Peadar O'Dowd was a local historian from the Bóthar Mór (Bohermore) district of
Galway
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city and a member of the
Galway Archaeological and Historical Society
The Galway Archaeological and Historical Society was founded on 21 March 1900. It promotes historical preservation, as well as the study of the archaeology and history of the west of Ireland.
As of January 2002, the Society had published 53 cons ...
.
He was an alumnus of
University College, Galway.
He died on 3 January 2024.
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'',
Gill & Macmillan
Gill is an independent publisher and distributor based in Dublin, Ireland.
History
In 1856, Michael Henry Gill, printer for Dublin University, purchased the publishing and bookselling business of James McGlashan, and the company was renamed Mc ...
, 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.
References
People from County Galway
People from Galway (city)
Alumni of the University of Galway
2024 deaths
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