Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Time Gone By – A browse through the archives of the Connacht Tribune.
1913
Old man attacked
A man, locally known as ‘Colonel’ Maguire, was admitted to the Galway County Hospital yesterday (Thursday) suffering from extensive flesh wounds to the head, and in a general state of collapse. Two police from Killeen Station accompanied him.
Maguire is an imbecile, and frequents the various police stations, where he is invariably treated with good-humoured courtesy by the members of the Force.
It is understood that his friendliness with the police was the cause of the aggravated assault committed on him late on Tuesday night, within half a mile of the village of Claregalway.
At 10.30pm, the injured man related that he was met by three men, none of whom he knew. At their request he handed one of them his pipe. He was then asked what his occupation was, and he told them he accompanied missions, for which he made little religious symbols, such as crucifixes etc.
He then asked for his pipe, when one of the men struck him and knocked him down. On rising, he was felled by a second stroke. He was then set upon by the three men, who beat him across the forehead and skull with ashplants.
He was then kicked and left lying on the road in a pool of blood. He got to his feet after some time, and went to the Killeen police barrack, where he was kept for the night. He was treated at the hospital, and four stitches were put in his head. He is progressing, however, satisfactorily.
1938
High prices
“I know the middle of August is the busy season and that there is some justification for charging higher prices, but I think the immediate gain to the hotels means an ultimate loss to them and the country as a whole,” Mr. Bertram Lord, of New York, whose firm acts as agent for the Irish Tourist Association, told a ‘Connacht Tribune’ representative this week.
“During my trip of the South and West, I was several times charged higher prices than those listed in the hotel guide published by the Tourist Association. We find prices here pretty high even when there is no suggestion of overcharge. In some cases they are higher than in America.
“So when prices are increased, it makes a bad impression. France got into bad odour with American tourists a few years ago because the rumour went around that Americans were charged a higher price than anyone else. As a result, the number of Americans going to France decreased considerably,” said Mr Lord.
Ashford fears
Cong and Clonbur are very much in the news of late, for the fate of over one hundred workers engaged on the Ashford estate, is hanging in the balance. A few weeks ago, following certain signs of discontent amongst the employed, and local agitation for the division of Ashford, the Hon. E.A. Guinness intimated his intention of selling the estate.
His decision came as a great shock to the people of Cong and Galway, to whose minds Mr. Guinness and Cong were inseparable.
A petition was drawn up asking him to reconsider his decision, and has already been signed by 300 people.
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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