Galway In Days Gone By
1920
Beef or bacon
Mr. P. Cahill presided at Saturday’s meeting of the Loughrea Board of Guardians. Also present: Messrs. J. O’Loughlin, J. D. Cronin, J. Flannery, and J. Ryan.
Honor Murphy, Laundress, applied for bacon instead of beef, as the beef which she got was chiefly bone.
Clerk: She is the laundry woman. – Master: she doesn’t care for beef. – Chairman: You can give her bacon so. – Mr. O’Loughlin: There is no use in giving the creature bones, anyway.
Clerk: Then you will grant her bacon to the same value? – Chairman: Yes. – An order was made that 1½ lbs. bacon be supplied to the applicant weekly.
Mrs Lizzie Burke, Galway-road, in making an application for outdoor relief stated she was in a delicate state of healing, and was unable to provide anything in the way of nourishment. – Chairman: What do you propose to do, gentlemen?
Mr. O’Loughlin: We can’t go behind the relieving officer’s report. He states she had two daughters and two sons earning. – Chairman: In that case there would be danger of a surcharge if we granted relief. – Mr. O ’Loughlin: What was the relieving officer appointed for if we don’t uphold his reports. – The application was marked “refused.”
An inmate named Mrs. B. Sweeney applied for a shawl, a pair of boots and a skirt, to enable her to leave the house.
Mr. O’Loughlin: I believe myself she has them all well-earned. – Master: She is a good working woman. – Chairman: She is going to leave the house now? – Master: Yes. The application was granted.
The tender of Mr. J. Donovan at £6 15s. for extending drain at workhouse to opposite side of public road was accepted.
Dr. J. F. Ryan applied for and was granted annual vacation of one month in two parts, beginning in early June and August next. – Dr. Crowley was appointed as locum tenens.
Division in Irish life
A new set of symbols has been added to the already over-weighted burden that signifies divisions in Irish life. The three Fs have been given a sinister twist under the unsettled conditions that prevail.
As a people, we appear to have a fatal facility for cleavages, class and political lines of demarcation. In the present instance, the perpetrators have been the Irish farmers – to be accurate, a strong section within the powerful and expanding Irish farmers’ Union.
Last week Press and public were in the dark as to what transpired behind closed doors at the Galway Congress in regard to one subject of transcending importance: the attitude of the Union towards Labour and the embargo on the export of foodstuffs to England. This week the secret is out.
We have before us a circular issued to each member of the Union descriptive of what is required to form the proposed Farmers’ Freedom Force.
The draftsmanship reveals the ordered and acute mind of Lt.-Col. Bryan, of Wexford, the vice-chairman of the organisation. It sets out frankly “to provide a permanent organised body in each branch and county area of Ireland ready for immediate action.
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