Irish wrestler (Irish-American) from 1909 op3
This turn of the century photo came from the Bain News agency . Pat
Connelly or spelt Pat Connolly with fashionable moustache in New York
or traditional ancient Celtic one .The NY times article below of 1909
suggests he was not always a clean or scientific wrestler , sadly.
www.flickr.com/photos/celtico/2948444035/ . The Irish or Gaelic word for moustache is croimeal.
ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croim%C3%A9al
Between Europe and Nth America from 1899 to 1914 can be called the
golden age of professional wrestling.
Amateur Wrestling Collectibles Gallery Cards Misc. Pre-1920 (see below for the link)
Theres another two other photographs of Connolly on Flickr from
1910-15 under LOC -Library of Congress (George Grantham Bain
Collection). He seemed to go missing 10-12 years later in 1917-19 ?
Circa 1830, Irish immigrants introduce collar-and-elbow wrestling into
New England. The style was often used by the Irish to settle
arguments, and was known as “collar-and-elbow” after the initial
stances taken as defenses against kicking, punching, and rushing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collar-and-elbow
www.clannada.org/culture_wrestling.php
www.clannada.org/culture_wrestling.php
The style became widely known during the American Civil War, and
formed the basis for the American professional wrestling techniques of
the 1870s and 1880s.
The first mention of traditional wrestling in the British Isles occurs
in the ancient Irish, 'Book of Leinster' which refers to the sport
being included in the Tailtin (Tailteann) Games in County Meath.
www.flickr.com/photos/sludgeulper/4048047150/
This festival dates back to at least 1829 BC (another account cites
632 BC for the inaugeration date) when according to legends it was
founded by Nuguid of the Strong Arm , and was still in existence in AD
554 (the other account cites they lasted without interruption until
1169 AD) .Named after the Hill of Tailte burial mound of the Tailtiu ,
the royal lady of the Fir Bolg.The games were part of the festival of
Lughnasa , a time of feasting, dancing ,marriage and displays of
skills in the first week of August.The games were revived in 1924 with
the gathering of international athletes at Croke Park , Dublin the
home of Gaelic football.Today , the modern concept of these Tailteann
games is a festival of school athletics.
Ancient man developed through the process of natural evolution.
Doubtless, in this process an individual's physical strength, speed,
reaction and health were always of great importance. For a living a
man had to fight wild beasts and only his running speed and physical
strength could often save him from danger. On the basis of
archeological findings it is possible to assume that the first type of
athletic contests was wrestling. The most ancient knowledge of
wrestling dates back to the XXVII-XXVI centuries B.C. epics. On the
basis of 3rd millennium B.C. Schumer monuments the VIII century B.C.
"Gilgamesh" epic provides information about wrestling
contests. The first ancient myth written down. Wrestling, preserved
since ancient times, have been one of traditional sports in as diverse
as modern day Azerbaijan as well. In one of Azerbaijan's written
monuments, "Kitabi-Dede Qorqud", wrestling was often told of
along with other sports. The frequent competitive nature of fights was
clearly expressed. In epics and tales heroes would test their strength
against lions, bulls, camels and compete against each other in
face-to-face contests. Eventually, wrestling underwent development and
the attitudes towards it as well as its rules were subject to change
with these contests starting to take place in special facilities. In
Azerbaijan, an ancient type of sport - wrestling was also held in
specialized facilities - arenas.
Wrestling also has its origins among the first peoples to take wrestling competitions seriously: the ancient Egyptians and the Greeks. Paintings from the Beni-Hasan wall (c.2000 BC) in Egypt display wrestlers using holds and grapples very similar to those used four thousand years later by freestyle competitors. In Egypt, wrestling was part of military training. It remained a form of training but also became an art and a science, a form of honour, during the Greek civilization (800-146 BC).
Vase paintings from Greece (c.600 BC) indicate that the Greeks regulated the contestants by allowing their trainers to act as referees. The Greek style was 'upright', a standing position, and contestants were allowed to use their arms and legs. A fall was awarded against a wrestler whose body touched the ground. The early Olympic contests were two-out-of-three falls. Wrestling became an Olympic sport at the 18th Olympiad in 708 BC.
