Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1917
Shot near Oranmore
At ten o’clock on Sunday night, Mr. Luke Flynn, of Ballycottage, near Oranmore, was fired at by an ambush party and wounded, but, fortunately, not seriously. Flynn is a young man, whose father, Mr. Michael Flynn, holds farms in County Galway and elsewhere.
As he was passing cross roads, within a quarter of a mile from his home, a shot suddenly rang out from behind him, and he felt a sharp pain in his right hip. He fell to the ground, while his assailant is said to have escaped across the fields. It is not known whether the assailant was alone, but there seems little reason to suppose that there was anyone on the scene except the person who fired the shot.
Young Flynn lay on the roadside for a considerable time, until the young son of a neighbour came along, and assisted him to his house. He was attended by Dr. Gannon, of Oranmore, who extricated a number of pellets from his hip.
Fortunately, Flynn was wearing heavy clothing at the time of the shooting or the result might have been much more serious. The curious part of the outrage appears to be the difficulty in ascribing any immediate notice for the occurrence that might have ended tragically.
Trawler burned
On Thursday night the trawler ‘Majestic’, the property of Messrs. McDonogh, went ablaze in the Bay. The origin of the fire is mysterious, and this morning (Friday), the remnants of the trawler are still smouldering. The tonnage of the trawler was fifty, and its last trip was on Monday when it returned after an exciting experience.
1942
More money than ever
The people of Galway have tons of money to spend, but we have not got all the goods they want to buy. This sums up the Christmas shopping situation so far as Galway traders are concerned. Drapers interviewed by our special representative were of divergent opinions about sales, but all agreed that there was “more money than ever” in circulation.
Grocers agreed on the same point, but deplored the fact that they could not supply the people with any of the usual Christmas “extras”, such as fruit and plum puddings.
An interesting fact elicited by our representative was that a great many of the gifts purchased this year will be sold in sombre brown paper instead of in the usual fancy cardboard boxes decorated with tinsel and vivid in colouring.
Messrs. McCambridge Ltd., grocers, Shop-street, said that people were buying less this year for the simple reason the goods were not there for them to buy despite the fact that those shopping had plenty of money. They had plenty of biscuits in stock, but as far as fruit, tinned or otherwise, was concerned, or any of the usual Christmas novelties, they were not to be had.
Messrs. McNamara and Co. Ltd., grocers, Colonial Buildings, said that the people would buy more if the goods were to be had. All the usual Christmas novelties were conspicuous by their absence. Such goods as plum puddings, crackers, chocolates, Christmas stockings, etc., were only to be had in small quantities.
There is another angle to the Christmas shopping, writes our representative, which should not be lost sight of. There will be a lot of waste paper floating around over the Christmas and it should be all carefully saved and brought to the Connacht Tribune office, where the Government prices will be paid for it. All waste such as wrappings, cards and envelopes will be gratefully received and paid for.
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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