In 1617, Aedh Ó Mannin ( Hugh O ' Mannin ) surrendered his estates, but a small portion of it was restored under the Act of Settlement in 1676 where the name is still common in Galway and Roscommon, and has spread into other parts of Ireland.

When these broke down they surrendered to the police in February, and were interred in Galway gaol from where they were released in July 1890.

Ginkell took Galway, which surrendered on terms.

The city of Galway surrendered without a fight after the battle, on advantageous terms, and the Jacobites ' main army surrendered shortly afterward at Limerick after a short siege.

Such towns as Waterford, Duncannon, Clonmel, Limerick and Galway only surrendered after determined resistance.

It surrendered without a siege under the Articles of Galway of 1691 after the annihilation of the main Jacobite army at the nearby battle of Aughrim.

In 1916, during the Easter Rising, Liam Mellows mobilised the local Irish Volunteers in the area to attack the Royal Irish Constabulary barracks at Oranmore, just outside Galway, however they failed to take it and later surrendered in Athenry.

During the Irish Confederate Wars ( 1641 – 1653 ), Galway took the side of the Confederate Catholics of Ireland, and as a result the Tribes were punished following the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.

Walter and family were given command to vacate Monkstown in 1653 by the Cromwellian Commissioners, and transplanted to Killyan, County Galway.

The fall of Galway saw the end of organised resistance to the Cromwellian conquest, but fighting continued as small units of Irish troops launched guerrilla attacks on the Parliamentarians.

At Almansa, the Franco – Spanish army under Berwick soundly defeated the allied forces of Portugal, England, and the United Provinces led by the Earl of Galway, reclaiming most of eastern Spain for the Bourbons.

At the same time, Galway was under siege by Parliamentarian forces, and Ireton personally rode to inspect the command of Charles Coote, who was blockading that city.

Because of the uncertain response to this dilemma by the merchant families, Cromwell's forces referred to them by the derogatory name, " The Tribes of Galway ", which they themselves later adopted as a mark of defiance.

By 1651, the remaining Royalist / Irish forces were hemmed into an area west of the River Shannon, holding only the fortified cities of Limerick and Galway and an enclave in County Kerry, under Donagh MacCarthy, Viscount Muskerry.

He was re-elected as TD for Galway in 1921 general election and having sided with the anti-treaty forces following the Anglo-Irish Treaty, he did not take his seat in either the 3rd Dáil or the 4th Dáil.

* The Bourbon army under the English Duke of Berwick defeats the English, Portuguese and Dutch forces under the French Earl of Galway at the Battle of Almansa, resulting in the Bourbon reclamation of eastern Spain.

In July, these forces, under Sir Charles Coote, began a nine month siege of Galway which ended in the town's surrender in April 1652.

Dudley Stagpoole VC DCM ( 1838 – 1 August 1911 ), born in Killunan, County Galway he was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Cornelius Coughlan VC ( 27 June 1828, Eyrecourt, County Galway – 14 February 1915 ) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Patrick Green VC ( 1824 – 19 July 1889 ) was born in Ballinasloe, County Galway and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Thomas Grady VC DCM ( 18 September 1835 – 18 May 1891 ) was born in Claddagh, County Galway and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

It was fought between the Jacobites and the forces of William III on 12 July 1691 ( old style, equivalent to 22 July new style ), near the village of Aughrim in County Galway.

The Irish and Royalist forces were penned into the area west of the river Shannon and placed their last hope on defending the strongly walled cities of Limerick and Galway on Ireland's west coast.

During the 1640s, Galway was heavily fortified against an expected counter-attack by English forces, which eventually materialised when English Parliamentarian forces re-conquered Ireland in 1649-52.

Galway was the last city held by Irish Catholic forces in Ireland and its fall signalled the end to most organised resistance to the Parliamentarian conquest of the country.

After some years spent in retirement, he was appointed in 1704 to command the allied forces in Portugal, a post which he sustained with honour and success until the Battle of Almanza in 1707, in which Galway, in spite of care and skill on his own part, was decisively defeated by the Duke of Berwick.

After staying at Shrule Castle in the company of the third Viscount Mayo, then Sheriff of County Mayo, for more than a week, the group was given an escort with orders to take them 14 miles toward the border of County Mayo and County Galway, where other forces would assume the escort duty and escort them on to the Galway fort.

The town was besieged and after the surrender of Galway in April 1652, the Tribes had to face the confiscation of their property by the New Model Army.

In late 1652, after another lengthy siege, Galway too was reduced by plague and lack of supplies.

Limerick and Galway were too well defended to be taken by storm, but were blockaded until hunger and disease forced them to surrender, Limerick in 1651, Galway in 1652.

* 1652: Surrender of the last Irish stronghold in Galway — guerrilla warfare continues

It took two more years of prolonged siege and guerrilla warfare, before the last major Irish resistance was ended, after the fall of Galway in late 1652.

Coote's army proceeeded to march south, taking Sligo and then Galway after a long siege in 1652.

A street called Beattytown was built in Galway, Ireland in the 1920s by the Irish Soldiers ' and Sailors ' Land Trust and named after Admiral Beatty, following their policy of naming streets after notable commanders of the British Empire.

" Speaking after an honorary arts doctorate was conferred on him by the National University of Ireland, Sheen joked that he would be the " oldest undergraduate " at the National University of Ireland ( NUI ), Galway, when he started his full-time studies there in the autumn of 2006.

It is named after the city of Galway.

* James Lynch Fitzstephen from Galway, Ireland, who was the Mayor of Galway when he hanged his own son from the balcony of his house after convicting him of the murder of a Spanish visitor in 1493.

A few years after his birth, the family returned to Galway, Ireland.

" If the King should attempt to change our religion ," he is reputed to have remarked to Lord Galway shortly after James II's succession, " I will instantly quit his service.

Initially a passionate supporter of Parnell, he became disenchanted with his leader after the first clash occurred in 1886 when Healy opposed Parnell's party nomination of Captain William O ’ Shea to stand for Galway City.

Galway is the second Irish airport after Sligo Airport to have its scheduled services suspended in 2011.

Despite NTL Ireland turning a profit, in May 2005, NTL sold their Dublin, Galway, and Waterford cable business ( which they had acquired in 1999 for € 825 million from the Irish government ) to UGC Europe for € 325 million — this after having spent in excess of € 100 million on network infrastructure ( i. e. making a gross loss of € 500 million-more than 50 %-over what they paid ).

The Tribes lost much of their power within Galway city after English Parliamentarians took over the Galway Corporation in 1654.

The theatre company was founded by Garry Hynes, Marie Mullen and Mick Lally after the three had met and put on productions together while members of the University College Galway Drama Society Dramsoc.

The family peerage, Viscount Gort, was named after Gort, a town in County Galway in the West of Ireland.

His parents were both from County Galway, Ireland, and named their son after Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork who died on a hunger strike during the Irish War of Independence.

His regiment passed into the leadership of Henri de Massue, 1st Earl of Galway after his death.

They made landfall in Galway, not far from their intended landing place after less than sixteen hours ' flying.

In 1855, shortly after its foundation, Hardiman became librarian of Queen's College, Galway.

The name of Galway Blazers was given to the Galway Hunt after a celebration held in the hotel in 1809 resulted in the premises being set on fire.

On 7 April 2011, Aer Arann confirmed it would end its PSO ( Public Service Obligation ) routes after the Irish Government withdrew funding for the routes, which included Dublin to Galway, Knock and Sligo.

In fact, if the entirety of Tallaght and its environs were taken into account, then the population would be greater than that of Galway, rendering Tallaght the third largest area of population in the state after Dublin Cork and Limerick.