Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Time Gone By – A browse through the archives of the Connacht Tribune.
1913
Cowardly assault
While peacefully returning from a funeral on Sunday, a Carnmore farmer named John Carr, was set upon by three other men and assaulted in a grievous manner.
It appears Carr and his wife attended a funeral to Lackagh early on Sunday. When returning through Claregalway, Carr entered Lenihan’s public house, presumably for refreshment, leaving his wife in charge of the horse outside.
When he came out and was proceeding on his homeward journey, three farmers assaulted him with hurleys, causing several scalp wounds and injuries to the back.
The injured man lies in a precarious condition at his residence in Carnmore, and Dr. Gannon is in constant attendance. When examined, the scalp wounds showed that considerable force must have been used, as the doctor found it necessary to insert six stitches in his head.
At the time of writing, the doctor has not certified that the man’s life is out of danger. Eye-witnesses’ description of the scene of the assault go to show that the attack was a very brutal one, the road for a couple of yards being covered with blood.
1938
Nursing exams
Dr. Mills, R.M.S., informed the Committee of Management,. Ballinasloe Mental Hospital, that although there were very few vacancies, and a waiting list at present, 173 girls from all over Counties Galway and Roscommon sat for the qualifying examination for nurses held at the Mental Hospital a fortnight ago.
Of the 173, 66 passed. This, said the chairman, only showed the need for employment in the country, and to relieve this to some extent, the committee called on all attendants, twelve in all, who have served the full period of 33 years entitling them to a maximum pension, to retire.
The committee took this step, said the chairman in order to relieve to some small extent the present pressing unemployment problem in the two counties.
Taking in probationers at £40 per annum and granting pensions to those who will retire on full pensions will mean no extra cost on the committee’s pay-roll.
The difference between the present rate of pay of those attendants qualified to retire and the amount of their pensions will almost pay the salaries of the probationers who replace the pensioners, while at the same time it will open up new posts.
Gaeltacht industry
That the market for goods manufactured for sale by the Gaeltacht Industries depot in Dublin is strengthening and that the people are learning to appreciate the high quality of these goods is evidenced by the fact that orders for the manufacture of certain articles of wearing apparel are coming in more frequently to many of the manufacturing stations.
The increased demand has given a decided fillip to the Roundstone knitting and crochet industry. This station, which employs twenty-six girls under the charge of Miss McGee, is working full time to cope with the demand.
The “Buy Irish” programme launched some time ago and the application of tariffs on foreign-manufactured goods coming into the country have done a great deal to draw the attention of the people to the Irish manufactured article, and now that Gaeltacht Industry goods are coming into the limelight their superior quality will assure them a steady market even in competition with mass-production goods.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
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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