Galway In Days Gone By

1921

Back to bad old days

Emigration form Ireland to other lands during the present month has been considerably in excess of last month’s record was up to the level of the old bad years. So far, the emigration this year is three times that of last year.

The “Freeman” asserts that one district alone is reported this month to have sent one-third of the numbers that left the entire country during the month of February. Over 75,000 emigrants left Great Britain last year, but 15,000 left Ireland during the same period; so that with one-tenth of the population we sent abroad one fourth of the number.

Pride in the “greater Ireland beyond the seas” will not solace a wasted land for this terrible drain of its very life-blood. And we have the appalling fact that in the warfare now being waged 160 people were killed in Ireland during the present year, three months of which have not yet run.

During the past week alone thirty civilians and thirty-two members of the Crown Forces were reported killed in Ireland. The Archbishop of Tuam has demanded that the stronger Power should take the initiative in making an offer of peace – an offer that will stand some chance of being accepted and that would end this criminal wastage of an ancient nation.

Peace is out greatest need to-day. If English Statesmen are wise they will, in their own interest, recognise the fact before it is too late. The Archbishop, who has worked unceasingly for peace, has put forward a demand to which a magnanimous power that really desired to end the conditions in Ireland would respond without delay.

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