More photos from the MacBride Archives and the Mike Ellis repository.
(Some pictures are taken from photocopies - so please bear with the quality) :



(Source: Eugene MacBride)

St Columba's, 1951/52. How many faces can you name ?

(Source: Eugene MacBride)

Rudiments, 1939 - 40 (taken by Br Paddy?).

(L-R) :
Back: FG Wooler, AJ Cutter, Dan O'Connor Jnr ("Danny Boy")

Middle: Peter Orgvin, Joe O'Sullivan, Fran Butler,
Paul Connor, Michel David Camille Pierre Rousseau

Front: W Gerard Holland, Gerard Maloney

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(Source: Eugene MacBride)

The First X1, 1927 - 28


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(Source: Eugene MacBride — taken from a photocopy)

Paper chase runners (hounds and hares), The Priory 1945.

(L-R) :
On gate (hounds) : ——, Joe O’Hare, John Slevin,——

Standing (hares) : Maurice Potton, ——, Francis Davis
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(Source: Eugene MacBride — taken from a photocopy)

The Priory First X1 1946 - 7

(L-R) :

Back: Andy Murphy, Bernard D'Arcy, Frank Mackle,
Louis Fitzmaurice, Jas Tolmie, Jack Jones

Front: Eddie "Hank" Hughes, Joe O'Hare, Jimmy Gielty, Maurice Potton, Frank Davis

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(Source: Mike Ellis)

St Columba's 1961/2
Whom can you identify ? (Pat Gritton has supplied the following).

Back : James McLaughlin, Robert Shaw (?), Hans Van Well ,Paul Glover (?)
Front : Denis Starkey, —— , John Strain , —— , Cedric Pollard

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(Source: Mike Ellis)

Mike Ellis on the boat to Rothesay — the Melrose House outing May 1961

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(Source: Mike Ellis)

Left : John Joyce at Edinburgh Zoo circa 1965
Right : Mike Ellis at St Columba's 1961/2


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(Source: Mike Ellis)

Patrick McHale at St Columba's 1961/2