Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1915
Recruitment drive
The Director General of Recruiting for Ireland has informed the Galway County Council that it is hoped to utilise the services of motor car owners to a large extent in connection with the recruiting campaign which has recently been initiated, and that motor car owners who are disposed to give the services of their cars and chauffeurs for long or short periods will prove of great assistance.
The Director General has asked for a list of the names and addresses of all motor car owners in the county, and it is hoped that motor owners will cooperate by informing the undersigned of their names and addresses, the seating capacity of car, the type of body and the horse power.
W.G. Fogarty, Acting Secretary, Courthouse, Galway.
No more men
At a meeting of Ballinasloe Urban Council, a resolution from the Cavan County Council relative to conscription was marked “read”. From the resolution, the Chairman said it appeared that they wanted the towns to procure the remainder of the fighting men, and let the country people go free. In Ballinasloe they had given all the available men.
1940
Water drought
Just before the long spell of drought ended a few weeks ago, the water level of the River Corrib fell so low that Messrs. Thomas McDonogh Ltd., Galway, were obliged to get water from the Corporation mains for the washing of grain in their mills.
As a result of this, the Corporation’s Water Inspector applied for £8 11s. 6d. to the Corporation to cover overtime on which he was engaged in the regulations of valves, etc. The Corporation decided to send the bill to Messrs. McDonagh.
War clause
On the request of Mr. H. St. John Blake, K.M., solicitor, Galway, Galway Corporation agreed to have a war clause inserted in their agreement with Mr. John Allen, lessee of Eyre Square for Race Week, 1941.
Mr. Blake explained that Mr. Allen wanted to have such a clause inserted in case the Races were not held and the Square could not be used for dances.
Tourism potential
“There is a sure market in our own unexploited hundreds of thousands of potential travellers and, given the good fortune of self-preservation, this country will have one, if not the only, intact, hospitable, comfortable and pleasing room in that broken-down mansion called Europe,” said Mr. D. L. Kelleher, the distinguished Irish poet and lecturer, in the course of a talk on ‘The Holiday-makers’ Ireland’ to a large audience at Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe. Mr. Keller expressed his belief that the future of the Irish holiday industry was bright.
Rough seas
Hurling the shingle before them, rough seas leaped the Promenade at Salthill on Wednesday afternoon and flooded the roadway, making it impassable for a couple of hours.
The spray was flung high over the telegraph wires and large quantities of seaweed festooned the wall enclosing Rockbarton and Salthill Park. Grattan-road was also inundated.
It was the highest tide of the year and, driven by a strong south-westerly gale, at times threatened to flood Salthill itself. For the first time in many years, the waves washed over what is popularly known as ‘The Lazy Wall’ at Salthill, where country visitors by the score sit and chat during holiday time.
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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