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It starts tomorrow! Follow Bishop Burrows on his tour around the diocese and back in history

FINAL poster - 150 Disestablishment Tour - Bishop Burrows

Bishop Michael Burrows’ Virtual 150 Disestablishment Tour begins at 9.30 a.m. tomorrow. Below you can see the timetable and the topics he will be covering at each location.  There is a great selection among the 150 topics so there is plenty to choose. Do listen in if you can.  It could be a great way to break lockdown boredom and take one’s mind off the weather.  Remember that donations are welcome, however small, towards Bishops’ Appeal women’s literacy projects in the developing world in association with Mothers’ Union and Feed The Minds either via the donate button on this homepage and by cheque to the Diocesan Office. All will be very much appreciated and many thanks to those who have already contributed.

Enjoy!

Timetable for Disestablishment 150 Road Trip

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12th 2020

TIME VENUE YEAR IN FOCUS TOPIC
0930 St Canice’s Kilkenny 1870 The time between the times
1000 St John’s Kilkenny 1871 The new era begins
1040 Freshford 1872 Outings by horse tram
1400 The Colliery Church 1873 Disestablishment and TCD
1430 Castlecomer 1874 The IRFU is formed
1520 Bilboa 1875 C.S. Parnell elected to parliament
1600 Mothel 1876 The General Synod and temperance

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH 2020

0930 Aghaboe 1877 Gladstone visits Ireland
1000 Borris-in-Ossry 1878 Death of Cardinal Cullen
1045 Sier Kieran 1879 Famine in the West and the Irish Church Missions
1130 Annatrim 1880 ‘Boycotting’
1215 Lacca 1881 A census year
1250 Clonenagh 1882 Trollope and the Post Office
1325 Roskelton 1883 Our first electric railway
1435 Rathdowney 1884 The first women graduates
1505 Rathsaran 1885 Tenant Purchase/Ashbourne Act
1535 Castlefleming 1886 First Home Rule Bill
1605 Donaghmore 1887 ‘Shoot to kill’ policy by the RIC
       

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH 2020

0945 Clonbeg 1888 Belfast becomes a city
1045 Cashel 1889 The political fall of Parnell
1135 Magorban 1890 A census in the USA
1215 Fethard 1891 The death of Parnell
1300 Clonmel 1892 Emergence of Douglas Hyde
1350 Tullameelan 1893 Emergence of WB Yeats
1430 Marlfield 1894 Spanish Protestants and the Church of Ireland
1510 Cahir 1895 Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol
1600 Tipperary 1896 Maynooth starts to award degrees
1650 Dundrum 1897 The first Feis Ceoil

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST 2020

1000 Thurles 1898 The Local Government (Ireland) Act
1045 Templemore 1899 The Adventures of and Irish R.M.
1125 Kilfithmone 1900 History introduced to the National School syllabus
1220 Johnstown 1901 Death of Queen Victoria
1310 Littleton 1902 End of the Boer War
1400 Kilcooley 1903 St Patrick’s Day becomes a bank holiday
1450 Crohane 1904 Opening of Coláiste na Mumhan
1830 Ballintubbert 1905 Modern ecumenism begins
1910 Luggacurran 1906 The Irish railway network is completed
1950 Timogue 1907 Ne Temere
2020 Stradbally 1908 Local Authority Housing Schemes introduced
2045 Curraclone 1909 The birth of modern tourism in Ireland

 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH 2020

0945 Shankill 1910 Death of Edward VII
1020 Leighlin 1911 The Parliament Act and Home Rule again
1115 Carlow 1912 The possibility of Irish partition emerges
1150 Staplestown 1913 Seán O’Casey and the Dublin slums
1220 Urglin 1914 The war and press censorship
1400 Nurney 1915 The Fools, the Fools, the Fools…they have left us our Fenian dead
1440 Bagnelstown 1916 Executions after the Rising
1525 Lorum 1917 Henry Ford and Cork
1615 Killedmond 1918 A dramatic General Election
1700 Borris 1919 Alcock and Brown
1740 Goresbridge 1920 A bloody year in the War of Independence

 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25TH 2020

0830 Kilkenny College Chapel 1921 The Truce
1000 Aughmacart 1922 The Treaty split
1040 Durrow 1923 Emergence of the Irish Council of Churches
1115 Killermogh 1924 Cutting a shilling off the old age pension
1200 Abbeyleix 1925 No petty people (Yeats)
1245 Ballinakill 1926 The sugar factories begin
1330 Ballyroan 1927 Fianna Fáil enters the Dáil
1515 Ballyfin 1928 First East/West transatlantic flight
1600 Portlaoise 1929 Mussolini and the Vatican
1640 Portlaoise, Hosp Chapel 1930 The case of the Mayo County librarian
1720 The Rock 1931 Guests of the Nation by Frank O’Connor is published

 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26TH 2020

1030 Piltown 1932 The Economic War
1115 Portlaw 1933 The National Anthem
1150 Clonegam 1934 Northern Ireland – ‘a Protestant parliament and a Protestant state’
1240 Kilmeadan 1935 Events at the Belfast shipyards
1430 Annestown 1936 Abolition of the First Seanad
1510 Tramore 1937 A new Constitution
1615 Dunmore 1938 The British leave the Treaty ports
1715 Waterford Cathedral 1939 The Emergency
1845 Kilnamanagh 1940 Ireland’s own ‘Dad’s Army’

