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Excerpt from Maureen Dhu, the Admiral's Daughter: A Tale of the Claddagh of Galway
The primitive and singular people who form the subject of this story have long been an object of curiosity to the ethnologist. and of special interest to the traveler who chanced upon them in their remote sea-washed home. Age after age have they dwelt by the side of Galway Bay. asserting and maintaining supreme control over its fishing - a right which is theirs by a prescription older than the oldest tradition. For ages long they have been the near neighbors of the people of Galway, yet are even now as distinct from them, as jealous of their intrusion amongst them, and as strongly marked in their peculiarities as they ever were. Time, and the resistless force of modern "progress," may be silently softening down some of the prejudices to which they were so obstinately wedded, and effacing some of the broadest lines of separation between them and their neighbors, but, intrenched in the stronghold of their harsh patois, and entirely devoted to their hereditary avocations, the main features of their character remain the same as in ages past.
My object in laying the scene of the present story amongst this fishing community is, I think, sufficiently manifest.
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