Galway In Days Gone By

1920

Land hunger

Most Rev. Dr. O’Dea, Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh and Apostolic Administrator of Kilfenora, made an important statement on the present land hunger at Galway Cathedral on Easter Sunday.

His Lordship declared that it was immoral and unjust to rob people of their land against their will even for the public good without the owner receiving a fair price fixed by an impartial tribunal; to force a man to give up his land, or to deprive him of it by private authority or by mob law, or to use methods of violence to obtain lands.

A man who took land by such methods was bound to restore it to the owner, and could not get a pardon for his sin until he had done so.

The Bishop of Galway spoke on Justice in the Cathedral, Galway, at first Mass on Easter Sunday, and made the following statement on the present agitation for the division of grass lands: – The desire for land has become feverishly active within the last few weeks. Within limits it is a legitimate desire, with which every right-minded Irishman is in sympathy. It is good for all that the grazing ranches, now deteriorating from neglect, should be broken up, and tilled, and so made more productive.

The young men, too, need a living and the division of the grazing ranches among them has the further advantage that it reverses the foolish and iniquitous policy of wholesale clearances after the famine, and brings the land back to the people.

Loughrea hospital tender

The Board of Guardians will, at their meeting to be held on Saturday, the 17th April, 1920, receive and consider Tenders for lathing and plastering the walls of the Nurses’ Apartment and fixing chimney pots in the Fever Hospital, in accordance with a specification prepared by Mr. J. J. Kelly, B.E.

The work must be carried out to the satisfaction of the Guardians’ Architect, upon whose certificate, only, payment will be made. Tenders giving the names of two sureties willing to join in a bond in the sum of £100, will be received by me up to 12 o’clock, noon, on the above date.

By order, John J. Hanafan, Clerk of the Union.

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