Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1915
Bucket attack
At Ballinasloe Petty Sessions, Mary Carey summoned Michael Connolly for alleged assault with a bucket. Witness said she worked for Mr. Charles Greaney, main-street. On the day of the assault she met Mr. Connolly when she was leaving Mr. Greaney’s to get a bucket of water.
She never said a word to him. He came over to her and said: “Look here, I wrote to the Prince of Wales Fund about you.” She asked him what he meant by that, and he said: “You may be thankful you are a woman, I would beat the face off you.” He gave her a blow of the bucket and pulled her by the hair of the head.
Continuing, witness said she was knocked stupid for some time, and she then took up the bucket and said she would “civilise” him (laughter). Her head was swollen and marked. She gave him no provocation.
At the Races
Rarely has there been a more successful opening day at Galway Races that that of Wednesday. The attendance was enormous, the new stands, commodious as they are, having their accommodation taxed to the utmost. The weather was bright throughout, and spectators were enabled to view the proceedings under very pleasant circumstances.
1940
Ruined building
The Galway Corporation want to know who is the owner of the building known as the Father Matthew Temperance Hall in middle-street with a view to compelling him or her to have the place boarded up and, perhaps later, demolished.
There was free access to the ruin, which was in a dangerous condition, and nuisances were committed therein.
Ruane tributes
Brother officers of the Old I.R.A. and men who served under him in the Second Western Division during the Anglo-Irish struggle joined forced with members of the local Security Force and parishioners of Claregalway on Sunday in paying tribute to the memory of the late Thomas Ruane, Vice-Brigadier, Second Western Division, Old I.R.A.
Gathering outside Claregalway Church after last Mass, the soldiers of 1916-22 and the, as yet, un-uniformed soldiers of today marched to the graveyard under the shadow of the ruined Franciscan tower to be present at the unveiling of a large Celtic cross over the grave in which Tom Ruane was laid to rest three years ago.
Bohermore dump
That the Municipal dump and disposal works at Bohermore constitute a menace to health, was revealed during the meeting of Galway Corporation. Dr. Thomas Powell, Medical Officer of Health said the method employed is altogether unsatisfactory.
“It is altogether too near the thickly populated outside the city. The tipping is improperly carried out, being allowed to fall down over the end and side of the twelve foot high accumulation of refuse and left casually and untreated.
“Of all the methods of treating dry refuse, the one of tipping Is universally recognised as being the least satisfactory, because nuisances from papers blowing about, form slow underground fires producing offensive odours, and rats and flies breeding in the refuse, are liable to arise from this method.”
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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