Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1917
Daily Mail’s fake news
The subjoined is a copy of a letter sent to the London ‘Daily Mail’:
St. Joseph’s, Clifden, Co. Galway. 8th December, 1917.
Sir, I don’t get the ‘Daily Mail’, but through the kindness of a friend, I have just been shown a copy of your last Monday’s issue. Therein was given a supposed summary of a short interview on the 30th ult. between your representative, Mr. A. Thompson, and myself.
The report of that interview, I am sorry to be obliged to characterise as no other than a tissue of gross misstatements. On the date named, your correspondent called, presented me with his card, gave me your compliments, and stated the objects of his visit – 1st to know how the people have fared; (2nd) to ask what the Congested Districts Board has done or left undone; and (3rd) to inquire what local industries might have been started and worked, and were allowed to lie undeveloped.
For the sake of the Press, and for the credit of decent journalism, I naturally thought from these credentials that I was speaking to a gentleman; I now find I was dealing with a cad.
My replies to his several inquiries were brief and terse, pertinent and truthful. Instead of giving my answers, he twisted and distorted them for his own perverted fancy.
It may be of some satisfaction to your correspondent to know and feel that when he renews acquaintance with Connemara and its people, his last visit will doubtless ensure for him so warm a reception that he will not soon forget it, and, mayhap, will furnish him besides with material and copy for a more spicy and telling article than was his in your columns on the 3rd inst.
- Canon McAlpine, P.P., V.F.
1942
War prayer
“Keep your minds fixed on the victory for which you strive, for the day when peace comes and you will have fulfilled your task. Please God it will be, for us, a bloodless victory. Ireland has had no victory march for many a day; after the War of Independence, civil strife intervened to prevent it. But, please God, there will be one after this war, and in it you will have an honoured place.”
So declared His Lordship, the Most Re. Dr. Michael Browne, during the course of a stirring address to members of the Fiftieth Rifle Battalion L.D.F., who, having laid aside their turns to salute the King of Peace, attended, with members of the other auxiliary services, a special Military Mass in the Cathedral, Galway, on Sunday morning.
Hospital mishap
Mr. Justice Maguire, President of the High Court, in accordance with a decision of the Supreme Court on a case stated by himself, which held that the Galway Board of Health was liable for damages for the negligence of a member of the nursing staff in the discharge of her professional duties, affirmed the decision of the Circuit Court Judge awarding £40 to Sal Morgan (8 years), of Athenry Road, Loughrea, for injuries suffered as a result of a hot-water jar that had been placed in her bed while suffering from the effects of an anaesthetic, having burned her.
Mr Justice Maguire directed that £15 be paid out to the father, and that the balance be invested in Savings Certificates for the benefit of the child.
No enough men
We have so much work that we cannot get men for it all, declared the County Surveyor at Saturday’s meeting of Galway County Council. He said that he had never experienced such a state of affairs in nearly thirty years with the Council.
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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