Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1916
Thrilling escape
Galway seems to be acquiring a reputation for motor smashes. On Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock in Salthill, Mr. John O’Connor, Mountbellew, crashed into a 10-year-old young lady named Anne Kilroy, of Ballygar. It appears that Mr. O’Connor was motoring towards the city.
In front of the Ballinasloe House he observed that a tram car was pulled up, and simultaneously he noticed that a motor was coming in the opposite direction going to Salthill. In order to avoid this double accident, he shot the passage between the tram track and the Ballinasloe House.
At the very moment that he was manoeuvring this extrication, Miss Kilroy, unfortunately, debouched from Beach Avenue in time to be caught by the car. She was dragged for some distance along the ground, and the heels of her shoes were actually wrenched off.
She, furthermore, sustained injuries to the head, which was stitched at St. Bride’s Private hospital, Sea-road, by Dr. Sandys. She is at present detained there.
On Wednesday afternoon, a rumour gained currency that she had succumbed to the shock, but inquiries elicited that the report was groundless.
She is progressing favourably under the skilled and sympathetic treatment of the efficient nursing staff, who are fast adding to the reputation of this institution.
1941
Eyre Square turf dump
A dump of about five thousand tons of turf which, Mr. G. Lee, B.E., Co. Surveyor, told Galway Corporation would make Eyre Square Park “cosy and snug” rather than spoil its beauty, is to be built on the level lawn between the flower dais and the railing opposite the Great Southern Hotel. The turf is to be held as a reserve for the citizens in case transport should break down completely.
Plea to E.S.B.
The position of the tenants of Corporation homes which were not connected with the E.S.B. mains was referred to at a meeting of the Galway Corporation by Ald. Miss Ashe. She held that in view of the fact that these people were unable to get candles or paraffin oil, the E.S.B. should be approached with a view to seeing if it would connect up these houses on the tenants agreeing to pay the cost by instalments, if not in a lump sum.
A number of houses in the Claddagh were not electrically lighted and the people were hard-hit by reason of the fact that they could not get any other means of illumination.
Ghouls in business
Nearly a year ago we urged that the Government should take prompt and effective steps to combat profiteering. Measures have been taken by the Executive Council, but they are not proving effective.
In some cases, customers who are rich enough actually connive at the extortion, cheerfully paying more than the ordinary man can afford in order to obtain extra supplies.
Where the Government has ordained fixed prices for commodities, drastic action must be taken against all offenders. Fines are virtually worthless as a check upon this modern form of piracy – the offenders can pay such small sums as are imposed and still have a handsome profit left. Nothing will discourage the profiteer so quickly as imprisonment.
Galway Gala star
For their ninth annual gala, held at the New Pier, Dun Aengus Dock, Galway, on Sunday last, the Blackrock Swimming Club hit upon an entirely new idea. They availed themselves of the occasion to stage a “Learn-to-swim Drive” and the bright particular “star” of the city’s proceedings was a non-swimmer, nine-year-old Judy Conroy, the youngest member of the club.
Plucky little Judy was taken into the water – which was about thirty feet deep at the time with the tide coming in rapidly – by Club Captain Harry Flattery and calmly demonstrated the different positions in which a non-swimmer can keep afloat.
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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