Pic of the Day @ 31 March 2016

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The Rising Was not a Men Only event - women in period costume for the Rising parade in Drogheda On Easter Sunday. (Photo by Joanne Thompson)

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Proclamation Read In Drogheda On Easter Sunday

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Pic of the Day @ 30 March 2016

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Drogheda Patrick's Day Parade Image 7 (Photo by Fírinne McIntyre)
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Remembering 1916: Audio Recordings from the National Folklore Collection, UCD

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Remembering 1916: audio recordings from the National Folklore Collection, UCD

Please find link to the National Folklore Collection for accounts of 1916, which may be of interest to members. 

Memories of local and national historical events comprise an important element of the National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin. A series of interviews made with Dublin people in 1979-80 contain vivid contemporary accounts of the 1916 Easter Rising and of the events leading to Independence and the Civil War.

Listen here: http://www.ucd.ie/irishfolklore/1916/

Enjoy!

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Pic of the Day @ 29 March 2016

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Drogheda Patrick's Day Parade Image 6 (Photo by Fírinne McIntyre)

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Pic of the Day @ 28 March 2016

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Period uniform on display at yesterday's Easter Parade in Drogheda (photo by Joanne Thompson)

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Pic of the Day @ 27 March 2016

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Reading of Proclamation In Drogheda today - Image 1. (Photo by Joanne Thompson)

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Pic of the Day @ 26 March 2016

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Drogheda Patrick's Day Parade with a 1916 theme  Image 5 (Photo by Fírinne McIntyre)

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Pic of the Day @ 25 March 2016

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A local Drogheda artist shows his impression of the famous thatched cottage now under threat from officialdom's indifference.

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Easter Arrangements for Drogheda Museum Millmount.

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Easter Arrangements for Drogheda Museum Millmount.
Good Friday - Museum Closed.
Saturday March 26th - 9.30am - 5.30pm
Easter Sunday - Open 2pm -5pm
Easter Monday 2pm - 5pm.
Tuesday March 29th - Open 9.30am - 5.30pm

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Pic of the Day @ 24 March 2016

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Drogheda Patrick's Day Parade Image 4 (Photo by Fírinne McIntyre)

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All Ireland Behind Barbed Wire

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Just a reminder that this Saturday 26 March at 2pm RTE Radio 1 will air the documentary 'The All Ireland Behind Barbed Wire' as part of their ‘Documentary On One - 1916 Season’. 

You can also listen back online here: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/

The abandoned whisky distillery in Frongoch, North Wales became a makeshift place of imprisonment during the First World War housing German prisoners of war until 1916.

In the wake of the Easter Rising, these German POWs were moved on and Frongoch became a place of internment for approximately 1,800 Irish prisoners, including notables such as Michael Collins, Frank Shouldice, Tomás Mac Curtain and Richard Mulcahy.

Shipped across the Irish Sea on cattle boats, the months in Frongoch, later known as Ollscoil Na Réabhlóide or the ‘University of Revolution’ were used fruitfully by the internees to radicalise, network and learn how guerrilla tactics might ensure the mistakes of the Rising were not repeated.

Sport played an important part in the life of the internees - keeping them fit, focused and keeping their spirits up while also forging close bonds of friendship. With so many of the detainees having played intercounty football, they decided to hold a GAA intercounty football championship.

The field used as the football pitch in Frongoch was named ‘Croke Park’ after the stadium in Dublin on Jones’ Road which the GAA had only just purchased for £2,400 in 1913 using record gate money generated by the Croke Memorial Tournament between Louth and Kerry that year.

Posters advertising the Wolfe Tone Tournament final match in Frongoch between old rivals Kerry and Louth informed fans that ‘admission was 5 shillings and wives and sweethearts should be left at home’!

One hundred years on from this All-Ireland behind barbed wire, a grand-daughter of Tom Burke, the man who captained the Louth side and refereed the first All Ireland played for the Sam Maguire Cup in 1928, now wants to find out more about what happened behind the barbed wire.

Together with a grandnephew of the Kerry captain, the great footballer, Dick Fitzgerald, who wrote ‘How to play Gaelic football’, the first handbook of its kind in the GAA, and the grandson of the man who recorded the game, Joe Stanley, who acted as Pearse’s and Connolly’s press officer, printing the War News from the GPO during the Rising, retrace their relatives’ footsteps in search of the story of the unique All-Ireland Final in Frongoch in 1916.

