Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1915
Violent lunatic
A lunatic named Meehan was committed to Ballinasloe Asylum on Thursday week by order of Messrs. S.J. McDonogh and C. Kelly, J.P.s, Dunmore. On the previous evening, Meehan entered the shop of Mr. Patrick Finnegan, Gurteen, from which he was ejected owing to his violent efforts to use a knife on the owner.
Mr. Finnegan closed his premises and sent for the police, who proceeded to the place and arrested the lunatic. During the journey to Ballinasloe, his demeanour continued very violent.
Home Rule
But for the great European war, the Home Rule Act would have come into operation to-day. Exclusion, or no exclusion, opposition, or no opposition, the period of suspension would have run its course, and Home Rule would have inevitably become a fact as well as an Act.
Slaughterhouse smell
At the weekly meeting of Galway Urban Council, a letter from Mr. James Hughes, Ball Alley Lane was discussed. He wrote that on the previous Saturday evening a most obnoxious smell was issuing from a private slaughter house at the place. He called the attention of an Urban Councillor to the fact. He also called in the Sanitary Su-Officer to the place.
The Chairman said that, in the interest of everybody these private slaughter houses should be done away with. Mr. Moloney agreed, and said a horrible odour was recently emanating from such a slaughterhouse in his locality.
Chairman: Of course we will have people coming here to protest against the removal of these slaughterhouses.
Mr. Griffin: We don’t care for those people’s opinions; we must serve the public. I don’t care who comes here, we must do what is right.
Mr. Waters, S.S.O., said the medical officer had recommended that the slaughterhouse refuse be removed every day. He saw the place the other day, and there was nothing to find fault with beyond a certain amount of odour that would come from any slaughterhouse.
1940
Soldiers deserted for harvest
Two young men named John P Connolly, Liss, Ballyglunin, and Michael Dolan, Briarfield, were ordered by District Justice Mac Giollarnath at Tuam District Court to be handed over to the military authorities at Renmore.
They were charged with having failed to report for duty when called upon as members of the military Defence Forces and with having absented themselves from duty without authority.
The defendants’ explanation was that they were wanted at home to help in harvest work. Connolly, it was stated, was in the regular army and Dolan in the Volunteers.
“All the preparations for a heavy, full-scale invasion of Britain are going forward steadily with all the German thoroughness of method,” declared Mr. Churchill, the British Premier, in a broadcast statement to the British Empire and America yesterday. Shipping and troops were being massed from Hamburg to Brest and down to the Bay of Biscay. The next week or so, he said, would be a vital period for Britain.
The attack, said the Premier, might be launched at any moment on either England, Scotland or Ireland, or on all three. The ships being assembled for the invasion were being bombed by the R.A.F. and shelled by British warships and could not be held indefinitely. Germany would make the attempt soon if at all.
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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