Online Lecture : Meagher's Tricolour Events - June 2021

This month we invite you to join the committee of Meagher's Tricolour and follow their series of online talks from Ireland, the USA, the UK and Tasmania available from Waterford in Your Pocket The talks will be available on YouTube after the events.

1848 Tricolour Programme 2018

Thomas Francis Meagher and
The Tricolour

Celebration 2,3,4 March

As part of a weekend of Celebrations honouring the 170th anniversary of the flying of the Tricolour at  33 The Mall by Thomas Francis Meagher, on 7 March 1848.

Saturday, 3 March FREE EVENT
2.00pm-4.30pm: Lecture series, Waterford Medieval Museum.
• ‘The Memoirs of General Thomas Francis Meagher:  from manuscript to print’. Professor Padraig Ó Macháin, Professor of Modern Irish, University College, Cork.
• ‘The Death of Thomas Francis Meagher’.  Dr Martin Hearne, author and editor of Thomas Francis Meagher: The Making of an Irish-American.
• The Legacy of Meagher and Modern Ireland. Noel Whelan, author, barrister, Irish Times columnist.

Other Events to Look Forward to this Year

We have just received this communication from the 1848 Tricolour Celebration Office.

 1848 Tricolour Celebration 

 Waterford City

Date: 8th, 9th and 10th of March 2013

The 1848 Tricolour Celebration is a cultural and historical event, which commemorates the creation and unveiling of the Irish Tricolour flag by Thomas Francis Meagher, on the 7th of March 1848.

Visiting naval ships will be open to the public over the course of the weekend, with the highlight of the event being a military flag raising ceremony, held on Sunday the 10th of March.

In fitting with the Gathering 2013, the event has many international connections. Delegations from America, Canada and France attend, as Thomas Francis Meagher established links with all of these countries.
At the heart of the event is the wish to mark the creation of Ireland’s national flag; An Bhratach Náisiúnta, and to promote the peaceful symbolism of the flag.

Information: http://1848tricolourcelebration.com 

Last Outing of the Season: The T F Meagher Trail

On 26 July 2012 we followed Dr J M Hearne through the streets of Waterford to the various locations associated with the Meagher family. We met outside the Granville Hotel, birth place of T F Meagher.

 We moved on to O'Connell St where the Meaghers lived first, at number 51,

and where they had a business where the Granary stands today. 

Dr J M Hearne reading quotes from T F Meagher. 

We then made our way to the Mall - The Meagher family had lived at number 19  (now the Sabai Restaurant), the Tricolour was first flown at number 33 (now Mint Café) and of course the monument to T F Meagher stands proud on the Mall. 

WAHS Last Outing of the season - T F Meagher

Our outings season is coming to an end, and we'll stay in the city, through the streets of Waterford with Dr M J Hearne who will bring us on the Thomas Francis Meagher Trail on Thursday 26 July.

Meet outside the Granville Hotel, The Quay, Waterford, at 7.15 pm.