Bohermore

Bohermore (Irish: An Bóthar Mór, meaning "the big road") is an area of Galway, Ireland. It got this name as it was the main road into Galway City from the east in medieval times.

Bohermore Cemetery

There is a large cemetery located in Bohermore known as the "New Cemetery", which contains two mortuary chapels, one Catholic and the other Protestant. People buried there include the Irish-language writer and journalist Pádraic Ó Conaire (1882-1928), Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) (1906-1946), an Irish-American who broadcast Nazi propaganda from Germany during World War II, and Lady Gregory (1852-1932), a founding member of the Irish Literary Theatre movement, who hosted a literary and artistic salon in her house at Coole Park, in rural south Galway.[1]

Notable people

References
  1. "Bohermore's Victorian Cemetery - Resting Place of the Famous". Historicgraves. 8 May 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  2. "Writer who created a novel for children to marvel". The Irish Times. 19 May 2007. Retrieved 19 October 2017.


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