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The Advertiser (Adelaide, South Australia)
13th March, 1912 p9. (abridged)
Yesterday a band of men hiding on both sides of the road at Gort in County Galway, fired at six men on their way home from a hurling match. All the men were injured, two of them seriously. No arrests have been made.
Recorder 17th August, 1923 p1
Eight persons were wounded in a fight at an election meeting in Kinvarra on the border of Clare and Galway in which revolvers were used.
Map Showing Irish Towns and Villages Wholly or Partly Wrecked by English Forces From September 9, 1919, to March 1, 1921. INDEX TO WRECKED TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
“Black as the storm frown of Cruachan;
glossy as the shimmer of sun-glad Corrib;
trusty as the unclenching granite of Achil’s wave-vexed shore;
beauteous as the dream cailins of Kinvarra!
… In Connacht, some day they will be telling the tale of Grainne’s wondrous courage and tireless arrowy speed.
In Connacht they will twine garlands of bog-flower and shamrogue to deck your silky mane.
“Failte!” they will shout, to greet our return.”
The Catholic Press 30th October, 1924 p 49
Excerpt from Chpt XVII
The Sword of the O’Malleys by Justin Mitchell
Connaught Journal
January 30 , 1823
New Garden & Farm Seeds.
Elizabeth Cloran of Loughrea respectfully informs the Customers of her House and the Public, that she has arrived to her from London, per the New Harmony for Dublin, her annual, extensive and general assortment of Garden, Farming, Flower Seeds, which she having imported from one of the most eminent Seedsmen in London, is enabled to recommend with perfect confidence.
She is also constantly supplied from the most respectable Druggists in Dublin, with every Genuine Medicine in the Apothecary business, to the compounding and dispensing of which the strictest care and attention is paid by a Gentleman, regularly qualified in that Profession. Oils, Colours, Horse, Cow, Sheep and Dog Medicine, and a choice selection of all the Patent Preparations from the Medical-Hall, 34, Lower Sackville-street, Dublin.
She hopes from her anxiety at all times to procure every Article of the best description, Her moderate charges, and the particular attention to the orders she may be favoured with to merit a continuance of that liberal patronage which she has experienced since her commencement in business.
1892
O’CONNELL Galway Sail Vessel – carrying 26 tons barley.
Departed Kinvara for Galway. Stranded and wrecked at Kilcolgan point.
1882
ST. MARY Galway sail vessel – carrying 10 tons of coal.
Departed Galway for Kinvara Bay. Foundered in Kinvarra Bay
Freemans Journal 8th September, 1906 p14 (abridged)
Mr P M Glynn M.H.R, who has just turned 51, was born at Gort, Co. Galway, Ireland and graduated at Trinity College. He was first elected to the South Australian Assembly for Light in 1887 (Parliament). His recreations are given as ‘hunting, tennis’, but for tennis, handball may be substituted
Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland
Seventy-fourth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ieland, with appendices for 1905-1906
MARINE WORKS ACT, 1902
2nd Ed. VII., c 24 p8
Since our last Report the only additional work taken in hands under the Marine Works Act, was that at Kinvarra, County Galway. The marine work at this place, comprising the restoration of the pier and wharf walls, together with a new storm wall and other minor improvements, was certified by Their Excellencies the Lords Justices under the Act in July 1905. It was put in hands at once under the direction of the Board’s own officers, and it has been satisfactorily completed since the close of the financial year.
The World’s News 24th August, 1932
A shark, which the Cunard liner Samaria struck when 150 miles from Galway on her voyage from New York, was removed from the vessel’s bow when she arrived in Galway.
South Australian Register 22nd September, 1851 p3
Bright days seem to be in store for Ireland. The Midland Great Western Railway Company were making strenuous efforts to complete the works on their line to Galway. The rails had been laid down on the whole line, with the exception of a few miles, and there was no doubt but that they would have the line ready for traffic in a few weeks.
In the West of Ireland the most confident hopes were entertained that an American steamer would shortly appear in the Bay of Galway to test the advantages of that port for mail communication between America and Europe. These sanguine expectations were by no means unfounded. The Freeman stated that letters had been received in Dublin, announcing that the North America, a United States steamer of great power and marvellous speed, had been chartered to start on the 17th June from New York for Galway with passengers, and that she might be expected to appear off the west coast of Ireland about the 25th June. It would, therefore, appear that American enterprise had determined to settle a point which many English and certain Irish interests had pronounced dubious. The Belfast Chamber of Commerce, with a generous candour which will do that Chamber immortal honour, had presented a memorial to the British Government in favour of Galway.
The Burren and Beyond 