Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1918
Election footing
The election campaign in Galway-Connemara constituency opened on Sunday when meetings in support of both candidates were held at Eyre-Square, Galway.
Sinn Feiners assembled after last Mass, when the candidature of Mr. Padraig O’Maille was urged. A fife and drum band, headed by two pipers paraded the streets previous to the meeting. Small bodies of supporters from outlying country districts were in attendance. Upwards of thirty police were lined at points on the outskirts of the gathering. A force of armed military arrived from Renmore before the proceedings opened.
Dr. T. Walsh, who presided, said they wanted the people to vote, not for Padraig O’Maille or Eamon de Valera, but for the cause of Ireland, and to show the world that they were united in their demand for Ireland’s right to decide on the form of government which the country should have (applause). John Dillon and his party were worse Unionists than Carson and his followers. They agreed to the partition of Ireland and determined that the country should remain tied to England.
Cattle driving
On Thursday morning the Earlspark farm, near Loughrea, was cleared of its stock, some of which were daubed on the side with green paint, and scattered in various directions. Several of the cattle were not recovered for two days. The farm in question is being held in trust for a family known as the Forde minors. It is understood that a claim for compensation is being lodged by the trustees.
Unlawful assembly
On Saturday morning three young men named Thomas Ryan, Jonh Conniffe and James Reilly were arrested by the police at Killimore, and brought to the R.I.C. barracks, where they were charged before Mr. Jasper Whyte, R.M., with unlawful assembly on the 13th October by singing seditious songs and shouting with a crowd, who were not identified. They were ordered to give bail, or, in default, one month’s imprisonment in Galway jail. The defendants refused bail, and were taken into custody.
1943
Grocer fined
Fines totally £529 0s. 0d. with £73 0s. 0d. were imposed on James Sweeney, merchant, Ahascragh, by District Justice Cahill at a special court in Ballinasloe on Friday.
The charges – 38 in all – were in respect of offences under the Emergency Powers Orders in respect of the sale of tea, sugar, oatmeal, coal, bicycle tyres and tubes, paraffin, flour, dripping, etc. Over a score of witnesses including officials from the Department of Supplies gave evidence. Mr Sweeney was convicted on 31 of the charges, six were dismissed and one was withdrawn.
Cheaper gas
The Galway Gaslight Company has good news for gas consumers in the city. Not only is the price of gas to be reduced from 16s. 8d. to 14s. per 1,000 cubic feet on and from December 31st, but the company is in a position to guarantee to consumers an ample gas supply for a long time.
A good stock of coal is on hand and the Company hopes to be able to replenish supplies so that no restrictions need be anticipated in the use of gas for any other purpose.
The Company has made arrangements to employ a special engineer to assist consumers and his services will be available immediately.
Early closing
Ballinasloe traders, with the exception of licenced publicans, agreed, at the request of the local branch of the Distributive Workers and Clerks, to close their shops at 6 p.m. on weekdays and at 8.30 p.m. on Saturdays.
Fohenagh school
The Commissioners of Public Works have invited tenders for the erection of a national school at Fohenagh, County Galway, for the Very Rev. M. O’Connor, P.P., Fohenagh.
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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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