Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1920
Council cottages
Mr. A. Staunton, Chairman, presided at the weekly meeting of the Ballinasloe Urban Council held on Tuesday evening. There were also present: Messrs. MI. Ryan, W. Griffin, T. McDonnell, P. Dolan, J. Donnelan, F. Clayton, Dr. Rutherford. The Local Government Board wrote approving the sites for the erection of 250 cottages in Ballinasloe Urban District. They are located at Brackernagh, Poolboy and Creagh, while the selection in the town is not approved.
Mr. Griffin: What is the next step? –Chairman: I think the sites’ committee appointed should see the sites and report to the next meeting. –To acquire sites by agreement, the surveyor said, was the next step and the plans would be prepared to suit the sites, he told Mr. Griffin
Answering, Mr. Ryan, the Surveyor said no area was approved where people were at present living. The sites on the right hand side of the Square were not approved and the existing houses should be dealt with under the Public Health Act.
Mr. Connolly said houses there were purchased by the Munster and Leinster Bank, but this would not mean the eviction of any one, the Surveyor said.
If people had nowhere to go, Mr. Ryan said, their disturbance would not be tolerated. –Chairman: What do you suggest to do, gentleman? –Mr. Ryan: Acquire the sites where there is no one living.
The Surveyor said they would get sites by agreement for eighteen houses in Brackernagh, and Mr. Connolly said a start could be made there. –Mr. McDonnell: Is this going to be a profitable work to the Council? –Mr. Ryan said the houses must be got. –Dr. Rutherford: What will they cost? –Clerk: £600 per cottage.
1945
Repair works
Despite the lot of work which had been done in the past couple of years many Corporation cottages were still in an appalling condition, Mr. C. I. O’Flynn, Co. Manager, told Galway Corporation on Thursday. Mr. J. S. Carroll, Borough Surveyor, he added, had estimated that it would cost £8,000 to put them all in proper repair, and the question was, would they adopt a piecemeal policy or get sanction for a loan to repair them altogether.
The matter arose when the Borough Surveyor asked for a supplementary estimate of £400 for cottage repairs. The Borough Surveyor told the meeting that if he was to spend sums on repairs over the next five years there would be constant complaints.
With about £8,000 he could clear up all the repair works within a year and start with a clean sheet. He referred to the unfenced houses at the Claddagh.
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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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