Families of County Galway
Iar Connacht and the Gaillimh of the Tribes, Ó Flaithbheartaigh ground, Aran Islands, the Twelve Bens.
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Families of County Galway
- KellySecond most common Irish surname, the Uí Maine of Galway, and six other dynasties besides.
- BurkeThe de Burgo Lords of Connacht, Hibernis ipsis Hiberniores.
- JoyceOf Iar Connacht and Galway city, one of the Tribes, and the family of James Joyce.
- LynchOf the Tribes of Galway, and, by tradition, of the phrase 'Lynch law'.
- ConnollyOf Connemara and the Fews, and the founder of Irish socialism.
- ClarkeAnnalists of Tír Chonaill, and the surname of the 1916 Proclamation's first signatory.
Historic ties to Galway
Families with historic but not core ground in this county.
Champions of County Galway
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in County Galway.
- Barnaby JoyceThe accountant from the New South Wales tablelands who led the National Party and twice served as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, the foremost parliamentary voice of regional and rural Australia.
- Patrick PearseThe Dublin-born Gaelic League barrister and Irish-language schoolmaster who founded St Enda's bilingual school at Rathfarnham in 1908 and on the twenty-fourth of April 1916 read the Proclamation of the Irish Republic from the steps of the General Post Office.