Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1916
Prisoners released
Although the pleasant sounds of sickle and mowing machine are heard throughout the land, and the scent of new-mown hay gladdens the summer air, many of the Co. Galway boys arrested after the recent Rising still lie in English detention camps.
The process of hearing the appeals of those who claim release is being got through necessarily slow, having regard to the large number to be dealt with.
Messrs. Duffy and Cosgrave, M.P.s, have been doing everything possible to enlist the aid of those in apposition to help the men detained.
Further, those two Galway members have frequently visited the detention camps, and obtained papers and other comforts for the prisoners.
Great Galway Carnival
What its organisers claim to be one of the greatest attractions ever organised in Galway will be the great Carnival and Fancy Dress Gymkhana to be held in the Square the week after the bazaar in aid of the Connacht Rangers and Prisoners of War. There will be a bicycle parade in fancy dress and prizes for the best costumes.
The other attractions will include a flower and confetti fete, a baby competition, and a pretty child competition, tandem bicycle driving in fancy dress, bicycle obstacle race, show riding competitions, egg and spoon race, hat trimming, and costume obstacle race, etc.
There will be a Café Chantant and Dancing Saloon, and the bands of the Connacht Rangers and Sherwood Forresters will attend.
1941
Petrol rations
“Is it rank stupidity or is it downright impertinence?” asked Mr. B. O’Sullivan, secretary of the Galway County Committee of Agriculture, after he had informed the members that the Department, after being recommended to supply thirty gallons of petrol for the month to Mr. Lombard, horticultural instructor, who had a fourteen h.p. car, had allowed only eighteen gallons, while they had allowed twenty-four gallons to a poultry instructress who had an eight h.p. car and had to cover only part of the area covered by Mr. Lombard. He (secretary) had been allowed only eight gallons to cover the whole county.
Galway Races
Twenty horses have accepted for the Galway Plate, and eighteen for the Galway hurdle. Rogers, about whose final selection there has been much speculation, has taken out five, but still has four left.
The Gripper, who, it will be recalled, fell early on in the race last year, will try again this year, and judging by his performance at Leopardstown, should have a great chance.
Ring of God, last year’s winner, will try to bring off a double. Sir Sen, second last year, has been taken out, but Swindon Glory is left in.
Teams selected
The Galway Senior, junior and Minor football teams for the Connacht finals were selected at a meeting of the Galway Co. Football Board, held in the Ivy Hotel, Eyre-street, Galway, on Sunday night, Mr. J.J. Nestor, chairman, presiding.
There are only two changes in the senior team compared with the team that defeated Mayo in the semi-final. Casey and Kitt are back among the subs, while Mulholland, now recovered after his recent injury, and Flavin, who came on to replace Kitt immediately after the interval in the semi-final, are back with the fifteen.
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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