Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Time Gone By – A browse through the archives of the Connacht Tribune.
1913
Hospital windfall
At a meeting of the Committee of Management of the County Hospital, Dr. Kinkead informed the Board that he had, a few days before, received a letter from Messrs. Faulkner and Co., solrs., Dublin, enclosing a cheque for £50 and stating that, by her will, the late Eleanor Mary Burke of Castlerea, bequeathed the sum of £50 for the purposes of the Galway Hospital, as well as one-third of the nett residuary of the estate.
The solicitors, in their letter, said they did not see any obligation to hand over the money to the Board of Management. It was left in his hands to do as he thought fit with the gift that had been dedicated.
Miss Burke, the letter added, had great confidence in him (Dr. Kinkead), and thought that it was he should administer the money. When the residue of the estate was ascertained, they would communicate with him again.
Mr. Lydon: May she rest in peace. I hope we will have other professors with such friends as you have had, doctor.
Dr. Kinkead: She was a patient of mine this time twelve months in the hospital, and it is on that account that she left the legacy. I have put the money in the Provincial Bank, so that you will know where to get it if anything happens to me (laughter). It would be better, however, to wait till the residue was ascertained.
1938
Harbour protest
“We should protest against this in the strongest possible manner. We are the local authority and we are the people it damaged.” This statement was made by Mr. E. Corbett, H.C., chairman, at the Galway Harbour Commissioners meeting, when the secretary (Mr. James Campbell) referred to a note which appeared that the end of a report in an issue of the “Irish Independent” last week to the effect that “No Atlantic liners call at Galway port during the winter.”
New Town Clerk
Mr. Christopher O Clearachain, B.A., Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary, has been appointed town clerk and sanitary executive officer of Galway.
Ald. Miss Ashe: He has experience only since last March. It is good enough for us, because we could not expect to get a man for the salary offered. It is a d… shame not to give a proper salary. Mr Carrick: We proposed that he get a good salary. We had notice of motion to give him £500 per year and the Department turned it down.
Shantallow houses
Messrs. Blake and Kenny, solrs, to the Corporation, wrote in regard to the list of names and persons who held loan houses at Shantallow (junction of Maunsell’s road), and the decision of the Corporation to take over these loan houses through the courts, stating that a lot of expense could be saved is the loanees could be prevailed on to surrender possession voluntarily.
In another letter Messrs. Blake and Kenny referred to the decision of the Corporation to expend £30 on protecting derelict loan houses at the Shantallow-Maunsell’s-road junction, and the four derelict loan houses at Munster Lane.
The solicitors stated that, strictly speaking, it was not legal to expend public money on the protection of private property but having regard to the position in regard to these houses, they did not think the Corporation would get into any difficulties by taking steps to protect their securities.
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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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