One of the communities first settlers was William Hogan, an Irish merchant.
The new owner, an Irish immigrant merchant named Joseph Henry, had married into a prominent local family.
Valentine Blake was an Irish merchant and Mayor of Galway.
Some say the light belongs to an Irish merchant who was robbed and murdered on the island.
English, Scottish, and Irish merchants settled in the city.
In addition, the small class of Irish Catholic merchants, lawyers and gentry who had prospered under the Union felt anxious for the same reasons.
John Keogh (1740 - 13 November 1817) was an Irish merchant and political activist.
His father was an Irish merchant, who had settled in the Basque city.
In the last century, wealthy Irish merchants built houses around the town's spring-fed freshwater lake.
They agreed to accept bills from White, an Irish merchant, on one condition.