Newspaper reports, 1940 – ’49

Paper 210

Lecture – 1999

Author – Joan Desmond

Synopsis – Newspaper reports of happenings in/relating to Skerries from the Drogheda Independent of the 1940’s, e.g. golfing tournaments on the Strand, weather and tide permitting; the lack of public lighting in 1943; the first dinner dance in Red Island holiday camp in 1947; the theatrical productions of the Marian Society.

Material: – Newspaper: The Drogheda Independent.