In a recent episode of the Irish Passport Podcast, we visited the medieval city of Galway to trace the town’s ancient merchant oligarchy: the so-called Tribes. You can see some of the landmarks mentioned in that episode below, and if you are lucky enough to visit the city in the future, you can source them out for yourself!
You can listen to our episode “Galway, City of The Tribes” here.
Fishermen kings, Spanish galleons, and fearsome pirate marauders – these are just some of the things that make the history of Galway City on the west coast of Ireland so intriguing. Take a tour around the medieval old town with Tim Mc Inerney and historian Adrian Martyn, and find out all about the infamous ‘Tribes of Galway’ who presided over this western frontier-city for over five centuries. Who were they? Where on earth did they come from? And what’s left of them today? See Tim’s photographs of the landmarks discussed here.
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If you want to check out more from historian Adrian Martyn and order his book ‘The Tribes of Galway’, you can find his work here: https://adrianmartyn.ie/
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