Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1914
War news
News from the War Fronts is most unsatisfactory and altogether unsatisfying. All the peoples of Europe are affected by the war, neutrals and belligerents alike, and naturally they look with anxiety for every item of news that may be of interest.
Today England claims a victory at sea, to-morrow Germany contradicts it flatly, and vice versa. Someone is assuredly lying and lying audaciously and it says little for the moral example of great nations that they can resort to practices in war time which are at once mean and contemptible.
Harbour development
Mr. Young, J.P., stated a deputation waited at Wednesday’s County Council meeting in connection with the proposed loan for the improvement of the harbour, and the Council had asked that they should guarantee to raise a penny in the £.
“I now formally propose that the rate be raised. The development of the harbour is an all-important question for Galway, and we should do everything in our power to push it forward.”
The new Volunteers
The new committee who have taken the reorganisation of the National Volunteers in hand will have the cordial support of every Nationalist, and, indeed, of every self-respecting Galwayman.
Recently, we had a demonstration of underhand Sinn Féin methods, of which any decent organisation or community would be well rid.
For many of those who profess Sinn Féin principles, we have considerable respect; we have not doubted their sincerity, and there have been times when we have been glad to support them in their efforts to crush out shoneenism, and infuse some national spirit into the city.
One or two of the local Sinn Féiners, at any rate, there are not many more who count – had earned the respect of the great body of the citizens, but we have yet to learn that those gentlemen have dissociated themselves from a course of conduct unworthy of a gang of dangerous irresponsibles.
1939
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Houses to be vacated
Persons living in houses condemned under the Tuam clearance scheme will have to leave such houses soon and go into the new houses provided for them.
This is the effect of an order made by the Local Government Department stating that the clearance and demolition orders for the Bishop-street and Tullinadaly-road areas are now operative, and pointing out that there is no reason why any of the new houses under the scheme on Athenry-road should be vacant.
The Department intimated that if the Town Commissioners have not already done so, they should take immediate steps to enforce the orders already served on persons occupying condemned houses to vacate them without further delay.
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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