Hidden Galway introduces you to a totally new history of Galway exploring the quirky stories & fascinating rogues that history has overlooked. There are stories of disasters such as the KLM flight which brought Galway to a standstill for over a week in 1958 the Christmas morning tragedy of 1842 when thirty-seven people lost their lives while attending mass & the story of William from Galway the man who sailed with Christopher Columbus in 1492 on his voyage of discovery. Graphic accounts of execution & murder from the City of the Tribes are told such as the infamous Bodkin Murders where eleven people were brutally slain in a house of horrors in one night. Included are famous & infamous bandits highwaymen scientists smugglers & love stories that introduce us to the weird wonderful & often downright strange customs & pastimes of the people of Galway.