The Donnelly's Hollow pageants

Following a recent request from Dr John Feehan, School of Biology and Environmental Science in UCD, for some of the photographs from the 1953 Donnelly's Hollow Pageant, I thought it an opportune time to make them available on the Diary as a slide show.



The pictures are courtesy of Jim Berney (wearing black top hat above), who played the part of Dan Donnelly in the reenactment of the famous fight with English champion George Cooper.

I've put some links relating to the pageants and Dan Donnelly below, but even though it was more than 50 years ago, maybe there are some people out there with their own memories of the pageants? We'd love to hear from you.

The Donnellys Hollow pageants
Dan Donnelly -- the short story
Arming America

Brian Byrne.