Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1919
Shoemaking scandal
Galway Guardians on Wednesday confessed themselves unable to offer any explanation in reply to the Local Government Board Inspector’s criticism that it cost 6s. for material alone for the repair of a single pair of inmate’s boots in the Workhouse.
Extracts from the report, made to the Local Government Board by Mr. Pack Beresford were forwarded, particular attention being directed to the observations as to the manner in which the Master’s duties had been discharged.
“The financial condition of the union is not satisfactory,” Mr. Beresford wrote.
“It is estimated that there was a balance of over £2,000 against the guardians at the close of the recent financial year.”
Turf war
An amazing story of a “drive” in which women took a leading part; of a row between the grazier and the women who were driving the stock, during which, it was alleged, the women used sticks freely on the grazier, and that he struck them with sticks; and of a police sergeant who threatened to fire his revolver if the “drive” was persisted in, was told at a special court in Tuam on Friday, before Colonel O’Sullivan, R.M., when four married women, a young smartly-dressed girl and two youths were charged with unlawful assembly and conduct calculated to lead to a breach of the peace at Ironpool, Kilconly, on the 5th of April last.
The defendants were: Margaret Curley, Margaret Philbin, Ellen Lynskey, Norah Martyn, Margaret Curley (junr), Pk. Keville, and Pk. Philbin.
They all belong to Ironpool. A warrant had been issued for the arrest of a sixth woman, named Annie Meehan, but Sergeant Bruen stated her mother informed him she was ill, and also that her brother was being buried that day, and he did not arrest her.
The defendants were arrested that morning and conveyed to Tuam in a motor van. The application of the Crown was to bind them to the peace, and they all gave bails and were released from custody.
Absolute independence
At a Sinn Féin meeting at Dunmore on Sunday appeals were made for financial support for Dáil Éireann. The meeting was addressed by Dr. Cusack, Mr. G. Nichols, solr, Mr. C. Maguire, Mr. C. J. Kennedy and Mr. P. Kennealy.
Dr. B. A. Cusack, M.P. for North Galway, said there was talk of some big measure for Ireland, but until absolute independence was achieved the Irish people would not be content.
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1923
Gloom after war
The special correspondent of the “Independent”, who has been writing of the aftermath of civil war in the West, notes that a feeling of apathy, due to the uncertainty of events, exists amongst the sorely-tried people of Connemara; that politics are referred to only with disgust and that not more than fifty per cent. of the people would vote at a general election; that poverty and unemployment are rife, and there is a growing tendency towards emigration; and that there are bitter complaints of the huge impost of rates and taxes.
It is only too true that there is enough of material for the pessimist to brood over, and that a feeling of gloom permeates country towns. But it is a poor tribute to patriotism that has survived such horrors to encourage this gloom.
It is the duty of all of us to get this pessimism out of the national body and to rid ourselves of the notion that we have not enough Christianity and moral sense left to restore our people to cheerful and ordered progress and industry.
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1923
Peace negotiations
As we go to press, An Dáil is discussing the Peace negotiations between the Government and Mr. de Valera. It was announced on Wednesday for the first time that such negotiations were begun following Mr. de Valera’s “cease fire” proclamation of April 27, and that by the 30th of the month Senators Andrew Jameson and James Douglas were asked by him to discuss proposals.
They said it was for the Government to discuss; they could only confer. Into the ensuring conferences the Government declined to enter personally, but on May 3 the senators placed before Mr. de Valera the Cabinet’s terms, which were that future issues should be decided by the majority vote of the elected representatives of the people, and that as a corollary and a preliminary to the release of prisoners, all lethal weapons should be in the custody and control of the Executive Government.
Mr. de Valera relied to this on May 7 with a document in which he agreed to majority rule and control of arms, but added that arms should be stored in a suitable building in each province under armed Republican guard until after the elections in September, that the oath should not be made a test in the councils of the nation, and that all political prisoners should be released immediately on the signing of this agreement.
“You have brought back to us,” wrote President Cosgrave, “not an acceptance of our conditions, but a long and wordy document inviting debate where none is possible”.
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1923
State of the parties
Speculation as to parties after the next Irish elections is exceedingly interesting, especially in view of the enlarged franchise.
In Dublin, the view appears to be held by a number of people that Labour will make a great bid for power.
Dublin, however, has a curiously insular habit of thought where matters that concern all Ireland and in which Ireland has a say are concerned. We hope this insularity will rapidly disappear under the new conditions.
The country as a whole is backing the Farmers’ Party, and has not the smallest doubt that it will be the strongest combination in the next Dáil, and that it will oust the purely political parties, the one because it has resorted to force, the other because it has been compelled to use force to supress force, and the Labour Party because Ireland feels that at the back of its policy lurks the danger of Communism.
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