Galway In Days Gone By

1922

Having their say

Admittedly the Irish people are entitled to have that which they themselves desire. They are the sovereign authority.

When they voted under the shadow of alien guns and bayonets, they showed their scorn for alien rule. To-day, voting under certain disadvantages, but as a people for whom freedom has been won, they have revealed their mid after a fashion that can leave no lingering doubt as to their real desires.

They desire order and peace, instead of disorder and chaos. They have voted for industrial expansion and employment instead of demoralisation and distress that sound economic and national development may cause the whine of distress to cease throughout the land, the tragedy of bankrupt towns and businesses to end, and the atrophying blight of cumulative decay to stop.

They want construction and common-sense instead of destruction and whirling words. They want the chapter of Black-and-Tannery to be closed forever, English domination and interference to cease, and a new Ireland to emerge, making the most of that which it has gained and marching forwards towards greater development in the future.

This is the plain lesson written across all the declared results in the country – and all of them have been declared, with the exception of West Cork, where a hitch has occurred owing to tampering with ballot boxes.

In a Dáil of 120 members so far elected, but thirty-four of the old Anti-Treaty party have been returned. Some of these retain uncontested seats, where their fate was not put to the test. Fifty-five of the members who voted for peace and settlement return to the house.

Search for relations

William Walsh, who is believed to have been born in Aughrim, County Galway, Ireland, a son of Patrick Walsh and Catherine Molloy, who are believed to have been married in Galway about ninety years ago, came to Australia in 1857, died at St. Arnaud, in the State of Victoria, Australia, on the eight day of December, 1920.

By his Will he left the residue of his estate to his first cousins and each of their children living at the date of his death in Ireland. Persons claiming to be cousins or children of the above named William Walsh are herby requested to forward their claims and proofs of their relationship to the undermentioned Solicitor pursuant to a direction made on the thirty-first day of October, 1921, by the Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court of Victoria – William Mitchell, St. Arnaud, Victoria, Australia, Solicitor for the executor of the above-named William Walsh, and to send copies of such claims and proofs to William Roche & Sons, 20 Stephen’s Green North, Dublin, Agents for the Executor’s Solicitor.

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