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- 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
- Galway Churches
- Galway Graveyards
- Galway Streets
- Galway Stories and Legends
- Galway Old Pictures
- History of Town
- 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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