Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Time Gone By – A browse through the archives of the Connacht Tribune
1914
Equal rights
At the Urban Council meeting, the Secretary read a list of the names of the men who assisted in extinguishing the Claddagh fire, and it was ordered that the men be paid 2s. each. Mr. W. O’Halloran said that Mrs. O’Flaherty, of Fairhill, did as much work as any of the men. It was decided to give her 2s. 6d. in recognition of her service.
Take the pledge
At the Galway Petty Sessions, Martin McDonagh was summoned for being guilty of disorderly conduct in New Dock Street, on the 9th inst. Constable Lynch stated the defendant was jostling people off the footpath at the Custom House, and was using very bad language.
The Chairman said there was no excuse for such improper conduct. They would, however, adjourn the case to the next Sessions, for the production of a pledge.
A Government appointment
There were two charges of drunkenness and disorderly conduct against Mary Cotter. Defendant stated she was stopping with a woman named Winnie Cooke, who sometime previously forged cheques belonging to defendant (laughter).
Chairman: We cannot go into that.
Defendant: Then she threw me outside the door, and took a tongs to beat me with.
Constable Keane: She is a bad case when she takes a drink.
Defendant: When I take a drop of drink, I shout loud, that’s all (laughter).
Chairman: You will have to go to jail for a month on the first charge, and pay a fine of 40s, or a month in the second case. As far as I can see, a woman like you would keep a battalion of police going (laughter).
Defendant: Nothing like having a Government appointment (laughter). Prisoner was then taken into custody.
1939
Papal tributes
“Today, my dear brethren, throughout the whole world, wherever Catholic people and priests are gathered in church or chapel, from the snowbound coasts of Alaska to the sun-drenched plains of Africa or Australia, they are united in a common thought; they mourn the passing of a common Father. Pius the eleventh is dead: the eleventh of that name, but the 261st Pope.”
These words were spoken by his lordship, Most Rev. Dr. Browne, Bishop of Galway, during the course of a sermon at eight o’clock Mass in the Cathedral, Galway, on Sunday.
His lordship also presided at the Requiem Mass on Wednesday for the repose of the soul of the late Pope Pius XI, and which was attended by clergy from many parts of the united dioceses of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora, and the people of Galway city.
Pupils of all the city schools, with their teachers; members of the staff of U.C.G.; members of the Garda and army forces, and representatives of the various public bodies also attended.
Every seat in the church was occupied and the crowd overflowed on to the street outside. The church was draped in black.
Islanders hit
The inhabitants of Inishbofin were short of flour for four days last week and were forced to eat potatoes instead. The stormy weather of the past fortnight cut off supplies from the mainland and a boat which had gone to Westport for a cargo of flour was unable to return to the island. On Monday, however, the mail boat ran the gauntlet to Cleggan and brought back a small supply of flour.
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.
Connacht Tribune Digital Edition App
Download the Connacht Tribune Digital Edition App to access to Galway’s best-selling newspaper.
Click HERE to download it for iPhone and iPad from Apple’s App Store, or HERE to get the Android Version from Google Play.
Or purchase the Digital Edition for PC, Mac or Laptop from Pagesuite HERE.
Get the Connacht Tribune Live app
The Connacht Tribune Live app is the home of everything that is happening in Galway City and county. It’s completely FREE and features all the latest news, sport and information on what’s on in your area. Click HERE to download it for iPhone and iPad from Apple’s App Store, or HERE to get the Android Version from Google Play.
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”.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
Connacht Tribune Digital Edition App
Download the Connacht Tribune Digital Edition App to access to Galway’s best-selling newspaper.
Click HERE to download it for iPhone and iPad from Apple’s App Store, or HERE to get the Android Version from Google Play.
Or purchase the Digital Edition for PC, Mac or Laptop from Pagesuite HERE.
Get the Connacht Tribune Live app
The Connacht Tribune Live app is the home of everything that is happening in Galway City and county. It’s completely FREE and features all the latest news, sport and information on what’s on in your area. Click HERE to download it for iPhone and iPad from Apple’s App Store, or HERE to get the Android Version from Google Play.
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.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
Connacht Tribune Digital Edition App
Download the Connacht Tribune Digital Edition App to access to Galway’s best-selling newspaper.
Click HERE to download it for iPhone and iPad from Apple’s App Store, or HERE to get the Android Version from Google Play.
Or purchase the Digital Edition for PC, Mac or Laptop from Pagesuite HERE.
Get the Connacht Tribune Live app
The Connacht Tribune Live app is the home of everything that is happening in Galway City and county. It’s completely FREE and features all the latest news, sport and information on what’s on in your area. Click HERE to download it for iPhone and iPad from Apple’s App Store, or HERE to get the Android Version from Google Play.
Families queue up for school’s offer of free house
West has lower cancer survival rates than rest
Galway minors continue to lay waste to all opponents
Gardaí and IFA issue a joint appeal on summer road safety
Marathon Man plans to call a halt – but not before he hits 160 races
