Dalkey Mitchell’s Win Junior Hurling Championship – 1967
1967 was an extraordinary year for Dalkey Mitchell’s. The Club (that had been born in 1959 as “St. Begnett’s”, and which had adopted its new name just 5 years earlier in ’62) won its first ever Junior Hurling Championship. It was to be the start of a terrific run of form. The following year saw them secure the Intermediate Hurling Championship and the year after that, ’69, they had achieved Senior status. Add another 5 years to the timeline and Dalkey Mitchell’s would be taking another bold step forward – an amalgamation with Cuala Casements/Naomh Mhuire to form the great club we know today as Cuala.
The range of material surrounding the historic win – newspaper cuttings, the Ó Maoláin Album and even a specially composed song – give us a sense of the excitement and achievement involved. A truly wonderful inheritance to inspire today’s players.
Cartlann Digiteach Cuala (Cuala Digital Archive) aims to assemble an on-line archive of images, stories and memorabilia relating to Cuala, its ‘ancestral’ clubs and other Gaelic clubs that operated in the area in the past. If you have any information or material to share with us, please contact –
Michael Goodwin, +353 (0) 87 2266140, history@cualagaa.ie
Contributors can be assured that all material will be treated with care and returned promptly.
