Douglas Hyde talks Leeside, and anger at vandalism of Cork Athletic Grounds
A LARGE audience assembled at the Examination Hall, UCC, last night to hear Dr Douglas Hyde deliver his lecture, ‘The Irish Language Revival - Some Experiences’, the Echo reported 100 years ago today, on Saturday, November 10, 1923.
The co-founder of Conradh na Gaeilge (the Gaelic League) and future President of Ireland was afforded a very hearty welcome and his discourse was followed with the deepest interest and punctuated repeatedly with applause. UCC President, Patrick Merriman, presided.
The Legion of Irish Ex-Servicemen announce that annual memorial services will be held tomorrow, with mass at Holy Trinity, Fr Mathew Quay, at 10am and service at St. Finbarr’s Cathedral at 10.45am.
Roman Catholics will parade outside 6, South Mall, at 9.30 and march off at 9.45. Church of Ireland members will do likewise at 10.15 and 10.30 and be accompanied to the cathedral by the Catholic party on their return from mass.
The combined body will then proceed to Gilabbey Rock where a wreath will be laid at the Monument as a tribute to the fallen of the Great War and to Irishmen who fell in the South African War.
All will then return together to the South Mall where dismiss will be ordered.
I notice the Cork Progressive Association and Cork Workers Council have joined hands with the Corporation in the movement for an extension of the city’s boundary. Now we shan’t be long in getting all those wished for loans.
Is it that the traders in this Solomon’s mart are too poor to bear up as ordinary shopkeepers?
The Chairman of the Corporation’s markets committee recently attacked the onion sellers at the market’s gate, saying their operations were unfair to the stallholders. But is it fair to the citizens that £2,000 should be lost on the management of the market?
No doubt the Progressive Association will help arrange the new city boundary and rating so that this subsidy to ‘distressed’ traders can continue to be glossed over.
J.J. Buckley, Secretary of the Cork Athletic Grounds, has written to the County Board describing the wanton destruction visited upon the facilities there.
(1.) The four dressing rooms and lavatories destroyed by fire.
(2.) The reserved stand partially burned.
(3.) The goalposts and nets sawn down and rendered useless.
(4.) The railing at both ends cut with saws and thrown over the field and burned.
(5.) Stand and storeroom doors broken.
Mr Buckley was hoping for a constructive response from the Board. The grounds have been a boon to clubs and to the citizens generally. Many important inter-county contests have been staged there which would otherwise have gone elsewhere, along with the financial benefits accruing from the influx of visitors to the city. Charitable tournaments, too, have received the unstinting support of the Grounds Committee.
The reaction of the County Board was most disappointing. There was a solitary expression of regret from the Chairman and the observation that the destruction was not a matter for the Board but for the Grounds Committee, being a private company. (The Athletic Grounds were the forerunner to Páirc Uí Chaoimh).
Tomorrow at the Mardyke there will be an excellent exhibition of hurling and football when Cork Command meet Curragh Command at 2pm.
Both sides have carefully selected their best trained men and hard-fought matches may be expected.
Cork presently hold the Army Championship and defeated Limerick twice recently. Cork Command hurlers will be captained by Captain Ryan and the football team by Lieutenant O’Connor.
Three greyhound puppies for sale by Schoolmaster. Four months old. The sire is out of the best brood bitch in England (Just Coming) and the dam out of the best in Ireland (Gay Maureen). These two brood bitches bred the Waterloo Cup winners for the past three years. The best female tail line in the British Isles. Apply Gobby Stud, Carrigaline.
Dancing every evening at the Mardyke Rink commences at 7.30pm.
“I Ain’t Nobody’s Darling!” (as the contemporary song by Jack Hylton’s Jazz Band went). But if you come to the Grand Carnival Dance on Sunday evening you certainly will be.
There will be carnival novelties, confetti battles, spot dances, limelights and illuminations, and teas can be had at the buffet at a reasonable charge.
Wither’s Full Dublin Orchestra on Sunday night, with dancing from 8pm to 1.30am. Ladies 2/-, Gents 3/-.
