Galway in Days Gone By
Galway in Days Gone By
1915
New sports ground
At the meeting of Galway Urban Council, a letter was read from Mr. Thornton, Secretary of the Galway West Board of the G.A.A., urging on the Council the desirability of establishing a property sports ground at South Park.
Mr. J. Griffin said he understood in Dublin at the last match, there was a thousand pounds taken. If they could see their way to make the field right, it would be a great advantage.
Docks war bonus
On Friday night last, a deputation of the National union of Dock Labourers, Galway branch, met the employers to discuss the crux which had arisen at the docks. After the pros and cons of the question had been debated, it was decided to give the permanent men 2s. a week of a war bonus, the casuals to work at the old rate. This the men agreed to.
A few days subsequently, another crux arose which has not yet been settled. In the official intimation of the terms to the men, it was stated that the war bonus would be discontinued if there was any breach of agreement. The men, rightly or wrongly, thought they saw in this a loophole left open to the employers to seize the first opportunity to withdraw the bonus.
1940
Mental hospital cost
Dr. Joseph Kearney, the Commissioner administering the affair of the Ballinasloe Mental Hospital, adopted an estimate for 1941-42 at the meeting of the hospital for £133,738, or an increased demand over last year of over £23,000.
It was a startling increase and demand to make on the ratepayers of County Galway and Roscommon, he said, but it was due to the increased costs and Castlerea, and increased costs of all necessities in all department in the institution.
Appeal for volunteers
A strong appeal to the young men in Headford and district to join the L.S.F. was made by representatives of different political parties speaking after an L.S.F. parade through the town.
District Leader Margetts said the L.S.F. was formed for the defence of the country. It was not formed from any material point of view, or for any political purpose, but simply for the defence of the country should the necessity arise during the present world crisis.
He had seen the horrors of war in other countries and how terrible they were for men, women and children and this Local Security Force has been formed here to ensure that similar horrors would not be brought to our own island.
They had the best manhood in the country in the L.S.F., but there were many more equally good who had not yet joined up. Headford had distinguished itself in the past in the fight for freedom and to protect their women and children, their homes and their property.
He appealed to all able-bodied young men in the parish to join the L.S.F. and thus assist in safeguarding all they held dear for the glory and honour of Ireland.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
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.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
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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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