Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1916
Serious accident
A very serious accident occurred to Mr. S. Craughwell at Ballinasloe Station on Saturday evening. While immediately inside the door of the goods store, a wagon was blown along the siding. Striking the door with terrific force, the latter caught Craughwell on the side of the head, removing the scalp and taking the top off the left ear. He was removed to St. Michael’s Hospital where his head was stitched and he is now progressing favourably.
Asylum vacancy
The favoured candidate for the Junior Assistant Medical Officership in the Ballinasloe Asylum is Dr. John Murnane, who has had over two years’ service in the institution, during which time he won the affection of the patients to whom he was most devoted, tending them with the greatest care and kindness and unsparingly working for them in their terrible affliction. With the staff he is most popular, a very important factor for the successful working of the institution. His abilities as a medical practitioner are held in very high regard in the Asylum.
South Park plan
The Urban Council of Galway has unanimously decided to call a public meeting of citizens with a view to forming a committee that will run next year’s Race Week Bazaar for an object that will tend to the material advancement and prosperity of the town.
The object which appears to find the most favour is the completion of the work of South Park, so that the City may become possessed of a suitable athletic grounds and recreation park within easy reach of its inhabitants.
1941
Salthill beach plans
“Beautifully desolate” is a description that has been frequently applied to Salthill by visitors, according to Mr. W. Emerson, Secretary of the Salthill Citizens’ Committee. In a letter to Galway Corporation, Mr. Emerson said that visitors came to Salthill as a matter of necessity rather than choice last Summer.
There was no reason, however, to suggest that the resort would not attract crowds in the future if visitors were catered for.
Plans prepared by Mr. C.J. O’Callaghan, former Borough Surveyor and recommended by the Committee were based on a scheme for the clearing of the foreshore; the laying of groynes from the foot of the Promenade to the low water mark so that a sandy beach would be provided between Blackrock and the Eglinton Hotel; the building of a revetment wall at the foot of the existing Promenade and the erection of railing on the Promenade; the building of a proper swimming pool and the provision of shelters and proper sanitary accommodation.
“If it is to keep up with other Irish resorts, the scheme suggested above should be put into operation immediately. Owing to the international situation, Salthill was well patronised last year, but more from necessity than by choice, but there is no reason to suggest that it would not continue to be full in the years to come if visitors were properly catered for with bathing facilities and amusements.
“The Irish people would willingly support Irish seaside resorts if they were catered for on the proper lines,” the letter concluded.
Ald. Miss Ashe said that if they intended doing anything for Salthill, now was the time to start. The railing of the Promenade and the clearing of the foreshore were things that everyone would approve of.
The Mayor said that the whole scheme would cost thirty or forty thousand pounds.
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.
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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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