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Court Place Branch: Tel. No. 059/9131676 DUBLIN STREET, CARLOW. Phone: 059-9131921 BERNARD JENNINGS, F.A.0.1. MICHAEL DOYLE Ophthalmic Option Builders Merchants & DIY Store 2 DUBLIN STREET, CARLOW. Tel: 059-9143808 Fax: 059-9143245 SHAMROCK BUSINESS PARK, GRAIGUECULLEN, CARLOW. Tel: 059-9131847 PAUL WHITE, M.P.S.I. Bring your friends to a musical evening in Carlow's unique Veterinary & Dispensing Chemist Music \lounge each Saturday and Sunday. Photographic and Toilet Goods SMYTHS of NEWTOWN SINCE 1815 TULLOW STREET, CARLOW. PHONE: 059-9131229 Ph: 059-9727159 MICHAEL BYRNE PEADAR & ETTA DOYLE 'CAMELOT', NEWSAGENTS 48, Monacurragh, Carlow. CARLOW SHOPPING CENTRE: Tel. 059-9130169 CARLDVIANA CARLOVIANA Contents December 2004 Front cover ........................................... 2 No. 53 Back cover ............................................ 3 Editors: Martin Nevin Cathleen Delaney In the Footsteps of his Dermot Mulligan famous Uncle ........................................ 4 Rev. Dermot McKenna Brothers in Arms ................................. 7 Typesetting: Martin Nevin Muinebheag Town Co~on ............. 10 Printed by: CARLOW ADVERTISING & PRINTING Stepping Stones of County Carlow .. 14 I.S.S.N. 0790 - 0813 Carlow & its Medieval Walls ............ 16 Editorial Carlow Football in the 40s ................ 19 William Dargan! with pride shall the land of thy birth Knights Temp Jar in Co. Carlow ....... 25 Show, if any henceforth dare to mock it, A son nobler by far than most Lords of the earth, Carlow's Proud Handball This man with his hand in his pocket. Tradition .............................................. 31 WILLIAM DARGAN HONOURED IN 2004 The Graigue Ormond Club ............. 37 A Most Religious Family from One hundred and seventy years ago the building of the railway which linked Dublin Bagenalstown ...................................... 38 with Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire) heralded the start of a new transport age for this country. It was Ireland's first railway, the contractor for which was self proclaimed Index of Carloviana Articles ............. 39 Carlowman, William Dargan. Ten years later on February 29, 1844, Dargan's great est engineering achievement the Atmospheric Railway was opened to the public. It Sean O'Casey & the Old Leighlin ran between Kingstown and Dalkey and brought him international fame. It is record Influence ....................................... :..... 45 ed that England's most renowned engineer, Kingdom Brunel came to Ireland to view it working. William Dargan Honoured ............... 46 Centre Piece ........................................ 48 William Dargan went on to build over one third of Ireland's network of railways. But his legacy to this country cannot be confined solely to the building of railways, The Jackson Collection ..................... 50 Dargan financed the great Irish Exhibition of 1853, his intention being to 'puff Irish wares.' He also gave of his time, knowledge and experience to many committees. The Trial of Arthur Wallace ............. 56 According to one researcher, he was high Sheriff and Deputy-Lieutenant of Dublin city, a member of Dublin Chamber of Commerce and of the Ouzel Galley Society. In Archaeological Find ........................... 60 addition he became the first president of this country's second oldest society, the Irish Civil Service (ICS) which was established in 1864 and is now wholly-owned sub Eddie Power ....................................... 62 sidiary of the Bank of Ireland. Stained Glass Windows of Co. Carlow .......................................... 63 Throughout his career, Dargan engaged himself in diverse projects in a valiant effort to employ thousands of his fellow Irishmen. Throughout Ireland's darkest era, the Practical , Business & Physical years of the great hunger, Dargan was looked on as the symbol of hope for this Education: Perspectives from the nation. Today, among historians, he ranks as one of Ireland's greatest entrepenaurs. Early Years ......................................... 66 William Dargan was an extremely talented but humble man who declined to enter par The Chapel at Castletown ................. 83 liament and refused a Baronetcy. He has for long been commemorated by a statue out side the National gallery and a bridge named after him in Carlow. Some years ago a Highlights of Fifty Years Ago ............ 84 newly constructed bridge over the River Lagan was given the name Dargan Rail Rules of Rathanna & Borris Bridge and in more recent times a plaque was erected to his memory in both Carlow Religious Community ........................ 86 and Portlaoise railway stations. Carlovians in the Defence Forces ..... 88 This year, on Monday 19th. July, as a fitting tribute to the man who built the old Harcourt Line, which has now become the Luas Green Line, the fine award winning cable-stay bridge at Taney junction, Dundrum, Dublin was given the name William Dargan Bridge. Here our children may see when he's laid in the dust. And his light burnt out in its socket. God's noblest of works, a man generous and just, We acknowledge with grateful thanks the This man with his hand in his pocket. efforts of our contributors written and photo graphic and sponsors. In especial we thank the Nationalist & Leinster Times for access to its Editors' desk. files and allowing helpful extracts to be used. CARLOVIANA FRONT COVER PHOTOGRAPH beyond touch as shadows upon the glass, wrap around the exterior of THE STONE the memorial and into the passageway leading to the cottage, while REPRESENTING Co. CARLOW accounts of world hunger are heard from an audio installation over head. AT Brian Bolle's Irish Hunger Memorial at Battery Park City communi THE IRISH HUNGER MEMORIAL cates with the visitor on many levels, resulting in a powerful, yet NEW YORK flexible, framework within which to convey information encourag ing action through commemoration. The Carlow stone ,,N Map of The Irish Runge; Memorial he Irish Hunger Memorial, created by artist Brian Tolle at Martin Nevin pointing toJhe Carlow stone TBattery Park City, is designed to raise public awareness of the ), I . events that led to the famine of 1845 - 52 and to encourage efforts to address current and future hunger worldwide. One and a half million Irish were lost through famine related death and the Diaspora. Beginning with a blighted potato crop, a confluence of political action and inaction exacerbated a desperate situation. Many Irish emigrated to America, where their profound influence on the social and cultural landscape continues to the present day. Brian Tolle's design expresses a desire to react and respond to chang ing world events without losing its focus on the projects commemo rative intent. Central to Tolle's project is an authentic Famine-era cot tage donated to the memorial by his extended family, the Slacks of Attymass, County Mayo, Ireland. The cottage has been painstaking ly reconstructed on the memorial's half-acre site as an expression of solidarity to those who left from those who stayed behind. From the cottage, visitors to the memorial meander along paths winding through a rugged landscape thickly planted with native Irish flora, plants often found growing in fallow fields. Ascending to an over look twenty-five feet above the ground the visitor confronts a breath taking view of the Statue of Liberty at Fills Island beyond. This landscape is cantilevered over a stratified base of glass and fos silised Irish limestone, presenting a theater of historical and modem sentimen about famine worldwide. layers of mutable text, appearing CARLOVIANA im Buckley (the Band's first Pipe Major), John Stevens, Rich BACK CCJVER PHCJTCJGRAPH TSmith and Jerry Buckley founded