Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1922
Developing Salthill
The Galway Bazaar, to be held during Race Week, 1922, will be for the purpose of developing Salthill and rendering it an attractive tourist resort. This is a project that has been all too long delayed, and its ultimate realisation must bring considerable wealth tot the city and benefit business people accordingly.
There are some who hold that the Urban Council, having once set its hand to improving South Park, should have settled direction in the matter of reform by continuing until this project was completed before it swung to another one.
Nevertheless, it is well that body has settled upon a definite scheme. There is no reason why the Bazaar for 1922 should not prove a record. Ireland will be at peace, and in this first year of peace, money will be released, confidence will be restored, and holidaymakers will hie them to the West, provided they are given decent facilities.
In this connection it is well that a bazaar held under the auspices of the Urban Council should not be a “profiteering” bazaar and that steps should be taken to get a register of lodging-houses and the prices to be charged. The bazaar committee and the Urban Council propose inviting during the coming week a meeting of all the lady workers in Galway.
We sincerely hope there will be a good attendance, and that local pride and patriotism will impel all who take part in this year’s bazaar to work for the development of the town in which all citizens have a common interest and pride.
Relief for Connemara
Mr. Sam T. Hutchinson, grand secretary of the Irish Order of Old Segocioners, has forwarded a cheque for ten pounds to the editor of the “Connacht Tribune” towards the Connemara Distress Fund.
“We have read with very sincere regret,” the letter adds, “the accounts of the sufferings which at present prevail in this district and we hope that this small cheque may be the means of bringing a little comfort to these unfortunate people.”
Mr. F. Cormac Walsh, the Irish manager of Messrs. Dunlops, Ltd., who is well-known in the West, is one of the grand-vice Segocioners.
This cheque has been forwarded to the treasure, the Connemara Distress Fund, the Mansion House, Dublin, together with ten shillings sent by Miss Asplen, 17, Windsor-road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, who read some articles on the distress in the “Daily News”.
Miss Asplen adds the interesting suggestion that the women folk on the island might usefully be supplied with knitting wool, which would give them something to do, and enable them to provide clothing for themselves or earn a little money.
“It is best, as you say,” she adds, “that employment should be found for these poor islanders.”
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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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