Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1913
Salthill improvement
Sir,
While awaiting the much-needed improvements in Salthill which all hope may be able to be carried out as a result of the forthcoming Bazaar, there are a few matters which are well worth the consideration of those who are interested in the welfare of Galway and Salthill.
1. Is there no watering cart in Galway to keep down the clouds of dust which are not only disagreeable but dangerous to the health?
2. Is there any reason why the summer, when visitors come in, should be selected to make a beautiful walk such as Grattan Road a receptacle for refuse. If a path or grass promenade is contemplated, surely this is the time to have it finished, not commenced.
3. Can only three seats be provided for the Grattan Road.
4. Can nothing be done to keep some women who have lost all sense of decency from going on to the very rock on which the men are actually dressing and undressing.
5. Is there no law prohibiting mixed bathing. During the past few days many people have been horrified to see a man and woman bathing together on the strand below Blackrock, whilst to make matters worse the man wore no costume of any description. This is a state of things which I am sure the people of Galway who have always a high standard of morality will not tolerate.
A Citizen.
Tuam mystery
A young girl aged twenty, who resided with her parents at Gortbeg, Tuam, left her home on Wednesday morning to wash some clothes in a neighbouring stream. Sometime later she was discovered lying in the water, which did not completely cover her body. Life was then extinct, and it is presumed that she fell into the water, overtaken by a fit.
1938
Cut tail off horse
He cut the tail off his neighbour’s horse because he thought it would improve the animal’s appearance, was the defence offered on behalf of a Kiltormer man at Eyrecourt Court, when he was charged with maliciously damaging a young horse, the property of his neighbour.
Supt. Dunphy said the defendant was capable of doing anything when he had drink taken. At the time of the offence, he was not on good, or friendly terms with his neighbour.
The owner of the horse said the animal was worth £20, but having had its tail cut, its value had decreased by £5. It was a young horse and it would now be difficult to sell it. He could not understand why it was done.
The defendant said he thought the animal would “look nicer” if the tail was cut. He admitted he cut the hair from the animal’s tail. He did not want to be sworn, he added.
The Justice, Mr. Cahill, said he was glad the defendant was not sworn, because his defence was very thin, and a novel one, from a person who was not, at the time of the offence, on good terms with the animal’s owner.
“You were near prison the last time you were here in court, and you were nearer still, today,” said Mr. Cahill, “and you have a poor chance if you are here a third time. I hope this will be a lesson to you.” He imposed a fine of 10s 6d; 40s compensation, and 8s expenses.
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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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