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2011 Edition Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society Cumann Staire agus Seanda/afochta Cheatharloch Winter Lecture Series The "Platform Spellbinder" Daniel Delany Bishop of Kildare and Le1ghlin Heritage Week 2011 A Portrait of George Bernard Shaw (1787-1814) Fortiarnan History of the Methodist Church in Carlow Lewis's Carlow Franz Schwatschke Papal Infallibility and the possible Leighl!n Nexus The Carlow Man who saved Hitler GBS and Carlow Hacketstown and the 1641 Rebellion The Temptations of Vice and Villainy Do One Thing and Do It Well The Borough Electoral List of 1832 Tullow Fire Brigade Martin Byrne The Town Walls of Carlow Hacketstown Brass Band Schools History Prize Lady Harriet: Journeys through Europe and the Middle East Mother Cecilia Maher The Prehistoric Landscape of County Carlow Barrow Life The Vigors Family of Burgage Leighlinbridge The Society's Trip to the Highlands of Scotland History of the RTC & ITC Carlow and Darwin: Ireland and the Age of Earth Debate WhatTyndall Read The Society of St. Vincent De Paul in Carlow Kevin Barry Window Paddy Dowling Carloviana Index 1947-2010 The Delany Archive: An Introduction SPONSORS OUR SPONSORS Lnside the outer cover front and back you wi ll see our sponsors entries. 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For information contact the Museum: 059 9131759 Or go to WWW.CarlOWCOUntymuseum.COm CarlowCountyMuseum Carloviana 20 11 CARLOVIANA CARLOVIANA Contents December 2011 Message from the President ................ 2 Winter Lecture Series .......................... 3 No. 60 Heritage Week 2011 ............................. 4 Joint Editors: Martin Nevin Fortiarnan .............................................. 6 Pat O'Neill The "Platform Spellbinder" A Portrait James Shannon of George Bernard Shaw .................... 11 Franz Schwatschke ............................ 15 Printed by: CARLOW ADVERTISING & PRINTING GBS and Carlow ................................ 17 I.S.S.N. 0790 - 0813 Do One Thing and Do It Well ........... 18 EDITORIAL History of the Methodist Church in Carlow ............................................ 20 As we go to print we are assured that the long-awaited opening of the new Papal Infallibility and the possible County Museum is imminent. Leighlin Nexus .................................... 23 For this Society the day of the opening will be the culmination of a long effort Martin Byrne ....................................... 25 to provide such a facility. We are pleased and gratified that the work of many of our members since the late 1960s should at last result in the establishment of a Hacketstown and the 1641 Rebellion .. 29 permanent museum and we trust that the new museum will prove to be of real and The Borough Electoral List lasting value to the people of the area. of 1832 ................................................. 38 It is heartening to see the partnership between our Society and the local Schools History Prize .......................... 45 authority thus bearing fruit, and it is to be hoped that continuing such co-operation Daniel Delany Bishop of Kildare will ensure that the new museum will be staffed and run to the highest and Leighlin (1787-1814) .................. 46 professional standards, thus adding to the cultural landscape of Carlow a feature of which we can all be proud. The Town Walls of Carlow ............... 52 We are delighted to print in this edition the Index to Carloviana 1947-2010. Lewis's Carlow ................................... 58 This Index, we are confident, will be of immense benefit to researchers, making it The Carlow Man who saved Hitler ... 62 a much simpler task to find in our back issues the information they want. To compile this comprehensive Index was a time-consuming and challenging The Temptations task. We are very grateful to Eileen O'Neill for undertaking it and for presenting to of Vice and Villainy ............................. 64 us the admirable result, which is truly a testimony to her professional skills and to Tullow Fire Brigade ........................... 66 her immense capacity for taking pains. Hacketstown Brass Band .................. 69 Our thanks are also due to all our other contributors. The Society is fortunate indeed to have each year so many willing contributors whose voluntary work Lady Harriet: Journeys through enables us to publish an annual journal of a standard that bears comparison with Europe and the Middle East ............. 72 the journal of any Historical Society in Ireland. Long may this happy state of Mother Cecilia Maher ....................... 79 affairs continue. The Prehistoric Landscape of County Carlow ................................... 81 Barrow Life ......................................... 89 The Vigors Family of Burgage Leighlinbridge ................ 93 The Society's Trip to the Highlands of Scotland ..................... 103 History of the RTC & ITC .............. 105 Carlow and Darwin: Ireland and the Age of Earth Debate ................. 118 What Tyndall Read ......................... 134 The Society of St. Vincent De Paul in Carlow ......................................... 142 Kevin Barry Window ..................... 148 Paddy Dowling ................................ 151 Carloviana Index 1947-2010 .......... 159 The Delany Archive: View of the museum from Presentation Place. The extension is clad in Carlow cut An Introduction .................................. 189 limestone as the majority of the original Convent building is made from limestone rubble. Officers and Members 2011 ................. 191 FRONT COVER We acknowledge with grateful thanks Our new County Museum. the efforts of our contributors, written and Photograph courtesy of Carlow County Museum. photographic, and sponsors. Carloviana 2011 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT This is the third year in succession that I have penned these work of refurbishment and extension has been completed. notes. Next year you will have a new president. Our committee members were recently shown through the building by the curator Dermot Mulligan and were most The past year has been another good one for our society. impressed. We now await the fitting out and official The staple work of organising our annual series of six opening. Maybe this will have taken place before the launch lectures and the publishing of this journal was o_f this journal. accomplished. We have come to almost take these for granted but they would not be achieved without the large Recently I browsed through the first issue of Carloviana amount of work by the sub committees involved. dated January 1947. In it was an article