Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1918
Armed police at march
Twelve police, armed with rifles and ammunition, under Head-Constable Roddy, Tuam, were present during the playing of football matches at Brownsgrove, midway between Tuam and Dunmore, on Sunday. Before the matches started, police requested the stewards at the gate not to allow the public into the field, but they refused to comply with the request and about 400 people attended.
When the first game, between Dunmore and Barnaderg, was started, the police told the players to stop, but they refused, and the game was proceeded with.
The police then took the names of the players and that of the referee. A match between Caherlistrane and Gurteen was played immediately afterwards, and the names of the members of these teams were also taken, they having proceeded with the game contrary to the request of the police.
Warning to housewives
The Food Control Committee announce that proceedings will be taken against persons who have used sugar, obtained for fruit preservation, for other purposes, and do not produce the jam to the extent for which the sugar was allotted.
They also announce that they will probably take over jam in excess of household requirements from persons to whom sugar allotments were made. It will be illegal to trade in bacon and lard after July 13, unless an application for registration is made prior to that date to the office of the Committee.
Arms raid
A raid for arms by masked men was made at the residence of Mr. Michael J. Dooley, gamekeeper to Lady Gregory, Coole Park, during the week. An old fowling piece and some cartridges were taken away by the raiders. The following day, the police searched several houses in the adjoining townlands.
1943
Hospital overcrowding
Gross overcrowding still exists in the Galway Central Hospital, Mr. C.I. O’Flynn, County Manager, told the Galway County Council on Saturday. Ald. Brennan said that he had read in the Press a statement by the County Manager that he had asked the Department for permission to go ahead with the proposal to build a district hospital in Ballinasloe.
He wondered if the County Manager had any further information on the matter now – if he had received a reply from the Department.
County Manager: No, and I have written again. Regarding the hospital generally, there is gross overcrowding. We have 315 or more patients. The number of beds is 216 and the remainder of the patients are on stretchers or mattresses on the floors.
Country boycotts towns
The slippery condition of the main roads has led to a boycott of towns by the country people, declared Mr. J.J. Nestor at Saturday’s meeting of the Galway County Council, when supporting a case made by Ald. Miss Ashe for the provision of a non-slippery surface on the sides of the main roads to facilitate horse traffic. Ald. Miss Ashe said the main roads were in an “awful way”.
Mr. G. Lee, Co. Surveyor, said that he was doing extensive sanding on the main roads and he had not heard complaints recently.
Ald. Miss Ashe said that if the roads were made safe for horses, the markets in Galway City and other towns would improve. Before Threadneedle Road in Salthill was remade, she believed the Council were told that it would be a non-skid road, but now people dared not bring their horses over it.
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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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