'Clann Mhuiris' is packed with fascinating stories and photographs
The 1910 Claremorris senior football team, one of many interesting photographs in this year’s edition of Clann Mhuiris.
The seventh edition of , the annual journal of Claremorris Historical Society, will be published on Friday, November 17. Well-known Claremorris native, Fr Des Walsh, will launch this year’s edition at 8pm in Claremorris Library and refreshments will be served.
It will also be available from the usual outlets in Claremorris.
As well as the usual selection of photographs from the Main Street Gathering Page, this year’s edition features articles on the extraordinary musical phenomenon of the Royal Blues Showband who became a sensation in the 1960s, not only in Ireland, but also in America and Britain, the extraordinary events in Claremorris Workhouse in the early 1900s which prompted local and national headlines, and an account of the British Army presence and activities in the Claremorris area during the period from 1916 to 1922.
A number of aspects of our religious heritage are also featured, including articles All Souls Church in Crossboyne, Ballinasmale Abbey and a whimsical piece on attending mass in Claremorris in the 1920s from a child’s perspective. John Coakley continues his series with a fascinating article on how the Norman era finally came to an end in the barony of Clanmorris and the extraordinary changes that took place in land ownership and political power in the barony during the relatively short period from 1585 to 1635.
Also commemorated in this year’s edition are two men who, by a remarkable coincidence, lived only 100 metres from one another in Mount Street in the early twentieth century. These were Michael Walsh who was killed during the First World War while serving with the United States army in Europe, and Fred Picking, a native of London, who worked at Claremorris Railway Station for many years and whose family connection is about to be revived in that street.
Priced at just €10, and featuring many rare photographs, will once again make an ideal Christmas gift for Claremorris people at home and abroad.
