Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1920
Banks’ billet-doux
Those who patronise the Irish banks by keeping their overdrafts with them – and, we fear, although we must tell it not in Gath, they are in the majority, which is the main thing nowadays – have received a polite billet-doux from the managers during the last few days intimating that a small fee of half-a-guinea will be charged half-yearly “for keeping the account.”
Galway City Technical Instruction Committee and a number of other public authorities and private think otherwise. At the monthly meeting of the Technical Committee on Tuesday night, it was unanimously decided that the charge would not be paid.
It was pointed out in the discussion that the banks only gave legitimate increases to their staff after considerable pressure. When such increases were given, they are a charge against the profits, and this attempt to pass them on in this way to the customers should be resisted to the utmost.
Upon a rough calculation the Galway banks collectively would reap £2,000 a year from the new impost. – the meeting had been adjourned from the preceding week owing to the temporary illness of Mr. P. J. Webb, principal and secretary.
Right Rev. Monsignor Considine, Adm., V.G., presided and the following were present: Rev. Henry Foley, S.J., Rector; Messrs. Pk. Colohan and Ml. Walsh.
Smallpox warning
Last week we warned parents to ensure that all unvaccinated children in their care are vaccinated without a moment’s unnecessary delay.
This week we repeat that warning with greater emphasis, for the all-sufficient reason that danger of the dreaded disease of small-pox in England were reported to the medical officers at Galway.
These cases are at present under observation. Fortunately no symptom of infection has been discovered; but it is well to remember, and remembering to act upon the knowledge, that people who have been in contact with small pox and do not actually contract the disease themselves have, as in the case of typhoid, been known to carry the infection to others.
It is the oldest of philosophies that “prevention is better than cure”; and whilst we do not wish to spread panic, we earnestly desire that parents and public boards should awake to the necessity of taking the simplest and most successful of precautionary measures that has ever been adopted against any epidemic.
In all civilised countries vaccination is insisted upon by law. The measure of its success is the measure of immunity the people have for a generation enjoyed from a disease that pits the flesh with unsightly marks, whose aftermath consists in a weakened system and life-long maladies, which in its extreme or haemorrhage form brings swift and certain death.
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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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