Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1914
Trespasser damage
At the City Petty Sessions, John Sullivan, Fairhill, Galway prosecuted Mary Clancy for the trespass of two goats on his cabbage garden, causing damage to the plants which he estimated at 10s. In his evidence, complainant stated that he had two other women summoned for a similar offence, but they had each settled by paying him 5s. 6d., which included costs. A decree for 5s. and costs was granted.
Rejected from the ‘Front’
William Higgins was summoned by Constable Hazlett for using obscene language on a public street. Mr. P.J.B. Daly, solr., who appeared for the defendant, said it was eighteen months since his client had “graced” the magistrates.
He had also volunteered for the front, but he was rejected. A sister of the defendant stated she had four brothers at the front, and when the defendant returned from Dublin after being rejected, they both indulged in some drink. Defendant was fined 1s.
Ranger returns
Corpl. Patrick Warde, Moylough, has returned from the seat of war, after an absence of four months. He told a correspondent that the Connaughts gained many victories during the fighting, and proved that they were of a fighting race.
He admitted they had a difficult task before them in their retreat from Mons, but there was one thing brought them consolation, and that was the heroism and bravery displayed by their gallant regiment.
He stated that the Germans were only formidable when they took you unawares. He does not look upon the Germans as brave individually, but he admits them for their discipline, and willingness to go wherever duty calls them.
Their last move in Flanders was a great failure. They foolishly undertake things beyond their strength. Corpl. Warde is attached to the Commissariat, and bears all testimony to the fact that all wants are carefully attended to.
1939
Ornamental TDs
When Galway Corporation at their weekly meeting in the City Hall were considering reports regarding flooding in Mill-street and Nuns’ Island, Mr. J.S. Young remarked in connection with a suggestion that the county T.D.s be asked to ascertain where the responsibility lay, that they should be made do something for their money. He added that they were only ornaments.
Scott medal for garda
Garda Daniel J. Manley, Milltown, who received a bronze Scott medal award at the Depot, Dublin, on Monday for bravery in the discharge of his duty, was stationed in Tuam when, on August 27, 1938, at 1am, he was on patrol duty with Garda Curran and they apprehended a man holding a single barrelled shot gun.
He turned his torch on the man and although he could not have known whether the gun was loaded or not, he took the risk and seized the gun. The man was arrested and subsequently sentenced to a period of imprisonment.
Adverse weather
The heavy rain for many weeks past have caused hige flooding in many areas in East and South Galway, and these floods are becoming more and more menacing.
Large pastures lie under water and livestock had to be removed to higher levels in many places and hand-fed. The gathering of beet and other root crops has been temporarily retarded in places. Roads in some districts are impassable. Prices for turf have increased owing to the difficulties of getting to the turf.
Death of apparition witness
It is with feelings of deep regret that we record the death, which took place recently, of Mrs. Bridget Murray Kavanagh, widow of the late Mr. John Kavanagh, of Baltimore, Maryland.
Deceased was born in Tuam, County Galway, the daughter of the late Patrick and Mary Roche Murray. She often stated that as a young girl, she had witnessed the apparition of the Blessed Virgin at Knock.
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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