Galway (IE)
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Galway (Irish: Gaillimh.) is a city in (and the county town of) County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay. It is the most populous settlement in the province of Connacht, the fifth most populous city on the island of Ireland and the fourth most populous in the Republic of Ireland, with a population at the 2022 census of 85,910.
The city's name comes from the Irish name Gaillimh, a river which formed the western boundary of the earliest settlement, Dún Gaillimhe "Fort Gaillimh". (Mythical and alternative derivations of the name are given in History of Galway). Historically, the name was anglicised as Galliv or Gallive, closer to the Irish pronunciation. The city's name in Latin is Galvia. Residents of the city are referred to as Galwegians.
The city also bears the nickname "City of the Tribes" (Irish: Cathair na dTreabh) because of the fourteen merchant families called the "tribes of Galway" who led the city in its Hiberno-Norman period. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galway).
Irish cancels
Galway (IE)
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Great Britain era cancels
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During the 16th and 17th centuries, Galway remained loyal to the English crown for the most part, even during the Gaelic resurgence, perhaps for reasons of survival. However, by 1642 the city had allied itself with the Catholic Confederation of Kilkenny during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
During the resulting Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, Cromwellian forces captured the city after a nine-month siege. At the end of the 17th century, the city supported the Jacobites in the Williamite war in Ireland and was captured by the Williamites after a very short siege not long after the Battle of Aughrim in 1691. The great families of Galway were ruined. The city later suffered further under the Great Famine of 1845–1852.
Galway English type Spoons
The English type spoon first appears 08 June 1855 in a shade of the blue, but it is not true blue it is shades of cyan known as the colours between blue and green on the visible spectrum of light, the look of the cancel to the eye also depends on what colour envelope or colour stamp it is cancelled on, the post office would have had different mixes of ink over the eight months of its use until the first black cancel 5 Feb 1856. We must take into account contaminated ink or dirty stampers would have been involved, but in the end 99% look blue to the eye. 23 Jul 1855 looks bluer than 22 Jan 1856 because it is on a blue envelope The 17 Jan 1856 is the only cancel which moved into the green-cyan range but if it had been on a blue envelope, it would have moved into the blue cyan range.
More Galway blue cancels are known than strikes in black, so Blue is common and Black is uncommon
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Galways Irish Diamond Spoons
Galway Irish type spoon cancelled in blue which is classed as exceedingly rare.
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