cov-Irish-ciaran coventry All posts by this member | 1 of 4 Tue 16th Jan 2018 11:32am Member: Joined Jan 2018 Total posts:4 Hello, my name is Ciaran Davis. I work for the Coventry Irish Society as project officer for the Irish Heart, Coventry Home oral history project.
We have interviewed 58 people who migrated to Coventry and are putting on a major exhibition at the Herbert in March 2018.
There are a couple of things that hopefully some forum members could help me with:
1- Pictures and dates of Irish clubs - I have been to the History archives a fair few times and got pictures of some of the clubs (such as the Banba, the Kerrymans and Finbarr's), but I was wondering if any people in the forum have any pictures. Similarly, it is difficult tracing dates for these clubs.
2- Coventry-Irish pictures/objects - Again we have collected a fair amount of objects and photos, but if anything else comes to mind that would be good to lend, please get in touch.
3- Coventry's Catholic Churches - The Birmingham Diocese archive is unfortunately closed at the moment, so I have struggled to get photos/ documents about the Churches, again could any forum members help?
Kind regards, Ciaran
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 2 of 4 Tue 16th Jan 2018 11:55am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5606 Hi Ciaran ![]() ![]() |
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Rob Orland Historic Coventry All posts by this member | 3 of 4 Tue 16th Jan 2018 1:36pm Webmaster: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:1653 Of interest might be these views of St. Osburg's church, Hill Street, from Benjamin Poole's histories of 1847 and 1852, conveniently showing the new church before and after the spire was added, plus his 1852 text below. (Better quality images have been emailed Ciaran. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 4 of 4 Tue 16th Jan 2018 2:20pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2606 Coventry's first Catholic church after the dissolution.
Church on Little Park Street on Art UK from the Herbert collection.
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