In Partnership with

St Agatha’s Parish

North William Street, Dublin D01N7F6

St Laurence O’Toole Parish

Seville Place, North Wall, Dublin D01KN73

1908-1918


Canon Michael Walsh, 4th. PP of St. Agatha’s 1904-1935. He over saw the construction of the church.

 

                

Irish Soldiers in the Somme

 

Convent Chapel used as parish church while waiting for the church to be built

Convent Chapel which was used as the parish church before the church was built.

 

In this picture is the mother of a parishoner, Mrs. Steenson, who was active in the Cumman na mBán during the period around 1916.

 

This photo shows the first ordination class from Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, the Diocesan Seminary, in 1866. They are John Reynolds (l) Joseph Burke (c) and John O’Malley (r); third PP of St. Agatha’s from 1892-1904. They studied the majority of their course in St. Patricks College Maynooth and were ordained by Paul Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin, on 9th. December 1866.

 

St. Agatha’s AFC 1916 & 1917. We won the cup in 1917.