Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Time Gone By – A browse through the archives of the Connacht Tribune
1913
Dilapidated workhouse
The Engineer (Mr. Rosengrave) wrote to Gort Board of Guardians that the Master had drawn his attention to the dilapidated condition of the roofs of the Workhouse towers. On examination, he found that a number of the slates had been blown away, and several were loose.
The present condition of the tower was a source of danger to persons passing the building. He recommended that the roof of the tower be repaired, the cost of which he estimated at £6.
His attention had also been drawn to the leaking condition of one of the chimney stacks. Attempts had been made to staunch the leaks, but it would be necessary to rebuilding the chimney stack to effect a permanent improvement. The estimated cost would be £8.
The pots throughout the building were cracked and ravelling, and he recommended that the infirmary stack be taken down.
Galway doctors
At the Board of Guardians meeting, the House Surgeon, Dr. J.P. Moran, sent in a recommendation that two men be sent to Dublin for eye treatment. The Doctor, who was present, explained that Kelly had already been in Galway twice.
Mr. Flaherty thought they did not take enough of interest in the poor in their districts. They were paying £100 a year to the Galway Hospital, and it was only a fraud. They had sent a number of cases there, and they came back the same as they went. He believed they should not support the Galway Hospital.
Mr. Flaherty said a woman had been kept three weeks in the County Galway Hospital, and she had now returned and was worse than ever. They should send the poor men to Dublin, or they would be coming back again to them.
1938
Hurlers a disgrace
“The team were a disgrace to County Galway on account of the way they turned out at Ennis in the All-Ireland hurling semi-final against Waterford,” said Rev. J. O’Dea, Dean, U.C.G., chairman, at a meeting of the Galway County Board GAA, held in the Royal Hotel, Galway.
The matter arose when the secretary (Mr. J. Whelan) submitted a bill for £40 from the Royal Hotel, £30 of which was for catering for the Galway senior hurling team which met Waterford at Ennis, and the remaining £10 for catering for the senior and minor teams on the occasion of a trial match played at Galway.
The rev. chairman said that the bill would not be paid until the Board were supplied with further particulars. The team in regard to which the £30 was charged were a disgrace to County Galway on account of the way they turned out at Ennis.
On last Sunday week, the minor players at Mullingar were told that they would have to go home that evening after the match. All the senior players went home that evening. Seven or eight of the minor players waited in Mullingar overnight, and now the County Board had a bill for their expenses. This bill would not be paid either.
Some of the players thought nothing of missing a bus and taking a car at the expense of the Board. There was a very good train service, and still there were bills turning up for car-hire. The Board would have to tighten up on their finances.
Mr Donnellan: The only players who could have had any excuse were the men from Moycullen.
Rev. chairman: It is a form of intimidation on the part of the players. Some of the fellows who were in here training apparently did not want to train.
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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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