Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1914
Rifles for Craughwell, Galway
Upwards of eighty Volunteers of the Craughwell corps marched into Athenry on Tuesday evening to receive a consignment of sixty rifles despatched from headquarters of the National Volunteers in Dublin. The Craughwell corps, which are staunch supporters of the Irish Party, are to be congratulated on being the first corps in the county to receive such recognition by the Party.
Rain-sodden bed
Arising out of a report on the condition of the houses in Piper’s Lane and Wilson’s Lane, the Chairman of Ballinasloe Urban Council said it appeared the conditions under which the people were living in those places were very bad.
Mr. Costello said the people living in them complained of the rain coming down on their beds. In houses, consisting of one room, families of six and seven had to live together, and in some cases there was only one small window in these houses.
In reply to the Chairman, it was stated the houses belonged to Mr. John Beirne.
Mr. Costello: Wilson’s Lane and Piper’s Lane should be closed. When we were looking at these places, Mr. Hayden asked if they were stables. You would not put an ass to live in them.
Late Mrs. Killacky
Sincere regret was manifested by all classes in the City on Thursday morning when it was made known that Mrs. Killacky, wife of the popular and courteous Head-Constable, had passed away after a long illness.
Though the deceased had been ailing for nearly two years, her health did not indicate that the end was so near. The late Mrs. Killacky was a well-known figure in charity circles in the City, and her many kindly acts endeared her to those with whom she laboured for charity as well as those who benefitted by her exertions.
1939
Parish committees
Sir, Out of what hole has come that glorified mouse, or musk-rat, denominated the Parish Committee? The Parish Committee! The Village Pump! Village Pump politics! Centrepetal! Centrifugal! To grasp the Whole and to distribute the Fragments!
A red herring would be smelled by most – only a few would notice the stench of the musk-rat, say “suff” and pass on! Straining at the gnat and swallowing the camel!
The Parish Committee – the chance for galoots to belch forth their hot air! And inside this gilded pill of the Parish Committee is the Managerial System!
Oh! then, many a goodly apple’s rotten at the core!
P.R. Hanlackie, Kilkerrin
Notice to trespassers
The Governing Body of University College, Galway and Patrick Fahy, hereby give notice that (1) the use of the University playing pitches at Renmore Road (Fahy’s Field) is reserved to University teams or teams engaged in opposition; (2) permission to persons, non-University clubs and teams to use these grounds will not henceforth be granted and (3) all persons disregarding this motion will be prosecuted as trespassers.
Signed: J. Mitchell, Registrar.
Prefers jail to husband
Mary McDonagh, of no fixed abode, who pleaded guilty to breaking two panes of glass in the business house of Mr. P. Duane, Kiltullagh, was sent to prison for two months at Gurteen Court, where she told the Justice that she preferred to go to jail rather than live with her husband, with whom she had a row.
Superintendent Kelly, Athenry, who prosecuted, said accused was an old offender, having committed several similar offences from time to time up and down the country. She told Guard Reid, Bookeen, who arrested her, that she wanted to go to prison as she preferred this to living with her husband, with whom she had had a row, and wanted to get away from him.
Mr. Dunne said the damage to his window cost 33s. 6d., and the defendant’s husband had paid for the damage.
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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