Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1917
Glorious Sinn Féin
At Oranmore Petty Sessions, a young farmer named James Flanagan was charged by Constable Smyth for disorderly conduct on the road between Oranmore and Galway on the evening of February 24th. Constable Smyth stated that he heard noise on the road, and on going up to where the defendant was, heard him shouting “Glorious Sinn Féin”. Defendant was not sober at the time.
In reply to Mr. Joseph Kilbride, R.M., Sergt. Healy said that the defendant had been interned after the rebellion and was released before Christmas. He (Sergt. Healy) was afraid that many of the young men in the country were endeavouring to perpetuate trouble and were keeping up the spirit of the rebellion.
Mr. Kilbride said that on the last Court day the Bench had sent two men to jail for using language contrary to the Defence of the Realm Act, and It was extraordinary that the defendant did not take warning by that.
“Need I say,” added the Chairman, “that the rebellion was certainly not a glorious day for Ireland.”
Defendant said he was very sorry for what had occurred. He had drink taken at the time and did not mean what he said, although he remembered it quite well. He had since taken the pledge.
Mr. Kilbride: If this young man is let off with a fine, it really means nothing, for at present the price of a stone of potatoes will pay the fine and costs (laughter). However, owing to the fact that the defendant had got an excellent character, taken the pledge, and promised the bench not to make use of such expressions again, a fine of 5s. would be imposed, and he would have to find bail for his future good behaviour, himself in £10, and two sureties of £5 each.
Killed at bridge
A terrible tragedy has been reported from Cloonboo. Michael Shaughnessy, of Balroebuck, was returning from Galway with a load of manure on Saturday, and at a place called Addergoole Bridge, his horse shied. The unfortunate man endeavoured to jump off the cart to stop the animal, when he was jammed between the shafts and the bridge, and died soon afterwards.
1942
Raiders in the Bay
It is very gratifying to learn that the publicity given in recent issues of the Connacht Tribune to the depredations caused in Galway Bay by British trawlers has resulted in successful action by one of our fishery patrol vessels.
The punishment inflicted upon two of the offenders by District Justice Mac Giollarnath may be regarded as stiff, but it was not one whit too stiff. Each was fined the maximum sum for a first offence – £50, with confiscation of the gear and half the fish on board.
But this is only a drop in the ocean compared with the many thousands of pounds’ worth of fish that British trawlers have been in the habit of scooping out of Galway Bay in a week or ten days.
The people who really foot the bill for the raiders are the poor fishermen of Galway whose means of livelihood is snatched from under their noses during the best season of the year. It is a pity that the fines cannot be put into a fund for the relief of distress in the Cladach occasioned by these depredations. The seized fish and the gear, too, should be sold for the fishermen’s benefit.
When the question of penalty was being discussed in Court yesterday, District Justice Mac Giollarnath said somewhat pessimistically: “I suppose it will all come out of Galway Bay.” His remark, however, stresses the difficulty of adequately safeguarding our coastwise fisheries with only two patrol boats – it is, in fact, an impossibility.
Players suspended
After considering the report of the referee on the Galway City-U.C.G. game – it was reported that the referee and one of the College players were struck – the Board suspended P. Glynn (Galway City) for twelve months and C. Hughes for three years, and it was agreed to ask the City Club to change their attitude on the field.
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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