Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1914
How to economise
Advert: While the war lasts, economy will be necessary. An easy way to economise is to send suits, costumes, or other articles of wearing apparel that have been placed aside because they are too soiled, to Eustace Bros., 110 and 111 Cork street, Dublin, to be dry-cleaned or dyed. The effect is wonderful. The articles are returned looking like new. Suits are tailor-pressed, and carriage is paid one-way on country orders.
Home Rule congrats
At the meeting of Galway Urban Council, Mr. Young, J.P., said it was with exceeding pleasure he rose to propose the following resolution: “That we, the members of the Galway Urban Council, representing the majority of the citizens, congratulate Mr. Redmond and the Irish Party on the passing of the Home Rule Bill, and we trust the new era about to be incepted will be one of greatness and prosperity for all Irishmen.
“With this resolution, we desire to thank the Prime Minister and the great Party which he leads for their strenuous stand in defence of great liberal principles, and we have great pleasure in inviting Mr. Asquith and Mr. Redmond to visit, at the earliest date, Galway City, the ancient and historic capital of the province of Connacht, when we assure them both of an earnest and enthusiastic welcome.” (Applause).
1939
Dominicans’ plans
At a meeting of Galway Corporation, Mr. Healy complained that contractors had left heaps of stones on the roadway at the Dominican church and in the Father Griffin-road. I
It was decided to ask the contractors concerned to have them removed.
Mr. Healy: You should also ask the Dominicans what they are going to do with that site.
Ald. Miss Ashe: They will build on it all right. That was the condition upon which they got it free; or practically free.
Replying to Mr. Healy, the Mayor, Ald. J.F. Costello, said that there would be no sanction given for any new housing scheme until an enquiry would be held.
Claddagh streets
Mr. Healy referred to the condition of the streets at the Claddagh and said he had asked before that one man be allowed to concentrate on the scavenging of that area all the time.
He was taken away every second day at present and when he got back, there was always a job awaiting him that no one man could do.
Ald. Miss Ashe: I suggested a long time ago that one man be left at the Claddagh exclusively. The pony was bought for Claddagh originally.
It was agreed to employ one man, with the Corporation’s pony and cart, exclusively for the scavenging work at the Claddagh in future.
Emigration tide turns
The tide has turned as regards emigration from Connemara. The return of young men and women from England, which started some weeks ago, has accelerated tremendously since Britain’s declaration of war, and if there is any truth that these immigrants are the life-blood of the nation, Connemara will shortly be suffering from high blood pressure.
This might sound like an attempt at a joke, but it is a matter far too serious to joke about. No one will attempt to deny that our men and women have the right to return to the comparative safety of their homeland, but the influx immediately gives rise to a very serious economic problem. How is Connemara going to feed and clothe so many extra mouths and bodies?
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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