Friday, May 28, 2010

Remembering the Donnelly's Hollow pageant

With the recent resurgent interest in 19th century pugilist Dan Donnelly, it is perhaps timely to look at how the Leinster Leader of 25th April 1953 reports on how the Kilcullen Tostal Committee rolled back the years, to present at Donnelly's Hollow a pageant of the famous fight which sent Irish cheers thundering across the Curragh plains on a December day in 1815.

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This is available on the The Kildare Online Electronic History Journal.


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