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So much has changed since this photograph was taken, it is hard to know where to start. Most of the buildings on Spanish Parade have been demolished and replaced, and the car park there has been pedestrianised. Flaherty Markets were in business on Long Walk at the time. As you move around the end of Long Walk towards the docks, all of the buildings there have been replaced by apartment blocks.

This wonderful aerial view of the city looking across Lough Athalia was taken c1952. Lough Athalia is the anglicisation of Loch an tSáile, the Salt Lake, a tidal lake. There are so many changes to this cityscape since then, it is hard to know where to begin.

The town of Galway was virtually an independent city state, self-contained politically and ecclesiastically, relying on its own resources as it was cut off from the central English authority until the 16th century. Then, the Tudors began to extend their influence westwards so that the city gradually came totally under their dominion. The real symbol of that growing influence was the fortifications, four in number, raised to defend this all-important location against all enemies, notably France and Spain.

Tuberculosis is an infectious and very debilitating disease that affects the lungs. It was previously known as consumption because of weight loss suffered.