The Tribes of Galway were fourteen merchant families who dominated the political, commercial, and social life of the city of Galway in western Ireland between the mid-13th and late 19th centuries. They were the families of Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, D'Arcy, Deane, Font, Ffrench, Joyce, Kirwan, Lynch, Martin, Morris and Skerritt. Of the fourteen families, twelve were of Norman origin, while two — the D'Arcy and Kirwan families) families — were Normanised Irish Gaels.
Peirce Lynch, alias Peter Lynch, Mayor of Galway, fl. 1485–1486.
Dominick Dubh Lynch, died 14 August 1508, second Mayor of Galway.
Dominick Dáll Bodkin was an Irish mass murderer.
Thomas Bodkin, fl. 1506–1507, was the first member of the Bodkin family to be elected Mayor of Galway. The Bodkins were one of The Tribes of Galway, and a sept of the FitzGerald family. He would be succeeded in office by John Bodkin fitz Richard, Richard Bodkin (1610–1611), and John Bodkin fitz Dominick (1639–1640).
Seán an tSalainn French (1489–1546) was Mayor of Galway from 1538 to 1539.
Patrick O'Flaherty was Mayor of Galway from 1964 to 1965 and from 1973 to 1975.
Tomás Bobhdacing, founder of the Bodkin family of The Tribes of Galway, fl. c. 1300.
Robuck Lynch, sixth Mayor of Galway, 1489-1490.
Stephen Lynch was the 23rd Mayor of Galway, serving from 1507 to 1510.
Dominick Browne, Mayor of Galway, 1688–1689.
John Bodkin fitz Richard was Mayor of Galway, 1518-19.
Richard Bodkin was the mayor of Galway from 1610 to 1611.
Paul Dodd, was Mayor of Galway, from 1656 to 1657.
John Lynch fitz Andrew, Mayor of Galway, September 1528-September 1529. Lynch was the son of Andrew Lynch and Eleanor Martin. He had a brother, Arthur Lynch fitz Andrew, who served as Mayor from 1539-40. During his term, laws were introduced which forbade a number of forms of gambling, such as dice, cards, aimed especially against apprentices and members of the Gaelic community. Those found guilty would pay twenty shillings.
Bodkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
John Bodkin, Esquire. Born the second son of Counsellor-at-law, John Bodkin and Mary Clarke of Carrowbeg House, Belclare, Tuam, County Galway, Ireland. In 1741, John Bodkin, the second son of a landed gentry family in Co Galway, Ireland was arrested on the charge of murdering his older brother, Dominick. He was found guilty of the crime even though he refused to admit his guilt during his trial or thereafter. He was hanged, drawn and quartered in Galway City on Saturday, 20 March 1742.
Events from the year 1507 in Ireland.
John Bodkin may refer to:
James Hardiman (1782–1855), also known as Séamus Ó hArgadáin, was a librarian at Queen's College, Galway.
Galway is a city in the West of Ireland, in the province of Connacht.
Mary Josephine Donovan O'Sullivan was Professor of History at Queens College, Galway from 1914 to 1957. She was born in Galway in 1887 and was educated at the Dominican College, Galway City, Republic of Ireland. In 1915 in Edinburgh she married Jeremiah O'Sullivan from County Tipperary who was serving in the Royal Engineers at the time.
