Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1916
Youthful Volunteer
There is an air of romance about the experiences of Lieutenant Harry Tweedy, who rejoined his regiment, the 3rd Batt. Dublin Fusiliers, this week. Lieut. Tweedy, who is a mere boy, instead of returning to his studies at the Grammar School, donned the khaki as a private, and was subsequently made Corporal. He has now attained to the dignity of a long sword. His father was a former D.I. of Spiddal, and is now Co. Inspector at Bantry.
Tramway fares
We are informed that the Galway and Salthill Tramways Co. have decided to increase their fares. The new scale will be: Galway to Nile lodge, 1 ½d; Nile Lodge to Salthill, Nile Lodge to Salthill, 1 ½d; Galway to Salthill or vice versa, 3d., Children, any distance 1 ½d.
Flooding scandal
At the quarterly session of Tuam District Council, Mr. J.W. Ronaldson asked the County Surveyor what steps, if any, were being taken to remove the flood, eighty yards long and one foot deep, on the Sylane road.
Six or seven years ago, compensation was allowed to the man living on the side of the road for permitting the water to enter his land.
County Surveyor: The contractor told me that the man would not allow the water to be taken off to where it always went.
Mr. Ronaldson: What will we do?
Co. Surveyor: The contractor should summon him to the Petty Sessions, and I told him to do so.
Mr. Ronaldson: It is a scandal to allow it remain there. Something should be done to remove it.
Co. Surveyor: It is evidently stopped on purpose.
The Chairman Mr. P. Dermody, J.P., said that he saw several of the passages for the conveyance of the water off the roads stopped.
Mr. P.J. Costello: They can be prosecuted for that.
Chairman: It would be a good thing if we knew that they could.
1941
Emergency hospital
His Lordship, Most Rev. Dr. M. Browne, Bishop of Galway, said on Sunday that he hoped an emergency hospital could be built in Galway on the east side of the river.
“The present Central Hospital is on the west side of the river and if any untoward events should occur, transport across the river might be impossible and, therefore, an emergency hospital would be needed on the east side of the river for the large population which exists there, because First Aid stations can only give first aid.”
Air Raid Precautions
Experienced drivers who are willing to volunteer their services for A.R.P. work, ambulance work, and other emergency duties, are requested to register with the Secretary, Galway County Council, stating their details, the types of vehicle which they are capable of driving (private car, van, or lorry), and whether they are willing to make their cars or other vehicles available for any duties required.
Service withdrawal
The Great Southern Railway Company gives notice that, owing to the serious restriction in the country’s petrol supplies, large reductions in the present passenger omnibus services have become imperative.
Services to be withdrawn: (Moneenageisha Cross-Eyre Square and Seamount), Galway and Clifden via Cong, Galway and Lisdoonvarna, Galway and Castlerea, Galway and Loughgeorge, Galway and Oughterard, Galway and Carraroe, Galway and Headford, Galway and Kilkerrin, Dunmore and Woodlawn.
Services to be altered or reduced: Galway City Services (Prospect Hill-Eyre Square-Salthill), Galway and Lettermullen, Galway and Sligo, Galway and Clifden via Oughterard, Galway and Limerick, Galway and Ballina.
The least possible reductions have been made in public services where there is no railway alternative, and the public are requested to utilise the railway services wherever alternative rail and road services are still retained, and thus help the country in the emergency that has arisen.
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.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
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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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