Reforming Galway

Civic society, religious change and St Nicholas's collegiate church, 1550-1750

Raymond Gillespie

"The Irish history community was united in grief earlier this year  owing to the untimely passing of Maynooth stalwart Raymond Gillespie. Published posthumously, Gillespie's Reforming Galway: civic society, religious change and St Nicholas's Collegiate Church, 1550-1750 is an exceptional local history of one church in Galway, which is used as a microcosm to explore the complexities of religious change in early modern Ireland. This text is really a social history of both the physical church and the parish community and illustrates why Gillespie's scholarship will be sorely missed". (Daragh Fitzgerald, History Ireland, 2024)