Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1919
Agricultural prowess
Some interesting particulars concerning the working schemes of agricultural and technical instruction and of the schemes for agricultural development are given in the recently published eighteenth annual report of the Department.
In the case of agriculture the period under review is the agricultural year 1st October, 1917, to 30th Sept., 1918; in the case of technical instruction, the academic year 1st August, 1917 – 31st July, 2018. The report extends to 250 pages, and deals exhaustively with all the Department’s activities.
In view of the interest at present being taken in agricultural education in Great Britain, the United States, Canada, France and other countries, this matter must have the place of honour – as it has in the report.
Having mentioned these countries it might here be remarked that testimony is paid to the plan underlying agricultural instruction in Ireland, and to the manner in which Instructors are trained, by its adoption now for Great Britain.
A Bill for the reorganisation of agricultural education in France adopted last year by the French Senate was similarly modelled.
American Commissions also, which have visited the Continent, recommended their States to copy some of the features of the Irish system.
The Canadian Royal Commission on Industrial Training and Technical Education reported as follows: “Training of Experts and Leaders. Frequent reference has been made to the policy and methods followed in Ireland. The Irish Department had the advantage of being created after a thorough and intimate study of the systems of the leading European countries. It was organised in such a way as to enable it to give effect to the best that has been learned from these countries.”
Too good to be true?
Mr. John Canning presided at the last meeting of the Portumna Board of Guardians. Present: Messrs. John Morrissey, J.P.; P. Coghlan, John Mullin, M. Brien, P. Nevin, P. Hardiman, J. Taylor, MI. Malone.
The Clerk (Mr. Hynes) stated to the board he was informed that they were about to get a motor ambulance free. The cost of it was about £600, but it would not cost the union one penny.
Mr. Hardiman: We will hardly get it for nothing. I have no doubts.
Master: There can be no doubts about it. We are getting an up-to-date motor ambulance free.
Chairman: We will have to keep it in repair. That is all.
Mr. Brien: Where is it coming from?
Clerk: The Red Cross Society.
Mr. Hardiman: If we have to pay anything I would go against it.
Mr. Malone: How does it come we are getting it?
Master: They have a number on hands and think it right to give them to the poor. – On the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. Hardiman, it was unanimously decided to accept the gift.
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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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