Arizona republican., 1917-04-01
GALWAY URGED
is PORT FOR
i. {. SHIPPING

/ WASHINGTON. D. c., April 1.-The
announcement that the corporation of
/ Dublin has urged the British govern
ment to CT cate a great harbor at Gal
way to deal with Canadian and Ameri-
can trade gives rise to the hope that
the day is not far distant when the an
Gent glories of that historis mart may
i be revived. A war geography bulletin
PREPARED by the National Geographic
+ Society and issued from its headquart-
ers in Washington describes il as fol-
lows
Galway is the capital of Galway
county, where The River Shannon
flows 1t is situated on Galway bay,
in direct line west from Dublin. 1855
miles from Boston and 200 miles from
New York On his remarkable map
Ptolemy marked Galway bay, calling
it Ausoba. Today it contains not more
then $4,000 Inhabitants emigration to
America having sadly depleted the
population.
In the Ogygia of O'Flaherty we
read 'Gahleamh, daughter OF lasting
Breasail, bathed in the full cold stream
when the bright branch was drowned.
From her the river Gaillimh is named
And thus was named the town which
had stood on the banks of this small
stream from time immemorial. Ira
| ditionally known as Ballinsruane the
name Gaillimh became in the mouths
| Of the Norman settlers Galvia-hence
Galway.
Amy attempt to compass in brief
space the sanSuinary history of this
ineighborhOOd must end in failure For
centuries it was in ferment of land
robbery, pilage and fanaticism beg
| caring description. Centuries before
| the Christian era the CarthaginianS
and Romans traded with the descend
ants of a still earlier period Tighe
speaks of one Partholanus, a Scythian.
settling in Ireland some centuries
after the flood and in dying divided
the country into four parts, assigning
| one to each of his four sons They
were dispossessed by the Frbalgians.
| Con and Eoghan made a partition A.
! D. 166 In all these partitions the
cities of Dublin and Galway were the
| termini of one or the other lines of
divisions
In the ninth century the town suf-
fered from the ravages of the Danes.
and for one hundred years following
! III the de Burgos, the O'Conors and
the O'Flahertys were engaged in a bat
| tie royal for the possession of the sur
rounding territory the house of
OCoaor being wiped out in 1916.
In 1873 the town was burned. Be
| tween 1851 and 1850 Galway was the
scene of religious warfare, and down
to 1898 the zeal of Protestant and
+! Catholic made living a delightfully."- eX-
citing pastime. While the man who
| died peacefully in his bed left to his
relatives the legacy of social ostra-
cism With the advent of the English
| into Galway at the close of the 18th
century it became an important com
merciaI and military center. and the
IGalwegian bas-bleu of todaytraces his
lancestry back to one of those families
embalmed in the local verse:
! 'Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Deane, Darcy
! Lynch.
Joyce. Kirwan, Martin, Morris, Sher-
| ret, French
known as the Tribes of Galway
.Hely Dutton, writing in 1924. speaks
of the ruins of several abbeys in the
vicinity Of Galway erected between
the 5th and 18th centcries, which are
worth visiting and because of SPANS
ancient commercial relations with this
port a trace of Spanish influence may
be discovered in some of the old build
ings A traveller of so years ago wrote
that at every second stp | saw some
thing to recall Spain to my recollection
the VIDE entries ana DfOdu stairs Oi
CadiZ and Malaga but a more recent
visitor, W. B. Blake. found few relics
of the past, only nunneries thrive in
this shrunken capital Of the-west that
traded with all the world and rang
with the wit and oaths and commerce
of French and Spanish captains.
There is still to be seen Lynch Castle.
with it's sculptured monkeys, from the
window of which James Lynch FitZ-
| stephen. mayor of Galway in 1893,
hanged his own son with his own
hands. for the treacherous murder of
a Spanish nobleman on account of
jealousy.
Some Nhree- score years ago the
plan of establishing a transatlantic
line between Galway and New York
was projected, and came so near to
realization that at least one ship made
the voyage only to finish disastrously
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