Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Time Gone By – A browse through the archives of the Connacht Tribune.
1913
Lighting survey
At the meeting of the Galway Urban Council, the Lighting Committee reported that they had inspected the lighting arrangements existing at Taylor’s Hill, Maunsells road, and Salthill. No change in the position of the light at the lower end of Taylor’s Hill was necessary, but it would be desirable to have a light placed outside Mr. Bolton’s place, as that particular spot was badly lighted.
Another additional light was required at the corner of Maunsells road, as the place was very dark at night. No light was needed at Salthill, but an electric heater was required in the latrine.
It was also recommended to change one of the lights on the New Line, and the erection of a light at Eyre Square, outside Mr. Ward’s garage.
Penny dinners
Rev. Father Eaton, C.C., St Joseph’s Parish, formally applied to the Council for the use of one or two of the houses at Henry street as a shelter for the serving of penny dinners during the winter months.
The object was a most deserving one, and he was confident that they would be generous enough to accede to his request, and that their action would only be a continuation of the good work they had been doing for some time.
He believed that in no city or town throughout the country had more been done for the housing of the poor than in Galway City. The houses would be used only for a couple of months, up to the time of letting. The Council agreed.
1938
Hiding in cupboard
How a Garda waited fifteen minutes in a licensed premises until a man concealed in a cupboard was forced to come out for air, was related at Galway District Court on Thursday, before District Justice Sean Mac Giollarnath, when James Lee, publican, Dominick-st., Galway, was charged with a breach of the licensing laws.
Garda Lynch said that during prohibited hours on October 16 he knocked at defendant’s premises, and was admitted after a delay of five minutes.
Having searched the premises, be noticed a cupboard under the stairs. The cupboard was locked, and witness asked defendant for the key.
Defendant replied: “I will never open that door for any guard, and the man who gave you information about that place had little to do. That place is a private press.”
Witness waited about fifteen minutes until a man knocked on the inside of the door. Defendant opened the door, and James Flaherty, Claddagh, came out. Flaherty told witness that he paid Miss Lee for a “pint”, but had not got it, and added, “I hope you will tell her to give it to me now, because I am feeling very dry.” Mr. O’Dea said his client was pleading guilty to the charge.
The justice imposed a fine of £1, and the man found in the cupboard was fined 5s.
Tourism boost
About ninety liners are expected to call at Galway Port next year. Seventy Cunard-White Star liners are scheduled to call during the year and about twenty Hamburg Amerika-North German Lloyd liners – the same number as in the present year – are expected. The total number of liners visiting the port this year is fifty-six, so that next year there will be an increase of about thirty-four.
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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