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Old Drogheda Society ✒ Event announcement.


Highlanes Gallery Drogheda Presents:

In the Footsteps of Nano Reid; A Walking Tour with Brendan Matthews



Date: Saturday 20th August
Time: 1pm
Booking required: €5
Booking Link: 
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/in-the-footsteps-of-nano-reid-a-walking-tour-with-brendan-matthews-tickets-339846659507

Explore more about artist Nano Reid and her life as you traverse some of the streets and lanes and the most beautiful rural settings of the old Market town of Drogheda, reflecting on the sights and sounds that inspired much of the artist's greatest work.

Beginning at Highlanes Gallery the tour will proceed down Kezer`s Lane, through Bachelors Lane and Mayoralty Street and across De Lacy Bridge to the South Quay and James's Street area of the town and where Brendan will relate some fascinating insights pertaining to Nano and her life Boyneside.

The tour will move up the Dublin Road to the magnificent rural setting of Sunnyside & the wonderfully-named Errigal; the final home of Nano Reid, prior to her death in 1981. Here, Brendan will discuss one of Reid's works that she painted in 1973 which has a special significance to the location.

From Errigal, the tour will then move across Sunnyside to St. Mary's Cottages and proceed down the 101 steps into the magical Dale Valley, before ending at the bottom of Mary Street at the Celtic Cross War Memorial.

Tours are €5 and advance booking advised.


⏯Old Drogheda Society - History, Archaeology & Heritage - Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097 - or find us on Facebook.

In the Footsteps of Nano Reid ✑ A Walking Tour with Brendan Matthews

The Old Drogheda Society ✒ Walking Tour with Brendan Matthews on Wednesday 6-July-2022.

A special Commemoration Walk N Talk presented by Community Historian Brendan Matthews on the extraordinary life of John Sheil, who had written & supplied hundreds of songs to the massive Ballad-Sheet Industry of the early 19th century. 

Brendan will begin this Walk on Wednesday evening next July 6th at the Fairgreen at 7.30pm, where the origins and background of John Sheil will be addressed before the Walk n Talk will move to Bolton Square where the tale will be told of how these ballad sheets were produced, by whom and the `Pedlars` who sold them at Fairs, Markets, Pattern Days, Sporting events, etc. 

The Walk will then proceed to the area of the old Linen-Hall site in Drogheda where Brendan will elaborate on the content and nature of the ballad songs that Sheil wrote including the Seditious nature & content of some of the songs; the trouble with the Police & with the Authorities. 

The Walk will then head to West Street where, at a couple of final stops, it will cover the content of Sheil`s character and of those around him, who helped him make this a thriving business and finally the demise and passing of the radical Weaver & Song Maker that was John Sheil. 

A few surprises on the evening by those who know the wonderful Street Ballads of the 19th century as written by the radical Weaver. 

Note, there is no Charge for this particular event however donations for the further research and presentation of Community History will be gratefully accepted on the evening.

⏯Old Drogheda Society - History, Archaeology & Heritage - Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097 - or find us on Facebook.

The Life, Times & Death of John Sheil, The Drogheda Radical Weaver & Song Maker 1784 – 1872

Local Louth historian Brendan Matthews writes: 

Our Gerry had a good point, if only he actually had gone on to express it! The enclosed is taken from a British rag of the 19th century.

From Rags To Racism

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