Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1917
Duke’s bankruptcy
In the Bankruptcy Courts, Dublin, on Friday, before Mr. Justice Pim, the case of the Duke of Manchester, a bankrupt, was in the list on a motion directing the sale of chattels, etc., in Kylemore Castle, County Galway. The matter had been adjourned with a view to settlement between the two parties.
War diet
The L.G. Board wrote requesting the Oughterard Board of Guardians to have potatoes given to the inmates at dinner, and that porridge and milk be substituted at either breakfast or supper. It was agreed that porridge and milk was not substantial enough for the inmates in the morning, and they were getting potatoes already.
Grattan-Bellew estate
The tenants in the Moylough section of above estate will meet in Moylough on Sunday next, after last Mass, to consider what immediate stops they should take to speed up the vesting of the lands, and save the quarter per cent extra they have been paying for the last 10 or 12 years.
Scandalous streets
“A cattle dealer” writes drawing attention to the condition of the Athenry streets, and the manner in which they are kept, which he describes as “scandalous”. The system under which the streets are kept needs investigation.
Advert
Wanted immediately: 200 bricklayers for work at Liverpool. Wages 1s. 1½d per hour. Total hours over 72 per week, including Sundays. Free tickets to Liverpool by applying to any Labour Exchanges. Lodgings abundant. Trollope and Colls, New Factory, Aintree, Liverpool.
1942
Hairdressing rush
Madam Moran, hairdresser, Shop St., was charged at Galway District Court with breaches of the Shops Act 1938. Guard McGee said he visited the defendant’s premises at 2.30p.m. on Thursday, July 23rd, when the time for closing was 1pm. The defendant and her two assistants were working, and there were four customers present. There was no notice displayed as to the half-day closing hours.
Mr. F. Conway, solr., who defended, said this was the Thursday before the Races and it was customary for the defendant to keep her premises open on that day.
District Justice Burke dismissed the charge for failing to display the notice and fined the defendant 5s. in the other charge.
Men of steel
Despite the war – rather because of it – and a subsequent shortage of materials essential to their trade, one section of city workers at present are actually benefitting from circumstances created by the emergency. Galway’s “Men of Steel” who, even in the piping days of peace, often suffered through lack of employment, now have to work day and night in order to keep up production.
This new exemplification of the old adage “It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good” was revealed to our reporter by a visit to the Galway Foundry and Engineering Company’s plant where 150 workers – an appreciable increase on the pre-war figure – are not only overcoming all sorts of difficulties, but are turning them to account as well.
The shortage of steel, instead of resulting in the discharge of old workers, has made the employment of extra men necessary, for the steel which used to be bought in the required sections before, now is replaced by old railway lines and pieces of scrap which first have to be cut by oxy-acetylene lamps and then shaped into such sections as are required by the trade.
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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