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doojeen
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 Posted - 08/11/2006 : 12:45:22
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The Department of Defence was cajoled into it by the very determined Dean Crowe. Very fitting really - the all-powerful and triumphant Church and the armed forces of the State nestling side by side.  |
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centurion
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Posted - 08/11/2006 : 13:12:22
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A bit of......
'Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars.......'
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centurion
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Posted - 08/11/2006 : 13:15:37
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Just thought.........
Why did St. Peter's Parish always warrant exhalted titles like Deans and Monseigneurs when St. Mary's Parish only had a lowly Administrator?
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Headcase
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Posted - 08/11/2006 : 14:10:11
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The Army was numerically very weak in the 1930s. DeValera was afraid of a coup de etat, since most of the Army officers were the ones who had remained loyal to the Free State government in the 20s. Athlone had a very much reduced garrison at the time and was a military district of the Curragh.
Regarding the status of the St. Mary's parish, it appears that the Bishop is the Parish priest of two parishes in each diocese. Half his income comes from those two parishes. St. Mary's is one such parish. The senior priest is technically not the Parish Priest but is simply an administrator. |
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doojeen
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Posted - 08/11/2006 : 14:22:52
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Hopeful young anglers on the River Shannon in Athlone
Thanks Headcase - that's very interesting.
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doojeen
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Posted - 08/11/2006 : 14:25:08
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quote:
Originally posted by centurion
...exhalted titles like Deans and Monseigneurs....
And Archdeacons...  |
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centurion
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Posted - 08/11/2006 : 14:49:44
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Originally posted by Headcase
T DeValera was afraid of a coup de etat, since most of the Army officers were the ones who had remained loyal to the Free State government in the 20s.
Not to be confused with the attempted mutiny against the Free State Government in March 1924 in protest against demobilisation. I knew some of the officers in Athlone who were involved in that.
We're a terrible people for taking orders from any type of government.
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BeechPark
Ireland
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Posted - 08/11/2006 : 15:09:43
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A fine healthy disrespect of authority  |
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extownie
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Posted - 08/11/2006 : 17:24:23
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It wasn't the orders that men were protesting about in 1924, it was the ending of a guaranteed weekly wage. Speaking to my grandfather, who lived through that era, these were not patriots. If the amount of men that joined the Freestate army were originally in the I.R.A, they would have driven the Brittish from India, never mind 26 counties of Ireland!
Likewise the First World war; according to him, working class people didn't give a shite about either Sinn Fein or Redmond. The war offered a steady income, when famine and destitution were a constant threat, bizarre as that may seem to us who live in a time of plenty. |
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doojeen
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Posted - 14/11/2006 : 00:53:59
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Salvage:
doojeen Posted - 01/26/2006 : 12:03:17
Check out this link:
http://lawrencecollection.com/co.westmeath.htm
Be seeing you!
Tiny Ireland Posted - 01/26/2006 : 12:45:30
Doogeen ! Yes that is one of the collections that I have . The photo on the first row (Athlone 301C) .It hung in the Genoa Bar and the person with the top hat next to the rowing boat at the steps of the park is Lawrence himself. I got this collection from Simmons in Northgate street and when he sold up .the late Jimmy Mc Cormack had this full collection for sale as copies. "Slan Tamal"
doojeen Posted 01/26/2006 : 13:07:55
The Lawrence Collection is the single most significant collection in the early development of postcards in Ireland.
The Collection is named after William Lawrence, who opened a photographic studio and fancy goods shop in Sackville Street, Dublin (now O'Connell Street).
The venture was well-timed to capitalise on the popularity of the postcard.
The Collection eventually comprised 40,000 negatives. Robert French (1841-1917) was employed as chief photographer and he along with others travelled the length of the country over a period of more than 20 years.
While Lawrence's business flourished for nearly fifty years, it declined in the second decade of the 20th century due to the more widespread availability of photographs and the advent of the "Brownie" camera. Be seeing you!
Centurion Posted - 01/26/2006 : 14:08:01
Tiny...you mentioned Simmons, the photographers. Surely they must have had the most comprehensive collection of Old Athlone photographs. Where did they all go?
Remember Cordoba.'Viva La Quinta Brigada'
Tiny Ireland Posted - 01/26/2006 : 17:13:35
Hello! Centurion. Yes Simmons had one of the most comprehensive collection of pictures of Old Athlone. When he sold up the late Jimmy Mc Cormack (Next to Parsons/Dillon's shoe shop) got most of his collection of prints and photos. "Slan Tamal"
Centurion Posted - 01/26/2006 : 17:36:08
I believe that's him standing beside the pony and trap on the Carey's Pub thread!
Tiny Ireland Posted - 01/26/2006 : 20:31:51
Centurion ! I was not aware of him in that photo. But his photo of the Salmon Weir as its called in the collection from Burgess park has him standing beside the rowing boat , white bearded and with a top hat looking out on the river.Some of the old timers of Athlone said that it was one of the Foy's from Church Street but after some serching it can be said that it is in fact the man himself. "Slan Tamal"
Centurion Posted - 01/27/2006 : 12:48:26
Here's another one of Tiny's collection. The old horse trough is still there(was there in my time!) and that sign on the side of Larry Maguires says......'Don't Worry'
I'm off for a round of golf!
TinyIreland 341 Posts
Nice one Centurion, But this time you misread the sign. It says "Guinness leaves Patz Blue Ribbon standing when it comes to Strength" He! He! .Slan Tamal
Hugh Janus Ireland Posted - 01/27/2006 : 17:00:07
I thought it said "Skines Rool O.K"
CenturionA useful guide to dating above photographs is that the Marist Brothers Secondary School was built in the year 1900!
Weir Wall
Posted - 02/01/2006 : 19:45:45
Great thread this one - Brilliant photographs evocative of Athlone in the good old days. |
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centurion
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Posted - 14/11/2006 : 10:23:13
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Doojeen....
What 'technology' are you using to salvage........?
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Mark Anthony
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doojeen
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doojeen
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Posted - 14/11/2006 : 13:03:00
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Originally posted by BeechPark
We might want to mine this. It's the .ie forum as of Feb 05, 2006. NB..Copy and paste the entire URL into your browser's address box, may not work otherwise, as the auto-recognition URL feature of this forum messes it up.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060207123908/http://www.athlone.ie/DiscussionForum/default.asp
The stuff I found was from July of this year - I don't know how it happened or whether I'll be able to access it again, but I also stumbled across some stuff that was pre-October 2004, when the Big Meltdown occurred.
Some of the material has gone, but there's still quite a bit out there that's salvagable. |
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centurion
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Posted - 14/11/2006 : 15:59:08
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I tried to enlarge those thumbnails but to no avail....focus goes. I've got a nice picture of myself taken by Mr. Simmons in 1947 and I'm not putting it up here.
By the way, the photograph of the 1954 Br. Pascal's class was taken by Jimmy McCormack......I remember it well!
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