Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1920
Beef or bacon
Mr. P. Cahill presided at Saturday’s meeting of the Loughrea Board of Guardians. Also present: Messrs. J. O’Loughlin, J. D. Cronin, J. Flannery, and J. Ryan.
Honor Murphy, Laundress, applied for bacon instead of beef, as the beef which she got was chiefly bone.
Clerk: She is the laundry woman. – Master: she doesn’t care for beef. – Chairman: You can give her bacon so. – Mr. O’Loughlin: There is no use in giving the creature bones, anyway.
Clerk: Then you will grant her bacon to the same value? – Chairman: Yes. – An order was made that 1½ lbs. bacon be supplied to the applicant weekly.
Mrs Lizzie Burke, Galway-road, in making an application for outdoor relief stated she was in a delicate state of healing, and was unable to provide anything in the way of nourishment. – Chairman: What do you propose to do, gentlemen?
Mr. O’Loughlin: We can’t go behind the relieving officer’s report. He states she had two daughters and two sons earning. – Chairman: In that case there would be danger of a surcharge if we granted relief. – Mr. O ’Loughlin: What was the relieving officer appointed for if we don’t uphold his reports. – The application was marked “refused.”
An inmate named Mrs. B. Sweeney applied for a shawl, a pair of boots and a skirt, to enable her to leave the house.
Mr. O’Loughlin: I believe myself she has them all well-earned. – Master: She is a good working woman. – Chairman: She is going to leave the house now? – Master: Yes. The application was granted.
The tender of Mr. J. Donovan at £6 15s. for extending drain at workhouse to opposite side of public road was accepted.
Dr. J. F. Ryan applied for and was granted annual vacation of one month in two parts, beginning in early June and August next. – Dr. Crowley was appointed as locum tenens.
Division in Irish life
A new set of symbols has been added to the already over-weighted burden that signifies divisions in Irish life. The three Fs have been given a sinister twist under the unsettled conditions that prevail.
As a people, we appear to have a fatal facility for cleavages, class and political lines of demarcation. In the present instance, the perpetrators have been the Irish farmers – to be accurate, a strong section within the powerful and expanding Irish farmers’ Union.
Last week Press and public were in the dark as to what transpired behind closed doors at the Galway Congress in regard to one subject of transcending importance: the attitude of the Union towards Labour and the embargo on the export of foodstuffs to England. This week the secret is out.
We have before us a circular issued to each member of the Union descriptive of what is required to form the proposed Farmers’ Freedom Force.
The draftsmanship reveals the ordered and acute mind of Lt.-Col. Bryan, of Wexford, the vice-chairman of the organisation. It sets out frankly “to provide a permanent organised body in each branch and county area of Ireland ready for immediate action.
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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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