Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By – A browse through the archives of the Connacht Tribune
1913
Home Rule fund
On Sunday week, a public meeting was held immediately after last Mass at Kilreekil for the purpose of re-organising the local branch and starting a collection in aid of the Home Rule Fund.
Mr. W. Kelly presided, and said he hoped they would hand in their names and do something for the National cause until they would get Home Rule.
Mr. Seamus O’Mulloy said that 113 years ago, England took away from Ireland her native Parliament, not by the will of the masses of the people, but by bribing the corrupt nobility of the country – to whose descendants, by the way, the poor people had ever since looked up to as the aristocrats of the land, and whose successors as Irish landlords have during that period crushed them under their arrogant sway, in some cases to the extent of £3,500.
Ballinasloe sensation
A report is current, which seems to have good grounds for belief, that the public will soon be regaled with more sensational events in our Joint County Asylum of Roscommon and Galway.
Another report is abroad of an action for libel and slander against a member of the staff of the institution, in which it is alleged the character of the plaintiff is assailed.
The plaintiff, it is said, is a well-known county gentleman, and damages are laid at £1,000. There seems every probability of the Asylum providing sensations for some time to come.
Drunk jailed
At Galway Petty Sessions, a man was summoned for being drunk and disorderly in William-street West on the 11th inst. He was fighting with his sister-in-law and his brother, and making use of bad language. There were a number of previous convictions against him.
Chairman: Is this the man who promised to take the pledge not long ago?
Sergt. Golding: The very man, your worship. He got a great many chances on his promising to take the pledge, and was let off with small fines.
Chairman: He will be sentenced to 14 days in jail without the option for a fine.
1938
Error costs contract
Because of an error in preparing his tender for the painting of and minor repairs to the County Buildings at Prospect Hill, Galway, Mr. Anthony Conboy, St. Bridget’s Terrace, Galway, who submitted the lowest tender, failed to secure the contract.
He tendered for the work at £187 10s., but in a letter to the finance committee of the County Council read at the weekly meeting of the committee in Galway on Saturday, he explained that this should have read £287 10s.
Although his tender at the increased figure was still the lowest received by the committee, the committee refused to consider it and decided to give the work to Messrs. Carr and Sons, Galway.
Carriage window broken
“A regrettable feature of this incident is that there was an English tourist in the carriage and he must have got a very bad impression of us,” remarked Supt. Lyons at a children’s court, hearing a summons against a boy for having broken the window of a train travelling between Castlerea and Ballinlough.
The boy admitted having broken the window, but said it was accidental, as he had thrown the stone at a dog. Mr. Hamilton, D.J., adjourned the case on defendant’s father undertaking to pay 9s costs of the window damaged.
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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