Purple Heart
Dave Henry presenting a Purple Heart and other memorabilia which were awarded to family of his relative, Thomas Powers, Ballinacourty, Cappagh, killed in the second World War.
Stories from
Old Newspapers
Waterford Mail 16 May 1835
Fires and Weddings
In the parish of Modeligo, a place called Grague, in
the county of Waterford, the house of a farmer named Donovan, was maliciously
set on fire and entirely consumed on Monday night. Donovan’s brother’s house,
near Clashmore, was also burned a few nights before, the reason assigned is
that the latter has lately taken ground over the former tenants. A curious
circumstance took place at Knockmeal, near Ballinamult: A farmer’s daughter
named Corbet, was married o a person named Dealy on Sunday night, when the
Chief Constable Anderson of Ballinamult and a party of his police, entered the
house and commanded the wedding folk to disperse – the people stood upon their
right – remonstrated with the police, and refused to leave the wedding unless
compelled by force. The Chief very fortunately did not resort to this extremity
but demanded from some respectable farmers present their guarantee that the
peace would be preserved and then departed. The novel interference of the
police is much talked of. It is but justice to add that Chief Constable
Anderson has been very active in the preservation of the peace, but a resident
magistrate in this wild and extensive part of the county, is absolutely
necessary. If the Stipendiary from Dungarvan, held, occasionally with such a
magistrate, Petty Sessions at Rathcormac, Kilrossenty, etc., a great
improvement in the people would soon be visible.
Phil O' Donnell Exhibition
These witness statements were collected by Dungarvan man Phil O' Donnell, who was employed in the 1950's by the Bureau of Military History to collect the statements and interviews from Cork Republicans. O’ Donnell was interned on Spike Island in 1921 and there is a collection of documents [including the roll book containing the names of over 700 Republican prisoners] also on display the documents show how O’Donnell complied his notes and what the completed interview statements looked like.
Stories from Old Newspapers
Dungarvan Observer 16 May 1959
Dungarvan
Hungarians Leave
Seen off at Dungarvan’s railway station on Wednesday
by a group of their local friends were the members of Dungarvan’s only
Hungarian family who have left the town. The members of the family were Mr
& Mrs Lazlo Hudak, natives of Budapest and their five years old son Lazlo;
with little one year old Lilian Dorian, who was born in Dungarvan and
christened in the Parish Church, her sponsors being Mr Tom Dolan, O’Connell
Street, and Mrs M Duggan, O’Connell Street.
Mr Hudak, who fled with his wife and family from
Budapest, following Russian reprisals after the anti-communist regime rebellion
four years ago, was employed as a confectioner at Mr Joseph Power’s Bakery,
O’Connell Street. Both he and his wife had a fair working knowledge of the
English language, and Lazlo junior who was a pupil at the local Convent of
Mercy school, rapidly became quite fluent simultaneously in Hungarian, English,
and Irish.
They left by liner, from Cobh for the United States of
America where they will join Mr Hudak’s brother in New York City.
Valuable Reference Source for Local Historians
The National Archives of Ireland have just launched the ‘Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland’. This state-funded project lead by Trinity College has combined historical investigation, archival conservation and technical innovation to re-imagine and recreate, through digital technologies. The archive of the Public Record Office of Ireland that was destroyed on 30th June 1922 during the destruction of the Four Courts. For instance there are near 500 documents referring to Dungarvan.
The site can be accessed at www.virtualtreasury.ie
New Display
Currently at the museum, we have a new display of shop memorabilia of retail shops in Dungarvan in olden days. These illustrate how retail outlets and producers advertised a variety of merchandise, both manufactured and sold in Dungarvan town in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Stories from Old Newspapers
Waterford News 20th February 1903
The re-opening
of the Temperance Hall some few weeks ago has already been productive of very
good results concerning the young men of the village. For a long time so to speak they were kept
out in the cold and deprived of the solace which they now enjoy in such an
admirable rendezvous as the Temperance Hall.
