Research Catalog

Title

Hidden Galway : gallows, garrisons and guttersnipes.

Author

Henry, William.

Publication

Cork : Mercier Press, 2011.

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Details

Description

251 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Hidden Cities ; 4

Subject

• Galway (Ireland) > History
• Galway (Ireland) > Social life and customs

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-251).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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

ISBN

• 9781856357548 (cloth)
• 1856357546 (cloth)

LCCN

^^2011508580

OCLC

761697653

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library