{"id":395,"date":"2025-11-25T15:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/?p=395"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:43:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:43:55","slug":"fahy-brothers-coach-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/2025\/11\/25\/fahy-brothers-coach-builders\/","title":{"rendered":"Fahy Brothers \u2013 Coach Builders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fahy Brothers started business in Dominick Street. They built sidecars, traps and horse-drawn coaches. As motor cars were introduced to the world and began to take over from horse-drawn vehicles, Fahys built the bodies for most of the motorised cars in Galway. The engines would arrive in crates by train and Fahys would build the bodies around them.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The advertisement dates from 1929<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

They wished to: \u2018direct the attention of the public to the splendid stock of new vehicles of all sorts now on view in their showrooms including Ralli Cars, Outside Cars, Fancy Traps etc which for style, workmanship and finish defy description\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also built coaches and charabancs for people like O\u2019Hallorans, Silkes and O\u2019Flahertys. They advertised extensively and obviously imaginatively \u2026 anyone who could claim to have dust-proof showrooms had imagination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frank Ryan was a foreman with Fahys. They kept windscreen glass in stock, rubber tyres could be supplied at the shortest notice and herald painting (having your family crest painted on the car) was a speciality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The business moved to Forster Street around 1921.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Our second image shows one of their beautiful finished products parked outside the door<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The staff of Fahy Brothers while they were still based in Dominick Street. They are (L to R) —– , John Riddell, —— , John Hanly, Joe Fahy, Pat Fahy, —- , ——- . Paddy Riddell of New Road. The small boy in front was another<\/em> Paddy Riddell, who worked later as a painter in Hunters<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Old Dominick Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fahy Brothers started business in Dominick Street. They built sidecars, traps and horse-drawn coaches. As motor cars were introduced to the world and began to take over from horse-drawn vehicles, Fahys built the bodies for most of the motorised cars in Galway. The engines would arrive in crates by train and Fahys would build the … Continue reading “Fahy Brothers \u2013 Coach Builders”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12],"tags":[113,112,59],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-galway-history","category-old-galway","tag-coach-builders","tag-fahy-brothers","tag-forster-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}