St Nicholas Collegiate Church Galway

Music
Choir

A brief history

The choir of St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church has its origins in the college of singing clerks established to serve the medieval establishment. The church was constituted as fully independent collegiate establishment in the late fifteenth century, and a college house built for the warden and vicars choral.

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Organists

Past organists

This list is far from complete, and the church is seeking any information that might help in filling in the gaps!

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The Organ

A brief history

References to an organ in the church stretch back as far as 1561, when Nicholas Lynch fitz Stephen, mayor of Galway for the second time, had an organ made and placed in a newly built tower in the Lynch (south) Transept.

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