If this sounds a long way from modern wrestling, then the following
may inject a note of caution. In 648 BC, the Greeks accepted into the
competition a style of wrestling known as Pankration. It would have
horrified many for its brutality. Pankration was no-holds-barred,with
throwing strangling,arm locks and punching; though biting and
eye-gouging were prohibited in Olympic competition. Strangling,
bone-breaking and kicking were all okay. Pankration wrestlers ended up
maimed and even dead.
When the Romans conquered the Greeks in 146 BC, they allowed wrestling
to continue but changed the rules and style. Greco-Roman wrestling
remains an Olympic sport and, mainly because of its amateur status, is
regarded as genuine wrestling. Basically, Greco-Roman wrestling
differs from freestyle wrestling in that it prohibits holds below the
waist and wrestlers cannot use legs to obtain a fall. Today's
Greco-Roman rules were developed in France in the nineteenth century.
Freestyle wrestling is also regarded as legitimate wrestling because of its strict regulation and amateur status. Any fair hold, trip or toss is allowed and a contestant wins by pinning his opponent's shoulders to the mat for one second.
The professionalisation of wrestling is not as recent as one might think. Under the Romans, the Greeks experienced an expansion of athletic festivals. Emperor Augustus realized that sporting events had helped unite the Greek city-states and he encouraged them for his own imperial Roman purposes. With the proliferation of festivals there developed individuals who could make a good living traveling from tournament to tournament. In his excellent Pictorial History of Wrestling (1968), Graeme Kent says that, the 'evils of professionalism' were 'rife' during the Roman age: 'Wrestlers openly sold themselves to the highest bidder, agreeing to lose if the price was right'.
Modern professional wrestling is really a product of three world-historical developments: the Renaissance (C14th-C15th), the French Revolution (1789-99) and the Industrial Revolution (late C18th-mid-C19th). For centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire (500 AD), the power of Christianity ensured that 'pagan' practices including some sports such as wrestling, were discouraged. However, the common folk continued their contests, developing regional styles, and wrestling was a popular attraction at medieval fairs for about 500 years.
Comments and faves
mikeyfreedom, TimMarchphoto, looking_for_a_cause_too, hot arab man, and 53 other people added this photo to their favorites.
TimMarchphoto (49 months ago | reply)
Wow!
✿ nicolas_gent ✿ (49 months ago | reply)
The moustache… belonged to the decorum.
Splendid!
looking_for_a_cause_too (49 months ago | reply)
they don't make 'em like this guy anymore. too bad.
mikescottnz (48 months ago | reply)
Thanks for the comments on this vintage photo , yes fun with the wrestling.
heroethic (47 months ago | reply)
excellent shot!
mikescottnz (46 months ago | reply)
Well done indeed Euro Kouro, you certainly have an imaginative eye for colour , thanks. How long did it take you?
The purple brick? wall and reddish-brown floor seem to work, for contrast. Mike S
www.flickr.com/photos/eurokouros/4396399875/
Dan Zeta (46 months ago | reply)
This was a quick pass and i was not sure about the wall. Sometimes, when I am not sure about an element, i make it "cringey", like the wall. Is it brick really? It looked like painted wood to me.
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Seen in my recent comments. (?)
mikescottnz (46 months ago | reply)
Perhaps a no, the board or brick wall as purple, you're probably right, seems more 1977 than 1907 though the other colour works.
It was not a colourful period so, grays, browns ,olive greens ,navy blues , black or white/cream would have been more common place?
Coal and Ice (45 months ago | reply)
Gotta love
vintage large format photos
mikescottnz (41 months ago | reply)
www.flickr.com/photos/eurokouros/4396399875/
Colourisation photo of this, 5 mths ago, since deleted and now returned again..
mikescottnz (41 months ago | reply)
A descendent of Patricks, years later, could be looking to what happened him...from listsearchers.rootsweb.com.
If anyone could help she left this message over six years ago...
From: Maidremm@cs.com
Subject: Pat Connolly 1917 World Class Wrestler
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 06:08:28 EDT
" Hello listers,
I am trying to find any and all information about Pat Connolly. He was born in Co. Galway Ireland, and wrestled in Butte, Montana. He was listed in articles as a British Citizen. He wrestled Ed "Strangler" Lewis on December 3, 1916, and on either January 13, or January 15, 1917 Pat Connolly and Yussif Hussane battled to a 2 1/2 hour draw in Butte, Montana. This information was taken from The Wrestling Datebook, 1915 thru 1920. Pat also wrestled Ed"Strangler" Lewis on November 30, 1916 in Billings, Montana.
