Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Time Gone By – A browse through the archives of the Connacht Tribune.
1913
Manhunt in the mountains
Three weeks ago, a man named Thomas Lydon, Carraroe, was waylaid by two men and brutally assaulted. In consequence of information received, the police endeavoured to arrest two men – a father and his son.
Both men had, however, disappeared, and a thorough search was immediately organised. It was thought that both men were in hiding in the Connemara mountains, but a rumour having reached the local police sergeant, he wired to Queenstown.
The reply informed him that the son had just sailed for America, and that the authorities at New York had been requested to deport him on the arrival of the vessel. In the meantime, the Costello police vigorously pursued the search for the old man among the mountains and bogs.
Last Friday, when they were almost giving up the search, they succeeded in arresting the father in the vicinity of his own house. On the same day, Sergt. Gilleese and Constable Boyd proceeded to Queenstown to take charge of the younger man. Both have been remanded to the Costello Petty Sessions.
1938
Making an example
“I am hearing of larceny of turf from Poolboy Bog since I came here,” said Mr. W.P. Cahill, D.J., at Ballinasloe District Court, “and I had long since intended to make an example of somebody by sending the culprits to prison,” he added, when two boys were before him charged with the larceny of turf from this bog.
A 14 year-old was fined 20s and 5s costs, while an 18 year old at the same address was fined 5s. He dismissed the summons against the boys’ parents and guardians, but he added that it would be the last time, as he was tired and sick of hearing about the thefts of turf from this bog.
Guard B. Kelly, who got complaints about the missing turf, proved the offences. He lay in ambush for some hours in the bog and saw the boys coming along with bags of turf.
Superintendent Dunphy said he believed the whole trouble regarding the larcenies was due to the lack of parental control.
CYMS success
A report from Tuam says that the Catholic Young Men’s Society is making rapid headway in the Archdiocese. This is heartening news. Up to Christmas last, there were only five branches, but since then branches have been formed in Milltown, Cortoon, Ballyhaunis, Ballybary, Abbey and in Recess, Connemara. Last Sunday, branches were opened in Skehana and Monivea.
Busy fairs
Buyers from all over Ireland attended the April fairs held in Galway on Tuesday and Wednesday. The fairs were the biggest seen in Galway for a number of years. Despite the large amount of stock which was on offer, there was a very early clearance. The pig and sheep fair was held on Tuesday and buying began as early as four o’clock in the morning. The greater portion of the stock on offer was cleared as early as six o’clock in the morning.
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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