Galway in Days Gone By

Galway In Time Gone By – A browse through the archives of the Connacht Tribune.

Published

10 years ago

August 29, 2013

Enda Cunningham

1913

Old man attacked

A man, locally known as ‘Colonel’ Maguire, was admitted to the Galway County Hospital yesterday (Thursday) suffering from extensive flesh wounds to the head, and in a general state of collapse. Two police from Killeen Station accompanied him.

Maguire is an imbecile, and frequents the various police stations, where he is invariably treated with good-humoured courtesy by the members of the Force.

It is understood that his friendliness with the police was the cause of the aggravated assault committed on him late on Tuesday night, within half a mile of the village of Claregalway.

At 10.30pm, the injured man related that he was met by three men, none of whom he knew. At their request he handed one of them his pipe. He was then asked what his occupation was, and he told them he accompanied missions, for which he made little religious symbols, such as crucifixes etc.

He then asked for his pipe, when one of the men struck him and knocked him down. On rising, he was felled by a second stroke. He was then set upon by the three men, who beat him across the forehead and skull with ashplants.

He was then kicked and left lying on the road in a pool of blood. He got to his feet after some time, and went to the Killeen police barrack, where he was kept for the night. He was treated at the hospital, and four stitches were put in his head. He is progressing, however, satisfactorily.

1938

High prices

“I know the middle of August is the busy season and that there is some justification for charging higher prices, but I think the immediate gain to the hotels means an ultimate loss to them and the country as a whole,” Mr. Bertram Lord, of New York, whose firm acts as agent for the Irish Tourist Association, told a ‘Connacht Tribune’ representative this week.

“During my trip of the South and West, I was several times charged higher prices than those listed in the hotel guide published by the Tourist Association. We find prices here pretty high even when there is no suggestion of overcharge. In some cases they are higher than in America.

“So when prices are increased, it makes a bad impression. France got into bad odour with American tourists a few years ago because the rumour went around that Americans were charged a higher price than anyone else. As a result, the number of Americans going to France decreased considerably,” said Mr Lord.

Ashford fears

Cong and Clonbur are very much in the news of late, for the fate of over one hundred workers engaged on the Ashford estate, is hanging in the balance. A few weeks ago, following certain signs of discontent amongst the employed, and local agitation for the division of Ashford, the Hon. E.A. Guinness intimated his intention of selling the estate.

His decision came as a great shock to the people of Cong and Galway, to whose minds Mr. Guinness and Cong were inseparable.

A petition was drawn up asking him to reconsider his decision, and has already been signed by 300 people.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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Galway in Days Gone By

Galway In Days Gone By

Published

2 days ago

March 30, 2023

Stephen Corrigan

Young participants during the St Patrick’s Day Parade in Athenry on March 17, 1996.

1923

Capital of Connacht

Retail shopkeepers in County Galway towns complain very justly that they have to go to Dublin and cross-Channel for their goods, whereas in the all too few instances in which they can purchase in the county town at wholesale rates, they find they can do much better as to price and quite as good as to quality.

Has Galway ever considered what it would mean to the town if the wholesale trade were developed to any extent within its walls?

It would mean that instead of crowded streets on Saturdays and occasionally on Wednesdays, we should have eager, active businessmen thronging our thoroughfares every day of the six; that we should have streams of vehicles coming to and going from the city; that business would be stimulated, employment increased and prices reduced.

It would mean that shipping in our harbour would grow and expand, slowly and, perhaps even painfully, at first, that coastwise traffic would be developed, and that Galway would in course of time become in fact, as well as in the name, the capital of Connacht.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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Galway in Days Gone By

Galway In Days Gone By

Published

1 week ago

March 23, 2023

Stephen Corrigan

Young participants during the St Patrick’s Day Parade in Athenry on March 17, 1996.

1923

Optimistic outlook

The optimism of Mr. P. J. Boland was a refreshing thing at the inaugural meeting of the Galway Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. He saw great good in Galway: it was a delightful place to live and in a place worth working for.

It possessed the elements of greater good in the future; a prideful local patriotism; a desire to see things better done here than elsewhere.

That was a factor that should be availed of but was not. Why? Because men talked and talked of what should be done, but had no organised driving force to translate their ideas into action. Hence the present effort to establish a Chamber of Commerce.

This optimism is a heartening thing, and it will be justified if the new members enter the Chamber of Commerce in the spirt shown by the chairman of the inaugural meeting.

When the Sligo Chamber was being inaugurated of the 29th December last, a Senator A. Jackson, D.L., who presided, pointed out that there was scarcely an important town in England, Wales or Ireland, and certainly not a seaport town that had not a Chamber of Commerce in existence for many years.

He pointed to the significant, but fairly well-established fact in the matter of projected legislation far more importance was paid to representations from Chambers of Commerce than to representations made by municipal bodies or harbour boards.

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Galway in Days Gone By

Galway In Days Gone By

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2 weeks ago

March 16, 2023

Stephen Corrigan

Spectators outside Athenry Church awaiting the St Patrick’s Day Parade

1923

Post office raids

A series of wholesale raids on unprotected Connemara sub-post offices are reported. Lettermore and Cashel offices were raided and robbed on Friday night.

Carraroe, Costello and Kilkerrin were also visited by armed men and any money and stamps available were taken. The sums abstracted from these offices vary from £20 to £30.

Telegraph and telephone instruments were broken wherever they were found, and in consequence, the people living in these remote areas on the western seaboard have been much inconvenienced.

Costello bridge was blown up on Friday night last, when most of the raids took place.

1948

Telephone service

In the course of his address to the annual meeting of the Galway No. 1 branch of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union on Sunday Mr.

Everett made a statement regarding the telephone service at Galway which is of great interest to the business community in particular.

He admitted that the delay during busy periods of the day on the Galway-Dublin trunk service amounts at times to about two hours, and that this has on occasions been exceeded owing to one or more of the three existing circuits being out of order.

Delay on busy periods on the lines connecting Dublin with Tuam, Loughrea, Athenry, Clifden and Claremorris was also admitted.

The fact of these days is only too familiar to telephone subscribers in the West. Repeated protests on the matter have been sent forward by the Corporation and the Chamber of Commerce of Galway among others, but hitherto there has been no tangible result.

The facilities now available might perhaps have been adequate twenty years ago, but they are insufficient, to put it mildly, for present-day requirements and business is very seriously handicapped in consequence.

During the war years there was not only a shortage of the equipment which would be needed for improved facilities, but such equipment as could be obtained was more urgently needed for security purposes. It seems however that the war-time difficulties are well on the way to disappearing and the minister was in a position to make some promise of improvement.

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