On January 15, 1917, Pat Connolly had a niece born in Boston, MA, and she was to be Christened on January 28, 1917. Pat traveled by railroad to the Christening, and somewhere between Butte and Boston he died on the way. Some say he was poisoned, some say shot, etc. It still remains a mystery.
I am hoping that someone may know of this man, or heard this story. Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thank you one and all, Mary "
Boston and Montana Band, Butte, Montana
www.flickr.com/photos/buttepubliclibrary/4206 380483/
mikescottnz (41 months ago | reply)
He features in the top 75 wrestlers of 1908/09 of vintage cigarette cards .
Name Of Set: Pugilists and Wrestlers Second Series (51-75)
Manufacturer: Ogdens
Issue Year: 1909
Card Number: 25
Card Titles: Sam McVey, GC O'Kelly, Councillor Peter Wright, Tom Thomas, Jack Johnson, Jack Sullivan, Eugene Vallotton, Jack Sullivan, Ernst Siegfried, W Withers Bain, Pat Connolly, John Lemm, Bill Lang, Bart Connolly, Frank Crozier, Jimmy Britt, Jim Kenrick, Ian Hague, Bill Squires, Henry Irslinger, Lauritz Neilsen, Frank P Slavin, Donald Dinnie, Sam Langford, Frank Gotch, and Al Delmont.
Nearly two years ago, via genforum.com...
Date: September 29, 2007 at 11:31
'Connelly Pro' wrestler'
"Looking for info' on Pat Connolly of Carna, Galway, Ireland. He died in 1919 in the U.S.A. He lived in Butte, Montana, his sister lived in Boston, Ma."
-pat mcgrath
mikescottnz (41 months ago | reply)
November 23, 1909
IRISH WRESTLERS BOTH DISQUALIFIED; Referee Jenkins Stops Match When Science Gives Way to Slugging. POLICE TAKE A HAND, TOO. Pat Connolly of County Galway Gouges Con O'Kelly's Eyes and Then Trouble Begins on Mat.
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A photo of O'Kelly- perhaps this was a family feud?
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Full-length portrait of wrestlers O'Kelly and Emil Klaub standing in front of a dark coloured background in a room in Chicago, Illinois. O'Kelly is wearing dark coloured wrestling trunks and Klaub is wearing a coat and hat.
Louisville, KY: December 19, 1914
(Young Men’s Hebrew Association) ... Jess Willard and Pat Connolly worked out together, with Willard dominating the boxing, and Connolly the wrestling. A picture, the next day, shows Willard towering over the wrestler in their workouts. Willard appeared in exhibitions all next week at the Buckingham Theater.
'BOOZE OR A FRAME-UP' ? Willard beats Jack Johnstone.
Los Angeles Times CA: December 1, 1915
A crowd of 2,000 hissed champion Jess Willard at a vaudeville performance here last night when he demanded pay to test the chains and weights of a strong man. The actor was given a hand when he told Willard:"I'll be in the spotlight when you are in the discard.” (Don Luce research)
Chicago IL: February 4, 1916
William Demetral vs Louis Christenson … Referee: Jess Willard
HUSSANE, WRESTLER, TO HELP TRAIN WILLARD
(New York World, February 27, 1916)
FRANK GOTCH BREAKS LEG
(New York Times, Wednesday, July 19, 1916)
Grand Island NE: August 3, 1916
karlking.us/sells_floto2.htm
Sells Floto Circus, featuring Buffalo Bill Cody, boxing champion Jess Willard and wrestling champion Frank Gotch (although the latter is out of action, $100 is offered to anyone who can last 15 minutes with him).
