BEARA HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S TALKS DURING 2010
The President of Beara Historical Society, Gerard (Gerdie) Harrington recently launched his fourth book: ‘The Name is Harrington and the Heritage of the Graveyard’
The main themes in this new publication are stories of several local Harrington families and a history of old Beara Graveyards including many of the inscriptions on early tombstones.
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The last meeting of Beara Historical Society was in Twomey’s Lounge Bar, Castletownbere on Easter Monday 5th April at 8.30pm.
Dr. Liam Downey gave an illustrated talk on:
‘The 1850s in Ireland: Farming, Fisheries and Forestry’
From May on we will be organising monthly outdoor trips to places of historical and archaeological interest in Beara and beyond.
New members are always welcome to join the Beara Historical Society.
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Last
year marked the centenary of the birth of the world famous 'Rosary Priest'
Fr Patrick Peyton, who was born in Co Mayo in 1909 and who died, aged 82, in
1992.
In 1945, with World War 2 at it's final stages Fr Peyton invited Bing
Crosby, together with the family of the five Sullivan brothers, who had died
together in the war, to join him on live radio for peace. Over the following
four decades he promoted his prayer crusade across the globe through radio,
television and rallies, assisted by some of the major Hollywood stars of the
time.
To mark the centenary, the Beara Historical Society has invited a former colleague and close friend of Fr Peyton, Fr Steve Gibson, to give a talk on the remarkable man from a small farm in Mayo. Fr Gibson is attached to the Fr Peyton Memorial Centre in Attymass. He worked for 34 years at the University of Notre Dame and before that he taught for eight years in Idi Amin's Uganda.
This talk was originally scheduled for January last but the snows prevented Fr Gibson from travelling the long journey from Mayo. This most interesting talk will be held at Toomey's Lounge Bar on Thursday 27th of May at 8.30pm, and admission, as usual, is free.
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Last year marked the
centenary of the birth of the world famous 'Rosary Priest' Fr
Patrick Peyton, who was born in Co Mayo in 1909 and who died, aged
82, in 1992.
In 1945, with World War 2 at it's final stages Fr Peyton
invited Bing Crosby, together with the family of the five Sullivan
brothers, who had died together in the war, to join him on live
radio for peace.
Over the following four decades he promoted his prayer crusade across the globe through radio, television and rallies, assisted by some of the major Hollywood stars of the time.
To mark the centenary, the Beara Historical Society has invited a former colleague and close friend of Fr Peyton, Fr Steve Gibson, to give a talk on the remarkable man from a small farm in Mayo. Fr Gibson is attached to the Fr Peyton Memorial Centre in Attymass.
He worked for 34 years at the University of Notre Dame and before that he taught for eight years in Idi Amin's Uganda. This talk was originally scheduled for January last but the snows prevented Fr Gibson from travelling the long journey from Mayo.
This most interesting talk will be held at Toomey's Lounge Bar on Thursday 27th of May at 8.30pm, and admission, as usual, is free.
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