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH 2020

1000 Fenagh 1941 Neutrality – Irish style
1030 Myshall 1942 The Tale of The Tailor and Ansty
1110 Aghade 1943 An Irish Flora published
1150 Ardoyne 1944 The arrival of children’s allowances
1240 Aghold 1945 The Bomb
1320 Shillelagh 1946 Establishment of Bord na Móna
1400 Mullinacuffe 1947 The terrible winter
1530 Tullow 1948 The Republic is achieved
1630 Kildavin 1949 The last old Dublin trams
1705 Clonegall 1950 The Korean war
1740 Bunclody 1951 The Wexford Opera Festival begins
1815 Kilrush 1952 Adoption legalised in Ireland

 

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3RD 2020

1000 Inistioge 1953 Ireland and the Coronation
1040 Kilfane 1954 The debate on contraception begins
1130 Ennisnag 1955 Joining the UN
1200 Kells 1956 Right to Irish citizenship of those born in Northern Ireland clarified
1230 Kilmoganny 1957 Fethard-on-Sea
1545 Cloydagh 1958 Farewell to the transatlantic liners
1620 Killeshin 1959 Mr De Valera moves to the Park
1705 Mayo 1960 Commission on ‘Itinerancy’
1745 Castletown 1961 Ireland’s own television channel

 

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4TH 2020

0945 Horetown 1962 Gay Byrne!
1030 Taghmon 1963 JFK
1115 Balloughton 1964 ‘Athbheochan na Gaeilge’
1205 Mulrankin 1965 Women’s Lib
1245 Kilscoran 1966 Nelson’s Pillar
1320 Killinick 1967 The Armagh planetarium
1500 Castlebridge 1968 Coal mines close at Castlecomer
1545 Wexford 1969 George Simms becomes Primate
1640 Killurin 1970 Murder of Garda Fallon
1730 Templescoby 1971 Decimalisation
1810 Clonmore 1972 Suspension of Stormont Parliament
1930 Enniscorthy 1973 EEC entry
2010 Clone 1974 Death of President Childers
2050 Monart 1975 Death of Mr De Valera

 

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5TH 2020

1015 Rathvilly 1976 Assassination of the British Ambassador
1055 Baltinglass 1977 McDonald’s opens in Grafton Street
1135 Ballynure 1978 Final poems of Seán O’Riordáin published
1215 Stratford 1979 Occupying Wood Quay
1400 Kiltegan 1980 Life is changed by a chance meeting
1440 Moyne 1981 The Stardust fire
1515 Hacketsown 1982 The year of ‘GUBU’
1550 Clonmore 1983 The heroism of Don Tidey
1700 Camolin 1984 The death of Anne Lovett and her baby in Granard
1745 Ballymore 1985 Women first admitted to train for ordination
1830 Kilcormack 1986 Chernobyl

 

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8TH 2020

1400 Carnew 1987 A new system of vehicle registration
1440 Kilcommon 1988 The Gibraltar killing of IRA suspects and subsequent horrors
1530 Preban 1989 The last single party government
1620 Kilpipe 1990 F.R. Higgins poem Father and Son

 

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10TH 2020

1015 Hollyfort 1991 Death of Dr Theda Beere
1050 Gorey 1992 Bishop Eamon Casey
1125 Leskinfere 1993 The Greysteel, County Derry massacre
1205 Ballycanew 1994 Death of Sir Alfred Beit of Russborough
1345 Kiltennel 1995 The removal of the divorce prohibition
1420 Ardamine 1996 The year my mother died
1500 Clonevan 1997 Drumcree
1535 Kilmuckridge 1998 The Good Friday Agreement
1610 Kilnamanagh 1999 The Millenium Bug – much ado about nothing
1650 Monamolin 2000 The quirks of US Presidential elections

 

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11TH 2020

1000 Fethard-on-Sea 2001 9/11
1040 Killesk 2002 The Euro arrives
1120 Whitechurch 2003 The Spire in O’Connell Street
1200 New Ross 2004 The smoking ban
1240 Old Ross 2005 The speed limits change to km/h
1400 Rossdroit 2006 My last days as a parish priest
1440 Killegney 2007 Tony Blair leaves the stage
1520 Killanne 2008 The end of Irish Biscuits in Dublin
1605 Ballycarney 2009 We first meet Dr Tony Holohan
1750 Ferns Cathedral 2010 The Dublin/Cork motorway is completed
1845 Templeshanbo 2011 The royal visit

 

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12TH 2020

0830 Fountain 2012 A dreadful General Synod
0915 Lismore 2013 The Papal resignation
0950 Cappoquin 2014 No more ‘Ridings’ in County Tipperary
1030 Dungarvan 2015 The equal marriage referendum
1115 Stradbally 2016 Death of Jack Boothman, ex GAA president
1150 Kilmacthomas 2017 A splendid new website Gloine.ie
1225 Comeragh 2018 Good Friday – with the pubs open
1530 Bishop’s House Chapel 2019 And he leads his children on