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Galway to Kinvara – 1906

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Tuam Herald 25th August, 1906 p.4  

Dunguaire Castle, Kinvara. c.1950 Cresswell Archives
Dunguaire Castle,
Kinvara. c.1950
Cresswell Archives

We agree with all our County contemporaries that there is a general, and to our mind, a justifiable complaint made of the want of a regular service between Galway and Kinvara across the bay. The present inland mode of communication cannot be regarded as calculated to foster or improve commercial relations between the two towns concerned. too much time would be occupied for transit purposes and no railway line touches nearer than seven miles to Kinvara. This adversely affects both Kinvara and Galway, for at the present time transit facilities very largely govern the volume of trade between any two centres of population. It is held by shrewd business men that if there was a regular three-day or two-day service between Galway and Kinvara the trade between the two ports would be very considerable, for Kinvara Harbour would be made the outlet for a very large tract of country that presently lies in a most undeveloped condition for want of such facilities as a regular service with Galway would offer.

There are now two boards to hand with practically plenary powers to deal with such matters, the Congested Districts Board and the Board of Agriculture, and if these were approached by a committee representing the interests of Galway and Kinvara respectively, there need hardly be a doubt that the project outlined would come off. Both these Boards undertook to contribute three-fifths of the cost of the ferry at Kilbeg, and it is but reasonable to expect that they would favourably entertain any feasible representation made to them in respect of the project under consideration. It would, at any rate, be an experiment well worth the while of the places that would be affected by such a transit service to take combined action and see what can be done.

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All Hallows – Trinity – 1906

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Freemans Journal 1st November, 1906 p.15 (abridged)

Line drawing of the arms of Trinity College, Dublin, as illustrated in "College Histories: Trinity College Dublin" by W Macneile Dixon. Creative Commons.
Line drawing of the arms of Trinity College, Dublin, as illustrated in “College Histories: Trinity College Dublin” by W Macneile Dixon.
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All Saint’s Day irresistibly revives the recollection of the fact that Trinity College Dublin occupies the site of the dissolved Monastery of All Hallows, or All Saints, and is thus not only in receipt of the revenues of plundered abbeys, like the Abbeys of Kilmacrenan and Asseroe in Donegal but actually is built on the ground once occupied by an “essentially Catholic” institution.

All Hallows Monastery was literally razed to the ground. In Trinity College at the present day there is only one relic from the time of the existence of All Hallows – a mulberry tree in the Provost’s garden is shown to the visitor as the sole survivor in that institution of the “pre-Reformation” period. In St. Werburg’s Protestant Church, in whose vaults Lord Edward Fitzgerald is buried, there are two antique monumental slabs with effigies. They are supposed to have formed portions of the tombs of the Abbots of All Hallows, which were preserved by pious hand from absolute destruction of the “suppression” of that home of religion and useful learning.

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UNION, DISTRICT  COUNTY COUNCIL NOTICES
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COUNTY GALWAY COMMITTEE OF AGRICULTURE.
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Scheme of Prizes for Cottages and Small Farms, 1906

RETURN OF PRIZEWINNERS.
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GORT RURAL DISTRICT.

Class I;

Photo: EO'D
Photo: EO’D

1st, Michael Lally, Lisheeninane, Kinvarra £3
2nd Thos. McDonnell, Kilcolgan, Oranmore, £2
3rd, Thos. Dunne, Dungora, Kinvara £1 10s

Class II;
1st, Jane Finucane, Duras, Kinvarra £3 15s
2nd, John Keeley, Ballyclerra, Kinvara  £3
3rd John Shaughnessy, Royanrush Gort £2
4th Jas. Prendergast, Ballinabucky, Peterswell £1 10s
5th Patk Meally, junr, Knockakilleen, Kinvara £1

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Freemans Journal 13th August, 1923 p. 27

LEINSTER SCHOOL OF MUSIC, DUBLIN
Results of Examinations in Piano, Violin, Violoncello, Singing, Harmony, Theory of Music and Choir.

Convent of Mercy Kinvara

Piano – 1st Hons;
Sistie O’Dea
Mollie Greene
Mairaid Flatley
Esther Corless
Mary Ellen Phelan

2nd Hons
May Quinn

Pass

Blanche Connolly
Jennie O’Dea

Prep 1st Hons;
Clare Johnston
Annette Murphy
Joe Corless
Cissie Corless

2nd Hons;
Pauline Murphy
Kathleen Quinn
Joe Paul Flatley
Fred Johnston

Pass;
Maureen Haran
Alphonsus O’Dea
Sally Winkle

Violin – J – 1st Hons;
Margaret Mary Flatley

Primary, 2nd Hons;
Richard Johnston

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Mr Cullinane – Ennis – 1906

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Star Issue 8616 7th May 1906 p2(abridged)

Ennis Station Photo: Francoise Poncelet Wikimedia Commons
Ennis Station
Photo: Francoise Poncelet
Wikimedia Commons

WOMAN RESCUED FROM AN ONCOMING TRAIN.
The brave deed for which Mr Patrick Cullinane, railway traffic inspector, Ennis, County Clare, has received the Albert Medal from Lord Aberdeen at Dublin Castle, in the name of the King, occurred on November 6 last. An elderly woman fell over the platform in front of an approaching train. Mr Cullinane jumped down on the rails to her assistance. It was impossible to pull her aside, and the only way was to drag her directly forward until the train had time to slow up. For some yards the woman was dragged along by the powerful inspector in front of the train. At one point in this race with death the woman’s clothing was touching the engine.
When safe, they were found to be completely exhausted.

In presenting the medal, the Viceroy said that deeds such as that were part of the national assets, and in honouring the individual they were also honouring the qualities he displayed.

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P M Glynn – Gort – South Australia – 1906

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Patrick McMahon GLynn, Wikipedia.org
Patrick McMahon GLynn,
Wikipedia.org

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

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The Seven Heavens – 1906

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Dante and Beatrice gaze upon the highest Heaven - Gustave Doré (1832 - 1883) From Alighieri Dante; Cary, Henry Francis (ed) (1892) "Canto XXXI" The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Complete. London, Paris and Melbourne; Cassell and Co., (Wikimedia Commons)
Dante and Beatrice gaze upon the highest Heaven – Gustave Doré (1832 – 1883)
From Alighieri Dante; Cary, Henry Francis (ed) (1892) “Canto XXXI” The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Complete. London, Paris and Melbourne; Cassell and Co., (Wikimedia Commons)
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A Book of Saints and Wonders – according to the Old Writings and the memory of the People of Ireland.
Lady Gregory – 1906
Book Five – Great wonders of Olden Times (edited)
The Seven Heavens
As to the Seven Heavens that are around the earth;
The first of them is both bright and cloudy. It is the nearest and has the shining of the moon and the scattering of the stars within.
Beyond that lie two flaming heavens, angels in one, the winds in the other.
Beyond those lie an ice-cold heaven, bluer than any blue, seven times colder than any snow. It is out of this comes the shining of the sun.
Two heavens lie above – bright like flame. It is out of them shine the fiery stars that put fruitfulness in the clouds and sea.
And the last – highest of all it is, having within it the rolling of the skies – the labour of music – and choirs of angels.

Within the belts of these seven heavens are hidden twelve shaking beasts. They have fiery heads upon their heavenly bodies and blow twelve winds about the world. And in these belts sleep dragons. Tower headed, blemished – their fiery breath give out the crash of the thunders and lightning blows from their eyes.