Irish National Foresters – St Molaga Branch, No 315 Balbriggan 1897 1942 – Presented by Jim Walsh скачать в хорошем качестве

Irish National Foresters – St Molaga Branch, No 315 Balbriggan 1897 1942 – Presented by Jim Walsh

The Irish National Foresters Benefit Society was founded in 1877 embracing the dictum of Unity, Benevolence and Nationality. Offering much needed financial and medical assistance to its members this social movement spread rapidly throughout the entire island of Ireland. When the Balbriggan branch was formed in 1897, there were already 300 branches already established in Ireland. In the year 1911, Balbriggan Branch numbered 111 members. A female branch named the Molly Bawns was founded in the following year 1912. Payments garnered from branch membership funds were disbursed to families for sickness, death, widows and orphans and sundry “distress”. The Irish branches held on to the English branch protocols in terms of costumes and particular functions such as Chief Ranger, Woodwarden, Beadle etc. Having met in the Balbriggan Band Rooms for the members erected their own edifice in Hampton Street in the year1913. Jim’s talk sheds light on this almost forgotten subject. Jim Walsh is a very well known founding member of the Society and an expert on Balbriggan history who has given many talks on a variety of subjects.