Galway in Days Gone By

Galway In Days Gone By

Published

6 years ago

April 4, 2019

Stephen Corrigan

Some of the attendance at the Lough Atalia Carnival in Galway in July 1969.

1919

Taking flight

Aerial circles are agog with excitement at the moment at the prospect of the flight across the Atlantic which is to take place this month. The aviators will start about the middle of April, and will start about the middle of April, and will fly from St. John’s, Newfoundland, to the coast of Ireland.

If the project be successful – and wealth, enterprise, daring and skill are being put into it in order to achieve success – it is not merely possible, but likely that the aviators will land on the west coast, and, possibly, in the Co. Galway.

At any rate they will probably pass over this area on their way to a suitable landing place in the last stage of their journey. A great part of the district surrounding Galway and a large section of Connemara are generally regarded as “bad flying ground” for the reason that the prevalence of stone-walls and marshy land makes a “forced descent” difficult and sometimes dangerous.

Supplying the asylum

The Joint Committee of Management of Ballinasloe Asylum will, at their meeting to be held on Monday, the 14th day of April, 1919, open and consider tenders for supplying the institution from 15th day of April, 1919, to 30th day of September 1919, with the following, as per detailed tender forms to be procured at the Asylum, namely: –

Provisions, groceries, washing materials (excepting white soap), coal, hardware, Delph, white bran, best decorticated cotton cake, etc., also boots and shoes.

Flour: Best bakers’ flour of guaranteed quality, at per ton; best yeast, at per lb.

Tea: In chests about 110 lbs each.

Broken Assam under and, price 2s 8d per lb, or control price, duty paid with number, chop mark, ship’s name, to be delivered in such quantities as may be required.

The contract may be divided between one or more persons at the discretion of the Committee. Any reduction in duty during the term of the contract to be taken off the price by the contractor.

Whiskey: Best Irish, five years old at date of delivery (Power’s or Jameson’s) under bond of plain casks (quarters) at per gallon, short price. Contractor to pay duty which will be allowed.

1944

Labour shortage

Mr. G. Lee, County Surveyor, told the Galway County Council on Saturday that he proposed to recommend that no more men should be allowed to go from Galway to Kildare for turf cutting, and that those who had gone should be brought back for the turf production at home.

Mr. M. Donnellan, T.D., expressed the fear that in view of a labour shortage “we will not get half the turf that we expect to get in this county.”

Mr. James Cunningham said that some strikes had occurred already on bogs and the Council should consider if the wages on the bogs were inadequate. He proposed “for the sake of discussion” that the wages of turf workers should be increased by 10s. per week.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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Galway In Days Gone By

Published

2 years ago

May 18, 2023

Stephen Corrigan

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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Galway In Days Gone By

Published

2 years ago

May 11, 2023

Stephen Corrigan

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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Galway In Days Gone By

Published

2 years ago

May 4, 2023

Stephen Corrigan

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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