Student Barrel Roll for Charity
Item
Format
JPEG
Title
Student Barrel Roll for Charity
Identifier
14817
Depiction
A group of ten young men accompany a Guinness barrel which sits on a pram frame and it being pulled by two of the men.
Description
In response to a famine in the Congo, in 1961 a group of UCG students decided to roll a Guinness barrel from Galway to Dublin for charity. The bands fell off the barrel by the time they got to St. Patrick's Church, so they borrowed a pram and continued on their journey to Ballinasaloe, pushing the barrel in the pram. By then the pram had 'given up the ghost' and a local auctioneer replaced it. Along the route they collected money and were provided with free hotel accommodation and meals. At Kinnegad a local blacksmith had to do emergency repairs to the pram, but the group eventually arrived at St. James' Gate in Dublin and presented Major General J. Sweeney, general secretary of the Red Cross, with the proceeds of their charity walk, £135 - a considerable sum. Messrs. Guinness presented them with the barrel as a souvenir, and it was later displayed in a glass case at UCG.
People
Ger Tuohy
Ray Walsh
Paddy Fox
Billy Walsh
Peter Flanagan
Paddy Walsh
Manus McLafferty,
Paddy Donoghue
Johnny Rooney
Kevin 'Doc' Doherty
Ray Walsh
Paddy Fox
Billy Walsh
Peter Flanagan
Paddy Walsh
Manus McLafferty,
Paddy Donoghue
Johnny Rooney
Kevin 'Doc' Doherty
Contributor
event
Charity event
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
Period
1961
Category
b&w
Keywords
Students
Charity
Barrel
Congo
Creator
Unknown
Publisher
University of Galway Library
Rights
This image may be used for non-commercial purposes under CC BY-NC-SA see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Coverage
Dublin
Item sets
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