Galway In Days Gone By

Treaty rally

St. Patrick’s Day will be celebrated in Galway by the great rally for the Peace Treaty. At night the annual Gaelic concert will take place in the Town Hall, while a dance will be held at the headquarters of the I.R.A., Renmore Depot.

The day will be one of unalloyed joy, free from any care, save for anxiety in regard to divisions amongst Irishmen themselves.

We feel assured that the Gaelic League concert will receive universal support. The Gaelic League was one of the supressed organisations during the recent regime, but the old language grew in enthusiastic advocates as is evident by the magnificent band of teachers that the League has now put forward at the Galway classes.

The late Fr. Griffin claimed that Galway cold be made an Irish-speaking city in three months. There is scarcely one amongst the older inhabitants who cannot speak in his own tongue, whilst the younger generation is rapidly acquiring a workable knowledge.

In the earlier years of the “Tribune” the Oireachtas was held in Galway and we turned out a special Oireachtas edition. Let us hope that language and industries will now revive side by side, and that from this coming joyous St. Patrick’s Day the long-delayed effort will be made to establish an industrial development association or chamber of industries in the city.

Election campaign

There are visible signs that the election campaign is about to start in earnest in Galway. Three of the pro-Treaty T.D.s, Messrs. O’Maille, Nicolls and Professor Whelehan, are already hard at work in the constituency. As our readers are aware, Galway in Dáil Éireann is at present represented by seven members.

Four of those, Messrs. Whelehan, O’Maille, Hogan and Nicolls, cast their votes at the Dáil in favour of the ratification of the Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland, while three, Messrs. Cusack, Fahy and Mellows cast their votes against ratification.

In the forthcoming elections Galway County will have to again elect seven members. The candidates on each side will be selected by a representative convention, but it would seem that there is a tacit undertaking that the sitting members, irrespective of how they voted, will be again candidates either on the pro-Treaty or anti-Treaty side.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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