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For almost 150 years, the Fallers name has been part of the fabric of Galway city. Established in 1879, Fallers Jewellers has grown from the work of one ambitious jeweller into a fifth-generation family business, firmly rooted on Williamsgate Street.

Stephen Faller was born in Germany and came to Galway as a young man. Our first photograph, c1890, shows him at the door of the business he set up in Dominick Street in 1879.

This club, originally established in 1864, must be one of the oldest in Galway, if not one of the oldest amateur sporting clubs in the country. Unfortunately, the minutes of the club meetings for 1864 and 1865 cannot be found, but we are fortunate that Maurice Semple had access to the minutes for most other years and published them in a book entitled A Century of Minutes, the Story of the Corrib Club, 1864 – 1966.