Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1915
Galway farmers and the War
Great sympathy exists amongst intelligent public men as to the position of Galway farmers during the coming spring. Already prices are mounting up, and a difficulty will exist in procuring the essentials to carry on farming as far as seeds and manure are concerned, and those who should assist the farming community are somewhat shy of doing so.
What the farmers are most in need of immediately is that some cooperative means should be put in force to purchase the larger necessities for carrying on farming during the coming spring, which will press on the farmers much more than has been felt since the famine years.
There is no section of the community so easygoing as regards their own destruction as the farmers, and while the bogey of a halfpenny in the pound for light has been fought out and lost, the greater question of hundreds of pounds is left in oblivion.
Woman found dead
Between 2 and 3 o’clock on Sunday afternoon, a tragic discovery was made at the Claddagh, when an unmarried woman named Bridget Flynn, aged 47 years, was found dead in a little house she occupied alone.
It was noticed that the deceased was not seen out that day, and some neighbours, receiving no answer to repeated knocking, effected an entrance to the house, and found the unfortunate woman lying dead on the middle of the floor, fully dressed.
The Dominick-st. police were at once communicated with, and the body was subsequently removed to the morgue. The house was very poorly furnished, and it was the custom of the deceased to sleep on the floor, with but some scanty protection from the dampness. Some time ago she owned a farm of land at Menlo, but the house becoming dilapidated, she removed into town.
A coroner and jury returned a verdict of death by natural causes.
1940
Sent to reformatory
At the Children’s Court in Galway on Thursday, District Justice Sean Mac Giollarnath ordered a fifteen-years-old Galway boy who was charged with larceny to be sent to Glencree Reformatory for three years.
Mr. MacTernan, solicitor, said the offence could hardly be described as a trivial one, for the boy had taken, amongst other things, a motor car battery, a pair of football boots, a bottle of iodine and bandages.
He was at an awkward age, however, and was influenced by boys much older than himself and had to take the brunt of it all. Mr. MacTernan thought that a long-term suspensory sentence, if imposed, would act as a deterrent.
GAA review time
This month, all the county organisations of the Gaelic Athletic Association are reviewing the progress of the past year and laying down lines on which to develop the Association in the coming twelve months.
On Sunday next, the annual convention of the County Galway clubs will be held. The western province secured two All-Ireland championships during the past year, Roscommon taking the minor football title and Galway the junior hurling title for the first time.
It is a remarkable fact that Galway is the only western county which can field a senior hurling team, but steps are being taken to develop this branch of the code in other Connacht counties.
It may well be that the victory of the Galway junior hurlers last autumn is a sign that the county is about to build up a hurling fame in senior ranks in the coming year.
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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