![[Float at Queen and Exiles Carnival, D'Alton Sports, Glenties, Co. Donegal]](/IIIF/000740000/000736796/vtls000736796_001.jp2/full/800,/0/default.jpg)
[Float at Queen and Exiles Carnival, D'Alton Sports, Glenties, Co. Donegal]
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| In collection: | Tynan Photographic Collection |
| Format: | Photo |
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1971.
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| Notes: | Additional information about this photograph is available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/48493763421/ Physical description: 1 plastic negative : b&w ; 5.6 x 5.6 cm. more |
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Another Tynan shot of the "Queen and Exiles" festival in Glenties, Co. Donegal but did we ever find out what that festival was all about? This shot shows a float or even a truck decorated with a theme based on the "Horse that didn't run". I love the young bucks walking along enjoying the craic!
Photographers: Denis Tynan 1923 - 2010
Collection: Tynan Photographic Collection
Date: 1971
NLI Ref: NPA TYN726
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Tags:
Tynan Photographic Collection, National Library of Ireland, Ireland, Denis Tynan, Donegal, Glenties, 1971, Queen and Exiles festival, truck, float, boys, Ulster, Cardinal D'Alton games, Homecoming Festival, Bedford
Comments
Dr. Ilia
Awesome...
Posted: 09.08.2019
Carol Maddock
D'Alton Sports was the Cardinal D'Alton Games at Glenties on the weekend of 4 & 5 July 1971, “run in conjunction with the Glenties Homecoming Festival”. (Donegal News, 10 July 1971).
Glenties Homecoming Festival opened on Friday 2 July and ran until 11 July. Don't know about the Queens, but this explains Exiles. The “Idea of the Homecoming Festival is to encourage emigrants from Glenties who are overseas to return home and take part in the festival activities in their home town during this week”. (Donegal Democrat, 2 July 1971)
Posted: 09.08.2019
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/47297387@N03] Great, now we know that but what about the Horse? Who's going to take him to France?????
Posted: 09.08.2019
Carol Maddock
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] :)
For the benefit of youngsters, or those of you Out Foreign, "Who's taking the horse to France?" was an ad for butter in the 70s/80s. It was full of simmering passions as well as sizzling salmon steaks.
Here it is...
Posted: 09.08.2019
O Mac
Carol Maddock Stops the lights, get up the yard and press button A. '70's/'80's?? It wasn't that long ago. That Kerry Gold ad was made in 1994..
Posted: 09.08.2019
Carol Maddock
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03] Oh crikey! That means I'm officially abandon all hope old.
Yours sincerely,
A raddled crone
p.s. wizened even further by the fact that I know what you mean about pressing button A
p.p.s. on the bright side, haven't lost my memory. (yet!)
Posted: 09.08.2019
Dún Laoghaire Micheál
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/47297387@N03] your sizzling memories (and that Harp parasol) may be confusing the heat generated by Sally O'Brien (and the way she might look at ye).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4hmFPBf-C8
Posted: 09.08.2019
Carol Maddock
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/91590691@N05] You could fry an egg, if you only had an egg... :)
Posted: 09.08.2019
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Sometimes Flickr is slightly to the left. And dark.
In 2016 via [https://www.flickr.com/photos/salmix_ie/]
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/salmix_ie/31159061373/in/photostream/]
Posted: 09.08.2019
oaktree_brian_1976
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/47297387@N03] I thought they ate the horse! one shot we see the horse, next shot meat frying in a pan.
Posted: 09.08.2019
Carol Maddock
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/66151649@N02] Salmon! Salmon sizzling in the pan! :)
Posted: 12.08.2019
