Identity area
Reference code
IE LMOD 444
Title
1910 St. Columba’s Funding Letter
Date(s)
- Twentieth Century (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
Paper, ink. 24.5 x 21 cm
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
11/07/2011
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A letter with illustrations asking former student and cricket player to help fund the widening of the cricket pitch. Dated December 1910.
Just up the road from Patrick Pearse’s school, Scoil Éanna, there was a protestant boarding school, St. Columba’s College, where the aim was to furnish the sons of the landed gentry with a decent education. Here the college appeals to old boys for a few quid to widen the cricket pitch, a need that is all the greater in view of the upcoming game against sister school Radley.
