Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1915
Deplorable accident
On Saturday last, a man named Thomas Nevin, who was employed in the foundry of Messrs. Beatty Brothers, was killed as the result of a deplorable accident.
It appears that the unfortunate man, who resided at Middle-street, was cooling some irons in the mill-race, when, in some manner unexplained, he lost his balance and fell in.
The sluice-gate was open at the time, with the result that he was sucked through, as is believed, under the big water wheel. Nevin was a young man about 35 years of age, and the father of two young children.
Curse the Germans
At the City Petty Sessions, Constable Kennedy charged Bridget Keane with being drunk and disorderly.
Defendant said she was after getting a letter from her son who was twelve months in the trenches at the front, and she took a drop of drink after it.
She met another woman who said something about the Germans, and she cursed her and the Germans. She was fined 10s.
New ambulance
At the meeting of Galway Urban Council, Mr. Young said he had seen the new ambulance and it was a fine vehicle. He thought the best thanks of the Council was due to Capt. Waithman and Lady Philippa Waithman.
Not alone had he taken all the trouble of getting an ambulance, but when he found that they had no harness, he offered to supply a set of double harness of his own.
Chairman: Certainly Lady Waithman took a lot of trouble in connection with the ambulance. It has already brought a case for Dublin from the hospital to the station.
Donkey cruelty
At Milltown Petty Sessions, Constable Guilfoyle summoned John Fleming for cruelty to a donkey. Patk. Nestor, the owner of the animal, was summoned for permitting the cruelty.
Complainant stated he was on duty at Curraghan and saw the donkey lying in the bog. Fleming was kicking the donkey on the hips, and beating him with a stick on the head.
Witness went to the place, and got Fleming to take the straddle off. He examined the tail, and found a red raw sore about the size of a penny with blood oozing from it.
Fleming told him the donkey belonged to Nestor, who was filling turf convenient to the donkey.
Nestor said he did not see Fleming kick the donkey, and Fleming denied having given any kicks to the animal. Nestor stated that the sore was not on the donkey when he harnessed it in the morning. When the donkey was removed from the bog, she appeared to be very weak. She had a foal at foot.
Chairman: The poor beast could not get out without assistance? – No, your worship.
He was fined 5s. There was no case proved against Nestor.
1940
Bridge blown up
Motorists and other travellers should bear in mind that on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next, the Maam Cross-Recess road will be closed to traffic at Bunscannif bridge.
The bridge will be blown up by army engineers on Monday morning. Many motorists who have often imperilled their no claims bonuses at this bridge will not grudge its fate.
Hopes dashed
Kerry 0-7 Galway 1-3
Failure to win scores from promising opportunities which were presented by frees in the first half and the opportunism and quick thinking of Charlie Sullivan, which gave Kerry a point when extra time was being played, cost Galway the All-Ireland title at Croke Park on Sunday.
Watched by a crowd of 61,000 people, the game was not at all a brilliant exhibition. The sod was too slippery, the marking was too keen and there was too much roughness to allow much spectacular work to enter, but the closeness of the scorning
Kerry’s ability to swing the play in their favour from centre made them the aggressors for most of the period and judged on this their victory was deserved, but a Galway defence which brought back memories of the 1938 final almost levelled up the teams on the question of merit. Galway failure occurred in attack where there were a couple of weak points.
Amongst the attendance, which was roughly 8,000 down as compared with the record set when Kerry and Galway met in the 1938 final, were members of the Government and the Diplomatic Corps.
Galway: J. McGauran (goal), M. Raftery, M. Connaire, D. O’Sullivan, F. Cunniffe, R. Beggs, C. Connolly, J. Dunne (capt.), J. Duggan, J. Flavin, J. Burke, J. Canavan, M. Higgins, E. Mulholland, B. Nestor.
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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