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Unpaginated, but circa 60 mss. pages in pencil in a neat hand. The first few pages lists details including names of places, population and other facts relating to counties Leitrim and Monaghan. The first dated page 6/5/01 has the written death notice of William Rooney 23 Leinster Avenue (Celtic Literary Society). William Rooney (29 September 1873-6 May 1901) was an Irish nationalist, journalist, poet and Gaelic revivalist. Along with Arthur Griffith and Denis Devereux he founded the Celtic Literary Society, and with Griffith founded the first Cumann na nGaedheal. The notes for 1901 relate to the development of Irish language classes, musical evening & competitions, the Oireachtas, branch election, the founding of St.Laurence O'Toole Hurling club, the establishment of a North Dublin Ward Branch, appointments on committees & more. Similar notes apply for the years 1902 & '03 but include such matters as public meetings, notices re St.Laurence Hurling club matches, dances, & dance classes restricted to Gaelic League members, concerts, members present at meetings, team selections, reading of various papers at meetings, reading of Claidheamh Soluis, classes for men and classes for women, numbers attending classes, venues - among places mentioned were St.Laurence O'Toole's Christian Brother's school, Sisters of Charity Convent, 17, Emerald Street, Donnnycarney and other venues, Gaelic League Commemoration Concert at Parish schools - "a respected feature of which will be an address on the Life of St.Laurence by P.H.Pearse. of the Gaelic League Executive". Other matters included the establishment of a football team. A number of pages towards the end of the mss.go into some detail about the concert at the Rotunda under the auspices of the branch & include a reference to Brian and comments on the performances of various people and the audience responses to these. Towards the end the dates as written go back in time and include details on the establishment of the branch to be known as The St.Laurence O'Toole's Branch of the Gaelic League. In forming both a hurling and football club, both of which initially were independent of each other this Cumann was the effective origin of what is now O'Toole's GAA Club. Their website summarises it well: "We are a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Dublin, Ireland, formed in 1901. An earlier Saint Laurence O?Toole G.A.A. club existed in the North Wall area from 1888 to 1896. The St. Laurence O?Toole branch of the Gaelic League held their inaugural meeting in February 1901. Brother J.A. O?Mahoney, Superior of O?Connell?s schools was elected the first president of O?Toole?s GAC. The Hurling team was formed in 1901 on Thursday 8 October 1901 when Edward Keegan was elected captain, Thomas Keegan, secretary, and John Taylor treasurer and the football team was established in 1902. O?Tooles entered their first camogie team into the Dublin Camogie league in 1912. This mss. records this formation as well as numeroous non sprting matters relating to this Gaelic League branch. Seller Inventory # 017272
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