Peadar O'Dowd

Peadar O'Dowd was a local historian from the Bóthar Mór (Bohermore) district of Galway city and a member of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society. He was an alumnus of University College, Galway. He died on 3 January 2024.

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Old and new Galway, Galway, 1985. Vanishing Galway, Galway, 1987. Down by the Claddagh, Galway, 1993. The Great Famine and the West, Galway, 2000. In from the West, the McDonogh Dynasty, 2002. Galway in Old Photographs, Gill & Macmillan, 2003. A history of County Galway, Gill & Macmillan, 2004. Christmas Tales of Galway, 2006. Final Tales of Galway, 2009. Tracing your Galway Ancestors, Flyleaf Press, 2011.