Galway is a city in the West of Ireland, in the province of Connacht, which is the county town of County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay. It is the most populous settlement in the province of Connacht, the fifth most populous city on the island of Ireland and the fourth most populous in the Republic of Ireland, with a population at the 2022 census of 85,910.
The Tribes of Galway were 14 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, Darcy/D’Arcy, Deane, Fant, French, Joyce, Kirwan, Lynch, Martyn, Morris and Skerritt. Of the 14 families, 12 were of Anglo Norman origin, while two—the Darcy and Kirwan families—were Normanised Irish Gaels.
The Cope, or the Templecrone Agricultural Co-operative Society, is a co-operative retail chain indigenous to The Rosses area of County Donegal in Ireland. Founded in 1906, it has a number of normal supermarkets as well as a full department store, a builders merchants and an agricultural division.
Sir Hugh Percy Lane was an Irish art dealer, collector and gallery director. He is best known for establishing Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art and for his contribution to the visual arts in Ireland, including the Lane Bequest. Hugh Lane died on board the RMS Lusitania.
The Archbishopric of Tuam existed from the mid twelfth century until 1839, with its seat at Tuam.
Matthias McDonnell Bodkin was an Irish nationalist politician and MP. in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Anti-Parnellite representative for North Roscommon, 1892–95, a noted author, journalist and newspaper editor, barrister, and County Court Judge for County Clare, 1907–24.
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).
Amby Bodkin, Irish lawyer and duelist, fl. 1777 - 1795.
John Bodkin was a Roman Catholic Warden of Galway. After his death, his body was said to have been the subject of a miracle, because it was believed to have not decayed.
Tomás Bobhdacing, founder of the Bodkin family of The Tribes of Galway, fl. c. 1300.
James Riabhach Darcy was Mayor of Galway in Ireland 1602–1603.
John Bodkin fitz Richard was Mayor of Galway, 1518-19.
Richard Bodkin was the mayor of Galway from 1610 to 1611.
John Bodkin fitz Dominick was the mayor of Galway from 1638 to 1640.
Sir William Henry Bodkin was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1841 to 1847, before becoming a judge.
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.
John Bodkin may refer to:
Dominic Fursey Bodkin was a Christian Brother and a Catholic educator in Australia.
John James Bodkin was an Irish Whig politician.
