Pádraic Ó Conaire
  • Gideon Ouseley
  • Edward Martyn
  • James McLoughlin
  • Violet Florence Martin
  • Thomas Barnwall Martin
  • Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin
  • Richard Martin
  • Joseph W. Kirwan
  • Tribes of Galway
  • Martyn Family
  • Richard Martyn
  • Walter Macken
  • Gerard Anthony Hayes-McCoy
  • Patrick Lynch (Argentina)
  • Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally
  • Richard Kirwan
  • William Joyce
  • Frank Harris
  • Augusta, Lady Gregory
  • Luke Joseph Duffy
  • Anthony Duane
  • Margaret Dolan
  • Patrick D'Arcy
  • Anthony Daly
  • John Joseph Clancy
  • Robert Malachy Burke
  • Mary Bonaventure Browne
  • Nora Barnacle
  • Emily Anderson
  • Joseph Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt
  • James Hardiman
• Galway Buildings
  • The back of the arch
  • The Vincent de Paul Society, Galway’s oldest charity?
  • Michael Cloherty’s new premises, 36 Shop Street, 1902
  • The Ivy Hotel
  • College House, a brief history
  • Shantallow House
  • Raven Terrace
  • Woolies in Galway
  • Executions in Galway Gaol
  • Thanks for the memories
  • Galway Textile Printers
  • The Castle Hotel
  • Queen’s College Galway
  • Distorted views of the Claddagh in the 19th century
  • The Shambles Barracks, 1910
  • The building of the technical school
  • The fire at Menlo Castle
  • The Poor Clares
  • O’Toole’s house in the Claddagh
  • The American Hotel, Eyre Square, c1940
  • Hotel Meyrick
• Galway Churches
  • Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe
  • The strange case of Warden Bodkin’s hand...
  • The Augustinians in Galway
  • Saint Joseph’s Church, a brief history
  • St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church
• Galway Graveyards
• Galway Streets
  • The Crimean cannon
  • The potato market at the Small Crane
  • The end of the tramline
  • From drab facades to the Latin Quarter
  • Changing fashions, Eyre Square
  • Merchants Road, after the fire
  • Forty years of Highfield Park
  • Memories of the Hangar
  • The Garra Glas in the Claddagh
  • Nuns Island about one hundred years ago
  • The Eglinton Canal
  • The egg and butter market, Woodquay
  • Sheep fair, Eyre Square
  • Prospect Hill en fete in the 1960s
  • The Claddagh market
  • The Claddagh market
  • A corner of William Street, c1920
  • Distorted views of the Claddagh in the 19th century
  • The blessing of the boats
  • A street scene in Galway, 1835
  • Eyre Square
• Galway Stories and Legends
• Galway Old Pictures
• History of Town
  • The Augustinians and Forthill
  • One hundred years of cinema in Galway
  • Bowling Green of yesteryear
  • The huckster’s harvest
  • Postin’, the Races, and the famous Cannon Ball
  • Pioneers of industry in Galway
  • Watery Woodquay
  • President Kennedy in Galway
  • Currach racing in Salthill in the 1950s
  • Some Galway fires
  • The Queen’s Gap
  • Steam Wharf, Galway, c1850
  • 200 years ago the Belles of Galway spent their time ‘buying, laughing and chatting’
  • Nuns’ Island whiskey
  • The sinking of the Athenia
  • In the summer of 1879, the role of the Church in the Land Movement was centre stage...
  • ‘GALWAY! THE DIRTIEST TOWN I EVER SAW!’
  • Russia had its eye on Galway
  • De Valera’s Galway speech angers Nazi Germany
  • Lord Forbes's siege of 1642
  • De Burgh's siege of 1230
  • O Brian's siege of 1149
  • O Brian's siege of 1132
  • Dun Beal Gallimhe
  • Coote's siege 1651-1652
  • Dun Beal Gallimhe
  • 20th century
  • 19th century
  • 18th century
  • Decline
  • Medieval City
  • Early Galway
  • (Alternative) derivations of the name
• Hardiman's History of Galway
  • Early History and Antiquities of Ireland disputed
  • Accounts of Ireland by Tacitus and Ptolemy
  • Destruction of the Town by the Danes (9th century)
  • Rebuilt by the Conacians (12th century)
  • Arrival of Strongbow and Henry II; Unsuccessful attempt of Roderic O'Conor on Dublin
  • First hostile incursion of the Invaders into Connaught, and their defeat (1178)
  • Wardenship of Galway instituted by the archbishop of Tuam
  • Charter of Richard III
  • Remarkable instance of inflexible justice
  • Passage from Corrib to Lough Atalia; Fortifications built; Great fire in 1500
  • Battle of Knoc-tuadh, 1504
  • Improvements to the city: 1505 - 1519
  • Disputes between Galway and Limerick
  • Prisage of wine claimed; Orders of Henry VIII
  • Lord Deputy of Ireland, Leonard Grey
  • Charter of Henry VIII and Mercantile bye-laws
  • Charters of Edward VI
  • The earl of Sussex arrives in Galway
  • Sir Henry Sidney
  • Mac-an-Earlas, 1572 - 1577
  • Charter of Elizabeth, 1579
  • Sir William Pelham arrives in Galway, 1579
  • Prisage of wines in the town established by the earl of Ormond
  • Spanish armada vessel wrecked in the bay, 1588
  • Sir William Russell, lord deputy, arrives and investigates the state of the town and province, 1595
  • The town beseiged by Hugh Ruadh O'Donnell, 1596
  • Licentiousness of the inhabitants of the country
  • The chief governor, lord Mountjoy, visits the town, 1600
  • Saint Augustine's fort built, 1603
  • Charter of James I
  • Improvements along quays...
  • Viscount Falkland arrives in Galway, 1625
  • Meyrick Square
  • Sir Thomas Wentworth (afterwards earl of Strafford)
  • Concluding observations
  • Opulence of Galway at the commencement of the Irish Rebellion, 23d October 1641
  • Revolt of the town, and siege of the fort
  • Captain Willoughby bombards the town
  • The fort besieged, taken and demolished
  • Grateful acknowledgements of Charles II
  • Dreadful plague in the town
  • Marquis of Ormond takes shipping in Galway, and leaves the kingdom
  • The town besieged by the parliamentary forces under Sir Charles Coote
  • Licentiousness of the soldiery
  • Plans of the government relative to Galway
  • Decay of town
  • On the restoration of Charles II many of the new settlers disappear and the old natives and former inhabitants return.
  • New rules established, 1672
  • The corporation land, with the charter and market duties, granted to Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton
  • King grants new charter, 1676
  • Town in decline
  • Accession of James II to the throne
  • Protestant inhabitans removed
  • Battle of Aughrim, 1691
  • Seige of the town
  • Treatment of the Roman Catholics
  • Fortifications built, to secure the conquest of the town and Islands
  • Lord Forbes arrives with a fleet in the bay