Galway in Days Gone By

Galway In Days Gone By

Published

2 years ago

March 2, 2023

Some of the attendance at opening and blessing of Abbeyknockmoy’s £40,000 Community Centre by Most Rev Dr Joseph Cunnane, Archbishop of Tuam on April 4, 1982.

1923

Staying on track

The Free State Government has been compelled temporarily to order the Irish railways to prepare a scheme for grouping for the simple and obvious reason that the Government has no funds to meet the deficit on railway working. And that even if a policy of nationalisation were agreed upon as the best thing for the nation, the Government is not in a financial position to acquire them, and that if rates and fares are to be reduced so that the country may prosper, working expenses must also undergo a drastic and immediate reduction.

The broad, general plan is that this should be effected by grouping the lines so that they should cooperate in working. This will inevitably mean reduced staffs and eliminated competition – but apparently needs must.

So far, the only scheme of grouping that has emerged is one that has aroused hostility in the Dublin Press. The outline of the scheme is to draw a line from Dublin to Galway and group the Irish railways into two sections, one north and one south of the line, was revealed at the annual meetings of the northern and southern companies this week.

Dublin fears the Great Northern, because Dublin is not able to stand in competition with the railway that has its headquarters in Belfast. That is the grim fact, and it has to be faced.

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Galway In Days Gone By

Published

2 years ago

May 18, 2023

Stephen Corrigan

Some of the attendance at the opening of the new school in Ballymacward on June 24, 1974.

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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Connacht Tribune

Galway In Days Gone By

Published

2 years ago

May 11, 2023

Stephen Corrigan

Nurses on strike on May 10, 1980, protesting a sub-standard pay offer. Around 700 nurses took part in the protest, hitting services at Gawlay Regional Hospital where only emergency cases were being admitted.

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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Connacht Tribune

Galway In Days Gone By

Published

2 years ago

May 4, 2023

Stephen Corrigan

Brendan Cunniffe from Oranmore and Robert Kelly, Tirellan Heights at the Galway County Fleadh in Tullycross, Connemara, on May 16, 1985.

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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