Manuscript Notebook with Record of Meetings Aimed at Bringing Together St. Laurence O'Toole Gaelic Football and Hurling Clubs 1941-42

St. Laurence O'Toole's Gaelic Football and Hurling Clubs

Erscheinungsdatum: 1942

Beschreibung

17pp. manuscript in a neat and legible hand. The first two pages are a letter to the club President Mick Killeen & a proposal to bring together in closer communion the football & hurling members of the club. The next 15 pp. are a record of meetings that took place from December 15th, 1941 & January 3rd, 1942. All pp. loose between note-book covers. An original and unique record. In 2001 well known Dublin local historian Jimmy Wren wrote a Centenary History of O'Tooles. On pp. 49-50 he comments "the hurling section of the club had no base from which to operate.except for weekly meetings in Canavans hairdressers shop in Amiens Street. (Because of a dispute between the footballers and the hurlers the latter were not allowed to use the club premises at 101 Seville Place).rented a basement room in a three storey house on the main Nprth Strand Road near Newcomen Bridge. The owner.an elderly lady who lived upstairs and who let the basement for 2/3 nights per week .in this room was a half-size snooker table. On.Friday night of the Whit weekend of 1941 seven or eight of the hurling club members had their usual game of snooker and at 11 p.m. locked the room, gave the keys to the elderly owner and went home. Two hours later the whole house was demolished by the bomb which fell on North Strand almost directly in front of the house and the elderly owner was killed." The whole hurling club could practically have been wiped out if the bomb had struck 2 hours earlier. This record is an important in the evolution of the club & today the club is one. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 015408

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Manuscript Notebook with Record of Meetings ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 1942

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Good