Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Time Gone By – A browse through the archives of the Connacht Tribune
1914
Bring home the bacon
Martin Walsh, Galway, pleaded ‘Not Guilty’ at the Spring Assizes to an indictment charging him with the larceny of a piece of bacon valued at 5s. from Mrs. Julia Cunningham, Upper Abbeygate Street, on Jan. 23rd.
Mrs. Cunningham, in examination by Mr. Fetherstonhaugh, K.C., said she saw the prisoner in her shop in the 23rd Jan. He asked for tea and sugar, but he had no money, and she had to threaten to call the police if he did not leave.
At the time, she had weighed a piece of bacon, and placed it inside the counter. She went into the kitchen, and Miss Lee, who was in the shop, called her back, when she found that the bacon was gone.
Miss Mary Lee deposed that she saw the prisoner coming from inside the counter, and missed the piece of bacon, but she did not see it with him.
Cross-examined by the prisoner, witness said she did not see him doing anything wrong in the shop.
A daughter of Mrs. Cunningham gave evidence as to seeing the prisoner taking a piece of meat from behind the counter. Const. Haughey said he arrested the prisoner in a public-house. When cautioned, he said he was not in Cunningham’s that day.
The jury, without leaving the box, returned a verdict of ‘Guilty’. The Judge, referring to prisoner’s record, said there were in all 33 convictions against him. His Lordship ordered the prisoner to be detained in an Inebriates’ Home for his reformation, for a period of three years.
1939
Bravery honour
Galway Harbour Commissioners decided on the proposition of Mr. C.C. Copeland, to recommend to the Royal Humane Society, the action of Tommie Kelly, Long Walk, Galway, a launchman employed by the Commissioners, who dived fully clothed into Galway docks on March 6, to the rescue of a cyclist. Cllr. J. Healy said that this was the second or third rescue this man had made.
Duggan Park final?
Ballinasloe has every hope of having the Connacht football final this year in Duggan Park. At a committee meeting of those who are organising a gala week in June to raise money to purchase and develop the pitch, it was shown the park is capable of housing the attendance expected at this event and that 12,000 people could be comfortably seated on the pitch itself, leaving room for 10,000 or 12,000 outside the barriers.
It is the intention of those concerned to have the park purchased and developed to house some of the big important games of the G.A.A. in 1939 and 1940 and to make the pitch worthy of housing some of the big events of the year in the football world.
£25,000 for Ashford
It has now been officially stated that the Ashford estate and castle have been sold to the Irish Forestry Department. The purchase figure has not been disclosed, but a “Connacht Tribune” reporter learned that the estate was sold for £17,000 and the castle for £8,000. It was also learned that the Department is negotiating for the resale of the castle to an hotel syndicate.
Last week, all the employees of the estate, except five, received notices of their dismissals as and from April 29, and the tenants of twenty houses on the estate received notices to quit.
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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