Galway In Days Gone By

Language programme

The Gaelic League began the work of this session on last Monday. Classes (three in number) will be held every Monday and Wednesday evening at eight o’clock.

Thomas Luibheud, and Bride Griffin have undertaken the teaching of these classes, so that important part of the Gaelic League’s work is well provided for.

A series of lectures, delivered here last year, showed that there is no difficulty whatever in dealing with modern subjects in Irish. There were lectures on History, Astronomy, Chemistry, and in the most advanced branch of modern science, i.e., electrons and electric discharges in rarefied gases, etc., etc.

Dr. Mac Enri will give a lecture on “An Bhuidhean Cireannach are an Mór-Thír” (The Irish Brigade on the Continent) this Friday, October 30. From that date forward, there will be a lecture every second Friday evening, and story-telling by fluent native speakers on the alternate Friday evenings.

1950

Town planner dropped

Galway Corporation at its meeting on Thursday unanimously agreed not to renew the contract of services of the town planning consultant, Mr. Dermot O’Toole, Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, when it expires on the 31sr of this month.

The matter had been discussed at a committee meeting on Wednesday, at which Mr. O’Toole attended, when it was referred to the public meeting on Thursday.

Seconding Mr. Brennan’s proposal that the contract not be renewed, Ald. M. F. Lydon, T.D., said that one of the structures proposed to be put across the Corrib would have cost one million pounds.

According to the minutes read by the Town Clerk, Mr. S. Gillan, the County Manager, Mr. C. I. O’Flynn, was strongly of the opinion that Mr. O’Toole’s services should be retained for the reason that (1) the Borough Surveyor and Assistant Borough Surveyor, while very good engineers, were not architects and should not be expected to advise on architectural matters; and (2) it was advisable that Interim Control advice should be had from one who was not resident in the area and subject to the importunities of interested parties.

Pictured: NUI Galway Kayak Club members get in some practice in the flooded GAA pitch at South Park, Claddagh, following the high tide and stormy weather in February 2014.