Photos from the Sean Hillen collection

[Brian]

A selection from The Seán Hillen Collection of photographs acquired by the National Library of Ireland

[fourthroad]

I remember this and I am at the back holding the banner. This was the unfolding of the new INF Heart of Erin banner in the early 80s, lot of point people here, Tommy Magill. Jimmy Barry, Jimmy White, Billy and Derek M'Kinley, John Rooney, Patsy McGuinness, John White, Joe Smith, Tommy Rice, Damien Larmour and George Kennedy all of them RIP.

[xpaddy]

lst photo - Uncle Stokes's wife Brigid to
the right of the photo.
Who is the priest?

Fourthroad - Don's Dad died in May l982.
Must have been taken in 80/81.

[Padraigin]

Would it be Fr Tom?
That's Mrs Rice and Mary RIP

[greengreengrass]

Would it be Fr Tom?
That's Mrs Rice and Mary RIP

Definitely Fr.Tom McConville Pádraigín.........what a lovely person Mary Rice (Sullivan) was, taken far too soon.

[joanne]

The lady at the front of the first photo holding the collection box looks like Mrs Reilly from Burren.

[yellowline3]

would it be Judith and Janet with their Granny Bridget in the first photo?