Galway History :: History of Galway, Galway in old Photos

Welcome to the website of Open Galway History Forum. It’s a place where you can learn about the history of the city, its streets, people and culture.

You can look at hundreds of photographs and, in the near future, listen to old audio recordings and watch films.

It’s also a place where you can share your opinions and views on the events that took place in the past. You can present histories of your families and places you have ties with. You can show to the world your own unique collections of photographs, prints or paintings, as well as objects that are forever intertwined with the submitted stories.

I have recently met up with the local history and culture enthusiast, Tom Kenny, at his gallery and bookshop in Liosban estate. As most of you know, this wonderful man has been publishing his works for 25 years now.

Most of those are available on his website and, here comes the best part, he has agreed for some of his works to be published on our website! Does it get any better than that?! So, take a seat and enjoy some professional articles writtten by the author of numerous pieces as well as books on history of Galway.

If you're hungry for more and perhaps would like to purchase some books related to local history, visit Tom's website http://kennys.ie Also, look out for Tom's weekly contribution in the Galway Advertiser!

We proudly inform you that we have recently met up with one of the most interesting contemporary Galway people, a great local culture and history enthusiast and a wonderful publicist, Ronnie O'Gorman. He is an author of a series of fascinating articles on the history and culture of Galway thar are regularly published in the Galway Advertiser. The good news is that Ronnie has given us permission to publish his work on our website. You will now be able to access even richer archives gathered here, on GalwayHistory.info