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Pictured at the Clifden Fine Gael dinner in January 1970 were Mrs Sadie Goonan, Glenard Crescent, Salthill (seated), Mrs Doris Mannion, Clifden, Mrs Joan Spelman, Loughrea, Miss Ida McEvilly, Newcastle, Galway and Miss Margaret Doherty, Newcastle.

1918

Armistice celebrations

Galway received the news of peace in the early hours of Monday morning with unfeigned joy. Soon the city was agog with excitement; the bells of the Protestant Church of St. Nicholas were pealed, and the docks and other public buildings were decorated with flags.

The daily papers were eagerly bought up, but disappointment was expressed that they contained no news of the armistice, the fact being, of course, that the negotiations were not completed till too late an hour to make an announcement.

Aeroplanes flew over the town in the clear sunlight. In the evening a general spirit of good honour and hilarity prevailed and tar barrels were procured by the Connaught Rangers and bonfires lighted in Eyre square and Middle-street.

With the exception of a single incident, in which a window of Mr. M. T. Donnellan’s establishment was broken by two sailors, who were celebrating the coming of peace not too wisely but, too well, everything passed off quietly.

At night a most successful peace dance, in which over forty couples participated, was held in the Town Hall.

Ashplant assault

At the Ballinasloe Petty Sessions on Saturday, Wm. Casey, a tramp, was charged with seriously assaulting his mother with an ashplant.

In reply to the District Inspector, Lea, Mrs. Casey stated that as a result of the blow, she was three weeks in hospital.

Replying to the bench as to why he committed the assault, Casey said his mother was drunk and aggravated him.

The Chairman said it was a very bad case, and they would send the defendant to prison for three months with hard labour.

An appeal was made by the mother to reduce the sentence. Her son was only coming from hospital where he was laid up with pneumonia.

Chairman: We will let the sentence stand. He will be well looked after in prison.

1943

Ration book offence

At Galway Court on Thursday, before Acting District Court Justice O’Reilly, Peggy Connolly, Grattan Lodge, Grattan Road, Galway, was charged with unlawfully retaining a ration book belonging to her brother, Patrick, who had gone to England.

John Connolly, her brother, was charged with making illegal use of the ration book. – Mr. R. J. Kelly, State Solicitor, appeared for the Minister of Supplies, and Mr. J. C. O’Donnell, Galway, appeared for the Connollys.

Mr Kelly said that Patrick Connolly left this country on April 10th. His sister, Peggy, kept his ration book and John drew twenty-six weeks’ supplies of tea and sugar on the book. There was also a number of clothes coupons missing.

When the Connolly’s were questioned by the Guards they admitted that they kept the ration book and said that they did not know the gravity of their action. They also stated that they were expecting Patrick to return home before long.

Mr. O’ Donnell said that the facts of the case were as Mr. Kelly had stated. The defendants, who were not yet twenty years of age, did not know the gravity of keeping and using this ration book. Some of the clothes for which they used the coupons were sent to England to Patrick. The District Justice dismissed the case under the Probation of Offenders’ Act.

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Some of the attendance at the opening of the new school in Ballymacward on June 24, 1974.

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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Nurses on strike on May 10, 1980, protesting a sub-standard pay offer. Around 700 nurses took part in the protest, hitting services at Gawlay Regional Hospital where only emergency cases were being admitted.

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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Brendan Cunniffe from Oranmore and Robert Kelly, Tirellan Heights at the Galway County Fleadh in Tullycross, Connemara, on May 16, 1985.

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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