I understand that the dramatic class connected with the hall intended
getting on the boards in the course of a few months an Irish drama. In fact
they are already studying their respective parts in the piece, the name of
which has not yet been disclosed, except to members. The play will be first produced in
Kilmacthomas, and subsequently at Kill and Newtown, and the proceeds of each
occasion will be applied for the laudable purpose of enabling the respected
P.P. Father Purcell, to have erected in the church at Kill a new marble altar.
As the result
of recent entertainment given in the Temperance Hall, the debt hanging over the
local parochial house has been considerably reduced, and the equipment of the
hall itself has been completed. The
weekly meeting of the committee was held on Monday nights and a very
interesting matter was introduced by Mr. Patrick Morrissey moved the question
of reorganising the local brass band be considered, and pointed out the
acquisition and attraction which the band would prove, as it had proved in the
past, to the village…he suggested that if possible they should not encroach on
the funds of the Hall, but raise a special fund for the maintenance of the
band.
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New Display
Currently at the museum, we have a new display of shop memorabilia of retail shops in Dungarvan in olden days. These illustrate how retail outlets and producers advertised a variety of merchandise, both manufactured and sold in Dungarvan town in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Phil O' Donnell Exhibition
These witness statements were collected by Dungarvan
man Phil O' Donnell, who was employed in the 1950's by the Bureau of Military
History to collect the statements and interviews from Cork Republicans. O’
Donnell was interned on Spike Island in 1921 and there is a collection of
documents [including the roll book containing the names of over 700 Republican
prisoners] also on display the documents show how O’Donnell complied his notes
and what the completed interview statements looked like.
Valuable Reference Source for Local Historians
The National Archives of Ireland have just launched the ‘Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland’. This state-funded project lead by Trinity College has combined historical investigation, archival conservation and technical innovation to re-imagine and recreate, through digital technologies, the archive of the Public Record Office of Ireland that was destroyed on 30th June 1922 during the destruction of the Four Courts. For instance there are near 500 documents referring to Dungarvan.
The site can be accessed at www.virtualtreasury.ie
Summer Opening Times
The museum will now be open on Saturdays, starting from the 9th July to 27th of August 2022 and the opening times are 11am to 5pm.
Stories from Old Newspapers
Cork Examiner 26 May 1848
Rejoicings in Cappoquin for the Liberation of Messrs
Smith, O’Brien, and Meagher.
The announcement was received with raptures and
electrifying enthusiasm. Groups congregated in the streets – people
congratulating each other on the greatest victory ever yet achieved for the
Repeal cause…All business was forgotten in excitement…The United Repealers…at
once proceeded to the Repeal Committee-rooms, and a general illumination was
instantly agreed on. Scarcely a house but was brilliantly lighted, and the windows,
from base to attic, decorated with garlands and boughs. The United Repealers
paraded the streets until a late hour, walking six deep, and preceded by the
Cappoquin band, perhaps deservedly considered one of the best bands in the
south of Ireland, and whose occasional performance on board the ‘Star’ steamer,
is an additional inducement to fashionables from Youghal to view the beauties
of the Blackwater scenery.
[Amongst] the blaze of tar barrels and the
exhilarating and soul-stirring national airs played by the repea band. There
were no shouts- no cheers- no outward manifestations of triumph…It was as if
the hopes and aspirations that filled each bosom were too solemn and sacred for
foolish and unmeaning noise. After parading the streets till a late hour, the
Repealers adjourned to their reading-room, where the band played the ‘Memory of
the Dead’…all [then] separated fully assured that it was truthfully ‘a great
day for Ireland’.
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New Display
Currently at the museum, we have a new display of shop memorabilia of retail shops in Dungarvan in olden days. These illustrate how retail outlets and producers advertised a variety of merchandise, both manufactured and sold in Dungarvan town in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Summer Opening Times
The museum will now be open on Saturdays, starting from the 9th July to 27th of August 2022 and the opening times are 11am to 5pm.
