EYRE SQUARE

From Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland (1900)

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EYRE SQUARE.—The accompanying picture represents a portion of Eyre Square, a principal part of the city of Galway, and which contains many of the chief buildings, residences, hotels, railway station, and statues of eminent citizens. Galway Bay is acknowledged to be the finest in Ireland, and being 500 miles nearer to America than Liverpool, would, were it not for British commercial selfishness, be a flourishing center of trade and commerce. From the earliest times, the town was a famous trading port with Spain, and its merchants were celebrated for their commercial enterprise and wealth. The older parts of the city retain to the present day melancholy vestiges of its departed prosperity and greatness. These, says a modern writer, exhibit generally tokens of the commercial habits of the people rather than of their military character. The people of Galway, however, experienced their full share of the wars and misfortunes of the invader, and always maintained their high character for courage and patriotism.

Eyre Square, Galway

Eyre Square

Description of County Galway | Clifden Cascade | Eyre Square | Kylemore Castle | St. Nicholas Church | Lynch's Castle | West Bridge | Fish Market | Claddagh | Galway Map

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