Tag: Race

Posted in Posts and podcasts

John J. Daly – Dowras – 1901

Posted on by The Burren and Beyond

Tuam Herald 6th July, 1901

In this neighbourhood Acrylic on board EO'D
In this neighbourhood
Acrylic on board
EO’D

At the international contest between Ireland and Scotland on last Saturday, a wonderful performance was witnessed in the four miles flat, when John J. Daly of Dowras, in this neighbourhood, finished second, minus a shoe. Daly had his man well in hand up to two and a half miles when one of his pumps fell off leaving him at a big disadvantage in his stride as well as having a foot exposed on a hard cinder track. Nevertheless he kept to the shoulder of the leading Scot with a pluck and determination worthy of all praise, and was but beaten by a few yards after a magnificent race. On this event depended the honour of the Emerald Isle, and but for this regrettable mishap Daly would have surely won. His time for that distance at the Irish Championship in Dublin was well inside that returned for the international race.

Posted in Posts and podcasts

The Burren Spa – 1824

Posted on by The Burren and Beyond

The Burren Photo: Ingo Mehling Wikimedia Commons
The Burren
Photo: Ingo Mehling
Wikimedia Commons
CONNAUGHT JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 13TH, 1824
RURAL SPORTS – The crowds now at the Burren Spa are beyond any calculation in that country. – The numbers assembled to see the best Irish jig dancers was immense and the contest so equal between two of the fair competitors, that the judges could not decide between them, and therefore directed the silver watch to be given to those very interesting girls, to be disposed of as they pleased. Immediately after the dancing, four horses were started, and there was a most excellent race. – On yesterday a fox was to have been shook at the well, and it was so arranged, that the ladies should witness “his funeral tears;” and on Sunday next there will be another race, and afterwards a hurling match, consisting of twenty-one men at each side – one party dressed in blue jackets and caps, and the other in red.–Limerick Paper.