Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Time Gone By – A browse through the archives of the Connacht Tribune
1914
Stabbed in neck
A serious stabbing affray is reported from Clonboo. It appears that at about 1 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday morning last, a man named Fahy was stabbed in the neck while in Regan’s public house, Clonboo.
Only a few details of the occurrence are forthcoming at the time of going to press. The injured man’s wounds, which are of a serious character, were dressed by Dr. Sandys, and a man named Qualter has been arrested and placed in custody with the affray, bail being refused.
Get back in your box
At the weekly meeting, Mr. J. Cooke informed the Guardians that he had been asked by an ex-American naval pensioner who had been charged 15s for treatment in the hospital for twenty days, to make an application to the Board. Mr. Cooke added that the pension received by the man was barely sufficient for his maintenance and he would apply that the amount be wiped off.
Mr. P. Lawless objected. He said if the man in question was a pensioner, he should be asked to pay the amount.
The Clerk remarked that if the man was a British Navy pensioner, they could petition the Admiralty for payment of the amount incurred by the man’s maintenance in hospital; but as he was an American Navy pensioner, they could not do so.
Mr. Cooke said the man was unable to pay the amount.
Mr. Lawless: You are taking a great interest in him. Perhaps he is a customer of yours.
Mr. J. Gallagher: That is a very improper statement.
Mr. Cooke: Only for you are thick and ignorant, you would not make such a remark. Sit down, sit.
Mr. Lawless: I have no place to sit down.
Mr. Cooke: There is a box behind you. Sit on it. It is in it you should be.
1939
Women attacked
Following complaints that two women had been attacked at different places on the outskirts of the city on St. Stephen’s Night, many women in Galway were afraid to venture out of doors alone after nightfall, and there was intense garda activity in and around the city.
On Saturday night, a man of no fixed abode was arrested at a tinkers’ camp in Cregboy, Loughgeorge, and brought to Galway, where he was charged at a special court held before Mr. P.J. Holland, P.C., with offences connected with the complaints.
In the first attack, a nurse from Bohermore received cuts on the elbow and knees. Her glasses were knocked off and broken and some of her clothes were torn. She struggled with her assailant and the man ran away.
Forty minutes later, a woman from Renmore was attacked near Woodlands Sanatorium. The man struggled with her for about three minutes and then ran away. At the court, the defendant said: The charges are correct. The clothes might have been torn in the struggle.” District Justice Sean Mac Giollarnath remanded him in custody for a week.
Luxury ‘buses
Two G.S.R. luxury ‘buses have been put into regular service on the Galway-Clifden route. This generous action on the part of the G.S.R. company is deeply appreciated in Connemara and has long been advocated in the columns of “The Connacht Tribune”. The company have also put two new service ‘buses on the Galway-Carraroe and Lettermore route.
Bishop Browne prays for Galway
“This New Year, we ask God that this city may be a great Catholic city as it was of yore; that it may be saved from disease and pestilence; that peace and concord may units its citizens, and that its honest, deserving workers may be assured of continuous employment in the coming year.
“We ask for our country that it may be spared the scourge of war and be free to devote all its strength and wisdom to make Ireland a land in which Irish boys and Irish girls may be content and proud to dwell.”
Athenry tragedy
The finance committee of the Galway County Council, decided to write to the Great Southern Railways Company suggesting that the wicket gate at Athenry railway station be closed altogether and that a footbridge be erected or, alternatively, that a man be posted at the wicket gate during shunting operations.
This decision was arrived at in consequence of the recent tragedy at the station, when Miss Bridget Keating, Caheroyan, was killed.
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.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
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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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