Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1916
Christmas gift special
The Royal Hotel
The Royal Hotel is one of the premier commercial and family hotels in the City. It is lighted throughout with electricity, and every convenience in the way of hot and cold water baths is provided. In addition to the commodious commercial rooms, there is a magnificently appointed ladies’ drawing room. The genial proprietress specially caters for the reception of fishing parties and tourists. In the bar attached, only first-class drinks are supplied.
Sanitary Engineer
The name of Robert MacDonald is something to conjure with in sanitary engineering circles in Galway City and County. Estimates are furnished by this gentleman for all internal household plumbing, including lavatories, wash basins, domestic hot water circulation, etc., and every modern convenience is fitted up in a manner consistent with the most recent and approved principles of modern science.
O’Gorman’s Cards
This old established form of stationers has a very interesting selection of Christmas and New Year cards on their artistically dressed windows this season. A visit is necessary to convince our readers that here exceptional value is to be had. As is customary, the stationery department is crammed with the current literature of the day, and the Christmas numbers and periodicals are plentifully stocked.
Tyler’s Boots
“Tyler’s boots” is almost a household word, but the phrase has a much more solid significance. Tyler’s boots mean long wear, comfort, dry and warm feet. During the present season, Tyler’s offer splendid bargains. Customers of all tastes are sure to be pleased with the extensive selection which is on display. This season they make a speciality of the Derby heavy nailed boot for farm and field. This is a boot which should induce a great sale amongst the farming community.
1941
Dire poverty in Galway
Never before was there such dire poverty in Galway as at this moment. This statement was made by the Very Rev. Canon Davis, P.P., when, accompanied by Dr. S. O’Shea, U.C.G., he appeared before the Galway County Board of Health with a request for help in providing sufficient nourishment for the poor.
Fifty per cent of the population are under-nourished, declared Dr.Shea, who advocated a scheme whereby meat vouchers or cooked meat could be supplied to the poor at one shilling per lb. It would cost £300 to supply 300 families for twenty weeks, and the cost, it was stated, would be saved in hospital and other expenses.
The Very Rev. P. Canon Davis said that he and Dr.Shea had been asked by a number of people interested in the poor of Galway to come before the Board and see if they could help in giving the poor of the city sufficient nourishment as it was felt that never before was there such dire poverty as at the moment.
Dr.Shea said: “The figures which have been obtained show that in one area in which there were 320 families, 6.6 per cent, or twenty of them had no meat meals; 19.5 per cent had one meat meal per week; 18.5 per cent had two; 17.5 per cent had three; 6.9 per cent had four; 6.2 per cent had five and 23.5 per cent had six meat meals per week.
In other words, 135 families or 44.7 per cent of the total had only two meat meals per week, while sixty-two per cent, had only three meat meals per week.”
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.
Connacht Tribune Digital Edition App
Download the Connacht Tribune Digital Edition App to access to Galway’s best-selling newspaper.
Click HERE to download it for iPhone and iPad from Apple’s App Store, or HERE to get the Android Version from Google Play.
Or purchase the Digital Edition for PC, Mac or Laptop from Pagesuite HERE.
Get the Connacht Tribune Live app
The Connacht Tribune Live app is the home of everything that is happening in Galway City and county. It’s completely FREE and features all the latest news, sport and information on what’s on in your area. Click HERE to download it for iPhone and iPad from Apple’s App Store, or HERE to get the Android Version from Google Play.
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”.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
Connacht Tribune Digital Edition App
Download the Connacht Tribune Digital Edition App to access to Galway’s best-selling newspaper.
Click HERE to download it for iPhone and iPad from Apple’s App Store, or HERE to get the Android Version from Google Play.
Or purchase the Digital Edition for PC, Mac or Laptop from Pagesuite HERE.
Get the Connacht Tribune Live app
The Connacht Tribune Live app is the home of everything that is happening in Galway City and county. It’s completely FREE and features all the latest news, sport and information on what’s on in your area. Click HERE to download it for iPhone and iPad from Apple’s App Store, or HERE to get the Android Version from Google Play.
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.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
Connacht Tribune Digital Edition App
Download the Connacht Tribune Digital Edition App to access to Galway’s best-selling newspaper.
Click HERE to download it for iPhone and iPad from Apple’s App Store, or HERE to get the Android Version from Google Play.
Or purchase the Digital Edition for PC, Mac or Laptop from Pagesuite HERE.
Get the Connacht Tribune Live app
The Connacht Tribune Live app is the home of everything that is happening in Galway City and county. It’s completely FREE and features all the latest news, sport and information on what’s on in your area. Click HERE to download it for iPhone and iPad from Apple’s App Store, or HERE to get the Android Version from Google Play.
Families queue up for school’s offer of free house
West has lower cancer survival rates than rest
Galway minors continue to lay waste to all opponents
Gardaí and IFA issue a joint appeal on summer road safety
Marathon Man plans to call a halt – but not before he hits 160 races
