Please join and help bring their names home, we cannot bring their bodies home however we can bring their names home.
Background: As the Galway First World War Company Ltd commemorated the 103rd anniversary of the end of World War 1, on November the 11th 2021 by launching their Virtual Memorial, Database and Website at Dún Ui Mhaoilíosa (Renmore), Galway, Rep of Ireland. Directors: James Larkin, Dolores Brogan-Curran and Declan Ganley.

“We owe to remember” and honor the men and women from Galway City and County who died in this war as many died in different battlefields or / and at sea. Many of the names are engraved on monuments in France, Canada, Belgium, and other countries, research is still ongoing, and more names will be listed. The goal of the Galway Great War Memorial Company is to eventually develop and enrich the current website and have a physical monument in Galway like other cities and towns in Ireland.
Some Numbers and Facts
1,204 names for Galway. From Galway, 19 sets of brothers were killed, a father and son were killed as well as 3 priests.
Youngest soldier casualty was 15, oldest was 67.
Enlistment from the Claddagh had risen to more than 250 in April 1915 and men from the Claddagh described as ‘some of the finest and hardiest men in the Kingdom’.
By the end of WW1 in 1918, Galway was ranked as third best source of recruits in Ireland in Renmore Barracks where Connaught Rangers used as their administrative base.
Some locations where many were buried: France, Belgium, Egypt, Israel, Iraq, Iran, U.S.A. Canada, Malta, Mesopotamia, Turkey.
Nearly 65 million men fought during WW1, 10 million died.