De La Salle, 1949

Hello and welcome to the FORTYNINERS website. Below you can see all 172 FORTYNINERS in a picture by Annie Brophy taken in 1949.

The names on the right hand side of the page represent our efforts to identify everyone. Please contact us if you can correct something or to add in some of the missing names.

Click any photograph on this site twice to see it close up.

Are you in this photograph? Can you identify anyone here? These are the FORTYNINERS as they were 60 years ago on September 4th, 1949. The photograph was taken by Annie Brophy. On that auspicious occasion De La Salle College opened as a Day and Boarding College with a total student body of 172 in attendance.

On May 14th and 15th, 2010, this group will meet again in De La Salle College to commemorate and celebrate this historic event. If you are a FORTYNINER we would like you to join us. Please contact George Murphy on 00 353 (0)51-858427 or email; murphygtm@eircom.net

Here’s some more pics of the 2010 event sent in by Audrey Cullen (Sean Burtchaells daughter)

Fortyniners Event 2011

A Call to All Past Pupils

We, the ‘Fortyniners’, past pupils of De La Salle College, celebrated in May 2010, its opening as a Day and Boarding College on September 4^th. 1949. It was a historic, moving, wonderful occasion for those of the ‘fortyniners’, family friends and De La Salle Brothers who were present. The event is commemorated by a magnificent photographic plaque of the 1949 group in the College entrance hall and on the ‘fortyniners’ website at  www.fortyniners.wordpress.com

We hope to have our first Annual De La Salle Day this year on Saturday May 14^th. with Mass at 12.00 noon and buffet lunch on the lawn at 2.00 p.m. (as we had last year). We will have Brother Timothy (who was present in 1949 as a student Brother in the Training College), plant a tree to commemorate the event. We hope this reunion will evolve into a De La Salle Day for all College past pupils and their families each year on the nearest Saturday to the Feast Day of St. John Baptist De La Salle.

All past pupils of the College and family members, from those who attended St.Patrick’s and the College, from 1949 to the present day, are cordially invited. If you intend to be present and we hope you will, please forward 30 Euro (55 for yourself and wife / partner / family member) to cover the expenses of the day to George Murphy at 4, Glenthomas, Grantstown Park, Dunmore Road, Waterford at your earliest convenience. Further details, if desired may be had from the College or email George Murphy;  murphygtm@eircom.net

Fortyniners on Nationwide

The Event

Here’s some of the pictures I took over the course of the weekend event. Click any thumbnail to see a bigger version, from below there you can scroll to the next or previous picture. Click an image a 2nd time to see an even biggest version.

Saint La Salle

Empty Hallway

Unveiling the Plaque

The Plaque

Plaque close up

Bishop Lee

Eddie and Christina

John Hartley as MC

Mossy Fitzgerald

John, Helen and Brian

Eddie on the steps

Billy and his daughter

…and here’s Billy singing the Blues;

The FORTYNINERS Video

The original Photograph was taken in 1949 by Annie Brophy on the first day that De La Salle College Waterford opened it’s doors. This video commemorates the event more than 60 years on. It will be launched with a special screening at the FORTYNINERS reunion on the 14th May, 2010 in the college. Saint La Salle is the song and was specially recorded by Brother Ben and the De La Salle Senior Choir for the video. The 172 students that were in the Photo have been painstakingly identified and presented as individual portraits.

Sean Corcoran

All 172 Portraits

The FORTYNINERS. Here they are, all 172 of them that are in the original photograph taken by Annie Brophy in 1949. I believe that there were actually some more students who were absent from the photo, maybe they were mitching. Click any picture to see a larger version and from below that you can scroll through to the next or previous picture. These images will form the content for the video that is being shown on the Friday night celebration (May 14th, 2010) in the dining hall of De La Salle College, Waterford. Hope I got all the names right, sorry about having to have a number for everyone, it was the only way I could keep track of everyone.

