Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1914
United we stand
A review of a large number of Volunteers, composed of companies from Aughrim, Kilconnell, Derrymullen, Cappataggle, Mullagh, Kilreecle, Killoran and Kilmolaw, was held by Captain Cheevers at Aughrim, Galway last Sunday.
The men looked very smart, and displayed a good knowledge of drill. The reviewing officer, with Messrs. Reddy and Duffy, M.P.s, was entirely satisfied with the performance of the men.
Addressing the Volunteers after the march past, Captain Cheevers said he felt proud at being asked to review them on that historic height of Aughrim (loud cheers).
Now that Ireland was a nation once again, they should do everything to make that nation a pride to themselves and an envy to all her enemies (cheers).
Father Coghlan, said there was one company that was mentioned by Captain Cheevers for efficiency, and that was Cappataggle. He was delighted to see that day such a fine body of Volunteers. When the call was given, they obeyed like men. They were now about to enjoy the benefits of Home Rule, and that was due to Mr. Redmond and the Irish Party (cheers).
Mr. W. Duffy, M.P., next addressed the gathering and was received with ringing cheers. He said that within the last few days the wrongs of a century were wiped out by the placing of the Home Rule Bill on the Statute Book (cheers).
It was a long and hard struggle to have it done on account of all they had to contend against.
1939
Unlawfully keeping game
At Ballygar District Court, before Mr. H.C. Hamilton, D.J., Supt. Dunphy prosecuted Christopher Bannon, Castlefrench for unlawfully keeping game (grouse) confined by means of a wire netting, and also for taking game during the closed season (month of July).
Guard Armstrong stated that he visited the lands of Captain French on August 15 and he saw a wire netting enclosure there in which were being kept seven grouse. The defendant admitted that he had captured the grouse in the bog and that he was keeping them for propagation purposes. He could not get authority for netting game and keeping them in that way.
The defendant said that he wanted to preserve the game, and the birds laid more eggs when confined.
Justice: How many did they lay for you?
Defendant: I only got them this year.
Justice: Are they doing well?
Defendant: Very well.
Justice: What do you feed them on?
Defendant: Heather and grain.
Justice: Have you cocks and hens?
Defendant: Three cocks and four hens
Justice: That seems an overdose of cocks (laughter), but that is not in the charge.
The Justice said that this seemed to be an interesting experiment, but it was not legal. He was satisfied that the defendant had no intention of committing an offence and that he was only doing what he a good man could to increase the stock of grouse on these bogs. He would not give any direction as to what he should do in the future, but he would let him off in the present case, which was not a serious offence.
Netting grouse for the purposes of killing them was a shocking thing, but in this case, he was satisfied that defendant’s intention was to help to preserve the stock, though he believed it was difficult to keep the birds in captivity.
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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