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| The late Frank Gallagher who was laid to rest today |
Showing posts with label Frank Gallagher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frank Gallagher. Show all posts
3/09/2016
Frank Gallagher: A Mark of Respect
Old Drogheda Society
As a mark of respect to our former colleague the late Frank Gallagher, president of the Old Drogheda Society, Drogheda Museum Millmount will be closed on Wednesday March 9th until 1.30pm.Frank's funeral mass takes place this morning in Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Hardman's Gardens, Drogheda at 10am followd by burial in Drumin Cemetery.
Because of the funeral there will be no children's storytelling on the "Myths & Legends of St Patrick " today. Storytelling will resume on both Thursday & Friday at 3.45pm each day. Advance booking is essential to 041-9833097
Drogheda Museum Millmount,
History, Archaeology & Heritage,
Governor's House,
Millmount,
Drogheda,
Co. Louth, Ireland,
0419833097
3/08/2016
Funeral Arrangements For Frank Gallagher
Old Drogheda Society
Please find details of the funeral arrangements for Frank
Gallagher RIP, President of the Old Drogheda Society, who passed away
yesterday.
Reposing at F Watson & Son, Funeral Director's
Premises, 9 Dyer St. on this evening,Tuesday from 6pm until removal at 8pm to
Our Lady of Lourdes Church arriving at 8.30pm. Funeral Mass on Wednesday at
10am with burial afterwards in Dromin Cemetery. Family flowers only. Donations,
in lieu, if desired to Louth Palliative Care.
Drogheda Museum Millmount,
History, Archaeology & Heritage,
Governor's House,
Millmount,
Drogheda,
Co. Louth, Ireland,
0419833097
10/21/2015
Don't Forget Frank Folks
Old Drogheda Society
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO A CELEBRATION
TO MARK THE INAUGURATION OF
FRANK GALLAGHER
as
4th HONORARY PRESIDENT
of the
OLD DROGHEDA SOCIETY
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| Frank Gallagher |
WESTCOURT HOTEL, WEST ST., DROGHEDA
WED 21 OCT 2015 8pm
A celebration in music, song and video
with reminiscence, chat and banter.
Prominent speakers, musicians and singers.
An active Trade Unionist since his youth, he has been Secretary of the Drogheda Council of Trades Unions for many years and was elected to Drogheda Borough Council as a representative of the Socialist Party.
Drogheda Museum Millmount,
History, Archaeology & Heritage,
Governor's House,
Millmount,
Drogheda,
Co. Louth, Ireland,
0419833097
10/14/2015
ODS Celebrates Frank Gallagher Inauguration as 4th Society President
Old Drogheda Society
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO A CELEBRATION
TO MARK THE INAUGURATION OF
FRANK GALLAGHER
as
4th
HONORARY PRESIDENT
of the
OLD DROGHEDA SOCIETY
|
| Frank Gallagher |
WESTCOURT HOTEL, WEST
ST., DROGHEDA
WED 21 OCT 2015 8pm
A celebration in music,
song and video
with reminiscence, chat
and banter.
Prominent speakers,
musicians and singers.
An active Trade Unionist since his youth, he has been Secretary of
the Drogheda Council of Trades Unions for many years and was elected to
Drogheda Borough Council as a representative of the Socialist Party.
Drogheda Museum Millmount,
History, Archaeology & Heritage,
Governor's House,
Millmount,
Drogheda,
Co. Louth, Ireland,
0419833097
11/07/2013
Boyne Bandit & Manx Saint
Drogheda connections extend all over the world these days but there is a little-known historical connection much closer to home, between the Boyne and the Isle of Man. In the O.D.S. Journal 2007 Frank Gallagher mentions a famous Manx tale associated with St. Patrick that isn't so well known in Ireland.
"The rugged and stunning scenery around the village of Maughold (pronounced "Mackeld") and Maughold Head on the Isle of Man is much commented on by both island natives and visitors alike. Equally fascinating is the story, now very much part of the island's folklore but little known here, of how the area got its name, and it's connection with the mouth of the Boyne close to Drogheda...
The tale has it that St. Patrick happened on a band of thieves and brigands near "Colpa" on the Boyne. The gang was led by a notorious and bloodthirsty freebooter named McCuill reputed to have been an Irish prince. McCuill decided to ridicule St. Patrick to his bandits by covering one of his henchmen in a shroud and asking Patrick to perform a miracle and bring the "dead" man back to life.
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| St. Maughold after arriving in the Isle of Man |
Furious at McCuill's attempt to make a fool of him, an enraged St. Patrick clasped McCuill in irons, threw the key into the sea and cast the brigand adrift in a Boyne coracle. Exhausted, barely alive and terrified by his ordeal on the open sea, McCuill eventually came ashore on the Isle of Man. The story goes that a Manx fisherman caught a fish in the area soon after the coracle came ashore and inside the fish he found a key that was able to unlock McCuill's chains. Other versions of the yarn have it that a cook in a monastery on the island found the key whilst preparing a fish.
In any event, it is said McCuill was so relieved at his survival and good fortune that he spent many years afterwards doing penance and good works, even preaching St. Patrick's message of Christianity to the Manx people. McCuill eventually became known on the island as "Maughold" and on the death of the then Bishop on the island in the year 498, he was immediately elected as his successor.
McCuill (Maughold) is said to have become so popular and revered that the Manx people named the spot where he drifted ashore in the coracle after him, and that to this day St. Maughold, Sixth Bishop of Man and former Boyneside brigand, is apparently venerated as the Isle of Man's Patron Saint."
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