Dingle Canon to host special lecture on Dick Fitzgerald

Dingle Historical Society presents:

Dick Fitzgerald;
When The Hills Were Bleeding and The Playing Fields Golden

A lecture by An Canónach Tomás Ó Luanaigh
Venue: An Díseart, Green Street, Dingle on Friday July 17th @ 8pm

'An Seabhac' enlisted Dick Fitzgerald into the Irish Volunteers in 1913. Kerry's first Gaelic Football superstar and author turned his attention from Gaelic League activites to the national struggle spending most of 1916 in the Frongoch Prisoner of War Camp in Wales and later periods on the run inthe Black Valley. For ten years, until his young death, he served as anelected member of Killarney U.D.C. Following the Truce he switched from SinnFéin to Cumann na nGaedhal but constantly sought reconciliation in his community work. His colleague of 1913 and 1914, Pat 'Aeroplane' O'Shea,deemed him "a great captain - our champion and our guardian." All are welcome to attend this special lecture.