Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1918
Shooting outrage
From further particulars regarding the firing at Mr. J.G. Alcorn, J.P., Kilroe House, Headford, while on his way to Mass at Currandulla, it appears that his assailant had fired the shot when Mr. Alcorn had gone on some yards past the point where he was concealed behind the hedge.
It seems that a woman on her way from early Mass met Mr. Alcorn and the man, Burke, who were on a car on the road just opposite the place where the person was concealed, and this evidently prevented his firing when he had Mr. Alcorn in a direct range, as he was probably afraid of shooting the woman.
Five bullets lodged in Mr. Alcorn’s jaw and neck. The remainder of the charge lodged in the two heavy coats which he was wearing, thereby saving him from being seriously wounded in the side and shoulders.
With blood flowing freely from the wounds in his jaw and neck, Mr. Alcorn attended at Mass, and after it was over, addressed the congregation outside the chapel.
He told the people of what had occurred to him, and said he was sorry he had not been shot dead, instead of being left alive in a place where there were such savages as those who perpetrated such an outrage. He never thought that there were such people in Annaghdown.
Mr. Alcorn was afterwards treated at the Monastery, and had his wounds dressed. The report concludes with the usual formula, “No arrests have been made”.
The local Catholic Curate also denounced the outrage strongly at Mass.
1943
Seaside licensing laws
In addition to providing both open-air and indoor amusements for Salthill during the past twelve months, and securing a good deal of first-class publicity for the place, the Salthill Citizens’ Organisation has asked other Irish seaside resorts to cooperate in obtaining an amendment of the licensing laws.
This was revealed at the annual meeting of the organisation, which drew a large attendance to the Salthill Pavilion on Friday night. It was also stated that a sub-committee had acquired a lease of the Pavilion for twelve months.
To secure some relief from the provision of the Licensing Laws, the Committee sponsored an application for an exemption order, on behalf of the licensing trade generally.
A resolution was to be sent to the organising bodies in other seaside reports asking for their cooperation in obtaining the amendment of the Licensing Laws “which, as at present constituted, are most unfair to seaside resorts and visitors”.
Salthill school
The need for a school at Salthill was stressed at the meeting of the Salthill Citizens’ Organisation. It was pointed out that at present, little children in the district had to travel a long way to school and, because of the restricted ’bus service, were not always able to get a seat on a ’bus on wet days.
Oat crop rumour
Mr. Fitzgerald-Kenney stated in the Dáil on Thursday that a new disease had appeared in the oat crop in the West. He asked for official views on the matter. Mr. B. O’Sullivan, Secretary of the County Galway Committee of Agriculture, interviews by a Connacht Tribune representative on the following day, stated that he had heard nothing about a new disease in the oat crop in the West, and added that there were already plenty of old ones.
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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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