Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1919
New laws for fasting
The new Code of Cannon Law makes important changes in the laws of fasting and abstinence. The new law of abstinence henceforth forbids only meat, and soup made from meat.
Eggs, milk-meats and condiments made from fat, are allowed on all days, even on Good Fridays. The ‘Irish law’ against eggs on certain Friday Vigils disappears.
The law of fasting allows only one full meal in the day; but it does not exclude such allowance, morning and evening, as is sanctioned by lawful customs.
Meat is lawful at the full meal, unless on a day of abstinence as well as of fasting; but morning and evening the kind of food as well as the amount, must be such as custom allows. Our custom, owing to the change in the law of abstinence, allows butter at breakfast on the three days of Lent hitherto observed as black-fast days, as on other days of Lent.
Influenza hits Milltown
At the meeting of the Tuam Board of Guardians on Saturday, a letter was read from Dr. M. Costello, Dunmore, stating that influenza was very prevalent in Milltown district, and it was desirable that a hospital nurse be got to live in the district for a few weeks to visit the houses, as in some of them, all the members of the families were down with the disease, which looked like spreading further.
It had been done in Claremorris, and was very successful. The epidemic in Milltown was of a very severe type – Dr. T. B. Costello, Tuam, M.O.H., recommended the procuring of a nurse as mentioned by Dr. M. Costello and the board directed a letter to engage one immediately.
1944
Éire to be restricted
In the British House of Commons to-day, the Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, stated that the restrictions on travel between Great Britain and Éire were the first step in a policy destined to isolate Southern Ireland during the critical period now approaching.
He said that Great Britain fully supported the American request for the closing of the German Legation and the Japanese Consulate in Dublin.
Ridiculous Garda roles
“The Guards are employed for everything except what they were recruited to do; they have to deal with pensions, passports and even tea rationing as well as a host of other things,” remarked Ald. J. Brennan at Thursday’s meeting of the Galway Corporation when Mr. C. I. O’Flynn, Co. Manager, told him that the wave of vandalism that was reported recently had been brought to the notice of Guards.
An extract from a report on destruction of public property, prepared by Mr. J. S. Carroll, borough Surveyor, and submitted to Mr. C. I. O’Flynn, Co. Manager, was published in the CONNACHT SENTINEL and the CONNACHT TRIBUNE a few weeks ago.
Ald. Brennan said that they could not expect much assistance from the Guards and he did not blame the Guards for that.
Waiting for a wash
“That would be a long time to have to wait for a wash,” said Mr. W. Carrick. at Thursday’s meeting of the Galway Corporation when Mr. C. J. Flynn, Co. Manager, told him that it might be possible to re-open the public baths at the docks when business at the docks was restored.
Mr Carrick asked him to consider the immediate opening of the baths, which he said, were a very necessary institution.
The Co. Manager said that he had advertised for a lessee but no one offered to take the baths.
Mr. Carrick suggested that the Corporation should run them.
Co. Manager: You know from experience that you will lose on them and you have been complaining about the high rates.
The discussion ended.
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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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