Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1918
Attempted murder
At Ballinasloe Petty Sessions on Saturday, Michael Colohan was charged with the attempted murder of Miss Mary Colohan at Dunlo Street on April 4 last, by cutting her face and neck.
Miss Colohan, the injured girl, deposed she remembered the day in question, and was in the shop when Colohan came in, at 3.45.
She was alone inside the counter, and he was outside at the lower end. Accused asked for a half-glass of whiskey, which she was proceeding to get, and had just taken down the bottle off the shelf.
Mr. Lea, D.I.: What happened then?
Witness: He (Colohan) drew something like a razor across my face.
Mr. Lea: Did he say anything at the time he did this?
Witness: He said that that would be the last half-glass of whiskey ever I would fill.
Mr. Lea: What did you do then?
Witness: I screamed and shouted as loud as I could, and then Mr. Murray came into the shop. I was afterwards attended by Dr. Collins, and was subsequently placed under Dr. Rossiter’s care in the hospital and was discharged last Monday.
Mr. Wade (R.M.): Had you any previous quarrel with this man?
Witness: No.
Dr. T. Tennison Collins deposed that Miss Colohan was sitting in the kitchen bleeding profusely from a wound about seven inches long and extending from the right side of the chin to a point about two inches below the left ear.
There was an artery also cut at the left side of the neck and he put in eight silver stitches and dressed the wounds. Her life was in danger for some time, and he had her removed to hospital. Mr. Wade said the charge was a very serious one altogether and he would refuse bail. The accused was returned for trial to Galway Assizes.
1943
Buses stopped
For the first time in a quarter of a century, the city of Galway is without a passenger omnibus service in consequence of the shortage of petrol. The service may be restored if this country receives a supply of petrol which is expected to arrive in a fortnight’s time. Should the supply fail to arrive, a situation of great gravity will arise so far as transport is concerned. In the meantime, efforts by the Mayor and the Chamber of Commerce to secure even a minimum omnibus service for the city by a slight readjustment of some long-distance services have failed to achieve the desired result. A possible solution of the difficulty would be the employment of one or two diesel-engined double-decker omnibuses such as are still operating in Cork and Limerick. The Galway traders consider it most unfair that Galway should be victimised by the complete stoppage of the ‘bus services. They consider that they have been very shabbily treated and express strong resentment.
House fire
A house, the property of Mr. Joseph S. Young, Galway, situated at Sickeen, was considerably damaged by fire on Sunday night. Galway Fire Brigade fought the flames with two lines of hose for some hours before the fire was brought under control. It is believed that the fire originated when embers were blown from a grate onto the floor by a down-draft in a chimney.
Butter shortage
It was stated at a meeting of Galway Chamber of Commerce on Monday night that while butter retailers in Dublin were receiving eight ounces of butter per week for each of their customers, retailers in Galway were receiving only two ounces.
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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