hurlingteam

There's a great range of ages, some promising moustaches and some mature ones. They were no inter -cert classs at any rate. Look at the banding on the hurl of the young lad to the priests left? It is almost a lethal weapon with that metal banding. I had a hurl like that once and it was positively dangerous and a threat to life, it lasted for years but! The writing on the hurl held by the man third from the left in the middle row says "Coolagown" which is a place near Fermoy in Cork and seems to have had strong Waterford connections. See www.castlelyonsgaa.com/clubHistory.php

Best to remember that it was a teacher training college and thus attracted students from all over. Funny though, most people in Waterford never use the word hurl, except when throwing things. Hurley is the preferred description, Perhaps that explains a lot?

A wonderful old photo and taken at my old school. When I went here in the 70's there were boarders from all over the country there.

Paul O'Farrell Ah, a De La Salle boy! And desmondg47 when did it stop being a teacher training college?

I believe it was in 1936 when the Minister for Education Tom Derrig (FF) refused to have it made a constituent college of the NUI.

I'd love to know why the medals are being worn on the jerseys. Maybe just for the photograph. I'm surprised that the group is not perfectly centred in the frame.

Gracedieu won against Clonlea in 1904 according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterford_Senior_Hurling_Championship 15 June 1904 was a Wednesday ...

Robin Parkes Here is a centred version but with someone missing; Spot the Differences! - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000591527

I have only ever hurled after drinking too much Guinness, when I was younger, of course.

De La Salle seem to have four Senior County Hurling titles 1906, 2008, 2010, 2012, so the medals are not county senior hurling, and not All Irelands for sure... Come on the Deise.

Perhaps not a picture of the Déise, but of the Rathdowney GAA team in Laois? Rathdowney won the Laois County Final in 1911, however April would seem a bit early for a final. The jerseys certainly seem to match the ones in the photo in the link I've added below. If it is of Rathdowney, they won the county final in 1911 Rathdowney, 7-1, Clonaslee, nil, as mentioned on page 25 (38 in the pdf) of laoisgaa.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/laois-bible-2.pdf

Here's a picture of a Rathdowney team from 1911.

hockeygods.com/images/16961-Rathdowney_GAA_Hurling_Team_1...

Looks like the photo bomber was asked to leave for this one.

catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000592693

Mike Grimes Agree about the jerseys, but where does Mr Murphy of St. Ursula's Terrace come in with a Laois team?

from the many photos of hurling teams on the NLI Flickr, it's interesting to see how the shape/design of the hurl changes over the decades...photo taken before AI...but the moustaches give me doubts

National Library of Ireland on The Commons That's a good question, because there's no mention of a Murphy on St. Ursula's Terrace, Waterford in the 1911 census.