1 Willie O’Dwyer

2 Michael McCarthy

3 Paddy O’Dwyer

4 Noel Morrissey

5 Brendan Scully

6 Cornelius Shine

7 Raymond Doran

8 Walter Butler

9 Sylvester Joy

10 William Grant

11 Ger Brenner

12 John Lenehan

13 Paddy Quinn

14 Jim Bell

15 Dick Keown

17 Tom Grace

18 Dick Purvis

19 Martin Torpey

20 Seán Walsh

21 Kieran O’Leary

22 Joe Caulfield

23 Billy Shanahan

24 Ger Grogan

25 Michael Sheridan

26 Billy Tubbritt

27 Conor Wyley

28 Derek Kelly

16 Noel Nolan

29 Hugh Mullally

30 Eamonn Cox

31 Frank Murray

32 Tony Flynn

33 Leonard Burns

34 Tom Burke

35 Seán Purcell

36 John Walsh

37 John McGrath

38 Sean Walsh

39 John A. Flynn

40 Tony Walsh

41 George Murphy

42 Michael Cunningham

43 Paddy Condon

44 John Hartley

45 Martin O’Donnell

46 Matthew Power

47 Billy Flood

48 Declan Tyrell

49 Colm Power

50 Andy O’Donnell

51 Vincent Uwins

52 Eamon Harpur

53 Cormac Walsh

54 John Gough

55 Vinny Kelly

56 Willie Kinlay

57 Brian O’Sullivan

58 Johnny Walsh

59 Ronnie Falconer

60 Vincent O’Neill

61 Freddie Power

62 Tom Griffith

63 Frank Power

64 Bobby Keegan

65 Paul Purcell

66 Georgie Sage

67 Lenny Gallagher

68 Pat Ledwell

69 Milo Cusack

70 Edmund Ryan

71 Michael Kavanagh

72 Alec Sweeney

73 Seán Kirwan

74 Eamonn Hassett

75 John Kehoe

76 Liam Matthews

77 Harry Thornberry

78 Tom Neville

79 Paddy Kennedy

80 Tom Flynn

81 John Barron

82 Barry Eadie

83 David Crotty

84 Tony O’Grady

85 Pat Gallagher

86 John O’Keeffe

87 Maurice Fitzgerald

88 Frank Norris

89 Tom McLoughlin

90 Pat Costello

91 Anthony Power

92 Tony Power

93 Flor Dullea

94 Seán Murray

95 Barry Keegan

96 Michael O’Dowd

97 James Butler

98 Peadar Dignum

99 Tom Deegan

100 Vincent Tunney

101 Kevin O’Shea

102 Val Carey

103 Bill O’Donoghue

104 Noel Dalton

105 Patrick O’Byrne

106 Michael Barry

107 Dick Doherty

108 Michael Boland

109 Kevin Kavanagh

110 Chudon Zbienew

111 Tom Murphy

112 John Flynn

113 Jim O’Mahony

114 Eamon Aylward

115 Pat Power

116 Enda Power

117 Liam Clarke

118 Gerry Maher

119 John Walsh

120 Séamus Connolly

121 Michael O’Sullivan

122 Seán Williams

123 Liam Connolly

124 Pierce Dower

125 Bill O’Sullivan

126 Nicky Mc Sweeney

127 Des Hannon

128 Pat Comyn

129 Noel Kavanagh

130 Jack Murphy

131 Cormac Kennedy

132 Michael Breen

133 Tommy (Clydie) Power

134 Paul O’Regan

135 Des Manahan

136 Gerhardt Gallagher

137 John Whelan

138 Johnny Cleary

139 Pierce O’Neill

140 Tommy Clancy

141 Dec Power

142 Tommy Hennessy

143 Nicky Brennan

144 Jackie Moore

145 Frank Kelly

146 Tommy O’Gorman

147 Michael Walsh

148 Frank (Buddy) Byrne

149 Liam Curham

150 Val Boyle

151 Pat Grogan

152 Michael Connolly

153 John (Seán) Hennessy

154 Michael Barron

155 Tom Cashin

156 John Kavanagh

157 Frank Scallan

158 Ernie Breen

159 Eddie Barry

160 Paddy Foskin

161 Connie Lonergan

162 Noel O’Sullivan

163 Denis Frawley

164 Bernard Brenner

165 Chris Heery

166 Danny Burke

167 Tom Williams

168 Sean Burchaell

169 Eddie Cleary

170 Liam Power

171 Anthony Boyle

172 John Kinsella

The Full Committee

Here they are, the secret seven, Tommy, Sean, Tom, Eddie, John, George and John.

Click the image to enlarge.

The Staff of 1949

Br.Patrick in the centre, immediately under him is Br.Raphael, clockwise from here is Br.Aidan, Seán Murray, Br.Justin, Br.Cornelius, Br.Flannan, Br.Benignus, Br.Andrew, Br.Anselm, Matron, Br.Hubert, Seán McCarthy, Br.Lucien.

Then and Now