Richard Bodkin, Mayor of Galway

Mayor of Galway

The office of Mayor of Galway is an honorific title used by the of Galway City Council. The Council has jurisdiction throughout its administrative area which is the city of Galway – the largest city in the province of Connacht, in the Republic of Ireland. The office was originally established by a...

 1610-11.

Bodkin was sworn into office on 29 September 1610. As Galway was granted a new charter

Charter

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 on 18 December by James II

James II of England

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, Bodkin appears to have been the first Mayor to have a sword borne before him. The sword is still property of Galway corporation. The title of bailiff

Bailiff

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, the Mayor's two deputies, was changed to sheriff

Sheriff

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, the first two being Patrick Martyn and Christopher Bodkin.

See also

• Tomás Bobhdacing
  Tomás Bobhdacing
  -Biography:Bobhdacing was a descendant of Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of Lanstephan , who's immediate ancestors took part in the Anglo-Irish invasion and settlement of Connacht in the late 1230s under Richard Mor de Burgh...
  
  
• Thomas Bodkin
  Thomas Bodkin
  Professor Thomas Patrick Bodkin was an Irish lawyer, art historian, art collector and curator.Bodkin was Director of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin from 1927 to 1935 and founding Director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham from 1935 until 1952, where he acquired the...
  
  
• John Bodkin fitz Richard
  John Bodkin fitz Richard
  John Bodkin fitz Richard, Mayor of Galway, 1518-19.Bodkin was one of the four sons of Richard Bodkin, his brothers being James, Henry, and Laurence. He was married to Janet Morris, daughter of John Morris, town provost in 1477...
  
  
• John Bodkin fitz Dominick
  John Bodkin fitz Dominick
  John Bodkin fitz Dominck, Mayor of Galway, 1639-40.A son of Dominick Bodkin, John was elected in August 1639. During his term, the town corporation provided finance for the construction of a new market-house...
  
  
• John Bodkin
  John Bodkin
  For the suspected serial killer, see John Bodkin AdamsJohn Bodkin, Roman Catholic Warden of Galway, died 1710. After his death, his body was said to have been the subject of a miracle because it was thought to have not decayed.-Life and Death:...
  
  
• Dominick Dáll Bodkin
  Dominick Dáll Bodkin
  -Origins:Bodkin was a member of The Tribes of Galway, and nicknamed Dáll because he was blind in one eye. Pockmarked and a heavy drinker, he had a notorious reputation in the area, and was estranged from his brother, Oliver Bodkin of Carrowbeg House, Belclare, Tuam.Dominick Dáll lived at Carrowbeg...
  
  
• Tribes of Galway
  Tribes of Galway
  The Tribes of Galway were fourteen merchant families who dominated the political, commercial, and social life of the city of Galway in western Ireland between the mid-13th and late-19th centuries. They were the families of Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, D'Arcy, Deane, Font, Ffrench, Joyce, Kirwan,...
  
  
• Galway
  Galway
  Galway or City of Galway is a city in County Galway, Republic of Ireland. It is the sixth largest and the fastest-growing city in Ireland. It is also the third largest city within the Republic and the only city in the Province of Connacht. Located on the west coast of Ireland, it sits on the...