Peadar O'Dowd is a local historian from the Bóthar Mór (Bohermore) district of

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city and is a member of the

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. He is an alumnus of

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Select bibliography

* ''Old and new Galway'', Galway, 1985. * ''Vanishing Galway'', Galway, 1987. * ''Down by the Claddagh'', Galway, 1993. * ''The Great Famine and the West'', Galway, 2000. * ''In from the West, the McDonogh Dynasty'', 2002. * ''Galway in Old Photographs'',

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, 2003. * ''A history of County Galway'', Gill & Macmillan, 2004. * ''Christmas Tales of Galway'', 2006. * ''Final Tales of Galway'', 2009. * ''Tracing your Galway Ancestors'', Flyleaf Press, 2011. People from County Galway People from Galway (city) Alumni of the University of Galway Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Ireland-historian-stub