Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1917
Mail-order houses
All who have the interests of Irish trade at heart must feel concerned at the huge amount of money sent from Ireland to cross-Channel mail-order houses. One of the lesser-known of these firms recently admitted having taken £7,000 from a single district in Ireland within twelve months.
It is of paramount importance to the manufacturers of our country that as much support as possible should be given to those houses who make a consistent practice of offering Irish goods for sale.
Of these, the best-known is Clery’s, Dublin, who have kept Irish made goods well to the front at all times. They are now making a determined effort to divert a large proportion of the cross-Channel mail-order business to their own excellent post-shopping department.
Advert
Poor old chap, that’s a fearful cough you’ve got. I’ve just been along to Mr. O’Neill’s for a bottle of Three C.C.C. Cough Cure. It will very soon stop all that racking and straining.
Two days later: Old Gentleman: “Thank You! Thank You! That stuff – what’s it you call it, O’Neill’s Three C.C.C. Cough Cure, is the very best cure ever I had. By George! I felt better the very first dose, and now I am right as ever I was.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is no creation of imagination, but has been the actual experience of dozens in Athenry. Keep O’Neill’s Three C.C.C. Cough Cure in the house, take a dose on the first symptoms of a cold, and your experience will be similar to that depicted above.
- O’Neill Pharmaceutical and Veterinary Chemist, The Square, Athenry.
1942
Interfering with mine
“It may soon become necessary to imprison all the people living along the seashore in order to protect them from these mines.” This remark was made at Letterfrack Court by District Justice Mac Giollarnath when he fined three youths 5s. each for interfering with a mine washed ashore at Renvyle on December 8. The youths were charged under the Emergency Powers Order, 1939.
Volunteer George Heanue said that the mine had been washed ashore on an island and brought to the mainland by the military. At 1.15am on December 28th, he saw two youths rolling the mine back into the sea. Another youth was standing on the bank.
Garda McBride read a statement by one of the youths, in which he said that they rolled it back into the sea in order to have a bit of sport watching the curraghs following it next day.
Another youth, in a statement read by Garda Curran, said that they knew the mine was harmless.
A third youth, in his statement, said that he overhead an army officer say that the mine could be left there for the crows to build their nests in it or that the men who found it could keep it.
Housing problems
At a meeting of Galway Corporation, Dr. Powell reported on three houses in French Villa Lane, in one of which he stated eleven persons occupied two rooms below the road level. There was dampness in the house. A pipe drained from a piggery at the back into an uncovered gulley which was choked and foul-smelling. The drain passed under the living room. There was no sanitation or water, but there was gross overcrowding.
The floor of another of the houses, he stated, was also below ground level. The ceilings were too low. There was no sanitation. The house comprised three small rooms and there was dampness.
The third house comprised two rooms and a kitchen. They were below the ground level. There was no water or lavatory. The ceilings were low. He recommended that all three should be closed as residential areas.
It was agreed to make a closing order.
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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