Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1919
Dock strike ends
The suggestion made by the “Connacht Tribune” last week has speedily borne good fruit.
The strike of members of the Galway Dock Labourers’ and Riverside Workers’ Union, affecting almost every industry in the city, which began on the 14th December, was amicably settled at a meeting at the Mechanics’ Institute on Sunday night.
The most glaring evil of the strike was the cessation of labour in a city whose material interests so largely depend on the daily work and industry of its citizens.
Labourers previous to the strike had 29s. per week in all branches of work in the city. But recently, as a result of an appeal to the Wages Board, the workers at Messrs Palmer’s Mills were on arbitration granted an increase of 7s., or 36s. per week.
The Urban Council offered a like increase to their men, but the offer was refused; and some members, moved by the spectacle of filthy streets and of stagnant trade, spoke strongly in favour of the temporary concession of the full demand, pending the permanent settlement by arbitration.
Bullet smashes window
At midnight on Thursday the police arrested Messrs. M.J. Hoey, Secretary, Tuam Sinn Féin Club; Michael Moran, Carramoneen, and Thomas Dunleavy, Togher, on the public street in Tuam.
Mr. Hoey resisted being searched, and on the advice of Sergeant Martin, Constable Clyne proceeded to load his rifle.
In doing so, it is stated that the rifle got accidentally discharged. The police and civilians were standing at the juncture of Dublin road and Vicar street at the time, and the bullet struck the framework on the side of a plate-glass window in the establishment of Mr. F. Keane, T.C. went through the stonework, grazed the window, which was smashed, and ricocheted off the glass across the street and pierced the light of Mr. P. Browne’s hardware shop.
1944
Recruits needed
Speaking on Monday night at the annual meeting of the Galway Branch of the Irish Red Cross Society, His Lordship the Most Rev. Dr. Browne, Bishop of Galway, said that as the danger to this country appeared in the popular estimation to diminish, there had been a lowering of interest in the emergency services and a tendency to slack off.
They had in the Galway Red Cross some small drop in the membership of both the Branch and the Divisions, but the vast Majority hold firm.
Egg prices rise
In a letter to Galway County Agricultural Committee at a meeting on Wednesday, the Department stated that the question of increased production of eggs during 1944 was under consideration and that it was intended to improve the classes of poultry both in quantity and breed with a view to developing the industry to meet the great demand for eggs which at present existed and would probably continue for long after the emergency.
During 1944, the price of eggs would be higher than in 1943 and there would be a further improvement in the price in subsequent years if the quantity marketed in 1944 was substantially greater than the sales last year.
£3,000 up in smoke
Almost two tons of tobacco, costing well over £3,000, “goes up in smoke” every year in Ballinasloe Mental Hospital, where over 1,000 ozs. per week is distributed to the patients.
A good portion of the inmates use snuff, and the Chief Clerk informed the committee at the annual meeting that if a “fair” share of tobacco was given, the expenditure would be nearer £5,000.
Tobacco in an institution like a mental home was found to be a strong incentive to getting harmony and discipline among the patients, especially those who worked on the farm.
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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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