Butte MT: August 20-21, 1916
Sells Floto Circus & Buffalo Bill Wild West show here, supposedly headlined by “The Two World’s Champions” -- Jess Willard and Frank Gotch … But Gotch, of course, had actually withdrawn from the circus after breaking his leg in Kenosha WI … Yussif Hussane filled in for Gotch … When Hussane hurled his challenge to meet all comers, Pat Connolly promptly climbed into the ring … Connolly was put off until the second night and stayed the agreed 15 minutes without being thrown … Connolly challenged for a finish match but was told he must first face “Big” John Freberg.
mikescottnz (41 months ago | reply)
www.savetara.com
dpeteuil (34 months ago | reply)
the style of those days was outstanding. i want to be that guy!
mikescottnz (28 months ago | reply)
Irish martial arts site
johnwhurley.com/ima.htm
www.scientificwrestling.com/public/94.cfm?sd= 2
www.irishamateurwrestling.com/
There is a small but determined group of Irish enthusiasts - the Irish Amateur Wrestling Association (IAWA) - who have been promoting freestyle Olympic wrestling since 1947. The rules are fairly simple. Points are awarded for various holds and techniques completed during the match, such as escaping from a hold or reversing your opponent. If neither person manages to pin the other within the time limit, the competitor with the most points wins. You can win the match instantly if you manage to pin your opponent for a full second.
There is no ring in wrestling - all activity takes place on the mat, which is square of foam-padded plastic with a circular wrestling area. Competition matches are just one round of 5 minutes duration.
www.thewildgeese.com/pages/facfigh2.html
Vernato Brand [deleted] (28 months ago | reply)
Posted on our Cultural blog:
www.vernato.com/blog/posts/2010/feb/photo-box -irish-wrest...
mikescottnz (28 months ago | reply)
Ok thanks for linking it back here ..
mikescottnz (27 months ago | reply)
www.familytreedna.com/public/IrelandHeritage/ default.aspx
Ms. Kathleen (27 months ago | reply)
How very Irish. Your photo is very inspiring. I would
be delighted if you would join us.
I would be honored if you would add this fantastic image to:
Proud Irish American
wiggiewormdog (27 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called soulful group, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
mikescottnz (26 months ago | reply)
One hundred years later there's another Irish wrestler doing the 'professional' wrestling circuit in USA .
www.theirishworld.com/article.asp?SubSection_ Id=10&Ar...
crushable.com/other-stuff/the-daily-wtf-irish -wrestling/
And he has natural red or ginger coloured hair.
www.flickr.com/photos/antscaramuzzi/522192072 5/
mikescottnz (26 months ago | reply)
Great Irish American story of a noble escape of the Fremantle (Fenian) six in colonial Australia on PBS.
video.pbs.org/video/1282032064/
Some 150,000 Irish-American immigrants served in the Union Army during the Civil War (1861-1865), most of them from Boston, New York and Chicago, and about 40,000 fought in the Confederate Army. The best known unit was the Irish Brigade of the Union Army of the Potomac, which distinguished itself at Antietam and, particularly, at Fredericksburg, where its sacrificial bravery astonished friend and foe alike. Famous regiments were New York's 'Fighting 69th', the 9th Massachusetts, 116th Pennsylvania, 23rd Illinois and 35th Indiana. Two Louisiana Confederate brigages from New Orleans were almost entirely Irish and several other Irish companies made a name for themselves at Shiloh, Chickamauga and other key battles. This book will give a brief overview of the history of the units on each side of the conflict and will be illustrated with uniform details, flags and archival photographs.
'Irish-American Units in the Civil War' (Men-at-Arms).
Publication Date: August 19, 2008 | Series: Men-at-Arms (Book 448)
mikescottnz (26 months ago | reply)
Update on the Tara site , the shenanigans of a motorway getting a bit close to the ancient sites of Ireland.
www.tarawatch.org/
mikescottnz (24 months ago | reply)
Olympic Games Wrestling- History
'Grappling in ancient history'
Wrestling named showcase sport for inaugural 1896 Athens Olympic Games
Read more: www.cbc.ca/news/story/2008/05/01/f-olympics-w restling-his...
mikescottnz (22 months ago | reply)
An early US wrestling film clip from 1903
www.thoughtequity.com/video/clipDetail.do?ite m_id=3193122...
mikescottnz (21 months ago | reply)
IRELAND
Treating of the Government, Military System, and Law; Religion, Learning and Art; Trades, Industries, and Commerce; Manners, Customs, and Domestic Life, of the Ancient Irish People ~P. W. Joyce~1906
www.libraryireland.com/SocialHistoryAncientIr eland/III-XV...
