Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Time Gone By – A browse through the archives of the Connacht Tribune
1913
Pickpocket arrested
Const. F. McCarthy is to be congratulated for his clever capture of a pickpocket on Saturday. It is alleged that a woman named Mrs. Leech missed a half-sovereign, and reported the fact to the constable.
Shortly afterwards, another woman made a similar report, the amount in the second case being 8s. The constable quickly investigated the matter, and in a short time secured the arrest of apparently an innocent woman, who threatened him with facial disfigurement. After being searched, the sums mentioned were discovered on her person.
Threatened eviction
On Monday last, the Congested District Board’s Engineer, accompanied by Head-Constable Scully, Mountbellew, and Sergt. Coyne, and a posse of ten police, with the sheriff’s bailiff, from Ballinasloe and his assistant, visited the house of a woman in Rushestown, for the purpose of taking over possession on foot of a decree for rent and arrears due.
It appears that no rent had been paid on foot of this dwellinghouse for a number of years, and that the case had several times been before the Judge at Quarter Sessions. The house is an old tumbledown one, on the estate purchased by the C.D.B.
Amidst much wailings and lamentations, the eviction was actually being proceeded with, when the amount of the decree, something over £20, was paid up.
1938
Wanted man arrested
Smart work on the part of Galway Gardaí resulted in the arrest in Galway on Thursday of John Edwards, Middleton Junction, Middleton, who was “wanted” by the Rochdale police on a charge of fraudulently converting the sum of £181 8s.
The Galway Gardaí immediately got into touch with the Lancashire police, who sent Sergeant Orgill over to take Edwards back to England. Sergeant Orgill left Galway with his prisoner on Saturday morning.
Strenuous training
The eyes of all followers of Gaelic games will be on Galway and Kerry next Sunday, when the senior footballers of these two counties will meet in the All-Ireland final at Croke Park, Dublin.
Despite the fact that the attendance at the All-Ireland hurling final was down this year as compared with the past few years, it is virtually certain that the attendance on Sunday will create a new record for the National Stadium.
G.A.A. followers in the West are confident of Galway’s ability to take the title from the Kingdom men this year, and there are some grounds for that optimism.
Galway has a splendid defence, and there is no reason to doubt their ability at centre field. The only vexing question is the ability of the Galway forwards to penetrate these powerful Kerry back lines.
Galway forwards were not as effective as they should have been against Monaghan in the semi-final. Of course, the western champions had control of the game from the start, but their followers had hoped to see a display that would inspire more confidence in the attackers.
It will be remembered that when Galway met Kerry in the League at Galway some months ago, a displeasing feature of the game was the erratic shooting of the Galway forwards. The Kerry forwards were well held for most of the hour, and the Kingdom secured victory by reason of Galway’s forward weakness.
It is hoped that this defect will not characterise the Galway team on Sunday. With the Galway forwards playing good football and shooting accurately, it would be difficult to understand how Bill Kimmerk and his men could hold the western champions.
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.
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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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