Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1916
Three in a bed
At a meeting of Loughrea District Council, Chairman P. Riordan, J.P., said he heard of a lodging house the police inspected to see if there were three in a bed.
Mr. Cahill: I think it must be looking for law breakers they were.
What would you think of three sleeping in one bed Tom? asked Mr O’Loughlin of Mr. Tannian (laughter).
“What do I know about it?” replied Mr. Tannian, amidst renewed laughter.
An I.D.A. wanted
One of the most pressing and urgent needs of the City and the moment is an active and intelligently directed and controlled branch of the Irish Industrial Development Association. Many of those who were associated with the work of the old Association in Galway remember that it brought together all classes and creeds in the City and that if it had no other good to its credit, it succeeded in establishing one of the greatest industrial exhibitions and conferences ever held in Ireland.
South Park launch
The long-delayed project of completing the work of reclamation of the thirty-acre field known as the Swamp, and now known as South Park, was initiated under most auspicious circumstances. Mr Martin McDonagh, J.P. Co.C., Chairman, presided at a representative meeting of citizens at the Council Chamber, Town Hall, when resolutions were unanimously passed commending the project to the support of all classes in the city and county; appointing a General Committee representative of sporting and other interests in city and county, and a small Working Committee to carry out the details of organisation.
1941
Poisoning arrest
An arrest has been made in County Donegal in connection with the poisoning of eleven soldiers at Renmore Barracks, Galway, last week. Five of the soldiers were removed to Galway Central Hospital for treatment. They were discharged early this week.
Last weekend, Chief Supt. Collins with other Garda officers from Galway held a consultation at Sligo with the Chief Superintendent in Donegal and other officers from the Donegal Garda Division for the purpose of coordinating the investigations.
Tinkering with Irish
Mr. Joseph Carroll, 10 Fortfield Park, Terenure, Dublin, was appointed Borough Surveyor of Galway at Thursday’s meeting of the Galway Corporation. Mr Carroll was recommended by the Local Appointments Commissioners.
After it had been reported that Mr. Carroll had a little Irish, Mr. Redington stated that they heard a lot of talk about Irish, but they did not seem to be getting much help from the people in Dublin. Later he added that they were only tinkering with the language question.
It was alleged that the Local Government Department had failed to carry out the terms of the Gaeltacht Order in the case of some past appointments.
Bike pump theft
In a charge of larceny of a bicycle pump from Guard Burns, Private McNulty of the National Army, was given probation at Ballinasloe Court.
Guard Burns said he was on patrol duty in the main street, and his bicycle was on the opposite side of the street. Some time later he saw the soldier come along, leave his bicycle against the one already there, and when leaving in a few minutes take the pump from the Guard’s bicycle and put it in his pocket.
The soldier later gave the Guard a wrong name, number and address, and had the signs of drink. Later he found out his right name and number.
Defendant said he had a few drinks taken at the time, and was a little confused when the Guard confronted him; he did not know what he was doing.
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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