Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1917
Archbishop’s illness
We regret to announce that His Grace the Archbishop, whose illness has caused universal regret, has recently grown worse, and on Friday last the announcement that his condition was serious was officially made through the Press.
On Tuesday, His Grace was reported to be in an unconscious state. The sorrow of the Catholic Church at the distinguished patient’s ill-health is expressed in the following message received at the Archiepiscopal Palace, Tuam, on Friday last: “The Pope expresses concern and sympathy, and sends Archbishop Apostolic Blessing.” There was no change in the condition of His Grace on Thursday morning.
Shell factory
The machinery for the Galway shell factory arrived via Limerick during the week, and it is expected that within a month, the factory will be turning out the expected 1,000 “18 pounder” shells a week.
The factory will afford a considerable amount of employment, and it is stated that between £300 and £400 will be expended each week in wages.
Watered milk
At Galway Petty Sessions, Wm. Crowe, Bohermore, was charged by Sergt. Dewey with delivering milk to the County Hospital containing 6.25 per cent of added water.
The Sergeant said that on several occasions he took samples of milk from the defendant, and this was the first occasion he found anything wrong.
Mr. Blake, solicitor, said his client regretted the offence. He had at times to buy milk in, in order to obtain the quantity required for his contract, and on this occasion, he had to buy the milk. If all the other contractors in Galway were as good as Mr. Crowe, there would not be any complaint. The defendant was fined 1s. and costs.
1942
The latest “Letter to the Editor” which has found its way to the waste paper basket – correspondents continue to air their views as lavishly as if there were no paper shortage – is from a gentleman who complains bitterly that we have not been publishing leading articles on the war!
We were under the impression that the war had persisted in creeping into almost every leading article during the past year – the establishment of Parish Councils to deal with the war-time conditions; the campaign for more tillage to cope with war-time shortage of food; the drive to augment the defence forces, the L.S.F., the Red Cross and other war-time organisations – all had to be referred to again and again editorially.
Presumably, however, our correspondent who is now reposing peacefully at the bottom of the W.P.B. wanted us to give him a sort of bird’s eye view at frequent intervals of the world conflict as we envisaged it. Apart from the fact that our country’s neutrality would have imposed considerable restrictions on editorial comment, we have never been sufficiently impressed by the “military critics” who abound in the newspapers and outside their columns to desire to emulate them.
As for the war news, plain and coloured, the country is flooded with it. The daily newspapers, both native and imported, seem to publish very little else. The radio babbles so much war news from every station that one has to go back to the gramophone for peaceful entertainment. The Man in the Street and in the Fields has forsaken the weather to sapiently discuss the march of armies. You cannot get away from the war in everyday life.
In the circumstances, it might be considered that the newspaper which spared its readers as much as possible of the ghastly chronicle of blood and agony was performing a public service and deserved a vote of thanks rather than a petulant letter. So far as we have been able to ascertain, our policy has been whole-heartedly endorsed by the overwhelming majority of our readers.
What happens on their own doorsteps is of more immediate interest to them than the clash of embattled forces at the other ends of the earth – and every inch of our curtailed space is needed to give them the complete supply of Irish news that they seek.
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”.
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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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