Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Time Gone By – A browse through the archives of the Connacht Tribune.
1913
Salthill Citizens’ Bazaar
A public meeting of the citizens was held in the Council Chamber of the Town Hall in support of the Citizens’ Bazaar in August for the improvement and development of Salthill.
“If Warrenpoint could become what it is within twenty-five years, why cannot Galway be second to none as a seaside resort?” asked Fr. MacArdle.
“Coastdwellers in other lands have turned to splendid account natural advantages,” said Mr O’Gorman.
“The ladies will see this thing through. They are entering heart and sould into the business this time, not to take any money out of our pockets but to put some in,” said Father Travers.
“It is for them to get Galway talked about in the tourist world, and to make it a desirable place for tourists to stay in when they come,” said Mr Mc. Donnell.
Mr. Lawson said: “This movement for the improvement of Salthill and Galway proceeds from the vital principle of self-help, and the coming Bazaar is going to be the biggest and grandest thing of the kind that we have ever had in Galway.”
1938
Education is free
“The mentality of the parents who say that their children are educated at fourteen years of age is very poor,” said District Justice Caholl at Kinvara Court, where there were a number of summonses under the School Attendance Act.
A man against whom there were three summonses said that he could not afford to send his children to school when the Justice made the above remarks and the Justice added: “Education is free; it costs you nothing.”
Defendant: I think these three children are over fourteen years of age, and I am poor.
Justice: We have no proof of this and even if they were, you should be glad to continue to keep them in school, more so if you are in poor circumstances, to give them a chance in life. It is not the guards’ business nor mine to tell you that you should educate your children. You are responsible for this.
Asked if there were any previous convictions under the School Attendance Act in respect of the man’s children, the prosecuting guard said there were, for other children.
The Justice imposed fines of 5s in each of the two summonses and 2s. 6d. in the third summons.
Man injured
During an altercation that took place among a section of the spectators at Bullaun races on Saturday last, a farmer from Clonoo, Loughrea, received a kick in the abdomen and was later removed in the County Home ambulance to the Central Hospital, Galway in a somewhat critical condition.
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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