Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1917
A courageous act
Eye witnesses of the incident are loud in their praise of the action of Constable Carragy, of Eglinton-st. barracks, who on Saturday evening was instrumental in saving the life of a young lad. The constable was on duty at the Four Corners, and traffic was rather heavy.
A young lad, named James Conneely, of Newtownsmith, came out of Upper Abbeygate-street wheeling a hand cart. As soon as he came out of Abbeygate-street he was knocked down by a horse and cart, and the hand cart he was wheeling was thrown on top of him.
A motor car was coming at a rather fast speed down William-street and was dangerously near young Conneely when Constable Carragy rushed in, and was just in time to lift the boy up out of the way of the motor. Only for the constable’s action, Conneely would have been run over with serious consequences. Constable Carragy was struck on the side by the motor car.
Races turn-out
The weather was beautifully fine for the Galway Races on Wednesday and Thursday, and the crowd, although not as large as in former years, was large. The going was in capital order – in fact, it seldom has been better at the venue – but the fields on the first day, with the exception of the Plate, were on the small side. On Thursday, however, the fields showed a great improvement.
The absence of motor cars, owing to the recent order of the Board of Trade, was an important, but to the jarveys, a welcome feature of the races. This year there was a change in the route to the course. There is a new road leading to the field, but it is far from being an improvement on the route. The long line of cars got congested, and people were held up in the boreen for a long period. With a little supervision and control, the continual blockade could have been avoided. Hundreds were late for the first races owing to the confusion in this respect.
1942
Dust and sand
Galway visitors to Dublin recently complained of the dust storms in the metropolis. One Galway girl had to be treated in the Mater Hospital for dust injury to an eye. Commended one of our jaundiced local legislators when he heard it: “Dublin has often tried to throw dust in our eyes, but this is the first time it has succeeded.”
Talking of dust recalls the County Council’s gallant effort to cope with the sandstorms on the Grattan Road. Everybody in Galway and Salthill knows the way sand blows across that road and piles up on landward side. Well, somebody connected with the County Council decided the other day that it might be as well to clear away some of the sand before the road vanished altogether at certain points.
So they tackled the job. They brought along a horse cart and shovelled the sand into it. When the cart was full, they moved it over to the seaward side of the road and dumped the sand there. And of course, the next strong wind from the Atlantic blew the whole lot back again and added a few more cart-loads for good measure.
It looks like being a permanent job for somebody.
Jail for purse theft
For stealing a purse from Mrs. Moran, N.T., Claddagh N.S., at Galway market on Saturday, Timothy O’Sullivan, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour by District Justice W.P. Cahill at a special court in Galway today.
Obey the L.S.F.
Members of the L.S.F. in Galway will assist the Garda Síochána in the regulation of traffic during the Race Days. The public are requested to accept and comply with their directions as readily as they would comply with the directions given by the Gardaí.
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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