Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1917
Lively times at Ryehill
At the Tuam Quarter Sessions on Tuesday, His Honour Judge Doy, K.C., was engaged hearing actions and cross-actions between Peter Burke and Mrs. Donlon, Ryehill, with reference to a water passage, and in connection with assaults arising out of the dispute.
Evidence in the plaintiff’s (Burke’s) case was to the effect that the defendants had stopped a water passage, and that when he and his son went to open it, they were assaulted. He never struck plaintiff or knocked her in the sink. She was wet, but it was by the rain. When he attempted to open the drain which she had closed, she tried to strike him with a fork. Plaintiff caught hold of the fork and took it from her.
Cross-examined by Mr. Hosty, witness stated that he did not take hold of Mrs. Donlon by the throat. He heard Dr. Thompson say she had marks on her throat, but he could not account for them. Neither could he account for her rib cage being broken, or the mark behind her ear. He did not tell his son to hit her on the hands with the fork, nor did his son strike her on the hands or ribs. When he was taking the fork from her, it touched her shoulder. Plaintiff put defendant up against the gable, and took the fork from her.
His Honour have a decree for 1s. in the assault process, and a decree in the title process (Burke v. Donlon), and in the cross processes he dismissed the title suit, and gave a decree for £3 in that for assault.
1942
Too many meetings
Beside the staggering millions of the Exchequer return just issued a few points here and there for the travelling expenses of our local legislators may seem scarcely worth considering. But, as we pointed out that nearly three months ago, a flaitheamhlach attitude on this matter might result in a very serious addition to the country’s financial burden.
To-day, the transport position in very part of the country is vastly more serious than it was when we last touched upon the question of travelling expenses for the members of county council and other public bodies. The individuals who objected to travelling in crowded ‘buses and associating with poultry on the way to market can count themselves fortunate if in future they can find any ‘buses at all to bring them to and from meetings.
It is extremely doubtful, too, if any motor cars will be available for hire in the remote areas and it will become virtually impossible for many public representatives to attend meetings of the bodies to which they are accredited.
Obviously, some arrangement will have to be made to ensure that all essential meetings of public bodies will be attended by a number of members sufficient to transact the scheduled business. How that will be done we cannot say, but it seems clear that the first step to be taken is to reduce the number of meetings to the absolute minimum.
Turning the corner
Mr. C. O’Cleireachain, Town Clerk, believes that Galway is turning the corner as far as the city’s rate demand is concerned, and that, should no unforeseen financial burden be placed on the Corporation within the coming twelve months, a rate reduction of about sixpence should be announced a year hence.
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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