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Post by Kentgal on Sept 28, 2008 21:42:54 GMT
Jack Dempsey -Boxer
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Post by Kentgal on Sept 28, 2008 21:43:40 GMT
Walter Wellesby Bishop Of Kildare 1529
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Post by Kentgal on Sept 28, 2008 21:44:45 GMT
Eric Rigby Jones - Founder of The Ropes Factory 1933 - 1970's?
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Post by Kentgal on Sept 28, 2008 21:44:16 GMT
John Freeman- Archiect built Newbridge Military Barracks.
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Post by Kentgal on Sept 28, 2008 21:47:32 GMT
USA - Richard Nixon's roots ...reportedly
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Post by Kentgal on Sept 28, 2008 21:49:01 GMT
Edward Pomeroy-Colley born Castle Carbery. 1st class passenger went down with the Titanic.
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Post by Kentgal on Sept 28, 2008 21:53:41 GMT
Gertrude Pomeroy - Colley born Castle Carbery. Grandmother of two Famous actors - EG. 'Ralph' (Schindlers List) and 'Joseph'(Shakespeare in Love) "Elizabeth" Fiennes!!.
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Post by Kentgal on Sept 28, 2008 21:56:22 GMT
British Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes - a decendent of Pomeroy Colley Family of Castle Carbery.
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Post by Kentgal on Sept 28, 2008 21:57:49 GMT
Duke Of Wellington - born at Castle Carbery. Later defeated Napoleon
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Post by Kentgal on Sept 28, 2008 22:07:02 GMT
Of course it was George Cooper the British Champion Boxer whom Donnelley defeated by the 'Hollow'
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Post by joemurray on Sept 30, 2008 20:57:04 GMT
Now some of these names maybe stretching the famous tag to the limit.Did Pat Kenny do a radio programme from the Curragh Camp one Christmas.How about Paddy Crosby doing "The School around the corner".President Hillery in 1981.Stirling Moss was one of the racing drivers who did the Curragh motor racing in the early 50s.My dad Sgt.Joe Murray remembers Brendan Behan as a guest of the nation in the Interment Camp .He told me he never tied his boot laces.Not to forget Elizabeth Sandes founder of Sands Soldiers Home.
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Post by tommyhetherington on Oct 1, 2008 19:54:41 GMT
Hi Kentgal,
Great Info keep up the good work give us more but hey see the trouble with girls " Ladies in Waiting" nasty things with poison tongues. Hope you gave them a good bashing
Tommy H
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Post by rose5mcdonaghtce on Oct 31, 2008 15:07:56 GMT
Bunny Carr hosted Quicksilver on the Camp in the sixties, recorded in the new gym.
All contestants were male and in uniform if my memory serves me right. Remeber "STOP THE LIGHTS" it was the catchphrase on everyones lips then.
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Post by An interested party on Oct 31, 2008 23:39:55 GMT
I'd like to throw my few cents in. Baden Powell - founder of the Scouting Movement was stationed in the Curragh
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Post by Martin Christie on Nov 1, 2008 0:56:55 GMT
fil us in more' i love to more on this
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