The Hellfire #history #HeritageWeek2024
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Our final #HeritageWeek2024 post from the #IRFU archives, is a photograph of the team that won the Triple Crown in 1899. This was the second time Ireland won, the first was in 1894.
Order from Padraig Ó Ruitleis, Minister for Home Affairs, decreeing ‘that until further notice the present be observed as a time of National mourning, that all sports and amusements be suspended, that all Theatres, picture houses and other places of amusement and rest be closed …’. (13 March 1923).
Dinner menu for England V Ireland, February 1886.
A little tidy up in the Milestones in Ireland category on #Wikimedia, very fitting for the #HeritageWeek2024 topic of connections and networks. #opendata
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Milestones_in_Ireland
Minute book of the first meeting of the Irish Champion Athletic Club (ICAC), formed in 1872 by Henry Dunlop after the TCD Provost banned athletics meetings on college grounds. Dunlop also leased the storied Landsdowne Road grounds.
Members tickets for the Lancashire County and Manchester Cricket Club, including details of fixtures and matches, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937.
IRFU Committee ticket for 1921–1922 fixtures.
The moon still shining brightly at the Hellfire this morning. #sunrise #HeritageWeek2024 #Dublin #weather #GoodMorning #supermoon
Cap belonging to Ainsworth Barr who received 4 caps for Ireland, 1898-1901.
Cap belonging to Rev. William Sparrow (1893).
Cap belonging to Arthur Joseph Downing who received one cap for Ireland against Wales in 1882.
Signed jersey from 1907 belonging to Harold Sugars (1882-1949). Sugars gained his cap at Trinity College Dublin, in 1906, and was picked to represent Ireland as an Irish Rugby international on several occasions, including against New Zealand in 1905, and against South Africa in 1906.
Sugars joined the Colonial Medical Service on graduation in 1908. He was stationed in the Malay Peninsula and released in 1915 to join the RAMC. He was awarded the MC and the DSO. #HeritageWeek2024
Sketch of shamrock designs for the Irish rugby team Jerseys c.1884-5.
At the 1885 Annual Union Committee meeting, the design for the crest on the Irish rugby team jerseys was changed to a shamrock pattern, which has been used on their jerseys ever since.
In 2023 ther IRFU deposited their archive in UCDA as part of their preparations for their 150th anniversary.
The collection is being catalogued by archivist Niamh Jordan, who will post items from the archive thoughout the week as part of #HeritageWeek2024. Follow for more!
It's a new day #sunrise #SaturdayMood #Hellfire #HeritageWeek2024
It's official, I'm giving another talk for #HeritageWeek. Will contain traces (ha, punny) of #openstreetmap , #Wikidata and #wikimedia: https://www.heritageweek.ie/event-listings/citizen-science-kilkenny-heritage-sites-linked-open-data
#HeritageWeek2024 #folklore #opendata
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