Galway In Days Gone By

A link with home

“You cannot tell how delighted I was to receive the ‘Tribune’ and the ‘Sentinel’. It was very good of you to send them: they recall old times and remind me of dear old Galway.”

So writes a lady from West Ham to a Galway reader who forwards her papers every week after she has finished with them.

“I cannot tell you how much interested I was in the new paper, the ‘Sentinel’,” goes on the correspondent. “It is very attractive and I read the O. Henry story, and Shelley’s beautiful poem, but what I liked most of all was the Irish story by Pádraic Ó Conaire. We get ‘Fiana An Lea’ every week so that will show you we are still interested in the old tongue.

“The ‘Tribune’ keeps one in touch with all the affairs out West. Everyone in Galway must be attending the technical school to judge from the fine display of cakes.”

The writer goes on to discuss the news contained in both papers. When you are finished with your paper every week, send it to someone you know abroad. You will thus be doing a kindly act, which will be much appreciated.

1951

Drainage works

When the Corrib drainage scheme has been completed, the engineers and machinery will be put to work on the scheme for the drainage of the River Suck.

This assurance was given my Mr. M. Donnellan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance, to the River Suck Joint Drainage Committee in Roscommon on Friday last.

When the Parliamentary Secretary addressed the Engineering Society of U.C.G. on Tuesday, he said that it was hoped to start the Corrib Scheme this year; it would certainly be in the hands next year.

The Suck Joint Drainage Committee agreed that pending the major scheme promised by Mr. Donnellan for that river, as much work as possible should be undertaken by the Local Authorities (Works) Act.

A deputation was appointed to meet Ballinasloe Urban Council with a view to making arrangements for the manipulation of the sluice gates in Ballinasloe without flooding riverside lands.

Mr. McQuillian, T. D., said that as soon as the question of those gates was raised, a howl was sent up in Ballinasloe to the effect that the level must be kept up in order to remove the sewerage, etc.

Pictured: The cast of Renmore Pantomime's production of 'Snow White' in 1988.