Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1919
Path to pure marriage
Speaking at the Cathedral, Tuam, on Sunday last, his Grace, Most Rev. Dr. Gilmartin appealed very strongly to the people to attend the May devotions in these times of gravest danger to faith and morals.
A distinguished French author once wrote that the maidens of Ireland were the most beautiful in the world because they were the purest.
It was Mary, Queen of May, kept Ireland purest of the pure. She was Queen of purity, and (pointing to the Statue of the Mother and the child) Queen of noble motherhood. In her footsteps lay the path to pure marriage.
“And yet to-day,” said his Grace, speaking with much feeling, “no sooner will a band of soldiers arrive in a town than some few girls will cast themselves on their path. Whatever soldiers may be as men, our concern is not with them here. But, mind this, the path upon which these girls walk leads not to holy marriage and noble motherhood. Oh, then, let the fathers and mothers come, let the children come, let the youths and maidens come here every evening in May to the reception of the Queen of Purity, the Patroness of Holy Marriage, the model of noble motherhood, that these unhappy things may not be.”
Land unrest
In the early hours of Monday morning, D.I. McDonagh, R.I.C., and a large force of police assempled on the lands of Gurrankyle and Lickerrig, near Riverville, and seized upon a number of trespassing cattle which were subsequently impounded at Loughrea..
The Gurrankyle farm, comprising 218 acres, was formerly held on the eleven months’ system from Mr. Joseph Walker, Terenure, Dublin, and recently purchased by Mrs. Emily Atkins, Glebe, Martin and John Whelan and Malachy Raftery, Creggaturlough.
The purchase of this farm by these parties is strongly resented in the district where the people have been agitating for a division of those lands in the interests of the small farmers adjoining for some time.
Rangers’ colours
The Colours of the 2nd Battalion Connaught Rangers, who at present compose parts of the army of occupation on the Rhine, were taken to Galway on Wednesday under an escort commanded by Capt. Payne.
A guard of honour from Renmore Barracks met them at the railway station, and the Colours were deposited in the officers’ mess room at Renmore.
Addressing the men, Colonel Chamier congratulated them on their safe return, and spoke of the valour and bravery shown by the Connaught Rangers during the war.
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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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