Irish National Foresters - St Molaga Branch, No.315 (Balbriggan) 1897-1942 by Jim Walsh
Irish National Foresters - St Molaga Branch, No.315 (Balbriggan) 1897-1942
Speaker: Jim Walsh Date: Wednesday March 30th 8pm Venue: Bracken Court Hotel Balbriggan
After a difficult two years Balbriggan & District Historical Society are delighted to announce that we are returning to in-person talks and we look forward to meeting up again with old and new friends of the Society.
Our first talk of 2022 is "Irish National Foresters - St Molaga Branch, No.315 (Balbriggan) 1897-1942 " by Jim Walsh and takes place on Wednesday March 30th at 8pm in the Bracken Court Hotel Balbriggan. Jim Walsh is very well known to you I am sure as a founding member of the Society and an expert on Balbriggan history who has given many talks on a variety of subjects.
The Irish National Foresters Benefit Society was founded in 1877 embracing the dictum of Unity, Benevolence and Nationality. Offering much needed financial and medical assistance to its members this social movement spread rapidly throughout the entire island of Ireland. When the Balbriggan branch was formed in 1897, there were already 300 branches already established in Ireland. In the year 1911, Balbriggan Branch numbered 111 members. A female branch named the Molly Bawn was founded in the following year 1912. Payments garnered from branch membership funds were disbursed to families for sickness, death, widows and orphans and sundry “distress”. The Irish branches held on to the English branch protocols in terms of costumes and particular functions such as Chief Ranger, Woodwarden, Beadle etc. Having met in the Balbriggan Band Rooms for the members erected their own edifice in Hampton Street in the year1913. Jim's talk will shed light on this almost forgotten subject.
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Bernie Kelly
PRO
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