Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1918
Threat to kill
A savage assault was committed at Montiagh, Galway, on Monday, in which a man named John Rooney, a resident in the locality, was brutally attacked and maimed with a razor. It appears that on that morning Rooney left his house to accompany his brother, who had been out discharging his duties as water bailiff on Lough Corrib. Meanwhile, the latter had come into contact with two poaches named John Moran and Patk. Duggan, and when he arrived Duggan, it is alleged, pulled out a razor with which he inflicted a terrible wound on John Rooney’s head, threatening to kill him.
The affray developed apparently into a terrible struggle between the brothers and the poachers. Some friends of the latter rushed to the scene and joined in the fracas. John Rooney was held by them, while, it is stated, Duggan terribly scarred him in the head and arms with the razor. It is feared that some of the wounds will have a permanent disabling effect.
Maltings robbery
The malting stores of Messrs. D.E. Williams, Tullamore, were found to be raided during the week, and, from the particulars to hand, upwards of thirty barrels of barley are missing. When the discovery was made a number of screws were found to be removed from the locks and hinges of the doors.
It is alleged by the proprietors that the premises were broken into last year about the same time and a quantity of malt taken. During the summer months the premises are closed, but a visit was paid recently by an official of the firm. Mr. Hildebrand visited the scene after the reported occurrence and investigations are being pursued.
Pay day shortage
Owing to shortage, the Banks were unable to pay sufficient silver to the constabulary on pay day.
1943
Revellers shouting
The Corporation heard complaints that some people indulged in ‘shouting and bawling’ on their way home from dances, and the Co. Manager, Mr C.I. O’Flynn, was asked to consider the action that should be taken to deal with offenders.
Mr. J. Burke asked if the Corporation had any by-laws to prohibit rowdyism on the streets at night, People coming from dances did a considerable amount of shouting and bawling at all hours of the night and he understood that no by-laws existed under which the Guards could take action against the offenders.
Ald. Brennan: It is horrible down our way. When one opens his mouth about this thing, it is said that he is objecting to dance halls, but that is not so.
Manager: If you ask the Guards to take the matter up, will you raise objections during Race Week. You all know what happens in Race Week in Galway.
Ald. Miss Ashe: That is one week in which we must give the people a free hand.
Ald. Brennan: This shouting goes on every week of the year.
Mr. O’Flaherty: Every person is on a rather joyous mood during Race Week and we should not have any action taken then.
Lighting charges
If they cut out public lighting, they might have a reign of vandalism in the city, said Mr. W. Faller at Thursday’s meeting of the Galway Corporation, when the curtailment of public lighting was under consideration.
The discussion arose when a letter was read from the E.S.B. in reply to questions raised by Ald. Brennan last month about the valuation charges in Galway compared with the valuation charges in other parts of the county. The letter stated that the charges for such large urban areas as Sligo, Drogheda, Kilkenny, Tralee, Wexford and Clonmel were identical with those which it supplied in Galway.
Bus cancellation row
Galway Corporation on Thursday added its voice to the protest already made by His Worship, Ald. J.F. Costello, P.C., against the complete withdrawal of the Galway-Salthill ‘bus service and decided to ask the G.S.R. to provide a service of twenty double runs between the city and Salthill every day for the convenience of business people and school children.
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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