Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1917
No extra trains
In order to secure the granting of railway excursion facilities to the various seaside resorts, a deputation waited on the Chief Secretary in the House of Commons during the week on the subject. The deputation included Capt. Gwynn. The Chief Secretary was very sympathetic, and said he realised the hardships that had been caused by the withdrawal of the usual summer excursion facilities, and he promised to make further representations on the matter to the Railway Executive Committee.
This is a very important matter for the people of Salthill, as presently the number of visitors at this well-known seaside resort is well below the average of former seasons.
In a letter to Mr. J. Cremen, of Salthill, the Member for Galway City said hr was hopeful that something would be done. The railway directorate will not, however, he says, run more trains.
Connemara poverty
At a meeting of Galway District Council held on Saturday, Mr. Curran alluded to the poverty of the district where the recent explosion had taken place. The people were in an appalling condition and they could not give them out-door relief.
He complained that Mr. O’Malley, the member for Connemara, had done nothing for the district. He ought to be written to.
Infant found
A female infant, about a week old, was found at 7 o’clock on Thursday morning in a float on Merchant’s Road by a team going to work. The child, which was neatly clad, was brought to the hospital. Efforts are being made to determine the mother.
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1942
Record Race Week
Mr. Peter Kelly, manager of the Irish Tourist Association office in Galway, said that judging from the enquiries received up to the present, a record crowd should come to Galway for Race Week. Some of the hotels in Galway were so busy, he said, that they would take only bookings for the week and would not take bookings for three days, as heretofore.
As far as the holiday traffic into Galway up to the present is concerned, the smaller type of hotel and boarding house seems to be doing the best trade. Many people are arriving for their holidays on bicycles.
Holiday makers from the North of Ireland who have arrived in Galway have been delighted with the service and food they got in Galway and Salthill. So far, he had received no complaints of a shortage of foodstuffs.
Triumph of courage
Despite the formidable obstacles in the way this year, Galway Races bid fair to be as successful as ever – if not more successful than at any time in the history of this celebrated meeting. This is good news not only for racegoers, but for the citizens of Galway as a whole to whom Race Week means a great deal more than a mere sporting fixture.
The city is deeply indebted to the Mayor, Alderman J.F. Costello, to Mr. J. Young, Chairman of the Galway Race Committee, and the other members of that body, who refused to be daunted by the almost insurmountable difficulties and, by dogged persistence, intelligent and unremitting attention to detail, and skilful planning, have ensured not only the continuance of the race meeting, but its complete success.
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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