Galway Memories

24/04/2025

Turf and Hay market Eyre Square Galway 🐴☘
Photo by Robert French circa 1890
Kindly sent in by Eddie Browne

24/04/2025

The Royal Mail day car number 978 about to leave Eyre Square Galway circa 1900 ☘🐴🚃
Kindly sent in by Eddie Browne

23/04/2025

It is to imagine but there’s an actual castle, a Norman tower house, hiding in full view at the back of The Kings Head bistro bar on Galway’s High Street in the heart of The Latin Quarter Galway.

Once known as the Bank Castle, it was associated with the powerful Lynch family and was once used as a mint, for making coinage, some of which didn’t measure up to the silver purity it should have, getting one of the Lynches into quite a bit of bother back in the 16th century.

The castle was confiscated after the disastrous ten-month siege and surrender of Galway city at the end of the Cromwellian Wars in 1652 and became the HQ for the notorious Cromwellian army officer Peter Stubbers who oversaw the post-confederate martial law and subjugation of the city, post-siege from 1652.

Stubbers enriched himself and his cronies when, as the post-war-time acting-Mayor of the city, he made a fortune from shipping of mostly Catholic former royalist combatants and their families as convict-labourers to Barbados. Most were cruelly treated, succumbing to tropical diseases while working in slave-conditions on the sugar-cane plantations there and in Bermuda. It is estimated that some 2,000 Irish men, women and children were sold into indenturehood by Stubbers and his henchmen in this period.

Having been implicated in the Regicide of Charles I in 1649, Stubbers disappeared from the city following the death of Cromwell and the restoration of King Charles II in 1658, apparently, reputedly, fleeing to the the sanctuary of the New England puritan colony in America. It is unknown what his ultimate fate was.

He was not mourned in Galway.

The castle eventually fell into decay and in the 19th century what was left of it was remodelled into an ale house, that in the 1970’s became what we now know as the King’s Head.

You can still see the castle walls inside and outside the bar today. Enjoy a pint of their wonderful ‘Blood Red Ale’, named for the blood of Charles I after his beheading, possibly by Stubbers himself and his lackey Gunning.

There is some great history in Gslway city, and in The Kings Head and you can hear some of that history on my Walking Tours of Galway

21/04/2025

On the left is a young & beautiful 𝑼𝒏𝒂 𝑻𝒂𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒆 🐾⛵️

20/04/2025

🕺🎶💃 𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐁𝐒 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐭 💃🎶🕺
A little blast from the past, I'm sure a few of these Niteclubs will bring back some fantastic memories 😉
No doubt you could add quite a few more to the list .... If you have any photos of Galway Niteclubs not featured please do send them in to added into the next updated video which will feature City Centre clubs 👍
Video by ➡️ Alan Micheal Fahy
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20/04/2025

20/04/2025

Only in Ireland 😂☘️
Any good captions for this great photo 😉🐓

20/04/2025

Wishing you all a magical Easter Sunday from all in the Emerald Isle of Ireland 🇮🇪 ☘️🐰
Have a pleasant peaceful day 🙏🏻😇🐣

20/04/2025

Happy Easter all

20/04/2025

Easter is all about an awakening, a rebirth, a resurrection. Here a pair of Claddagh swans do their courtship dance, a synchronised swim, and soon, there will be eggs! Happy Easter everyone.

20/04/2025

Easter is all about an awakening, a rebirth, a resurrection. Here a pair of Claddagh swans do their courtship dance, a synchronised swim, and soon, there will be eggs! Happy Easter everyone.

19/04/2025

You gotta love an Irish Milkman 😍☘️

Guinness

19/04/2025

🕺💃🎶 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕮𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖑𝖊 🎶🕺💃
A LEGO version of the The Castle Inn, Salthill 😉
What night club did you go to in Galway ?
Image ➡️ Alan Fahy - Social Media Specialist

19/04/2025

⚜ I ❤ Galway Memories ⚜
I remember mine and a few of my friends :)

19/04/2025

Boy, that was some wet day yesterday!
I love the roar of the millraces at Mill Street! And the lovely bluebells! The heron is usually lurking here, waiting for prey, but not today!
Anyone have any memories of this building now owned by the St. Vincent De Paul?
Video; Brian Nolan Walking Tours of Galway

18/04/2025

⚓ I ❤ Galway Memories ⚓
The Spanish Arch, Galway c.1928

18/04/2025

🎶💃🕺 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗪𝗜𝗖𝗞 🎶💃🕺
As requested by 'Mark Wheatley' a LEGO version of the WARWICK in Salthill 😁
Wouldn't you just love to heading out for one last night in The Warwick, Great times were had 🙂😉🤣💃🕺🎶
Image ➡️ Alan Fahy - Social Media Specialist
Mark Wheatley

18/04/2025

Anybody remember 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙣𝙪𝙜 ?
📍Located beside Garavans Bar on William's Street, Galway