Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1917
Fined for driving
At Galway Petty Sessions, Mrs. Julia Dowling, Ballinasloe, was charged under the Petrol Restrictions Order for using petrol in going to the Galway Races on the 1st August, contrary to the Order which prevented the use of motor cars for conveyance to a race meeting. Mr. Hildebrand, D.I., stated that on the 1st August, the defendant was informed by the police in Ballinasloe that if she went to the Galway Races in a motor car, she would be committing a breach of the law, and she replied: “If I do, I will have to take the consequences.” At several places along the road, she was stopped and asked did she know she was committing a breach of the Order, and she always gave practically the same answer.
Evidence was given by several members of the constabulary as to warnings given to the defendant. Sergt. O’Neill, Ballinasloe, stated that Mrs. Dowling showed him a letter of an appointment with a dentist in Galway on that evening. The District Inspector pressed for a heavy penalty.
The Chairman said this was a grave case and they would fine the defendant £5 and 17s. 6d. costs. Mr J. Young hoped in future that the people driving hackney or motor cars would consider what they were doing. He saw in England last week where two different parties had been fined £50 each for a breach of the Regulations.
Bofin blaze
On Monday morning, between 5 and 6 o’clock, a.m., a fire broke out in the Bofin Hotel, Inishbofin island, which is owned by Mr. John C. Day, and notwithstanding efforts to combat the flames, the hotel was burned to the ground. The fire was discovered by a boatman named Halloran, and Mrs. Day and her children, who were sleeping in the hotel, were awakened and got safely out of the premises. The fire lasted until close on noon.
1942
Galway free from epidemic
In view of the apprehension caused in Dublin and some other parts of the country by the present outbreak of infantile paralysis, this paper made enquiries as to the position in Galway city and county, and is glad to be able to present a reassuring report.
For the first time in history, cases of Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis (Infantile Paralysis) occurred in County Galway when, during the last quarter of last year, eight cases were notified – three in the town of Tuam and five in the dispensary area of Tuam and Abbey.
According to the annual report of Dr. B. O’Beirne, County Medical Officer of Health, the first case evidently had become affected in September, but the disease did not come under notice until November when, in the ordinary course of school medical inspection, two sisters were found to be affected. The remaining cases all were reported in that month.
No contact was established between the cases reported in this outbreak, but the disease seemed to have lost its potency as it suddenly ended in November.
Footballers not impressive
Dublin 1-10 Galway 1-8
More than 37,000 people saw Dublin defeat Galway in the All-Ireland Football Final at Croke Park on Sunday. A team, who, despite obvious weaknesses in the first half, promised to bring the title across the Shannon were out-played in the last quarter by a faster Dublin side. Galway’s chances of victory, however, had not disappeared until the final whistle sounded and Dublin were lucky to have won.
The Cup was presented to Dublin on the field immediately after the game and the Dublin players were carried shoulder high from the pitch. The match ended on an unpleasant note. Joe Duggan, of the Galway team, was attacked by a number of the Dublin players and was struck by fists.
Galway: J. McGauran, F. Cunniffe, M. Connaire, P. McDonagh, J. Duggan, J. Casey, T. O’Sullivan, D. Kavanagh, C. Connolly, J. Clifford, M. Fallon, J. Canavan, J. Flavin, P. Thornton, S. Thornton. Subs: E. Mulholland, Sean Walsh.
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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