Would you like to learn more about Galway's History?

The Galway Reader is a web site consisting of articles on Galway's history.

The original Galway Reader was a journal published by Galway County Libraries between 1948 and 1954. It ran to just 4 volumes with 4 issues per volume. It was edited by the County Librarian Samuel J. Maguire. It is now available online.


What Samuel J. Maguire did was to write a series of excellent articles about the history of Galway based on the resources in the local studies collection. Many of these are short articles and are highly readable and very accessible. What Samuel J. Maguire did, in fact, was to take some of the most interesting items from the collection, edit them, synopsise them, and distribute them to the public through the Galway Reader.

Some examples of the articles are:

Tuam in Olden Days
Aughrim
Athenry,
A Galway Election
Old Dunmore
Farming in County Galway before the Famine