Galway Ireland

Human settlements in Galway (Hotels, Galway, Ireland) go back approximately 5000 years. The name Galway (Accommodation, Galway, Ireland) comes from an old Gaelic term for foreigner. In the middle of the 13th century the Anglo-Norman invaders under Walter de Burgh (Burke) conquered Galway, and the district soon rose to be a prosperous colony, with an important foreign trade, chiefly with Spain. Among the settlers, the principal families bore the names of Blake, Bodkin, Darcy, French, Lynch, Martin, Athy, Browne, Deane, Font, Joyce, Kirwan, Skerret, and Morris. Their descendants in the 17th century were dubbed by the British Puritan party under Oliver Cromwell, always fond of biblical appellations, the tribes of Galway, on account of their clannishness ; hence the name still sometimes heard, the City of the Tribes. During the English civil war, Galway (Bed and Breakfasts, Galway, Ireland) was intensely loyal to the crown, resulting in a brutal siege from the armies of Oliver Cromwell.

Posted on April 16th, 2008 under History. Tags: Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, Darcy, Deane, Font, French, Galway, Ireland, Joyce, Kirwan, Lynch, Martin, Morris, Oliver Cromwell, Skerret, Spain, Walter de Burgh. Comments: None