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Running aground – Ray Burke on the Indian Empire and a Galway conspiracy theory


 
A mid-19th-century British prime minister, Edward Smith-Stanley, had been well briefed before he received a delegation from Co Galway at Number 10 Downing Street in August 1858.
Galway’s two MPs and the county’s high sheriff were on the delegation, but it was led by a Catholic priest, Peter Daly, who had become a dominant personality in the town where the recent Great Famine had gravely exasperated the decay and decline of the two centuries that followed its surrender to Cromwell’s forces.
As chairman of the Galway Town Commissioners and a member of the Galway Harbour Commissioners, Daly was petitioning the prime minister for funds to develop the harbour to exploit a burgeoning demand for passenger sailings from Ireland to America. ....

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