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  • Galway Culture & Science
    • St Nicholas’ Parochial School, a brief history
    • National University of Ireland, Galway
  • Galway People & Families
    • 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 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
    • 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
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    • 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
    • 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
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