mikescottnz (21 months ago | reply)
Coraiocht coilear agus uille or 'collar & elbow' wrestling in Irish Gaelic was also a jacket style but unlike the other styles had each competitor starting in a fixed hold with the right hand on the opponents collar & the left hand resting on the opponents right elbow. Unlike the Scottish backhold, breaking the grip did not end the match and the goal was to achieve a back touchfall similar to the Cornu-Breton styles, so it was like a mix between the other Celtic traditions. This sport was a part of the Aonach Tailtean or Games of Tailtu held in Teltown County Meath from 636BC until abolished by the ecclesiastical reforms of1169AD, the longest running ancient sporting carnival in Europe. The great Irish hero Cu Chullain competed at the Aonach Tailtean, which were started by his father the sun god Lugh. Also known as scuffling the sport survived in the countryside until the An Gorta Mor, the potato blight famine of the 1840s that killed over a million peasant farmers and forced so many others to leave the homeland to spread around the world. Scuffling was practiced in colonial Australia & survived in America until being absorbed into the folk style (collegiate wrestling) in the early 20th century. In 1993 a group called Coiste Coraicht Ceilteach, began a revival movement for the sport in Ireland & is attempting to have scuffling re-recognised as a national sport by Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, the Gaelic Athletic Association.
mikescottnz (17 months ago | reply)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_wrestling
Another Irish American wrestler and soldier ...
www.bartitsu.org/index.php/2011/01/master-of- men-the-life...
Irish Amateur Wrestling Association enamel badge (1960’s)
www.flickr.com/photos/23885771@N03/4935284379 /
Irish martial arts (Irish: ealaíona comhraic)[1] are the forms of martial arts that originated in Ireland. Martial arts are not unique to the far east countries such a China, Japan and Thailand. Fighting arts stretch back centuries in Irish history right back to the times of the "Fianna" and even further. Irish martial arts include Dornálíocht (boxing), Coraíocht (wrestling), Speachóireacht (kicking), and Batadóireacht (stick fighting).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_martial_arts
mikescottnz (17 months ago | reply)
Vintage wrestlers of this time : Frank Gotch vs Georges Hackenschmidt the famous 'Russian Lion' of Estonian-born wrestler of Baltic German and Swedish ancestry.
gotchvshack.blogspot.com/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Hackenschmidt
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This was the Hackenschmidt era ...
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mikescottnz (17 months ago | reply)
Irish Immigrants entering New York Harbour ; The US Postal Service honours our Irish Ancestors.
www.nolanfamilyhistory.com/Irish_History.html
mikescottnz (17 months ago | reply)
Amateur Wrestling Collectibles Gallery (cigarette cards etc)
Cards Misc. Pre-1920
www.wrestlingsbest.com/collectibles/wrestuffc ards001.html
This is a very comprehensive collectors site run out of NY by Tom Fortunato.
mikescottnz (16 months ago | reply)
So many Irish went to the port of Liverpool they changed to local accent !
www.merseyreporter.com/history/historic/irish -immigration...
Although marked by its own nuances, the history of the Irish in Chicago follows a pattern similar to that of the Irish in most other large American cities where they settled in substantial numbers. Early immigrants formed a visible Irish community. Sustained by certain key institutions, this community remained relatively cohesive into the early-twentieth century. After that, many of the descendants of Irish immigrants gradually began to meld into a more general Catholic American subgroup, although a smaller core of highly ethnic Irish remains to this day.
www.lib.niu.edu/1999/iht629912.html
mikescottnz (15 months ago | reply)
Now 'Movemember' celebrates the handlebar or Celtic style of mustache and helps fund health issues like prostate cancer etc taken up in November by men, in general , including sportsmen or teams.
thescore.thejournal.ie/the-next-best-moustach es-in-sport-...
www.flickr.com/photos/bigbean/5455653283/in/p hotosof-stat...
mikescottnz (15 months ago | reply)
A History of Wrestling
From Ron Dicker
.Filed In:Olympics
(LifeWire) - For the ancient Greeks, wrestling was a very big deal. It virtually defined the original Olympic Games as the marquee event. Among the sport's noted practitioners was the philosopher Plato, who had the brawn and the brains to get out of a clinch; one of wrestling's early sportswriters was Homer, who recounted epic matches.
