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The Tribes of Galway (Irish: Treibheanna na Gaillimhe) 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.
The city also bears the nickname "City of the Tribes" (Irish: Cathair na dTreabh) because of the fourteen merchant families called the "tribes of Galway" [7] who led the city in its Hiberno-Norman period.
Galway's economy recovered somewhat from the late 18th as the Penal Laws were relaxed. However the city's rural hinterland suffered terribly in the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s. Unlike other urban centres in 19th century Ireland, which experienced an explosion in their populations, Galway's population actually declined such was the ...
The city of Galway Ireland was built as a naval base and military fort by Tairrdelbach mac Ruaidri Ua Conchobair in 1124. It was refounded as a military outpost and town by Richard Mor de Burgh in 1230. It has been subjected to a number of battles, sacks and sieges. This article enumerates the history of military conflict in Galway.
A member of one of The Tribes of Galway, John Blake was the first of eighteen members of his family to serve as Mayor of Galway, the last been Edmond Blake. He was the eldest son of William Blake, a burgess of the town, and had at least two siblings, Andrew and Thomas.
Its nickname was "the city of the Tribes" due to the fact that there were 14 main tribes there Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, Darcy, Deane, French, Font, Joyce, Kirwan, Lynch, Martin, Morris, and Skerrett, families, but in British times it was legally a town, and its county corporate was the "county of the town of Galway". [106]
Darcy was a member of the Tribes of Galway, and the first of his family to become Mayor. The family originally humble farmers from Pártraí, County Mayo, who moved to Galway in the 1480s. Darcy's ancestor, Walter Riabhac Ó Dorchaidhe (fl. c. 1488), was of the Partraige of Lough Carra. Walter Riabhach is believed to have settled in Galway ...
John Athy (fl. 1426–38) was Sovereign of Galway. Athy was a member of one of the fourteen families that would later become known as the Tribes of Galway . Several members of the family were killed in a feud with the Blake family, c. 1440.