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Pic of the Day @ 23 March 2016

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Saving Drogheda's Heritage

... From This

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Pic of the Day @ 22 March 2016

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Drogheda Patrick's Day Parade Image 3 (Photo by Fírinne McIntyre)

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Pic of the Day @ 21 March 2016

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Citizens of Drogheda Standing Together For the town's heritage

The attitude of Officialdom to Drogheda's heritage

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Pic of the Day @ 20 March 2016

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Drogheda Patrick's Day Parade Image 2 (Photo by Fírinne McIntyre)

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A History Behind The Opening Of The “Jim Garry Way”

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Sharon Connolly of Drogheda Museum posts on the history behind the "Jim Garry Way" which was opened last week.

Jim Garry was born in 1928 and lived his early life in Duke Street in Drogheda. His working life started in McGee’s bar and grocery in West Street, then Briody’s of Peter Street. He was a very active member of the Red Cross and through this he became Safety and Training Officer in Asbestos Cement Pipes later to become Tegral where he worked for 28 years.

Having a great interest in Drogheda and its heritage and history he was one of the people who came together in the White Horse Hotel on April 17th 1964 to form the Old Drogheda Society and over the years he served both as chairman and as editor of the ODS Journal. He gave the first Old Drogheda Society lecture when he spoke on St. Peter’s Church of Ireland.

Jim was also an active member of An Realt, the Irish speaking group associated with the Legion of Mary and with the St. Brigid’s Drama Group.

In 1972 Jim, along with Harry Fairclough and Moira Corcoran, founded Millmount Museum. Jim was also a member of the Louth Archaeological Society. He wrote many books and articles including Calvary Cemetery and The History of the Chord Cemetery. He gave many talks to the ICA members in An Grianan and for many years he was the only person allowed to bring groups to Beaulieu House.

As we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising, some may remember back to 1956 with Jim portraying Patrick Pearse giving the graveside oration on O’Donovan Rossa just a short distance from the Whitworth Hall to mark the 40th Anniversary of the Rising.

When Jim died on December 15th 2004 aged 76, Drogheda lost a true gentleman whose contribution and commitment to inform and encourage future generations through the medium of history rested within the pages of the many books he had written. 

Over a decade since his passing, a link road between Palace Street and Francis Street was officially opened by Mayor Paul Bell on March 15th 2016. Named the “Jim Garry Way” the road is a fitting tribute to a local historian who linked his affection for Drogheda’s history with the modern world.

A symbolic legacy, Jim has evolved beyond the pages of his books, and more particularly his publications on “The Streets and Lanes of Drogheda” so that he now properly forms a significant part and place in Drogheda’s history.

Credits:
Main Editorial: Liam Reilly
Additional Editorial: Sharon Connolly
Photographs: Eamon Thornton

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Pic of the Day @ 19 March 2016

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Defending Drogheda's local heritage at Harty's Cottage from the ravishing effects of complacency

Harty's Thatched Cottage ~ Something is going through the roof and it is not prices

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Pic of the Day @ 18 March 2016

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Today's heritage vigil at Harty's Cottage in support of measures to prevent the negligence and dereliction pertaining to Drogheda's two thatched cottages

Thatching Not Patching

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Thatched Cottage Latest

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As a result of the public statement issued by Mayor Paul Bell, to the effect that the Louth County Council will ensure that Drogheda's remaining two thatched cottages will be fully restored, and the welcome I gave to this good news, the campaign to save the cottages has achieved it's objective and accordingly all future actions, on behalf of the Old Drogheda Society, in relation to this matter are cancelled.

Donnchadha Mac Raghnaill

Chairman 

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Pic of the Day @ 17 March 2016

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Drogheda Patrick's Day Parade Image 1 (Photo by Fírinne McIntyre)

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Winners of the Drogheda Museum Millmount "St Patrick's Myths & Legends" Art Competition

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The Winners of the Drogheda Museum Millmount "St Patrick's Myths & Legends" Art Competition.

5th & 6th Classes:
Ist Marta Zapatero St Marys Parish School
2nd Avram Stancu St Marys Parish School

3rd & 4th Classes:
1st Dylan Quinn St Joseph's CBS,Drogheda.
2nd Holly Hilliard Tully Tullyallen NS

Commended: Hollie Mulhall & Toni Olamiju, Marymount Drogheda, Modestas Lastonas, Paul Herbert, Jake Hanratty all St Josephs CBS.Anna Walsh, Hannah Halton, Callum Reilly, Christine Martin all Tullyallen NS

Prizes will be presented after the Easter Holidays.

Thank you to our judges Hubert Murphy, Drogheda Independent & Andy Spearman, Drogheda Life.

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