Wrestling also had the blessing of the gods of Greek mythology: Zeus out-wrestled Cronus for possession of the universe, a feat celebrated in the ancient Olympic Games by making wrestling the decisive, final event of the pentathlon.
Back then, the sport actually resembled what is now known as freestyle wrestling, but with naked competitors coated in olive oil grappling until one succeeded in throwing or knocking the other down.
But this was nothing new. Sumerian cave drawings found in Mesopotamia indicate that wrestling has been around more than 7,000 years.
olympics.about.com/lw/Sports-Recreation/Amate ur-sports/Ol...</a
A History of Wrestling
From Ron Dicker :Olympics
(LifeWire) -
mikescottnz (15 months ago | reply)
www.wrestlingsbest.com/collectibles/wrestuffp ostcards007....
Amateur Wrestling Collectibles Gallery
Postcards Georg Hackenschmidt the most famous (Estonian-born) wrestler from this era 1903 onwards...named the "Russian Lion" by the press at the time...
www.wrestlingsbest.com/collectibles/wrestuffp ostcards007....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Hackenschmidt
wrestlingmuseum.com/pages/wrestlers/georgehac kenschmidt2....
www.starkcenter.org/blog/2011/07/we-give-you% E2%80%A6the-...
mikescottnz (13 months ago | reply)
Galway history site vintage photo of two Claddagh fishermen...
d748413.u47.hosting.digiweb.ie/index.php?opti on=com_conte...
mikescottnz (13 months ago | reply)
Well its been a time of visitors to Ireland the British monarch the first in a century , Prince Albert who has some ancestry and the newest US president goes there shortly there are some 40 million Americans of Irish ancestry !
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13166265
mikescottnz (13 months ago | reply)
Later, gazing out over a massive crowd, the US president proclaimed Ireland would overcome a crisis which saw it go cap-in-hand to the International Monetary Fund and European Union for a bailout by roaring ' Is Feidir Linn', his famed slogan 'Yes We Can' in Gaelic.
"Yours is a history frequently marked by the greatest of trials and the deepest of sorrows, but yours is also a history of proud and defiant endurance," Obama said, noting America had also endured an economic crisis.
Earlier, Obama braved rain and wind to helicopter to the County Offaly town , Moneygall from where his ancestor Falmouth Kearney, the humble 19-year-old son of a shoemaker, set course for the new world 160 years ago.
He met Henry Healy, a 26-year-old resident and the president's eighth cousin, who Obama said had now been dubbed Henry the Eighth.
mikescottnz (11 months ago | reply)
Return of Cornish traditional style wrestling after almost 150years to Bodmin with "sticklers" (referees) for accuracy .
news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/england/cornwall/875 8519.stm
Other Greater Britain styles (as opposed to Lesser Britain Brittany in France/Gaul)
www.martialartsplanet.com/forums/showthread.p hp?t=63858
mikescottnz (11 months ago | reply)
Those Resilient Irish
lindy1950.tripod.com/shannon.html
Blog of wrestler cigarette cards
30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfnt8hoSNJ1qz50dao 1_400.jpg
Vintage 1920s Greek Athletes Photo
www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/2685183660/1/tumblr _let2ziQPTl1...
mikescottnz (10 months ago | reply)
[Wrestler, Pat (The GalwayTiger) Connolly, facing left].
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Another similar Chicago photo of Pat Connelly , the Galway Tiger named mistakenly the Galloway Tiger in this reference.One of six so he must have been quite noteworthy in this Irish-American town of this period....
Connolly, flexing his right biceps...
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Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
1909.
SUMMARY
Full-length portrait of wrestler Pat (The Galway Tiger) Connolly facing to the left of the image standing in front of a dark coloured background in a room in Chicago, Illinois.
NOTES
This photonegative taken by a Chicago Daily News photographer may have been published in the newspaper.
Cite as: SDN-008203, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum.
mikescottnz (8 months ago | reply)
Butte MT: May 12, 1917 (Empire Theater) … Pat Connolly vs Jack Taylor.Connolly may himself have also been a wrestling promoter.
