Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1916
Appeal to farmers
In a powerful speech at yesterday’s Recruiting Conference at the Mansion House, Dublin, Mr. Redmond said they had raised from Ireland, counting the old regiments and the three new Irish Divisions, fifty-three battalions.
The towns of Ireland had done magnificently. The farmers, above all other men, had a special interest in the speedy end and victory of this war, and the idea of a Farmers’ Battalion was an admirable one.
Every day that had passed since the war commenced had convinced him more and more profoundly that the highest interest of Ireland, from the industrial, political, or from any other point of view, was the speedy and victorious ending of this war.
Women war workers
Mrs Joseph S. Young, hon. Secretary representing the Galway Ladies’ Committee, and Mrs. Donovan O’Sullivan, M.A. (sub-director of Connacht), attended a Conference called by Lady Wimborne at the Vice-regal Lodge, on the subject of desirability of co-ordinating and extending the activities already in progress amongst the women of Ireland for the ameloioration of the conditions which directly and indirectly are the outcome of the war.
The Conference was large attended by ladies who have taken prominent parts in war work throughout the country, and by representatives of the leading organisations of women workers, including the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Help Society, the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families’ Association, the Central Committee on Women’s Employment, the Women’s National Health Association, and the Ulster Ladies’ Association.
Her Excellency said that the suggestion was that a Council of War Emergency Women Workers should be formed, to which all existing societies should be invited to send a representative, for an exchange of views without interference with the work.
1941
War hospitals
The County Home, Loughrea, and the Children’s Home, Tuam, will be used as emergency hospitals in case of hostilities breaking out in the country during the present war.
Docs without fuel
Galway County Council has decided to “demand” from the Minister for Supplies sufficient petrol to enable dispensary doctors to do their business.
The doctors, said Chairman Mr. J.J. Cunningham, had a grievance. The allowance of petrol to them was totally inadequate. In Connemara and in other parts of the county, the doctors had frequently to travel long distances to patients.
Petrol substitute?
The gravity of the situation created by the petrol shortage is daily becoming more evident. Its repercussions are far flung. The inconvenience to which the general public has been subjected, serious though it is, must be regarded as of less importance that the huge addition to the ranks of the unemployed caused by the reduction in the transport services and the threat of starvation which faces areas like Connemara.
Probably many will regard as fantastic the suggestion put forward by Alderman Miss Ashe at the meeting of the Homes and Home Assistance Committee in Tuam that we should make better use of the Shannon Scheme for our transport services. A little reflection, however, should show that it is a practical proposition worthy of serious consideration by all concerned.
We hear very little of the famous Drumm Battery nowadays, but the number of trains operated by it has been doubled recently and delivery vans driven by the Drumm batteries are to be seen in steadily-growing numbers on the streets of Dublin. How is it that the principle has not been applied to omnibuses?
Seaweed transport
While seaweed is available for sale in some districts, transport problems may make the market price in many areas prohibitive.
Galway County Council’s Finance Committee on Saturday decided to have money expended on a road near Oranmore to make it suitable for the carriage of seaweed from Galway Bay.
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.
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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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