Red
Cross 1919.
Carlow Sentinel, May 1919.
British
Red Cross.
Rathvilly and Hacketstown District.
- Part proceeds Rathvilly R.C. Church Collection per Rev. J.
O' Callaghan, £2 - 8 shillings.
- Hacketstown Church Collection per Rev. C.S. Ellison, £1 - 17
shillings.
- Part proceeds Fete at Lisnavagh, £50 - Part proceeds
- Concert at D'Israeli School per Mrs Anderson, £11 - 6
shillings
- L. H. Poe, £1.-one shilling.
- Miss Green, 12 shillings.
- Rev. Ellison and Mrs. Ellison, 5 shillings.
- Mrs. Earl, 2 shillings and six pence.
- Under 2/6 (two shillings and six pence) Mrs. Taylor, Parkin
Recipe.
Our Day.
- Part proceeds of Fete at Lisnavagh Autograph Quilt £18 -
one shilling.
- Hacketstown Church, per Rev. Ellison £3 - eleven
shillings.
- Hacketstown School, per Rev. Ellison, £1 - three
shillings.
- Lisnavagh, Sale of Game, £7 - twelve shillings. Etc.
Irish
Counties' War Hospital, County Carlow Ward.
- Lord Rathdonnell, £50.
- Lady Rathdonnell, £10.
- L.H. Poe, £5.
- Hon. T.L. McClintock-Bunbury £1.
- Very Rev. J. Delaney, P.P., V.F. Etc.
Prisoners' of War Funds.
- Leinster Regiment, £56.
- Royal Dublin Fusiliers, £72.
- South Irish Horse, £25.
Others.
- Nation's tribute to Nurses, £10.
- Belgian Relief Fund, £5.
Instructional Workshops.
- Military Orthopaedic Hospital, Blackrock, £36.
- National Egg Collection, 2,712 Eggs.
- Men's Work, Lisnavagh - 18 Bed-rests, 6 Bed Tables, 20
Crutches.
- K. A, Rathdonnell, President County Carlow Branch.
[Note added 2010. About
this time a new directive was issued from Sinn Fein in Carlow
requesting that fund raising activities for veterans of the Great
War were not to be approved or supported. It was further requested
that dances or events organised by the "Comrades of the Great War"
were not to be approved or supported.
The above collections were
recorded in The Sentinel. The total collected in the Rathvilly /
Hacketstown area for May, 1919 was £501, twelve shillings and eleven
pence. The President and main fund-raiser was Kathleen A.
Rathdonnell (Bunbury) of Lisnavagh.]
I think 'Kathleen A. Rathdonnell' should
probably read 'Katherine' - she was one of the Bruens of Oak Park
and married Tom Bunbury (later Lord Rathdonnell) in 1876. I believe
she was instrumental in sending soup wagons to Rathvilly during the
Spanish Flu epidemic earlier in that year. Autograph
Turtle Bunbury
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Quilts Red Cross 1919
Autograph Quilts first became popular in the
mid-1800s. Indelible ink was available after 1840 and these quilts
were inscribed with names and sometimes poetry. Many of the
autograph quilts that we see today were signed by family and friends
as a remembrance to people. They are also called friendship quilts.
There are two distinct kinds of autograph
quilts. Single pattern quilts are often referred to as "friendship
quilts" while the more formal quilts made of different blocks are
called sampler album quilts.
Although both carried on the same tradition of
signed remembrances, they were quite different. Sampler album quilts
were made up of several unique intricately pieced or intricate
appliqué pieces or blocks. A friendship quilt was usually made of
several blocks from the same pattern. These blocks could be quickly
made from fabric scraps.
(From our "friends" Michael
Purcell & Google....)
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The above is a true and
accurate transcript of the original document.
- Transcribed by M. Purcell c2010.
- Old newspapers in the PPP.