The following item appeared in the "Boston Post" 0n March 13th 1919
FUNERAL OF IRISH MAT CHAMPION
The funeral of Patrick Connolly, heavyweight wrestling champion of Ireland for many years, will be held this morning from the residence of his sister Mrs. Barbara Norton (or Naughton). 2 Pratt Street, Beachmount (or Beechmont). A requiem high mass will be held at the Immaculate Conception Church. Connolly died recently near Sibley in South Dakota while returning from Boston to Butte, Mont., where he made his home for the past five years. Connolly won the heavyweight championship of Great Britain from Alex Cameron at Glasgow four years ago and since has wrestled every heavyweight of note including Americus, Stecher, Lewis, Zybsko and others of equal note. He wrestled several times in Boston prior to his Glasgow match, and made many annual trips here to visit his sister and other relatives."
Thirteen days before that it was reported in a Butte newspaper that he had died "at Sells, South Dakota" on the last day of February.
Cartoons and Caricatures of Men in Montana (1907) by E.A. Thomson
www.flickr.com/photos/buttepubliclibrary/5392 836087/
1916 Butte school picture -a centre for mining etc.
www.flickr.com/photos/buttepubliclibrary/6208 278020/
mikescottnz (5 months ago | reply)
MAT GAME, THE RISE OF AMERICAN WRESTLING.
By Lori Madeline Hildebrandt
Thesis Co-Advisors: Dr. William Baker and Dr. Richard Judd
An Abstract of the Thesis Presented
in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the
Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
(in History)
May, 2009
Mat Game is the story of wrestling as it develops from earliest times to its peak in the first decade of the twentieth century. Prior to 1900, wrestling was an important martial art, practiced in various styles around the world. As it developed in America, its participants occupied a unique position as representatives of local and national communities.
www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/Hildebrandt L2009.pdf
To study popular culture is to look at the behaviours, attitudes, and customs which a people participate in. These can be identified in their various entertainments, rituals, images, writings and actions. As David Blanke wrote in The 1910s: "It is what we do while we are awake and what we dream about while we are asleep. It is the way of life we inherit, practice, change, and then pass on to our descendants." In his 1782 work, Letters from an American Farmer, Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur asked "what is an American?" He responds with a description of a people who have been formed by their disparate Old-World cultures, yet have combined them to forge a new, uniquely American culture.
Unfortunately, almost no serious studies have been written about wrestling, so for this work I have relied mainly on primary sources. ....
mikescottnz (4 months ago | reply)
Looks like there were Irish in Butte, Montana;
Book cover " Irish at home : or Gaedilg sa m-baile by Máire ní Ceallacain (1922)".
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Meaderville Young Mens Club, Meaderville, Montana (1916)
"...taken April 20, 1916, in the new gymnasium of the Meaderville Young Men's Club in the Leonard mine yards in Meaderville. It shows the group of young athletes, boxers and wrestlers of the sports clubs in Silver Bow County, officials and others connected with the staging of the first show of its kind in the state by the Amateur Athletic Union of Montana."
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Butte Saddlery Co., Butte, Montana (1901)
Complete Line of Fur and Plush Robes, Horse Clothing, Etc.
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This is a steer wrestler from the Browning, Montana area.
This was taken during an Indian Days Rodeo when I worked for a newspaper. The pix was taken around 2000.His name is Bud Connelly, he was in his 70's when this photo was taken, he is my Grandma's cousin.
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The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City Pub. Date: 3/1/2012 (Ist March 2012) Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated .
Overview
A lively, street-level history of turn-of-the-century urban life explores the Americanizing influence of the Irish on successive waves of migrants to the American city.
In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban American identity was forged in the interactions between immigrants in the streets, saloons, churches, and workplaces of the American city. For good or ill, Barrett contends, this process of Americanization was shaped largely by the Irish. From Lower Manhattan to the South Side of Chicago to Boston's North End, newer waves of immigrants and African Americans found it nearly impossible to avoid the entrenched Irish. While historians have long emphasized the role of settlement houses and other mainstream institutions in Americanizing immigrants, Barrett makes the original case that the culture absorbed by newcomers upon reaching American shores had a distinctly Hibernian cast.
By 1900, there were more people of Irish descent in New York city than in Dublin; more in the United States than in the nation of Ireland. But in the late nineteenth century, the sources of immigration began to shift, to southern and eastern Europe and beyond. As Barrett writes, whether these newcomers wanted to save their souls, get a drink, find a job, or just take a stroll in the neighbourhood, they had to deal with Irish Americans.
