Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1918
Drowning tragedy
A sad drowning accident occurred in the Corrib, near Carrick Lodge, Clonbur, on Sunday. It would appear that three military officers, viz., Captain Lawson, Lieutenant Steward and another young Lieutenant, belonging to the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, left on a reconnoitering expedition per motor from their camp at Claremorris.
At Carrick Lodge, they met Captain Lamb, who is now resident there. Captain Lamb kindly lent the three officers a boat, as they seemed anxious to have a bathe from an adjacent island. They rowed to the island, which is about 60 yards from the shore, and proceeded to bathe.
Captain Lawson soon missed Lieutenant Stewart, and called to a gentleman on a fishing boat nearby. The boat came at once to the place, and the occupants saw the body at the bottom in about nine feet of water. Everything possible was done to restore animation, but without avail.
Corpus Christi procession
The Diocesan procession, inaugurated by His Lordship the Most Rev, Dr. O’Dea, took place on Sunday at St. Mary’s College, Galway. Between eight and ten thousand people were in attendance at the imposing ceremony. The College and grounds were gaily decorated for the great occasion.
Religious banners were suspended from the windows of the College, and two triumphed arches were erected in the grounds. A large banner hearing the scroll ‘God Bless our Pope’ hung from the recreation hall of the College.
From four o’clock the grounds began to fill rapidly with people from all parts of the city and the surrounding districts, some having travelled from distant places such as Gort, Athenry and Tuam.
1943
Save the Irish language
Galway as capital of the most Gaelic-speaking part of the country held a unique position in the effort for the restoration of the Irish language, said Mr. de Valera, addressing a meeting at Eyre Square on Tuesday evening.
Every person in Galway should make it their business to try and get the Irish language spoken universally as the ordinary language in the shops and streets. Some people might think that was idealism, but it was nothing of the kind. Davis was an idealist; but he was a practically man, too, and he pointed out that a nation’s language was a surer safeguard in a country than fortresses or rivers. As long as they people came together in their own language, they formed a community that could not be destroyed.
Assault charge
At Spiddal District Court on Monday, John Hoban, Minna, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment not to be enforced if he pays £5 damages to Martin Conneely, Inverin, whom he was charged with assaulting on May 23rd.
Dr. C. O’Leary, M.O., Spiddal, said that Conneely appeared to have received a bad beating. He had four cuts on the top of his head and had lost a lot of blood. The doctor stitched two of the wounds.
Conneely said that Hoban attacked him with a stick when the former questioned him regarding missing carrageen which Conneely had spread on Wallaces’ land.
Mr. W.B. Gavin, Galway, submitted that Conneely had encroached on Hoban’s currageen right.
Record lobster prices
Lobster fishermen along the Connemara coast have been deprived of a considerable amount of their profits in this year’s season owing to unfavourable conditions prevailing. The small quantities of lobsters caught so far have been sold at record prices – up to 28s. per dozen. In normal years the season would be in full swing by the middle of May.
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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