Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1916
Weeds and Seeds Act
At Galway Petty Sessions, Mrs. Palmer was summoned under the Weeds and Seeds Act for failing to cut thistles on her land at Corbally, Turloughmore.
Mr. Golding, Crown Solicitor, prosecuted, and Mr. Walsh, of the Department of Agriculture, produced the order authorising the County Council to put the order in force; and also a copy of the notice served on Mrs. Palmer.
Mr. Garvey, and Inspector of the Department, swore that on the 21st July he found the defendant’s lands (about 100 acres) “very bad” as regards the growth of noxious weeds; and seven days later the weeds were worse and beginning to seed, no attempt having been made to cut them, as far as he knew.
Mr. Golding: I am asked to press for a heavy penalty in this case. We only take very bad cases now. The Department avoid taking anything except the very worst cases.
Mr. Head, agent for Mrs. Palmer, asked by the Bench if he had anything to say, said he got instructions to cut the thistles and he had cut 2.5 acres of them.
Chairman Joseph Kilbride, R.M.: Since this case was instituted?
– Yes.
Mr. Garvey said 90 acres of the 100 were bad, and Mrs. Palmer, holding such a large farm, it was only to be expected that she would give a good example to the smaller farmers.
Mr. Kelly said it was late for the cutting of thistles now. For the protection of agriculture, and in the interests of the farmers in the locality, it was necessary to do something to stop this class of offence.
Defendant was fined 5s and £1 costs.
1941
Alarming TB spread
Sufficient accommodation for the treatment of tuberculosis in Co. Galway is very urgent, because the disease appears to be becoming prevalent recently. There are eighty cases of advanced tuberculosis in the country for which the County Board of Health is not able to provide accommodation.
The foregoing statement was made by Mr. P. Beegan, T.D., Chairman of the Galway County Board of health at a meeting to discuss the proposed addition accommodation required for staff at the Woodlands Sanatorium the serious shortage of accommodation for patients and the urgent necessity of erecting two pavilions.
Irish ink
This issue of the Tribune is printed entirely in Irish ink on Irish paper – an achievement hitherto impossible. Printing inks have been made in this country for some time, and have been used by us since they became obtainable, but it is only recently that the Clondalkin Paper Mills embarked on the production of newsprint and great credit is due to those responsible for the success of the enterprise.
Galway’s loss
Kerry 1-8 Galway 0-7
History was made at Croke park on Sunday by Kerry footballers when, as holders of the national title, they won the premier honours for the fifteenth time by defeating Galway on the score, 1 goal 8 points to 7 points, after the game was level at half-time. The victors shared with Dublin the distinction of having won the greatest total of championships.
Croke Park housed almost 46,000 people for the battle of the two most outstanding football counties in Ireland to-day.
The football in the moiety was fast, clean and of a sparkling character. Galway undoubtedly shone in their handling of the ball and positional play, forcing Kerry to their doughty rugged method of defence.
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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