Barrett reveals how the Irish vacillated between a progressive and idealistic impulse toward their fellow immigrants and a parochial defensiveness owing to the hostility earlier generations had faced upon their own arrival in America. They imparted racist attitudes toward African Americans; they established ethnic "deadlines" across city neighborhoods; they drove other immigrants from docks, factories, and unions. Yet the social teachings of the Catholic Church, a sense of solidarity with the oppressed, and dark memories of poverty and violence in both Ireland and America ushered in a wave of progressive political activism that eventually embraced other immigrants.
Drawing on contemporary sociological studies, Irish American literature, and newspaper accounts, 'The Irish Way' recounts how the interactions between the Irish and later immigrants in the streets, on the vaudeville stage, in Catholic churches, and in public schools helped to forge a multi-ethnic American identity that has a profound legacy in our cities today.
Editorial Reviews:
Publishers Weekly
“The Irish saloon-keeper, priest, cop, and ward heeler have become caricatures,” writes Barrett, “but each really did interact with the new immigrants every day, as did the Irish nun, public schoolteacher, and street tough.” In this way, the Irish helped shape American identity, according to Barrett. Three million Irish immigrated to the U.S. and by 1900 the Irish-born and Irish-American population had expanded to five million. This scholarly history, with chapters like “The Street,” “The Parish,” and “The Workplace,” details the interactions between the Irish and later immigrants in such public places as vaudeville houses, saloons, congested streets, and unions. In addition to the power and influence of Irish politicians, Barrett covers novels (e.g., James T. Farrell’s Studs Lonigan) and comic strips (Bringing Up Father) and the Irish influence on Hollywood, including Catholic censorship efforts that led to the Legion of Decency in 1934. Portraying colourful characters like New York reformer politician boss Timothy Sullivan and showing how the blending of African-American and Irish dance resulted in tap dancing, Barrett gives us an authoritative, fact-filled analysis. Photos. (Mar.)
Kirkus Reviews
Barrett explores the influence of Irish immigrants on nearly every aspect of American society. Irish immigrants have always been a hardy group, particularly during the period of 1890-1930, when many of them led the country in politics, trade unions, the theatre and the administration of the Catholic Church. The first wave struggled to make a life, vying with not only racism and discrimination, but also territorialism and in-fighting. However, they had the advantage of numbers and the ability to read and write English. They didn't settle in small protective neighbourhoods but dispersed throughout the cities, which made their presence more conducive to the acculturation of new arrivals than in the ethnic quarters. The author establishes a distinct difference between acculturation and assimilation, the former being a gradual process during which ideas and language are absorbed both from and by the neighbourhood. The second generation strove for respect and acceptance by moving into the church and skilled trades. Despite priests and other church workers of different ethnic descent, particularly Italian and Polish, Irish priests and nuns controlled the church, and their native scrappiness made them leaders in the unions. By 1900, more than 95 percent of Irish Americans were literate, and they quickly learned that they could control neighbourhoods simply by delivering for their neighbours, whether in jobs or protection, collecting social capital at every turn. Thus the Irish could build political machines, which were blindly followed by "simple-minded" immigrants. Barrett's vast knowledge illuminates "America's first ethnic group."
Author: James R. Barrett is a professor of history and African American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism.
mikescottnz (2 months ago | reply)
A more recent namesake from Ireland singing in Gaelic to a country and western style.US country music and Appalachian mountain music are decended from the Celtic tunes of Ireland,Wales and Scotland.
Patrick Connolly - Conamara
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George Cornelius "Con" O'Kelly (October 29, 1886 – November 3, 1947) was an Irish sport wrestler who competed for Great Britain in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
In 1908 he won the gold medal in the freestyle heavyweight class.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_O%27Kelly
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_wrestling
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Irish Prisoners of War in Limburg Camp , WW1.
The Germans concentrated Irish POWs in Limburg from December 1914 in order to give Casement the opportunity to recruit men for his Irish Brigade. The British records hold a number of reports on the camp. Out of 2,200 Irish soldiers who were moved to Limburg, Casement managed to recruit 55. Once these men had been recruited, they were move to Zossen in July 1916 and only one more (Wilson) was recruited after they moved to Zossen..
www.irishbrigade.eu/camps/limburg.html