Hidden Galway : Gallows, Garrisons and Guttersnipes

by Henry, William; McMahon, Pat

• ISBN13: 9781856357548
• ISBN10: 1856357546
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-15
• Publisher: Dufour Editions

Summary

Hidden Galway introduces the reader to a totally new history of Galway exploring the quirky stories and fascinating rogues that history has overlooked. There are stories of disasters, such as the KLM flight which brought Galway to a standstill for over a week in 1958, the Christmas morning tragedy of 1842, when thirty-seven people lost their lives while attending mass, and the story of William from Galway, the man who sailed with Christopher Columbus in 1492 on his voyage of discovery.Graphic accounts of execution and murder from the City of the Tribes are told, such as the infamous Bodkin Murders, where eleven people were brutally slain in a house of horrors in one night. Included are famous and infamous bandits, highwaymen, scientists, smugglers and love stories that introduce us to the weird, wonderful, and often downright strange customs and pastimes of the people of Galway.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 11
Foreword	p. 13
Introduction	p. 17
Galway - What's in a name?	p. 21
Sunday Boy Blake	p. 23
The Justice Stone	p. 25
The Menlo Dolmen	p. 27
The O'Flaherty Rent	p. 28
Graves in Merlin Woods	p. 31
St Augustine's Well	p. 33
Mutton Island Lighthouse	p. 35
The Spanish Armada of l588	p. 38
The 1816 Crosses	p. 41
Siena Tiles	p. 43
Bollingbrook Fort	p. 44
Tom Hynes and'the Great Marathon of the West	p. 47
Galway Victoria Cross Winners	p. 50
Lynch's Rock	p. 56
The Fishery Field Lime Kiln	p. 58
Glean Gort an Airgead/the Duelling Field	p. 61
Roscam Folly	p. 65
The Bodkin Murders	p. 66
The Renmore Races	p. 74
A Christmas Morning Tragedy	p. 75
John Bodkin's Hand	p. 79
The Dead	p. 85
Bounds of Virtue	p. 92
The Kings Head	p. 99
The Hole in the Wall	p. 103
The Night of the Big Wind	p. 104
Mary McManus, Virgin, 1827	p. 109
The Crimean Cannons	p. 111
Anach Cuain	p. 114
The Hag's Walk	p. 116
The Hugo de Groot	p. 117
A Saintly Visit	p. 122
Jordan's Island	p. 124
Tom 'The Moor' Molineaux	p. 126
The Galway Independent Volunteers and Militia	p. 128
The Railway Children	p. 132
Prospect Hill Reservoirs	p. 136
Monster Meeting at the Sliding Rock	p. 137
Milestones at Roscam	p. 147
A Scientific Genius	p. 148
Prince of Preachers	p. 151
Cooper's Cave	p. 153
The Forgotten Land League Campaigner	p. 154
A Blind Piper	p. 156
An Infamous Landlord and Miser	p. 159
William from Galway	p. 164
Captain Martin Kirwan: Hero of the Franco-Prussian War	p. 170
Oranmore: A Smugglers' Haven	p. 178
Plague, Leprosy and Disease	p. 183
Fire at Menlo Castle	p. 186
The Isolation Hospital	p. 191
The Old County Infirmary	p. 192
Galway Whiskey	p. 196
The Galway Watchmen	p. 200
A Public Hanging	p. 203
A Galway Coin Hoard	p. 206
The Knights Templar	p. 2^7
Merchants' Marks	p. 210
The Daggered Heart	p. 211
Merlin Park Castle	p. 213
Italian Madonna of the Rosary	p. 215
Charles Ffrench Blake-Forster	p. 218
The Siege of St Augustine's Fort	p. 222
Anti-Courting Devices	p. 226
Mount St Mary	p. 227
The Empty Picture Frame	p. 229
The Gashouse	p. 232
The Roscam Standing Stone	p. 234
Rory Murtagh	p. 237
Emily Anderson	p. 240
Bibliography	p. 243
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