Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1916
Asylum patient’s death
On Tuesday, Mr. M.A. Hayden, Coroner for East Galway, held an inquest at the Asylum, Ballinasloe, into the circumstances surrounding the death of a patient named McDermott – Mr. Lea, D.I., conducted the case on behalf of the Crown.
Mr. Hugh Tully, head attendant, gave evidence of the deceased being admitted to the Asylum on the 21st march, 1906.
James Callaghan deposed that he was charge attendant on the 9th of the present month. He was taking out the patients from the dayroom to the yard to get to the dining room for breakfast, when his attention was directed to McDermott who was sitting on a seat, helpless, and was held by two attendants.
McDermott was then unconscious and there was blood on his mouth and left eye. Witness sent for Dr. Murnane.
Thomas Hogan, an attendant, said he saw a patient named Mannion having a hold of the deceased, whom he pulled to the floor and kicked in the mouth.
Peter Molloy, another attendant, deposed that he saw what occurred. Deceased, when he got the kick in the mouth, fell sideways and struck his head against the form.
Dr. J. Murnane deposed that the cause of death, as he ascertained after making a post-mortem examination of the body with Dr. Robinson, was haemorrhage of the brain, which would more likely be caused by the fall than by the kick.
The jury brought in a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony.
The Tribune
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1941
Port of the West
The discussion which took place in the Galway Technical School last week on the possible development of Galway port and out coastwise traffic is of interest not only to the City of Galway, but to the entire Province of Connacht and adjoining counties.
There is no reason why this great Western seaport should not be restored to the prosperity that it enjoyed in bygone centuries and the successful development of its seaborne traffic would be reflected in the increased prosperity of all Connacht which would follow as a corollary.
Galway is Ireland’s Western gateway. It is the natural port of call for all trans-Atlantic shipping. It should possess mercantile fleets of its own to send across the Atlantic and to Continental ports. Those towering grey warehouses fringing the docks that bear mute witness to the former glories of the port should be eclipsed by even larger and more imposing structures to house the traffic of the future.
The idea of reviving the fortunes of the port is by no means new. It has been strongly advocated in the columns of the Tribune for a quarter of a century.
Water pollution
The suggestion that the pollution of the Galway City water supply might be caused within the city and not outside was made at a meeting of the Galway Board of Health, after a report was heard which stated that there should be no question of the Tuam sewage contributing to the pollution.
Guard stops runaway
The prompt and plucky action of Garda John Conalty, Eglinton-st. Barracks, Galway, in stopping a runaway horse in Williamsgate-st. on Friday prevented an accident which might have had serious consequences.
The horse, the property of the G.S.R., was harnessed to a cart which was being unloaded outside a shop when it took fright and bolted down the street, on which there were some children at the time. Garda Conalty jumped on to the roadway and, catching the horse’s bridle, succeeded in bringing it to a stop.
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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