Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1917
Pinned beneath car
While driving at 10 o’clock on Sunday morning, near Costello Bay with Mr. Rodgers, Divisional Officer of Coastguards, James Brennan, car driver, of Rosemary Lane, Galway, was pinned underneath his car, which capsized, and when released, life was found to be extinct. When the horse began to get restless, Mr. Rodgers jumped off the car, but Mr. Brennan remained on his seat, and endeavoured to control the animal, which, however, bucked the car into a trench alongside the road. The horse fell, and the car turned over on the side the driver was sitting, pinning him underneath, and when extricated, Mr. Brennan was dead. He was 70 years of age, and was well known in Galway. The road at this point is extremely dangerous.
Great poverty
At the Galway Board of Guardians, a report was read from Mr. Kyne, R.O., stating that around Kilcommer in the Spiddal district, there were several families urgently in need of relief for the next two or three months. They had no money to purchase meal, flour and other necessary articles or provisions. All stocks of old potatoes are exhausted, and there are no prospects of new ones before 1st August.
1942
Drink price hike
Although the Galway publican pays more for his porter than his Dublin contemporary, the man who drinks a pint of that beverage gets it for a penny less than in Dublin. This fact was pointed out to our representative when he made inquiries into the increase in the price of some alcoholic drinks which was decided on last Friday by the Licensed Branch of the Galway Traders Association.
At this meeting, it was decided to increase the price of the bottle of stout in Galway from sixpence-halfpenny to sevenpence and to have a flat rate of two shillings a glass for all brands of whiskey.
One well-known trader told our representative that the price of drink in Galway compared very favourably with the prices obtaining elsewhere. The price of a bottle of stout, he said, was raised to sevenpence in Wexford, Cork and Limerick many months ago.
Mr. Larry Hynes, Shop-street, said that it was rather an extraordinary state of affairs that the pint was dearer in Dublin than in Galway. In Dublin, a publican was allowed for waste and it was taken back from him. Galway publicans were not made any allowance for waste.
“In addition, we in Galway have to pay freight on our porter, but in Dublin it is delivered without any charge. Yet, we sell the pint a penny cheaper in Galway,” he said.
New Prom
Galway Corporation has decided to ask Galway Golf Club to give them a ninety-nine years lease of a grass margin between the golf links and the foreshore at Blackrock for the purpose of carrying out improvements for the convenience of bathers. Messrs. Blake and Kenny, solicitors, wrote stating that as the Corporation would have to expend some money in laying a pathway and erecting a fence they should get a lease of the pathway for at least ninety-nine years renewable.
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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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