Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1916
Police barracks stoned
An occurrence which would have created much surprise, and, in the circumstances, not a little indignation, had it leaked out – which strangely enough, it doesn’t seem to have – took place last Tuesday night fortnight at a place within three miles of the City of Galway.
At midnight, or towards the small hours of the morning, a large force of men, numbering, it is understood, between 20 and 30, or more, marched on the Killeen police barracks and delivered a furious assault on it with stones.
Almost all the windows were broken, but otherwise no dmage was done, and the occupants sustained no injuries. Fire arms were not used, and it appears that after a swift assault, the assailants withdrew precipitately. No arrests have been made.
Almost all the interned suspects from that part of the county have been released, and no innuendo is laid against them in this respect, but it must be obvious that this meaningless behaviour is not conducive to the release of other men from the country, or, indeed, from the West generally, who are still detained. It is, of course, an admitted hardship and a cruelty that the fair name of the county, which is peaceful and law-abiding, should again be besmirched by the thoughtless conduct of a small clique of uneducated and gander-headed youths, who represent nobody but themselves.
1941
Butchers black list
With a view to removing suspicion from those butchers who killed only good quality stock, Galway Corporation decided on Thursday that the names of the owners of meat unfit for human consumption seized at the abattoir should be supplied in future.
Cattle ships failure
Failure has attended Galway Harbour Board’s effort to get a share of the cattle exports for their port. The resolution sent by the Board to the Taoiseach had elicited a statement from his Department to the effect that it is a matter for the British authorities to decide, and that it is unlikely that they would agree to accept cattle shipped from Galway.
All-Ireland calling
The Galway team to line out against Kerry at 3.30pm on Sunday at Croke Park in the All-Ireland Senior Football Final has only one change compared with the team that represented the county in the Connacht Final.
The return of D. Sullivan – who was off from the provincial final team owing to illness – was expected. The position now is that Galway has four changes compared with last year’s team – P. McDonagh (Tuam) replacing M Connaire; P. McDonagh (Rosaveal), Kavanagh and Hanniffy replacing Nestor, Higgins and Flavin. Kerry has no change in personnel but there have been some changes in disposition at centre field and in attack.
The Kerry changes in attack are regarded as a strengthening of this division, but with the experience gained in Championship and League games against Kerry, the Galway defenders should be able to counter the Kerry moves.
The Galway line-out: J. McGauren; M. Raftery; P. McDonagh; D. Sullivan; F. Cunniffe; R. Beggs; J. Duggan; C. Connolly, D. Kavanagh; W. Hanniffy; J. Duane; J. Canavan; E. Mulholland; P. McDonagh; J. Burke.
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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