He was Galway

Laurence O'Neill (1864–1943)

Lord Mayor of Dublin (1917–1924), patriot and man of peace

Thomas J. Morrissey SJ

Laurence O’Neill (1864-1943) was Lord Mayor of Dublin during key years in modern Irish history, 1917–1924. During these troubled years he held the confidence of…

East Galway agrarian agitation and the burning of Ballydugan House, 1922

Ann O'Riordan

Part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History.

This book is based on the burning of Ballydugan house in 1922, a middle-sized country house on a 1,500-acre esta…

Loughrea, that den of infamy

The Land War in County Galway, 1879–82

Pat Finnegan

During the Land War of 1879–82, Galway was regarded as 'dangerously disturbed' because of the large number of agrarian incidents reported. These included murder…

The case of the Craughwell Prisoners during the Land War in Co. Galway, 1879–85

Pat Finnegan

At the height of the Land War in 1881, a dispute over land led to the shooting dead of a young man called Peter Doherty near Craughwell, Co. Galway. Intense pol…