Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1919
Farmers must organise
Mr. M. O’Farrell presided at a meeting of the Committee of Co. Galway Farmers’ Association held at Loughrea on Tuesday week when Mr. M. Egan reported that he attended the Irish Farmers Congress, which was composed of about 300 from delegates from the Irish Farmers’ Union, the Ulster Farmers’ Union, the South of Ireland Independent Farmers’ Associations, the I.A.O.S, and the Department of Agriculture.
The delegates discussed for three days famers’ grievances, and decided courses of action for their redress, such as deputations to administrative bodies and the thorough organisation into one large union of all the farmers in Ireland.
The first deputation waited on Mr. Barrie, the new Vice-President of the Department, in reference to the necessity of the Government buying the surplus oats the farmers were induced to grow last year by promises off guaranteed prices and threatened prosecutions for not complying with the increase of Tillage Orders.
Glenamaddy is motoring
Without waiting for the recommendations of the Irish Sub-Committee on Ireland’s Transport to be put into effect, the Glenamaddy and Kilkerrin shopkeepers have formed a company and undertaken to establish a modern system of transport in their district.
They have just purchased from Mr. W. P. Higgins, of Athenry, for £1,050, an up-to-date Commer motor lorry, capable of carrying four tons, and this will ply regularly for hire between the railway station and Ballygar, Glenamaddy and Kilkerrin.
This is the third lorry that Mr. Higgins has supplied within recent months, one going to Mr. Turley, of Newbridge, and the other to Mr. McAinsh, of Grief, Scotland, for the purpose of carrying timber from Mount Bellew to Woodford.
As our readers are aware, a motor service was established in Mount Bellew some time ago with success. We congratulate the shopkeepers of Glenamaddy and Kilkerrin upon their enterprise, and hope their venture will prove not alone a sound business proposition but a useful and advantageous public service for the merchants and farmers of the district.
1944
Milk for children
The County Manager invites tenders for supplies of Pure New Milk to necessitous children under five years of age in several Assistance Districts in the County Health District of Galway, from 1st April, 1944, to 31st March, 1945.
Particulars respecting the approximate quantity of milk required in each locality, and the hours and places of delivery, may be obtained from the Assistance Officer for the district. In towns or other populous centres, the daily supplies of milk must be delivered by the contractor at the homes of the recipients. In rural areas the tenders should specify where the supplies will be delivered by the contractor.
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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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