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Our photograph today shows the St. Mary’s College hurling team which won the competition played between their school, Garbally and St. Flannan’s in 1924. The diocesan magazine “The Mantle” published this image and provided an update on the players in 1959, so the notes after their names describe their status in 1959.
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Hurling is more than just a game, it is the most Irish thing we have apart from our language, a national passion which is woven deeply into the social fabric of Irish society, an icon of Irish culture, a game that is played for pride, not money.
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The Augustinians have been associated with Galway since the year 1500. Their first convent, or priory, was built on Fort Hill between 1506 and 1508. Its patroness was Margaret Athy who was the wife of the then mayor, Stephen Lynch. He sailed for Spain in search of a cargo of rich wines, and when he returned, he was astonished to see the graceful outline of a new church, with tower and tapering spire, on the elevated promontory that was Fort Hill. Not one stone of it had been laid when he left the city.
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GALWAY’S MILITARY MUSEUM
Our
photograph today was taken in Eyre Square in 1922, and shows the Connaught
Rangers parading through the city on their last day in Galway. It is
interesting to see them on horseback, on foot and with bicycles. As you can see
in the foreground, there is a long line of soldiers standing in front of the
crowd, and there is what looks like a temporary reviewing stand on the far side
of the street.
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GALWAY’S WARTIME EXPERIENCE
“At
11.15am on the morning of the 3rd of September, 1939, we heard Mr.
Chamberlain’s momentous speech declaring war on Germany. Each succeeding hour,
the radio announced news. The first major item to be broadcast was that the
liner SS Athenia had been torpedoed 250 miles off the Outer Hebridies. To us
sitting at our firesides in Galway, this seemed remote. Business continued as
usual, although groups of people discussed the war, and the Athenia was
temporarily forgotten. Sometime around midday on Monday, a wireless message was
picked up by the Galway Harbour Commissioners tender “Cathair na Gaillimhe”
which was lying in the dock, from a Norwegian freighter, the MV Knute Nelson saying
that she had picked up survivors from the Athenia, and that she was making for
Galway. The news spread rapidly among the 17,000 inhabitants of the town”.
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