The Queen v Patrick O’Donnell

Loughrea, that den of infamy

The Land War in County Galway, 1879–82

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During the Land War of 1879–82, Galway was regarded as 'dangerously disturbed' because of the large number of agrarian incidents reported. These included murders, wounding...
Author/Editor: Pat Finnegan

Fleeing from famine in Connemara

James Hack Tuke and his assisted emigration scheme in the 1880s

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Between 1882 and 1884, the English Quaker and philanthropist James Hack Tuke assisted nearly 5,000 people, mainly families, to emigrate from Connemara – paying for...
Author/Editor: Gerard Moran

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

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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...
Author/Editor: Pat Finnegan

Michael Davitt

Freelance radical and frondeur

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Michael Davitt (1846–1906) is popularly known as the founder of the Irish National Land League and as the architect of the Land War of 1879–82....
Author/Editor: Laurence Marley

He was Galway

Máirtín Mór McDonogh, 1860–1934

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Martin ‘Máirtín Mór’ McDonogh was, in every sense of the word, Galway’s ‘big man’. A natural entrepreneur, and a man of drive, ambition and no...
Author/Editor: Jackie Uí Chionna

Murder trials in Ireland, 1836–1914

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The book describes how the courts dealt with murder, beginning with the coroner's inquest and ending with the conviction and hanging of the murderer. Between...
Author/Editor: W.E. Vaughan