Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1916
Street nuisance
At Galway Petty Sessions, Mr. Hildebrand said that with regard to ball playing on streets, he had often intended to take action since he came to Galway, which was a decided nuisance.
He notices that the boys in the city were not good-mannered boys, they did not wait for passengers to pass, but actually continued to play while people were passing by. He would, therefore, like a pronouncement from the bench of the matter.
Chairman Joseph Kilbride, R.M.: Market-street is about the worst.
Mr. Hildebrand: Particularly on a Sunday. I do not like to be a new brook; I did not ever care for it, but this thing ought to be put down.
Mr. J.S. Young said he was going to mention the matter. In regard to this offence, he decided to say that the Urban Council had over and over again asked the police to take action. The practice by boys of playing ball and pitch-and-toss in the streets had become a nuisance.
Mr. Hildebrand: Very well; let it go forth that we are not active in a vindictive manner, that we are taking action by the concurrence of the magistrate.
Success assured
As we write this (Friday) morning, the preparations for the great Cathedral Bazaar are all but completed, and Eyre Square is already offered a foretaste of the week’s gaiety.
The entrance from the Bank of Ireland side is flanked with monster marquees, that to the right being where the countless couples will “trip the light fantastic too” in a week’s revelry in which joy will be unconfined.
Other white canvas structures stand around, scarcely, if at all, less spacious, while further down the green plot is dotted with small tents suggestive, but not quite of the bell-shape. It is all very showy, picturesque and summery, and makes a vivid appeal to the imagination.
1941
Bog dispute settled
A settlement has at last been reached in the Glenaun bog dispute and it is expected that work will be resumed towards the end of this week. Most of the forty-six men involved will be accommodated immediately, and it is hoped that the whole number will be at work in a very short time.
Worst attendance
Killimore was one of the worst districts in the whole East Galway Court area as regards attendance at school, said District Justice Cahill, at Killimore Court. In some cases the attendance was very bad, perhaps the worst for this time of the year of any other district.
Ploughing body
“I hope that whatever changes may come the plough will never again be let down for the sake of foreign interests,” said Mr. Michael Donnellan, Dunmore, in thanking the Galway County Ploughing Association on Saturday for his election as chairman of the Association. The country, he said, had at long last come to realise that the day the plough was let down, the country would go down with it.
Galway still on top
Galway 0-8 Roscommon 1-4
Galway senior footballers were hard pressed to retain the Connacht title on Sunday at Roscommon. Only by a single point did they defeat Rosommon and qualify to meet either Cavan or Tyrone in the All-Ireland Semi-Final at Croke Park on August 17th.
Indeed, Roscommon were the better team in many aspects of the game and it was only the craft gained by long experience that saved Galway from a trouncing.
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.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
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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”.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
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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.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
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