Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Time Gone By – A browse through the archives of the Connacht Tribune
1913
Child burned to death
A boy aged five years, residing at Bohermore, Galway, died in the County Hospital on Saturday morning as a result of burns received at eight o’clock on the same morning.
It appears the mother was shopping when the distressing occurrence took place, and was attracted by hearing the screams of the children.
When she arrived, the child, who was attired in a night dress, was a blazing mass. The other children were all too young to render any assistance.
His mother had the child wrapped in flannels and immediately conveyed to County Hospital, where he succumbed three hours after admission. The other children’s account of the occurrence was that they were playing round the fire when his night dress caught fire.
Cattle drives
Cattle drives were reported on the farms of Mr. Blake of Annaghdown, and the Misses Davenport, during the early hours of Saturday morning last. A number of gates were broken, and boundary walls levelled.
The grazing farm of Mr. Blake was first visited, and twelve cattle, the property of Mr. Stephen Fahy, Ballindooley, were driven off a considerable distance and allowed to wander on the highway. The gate on the farm was broken. A number of grazing cattle and sheep belonging to Mrs. Kyne, of Roscam, were also driven off another portion of Mr. Blake’s land.
It will be remembered that the Roshill farm was the subject of considerable discussion in the Unionist Press recently, when it had been alleged that the Misses Davenport had been subjected to boycotting and persecution. Upon investigation, the facts were found to be grossly exaggerated.
1938
Jobs for the boys
Galway County Council, at their general meeting, unanimously adopted a motion brought forward by Mr. J.J. Nestor, chairman of the Galway County Football Board, pledging to give, as far as lay in their power, preference of suitable positions to the members of the county football and hurling teams, who, on so many occasions, upheld the honour of the county. The motion was seconded by Mr. J. Canning.
In expressing his approval, the chairman said it was only right that the footballers and hurlers should get the due recognition. The footballers, in their recent All-Ireland game against Kerry, certainly brought credit to the county, and he felt sure they would further enhance their name by bringing home victory from the replay.
They would carry with them to Dublin, the best wishes of every Galwayman.
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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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