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 Irish Confederate Wars, also called the Eleven Years' War, took place in Ireland between 1641 and 1653. It was the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a series of civil wars in the kingdoms of Ireland, England and Scotland – all ruled by Charles I. The conflict had political, religious and ethnic aspects and was fought over governance, land ownership, religious freedom and religious discrimination. The main issues were whether Irish Catholics or British Protestants held most political power and owned most of the land, and whether Ireland would be a self-governing kingdom under Charles I or subordinate to the parliament in England. It was the most destructive conflict in Irish history and caused 200,000–600,000 deaths from fighting as well as war-related famine and disease.
Richard Óge Martyn was a Galway lawyer and member of the Catholic Confederates of Ireland. He was of the senior line of the Martyn family, one of the Tribes of Galway. He lived at Dunguaire Castle, Kinvarra. He worked with his brother-in-law and first cousin, Patrick D'Arcy, against the Plantation of Connaught in the 1630s, and served on the Supreme Council of the Confederate Catholics in the 1640s.
William Óge Martyn was the 101st Mayor of Galway.
The city of Galway Ireland was built as a naval base and military fort by Tairrdelbach mac Ruaidri Ua Conchobair in 1124, refounded as a military outpost and town by Richard Mor de Burgh in 1230 - has been subjected to a number of battles, sacks and sieges. This article enumerates the history of military conflict in Galway.
Events from the year 1642 in Ireland.
Patrick D'Arcy (1598–1668) was an Irish Catholic Confederate and lawyer who wrote the constitution of Confederate Ireland.
Dominick Dubh Lynch, was the second Mayor of Galway.
Thomas Óge Martyn, Mayor of Galway, fl. 1533-c. 1577.
Andrew Lynch (Mayor), 14th Mayor of Galway, died 25 March 1523.
Arthur Lynch (Mayor), 22nd Mayor of Galway, died 20 November 1507.
Dominick Lynch was mayor of Galway, Ireland.
Dominick Kirwin was an Irish Confederate, fl. 1642–1653?
Margaret Athy was an Irish religious patron.
Sir Henry Lynch, 1st Baronet was an Irish baronet, knight, lawyer, and land agent. Lynch was among the first of his family to become a lawyer, and several of his younger sons followed him into this profession, as did, under his influence, Patrick D'Arcy, Richard Martyn, and Geoffrey Browne as well as many of the later generations of the Tribes of Galway.
Stephen Lynch was the 23rd Mayor of Galway, serving from 1507 to 1510.
James Riabhach Darcy was Mayor of Galway in Ireland 1602–1603.
Sir Valentine Blake, 3rd Baronet was an Irish merchant and politician.
Geoffrey Browne was an Irish lawyer and politician.
Stephen Lynch fitz James, Mayor of Galway, fl. 1499–1524.
