Posts made in December, 2015


Transcribed by Larry Scallan Thomas MacDonagh: I am attending tonight  as the representative of the Provisional Committee of the Irish Volunteers, we have began in Dublin and have three thousand men drilling and preparing to serve their country in this cause. Kilkenny is the first place that we are looking to in Leinster and all Ireland, for help in this movement, and from the meeting tonight we know that we had not counted falsely in...

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James Lalor was born in 1888 in Kilkenny City. He was sworn into the IRB in 1905 as a seventeen year old by Peter deLoughry. At this time there was a resurgence of the political and military aims of the organization in the county. At the age of 26 he joined the Irish National Volunteers on 5 March 1914, when a Kilkenny City Company was formed during a large meeting was held on the parade. All new volunteers were enlisted in the town...

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James Nowlan by Paddy Neary.

James Nowlan by Paddy Neary.


Posted on Dec 4, 2015

Ald JAMES NOWLAN and NOWLAN PARK James Nowlan’s family lived in Upper Patrick St., for a time his father Patrick, a Cooper by trade worked in Sullivans Brewery James St. but due to a down turn in the Brewing business the family moved to Monastereven, Co.Kildare where James was born in 1862. The family later returned to Kilkenny and took up residence at no 2 Troy’s Gate, where James lived for most of his life and trained as a cooper in...

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