BOHEMIAN Football Club paid homage to its first members last week when the current board met at the house where the founding meeting of the club took place 122 years ago.
That historical meeting happened on Saturday, September 6, 1890 at the Gate Lodge of Phoenix Park on North Circular Road. The 18 men present were mostly medical and civil service students.
Last week, to mark the anniversary, the club’s present directors met at the Gate Lodge by kind invitation of its present occupant, Margaret Casey.
Bohemians have an unrivalled continuous history since 1890. They’ve been at Dalymount Park for 111 years and are the only club to have played every year at the top level of the League of Ireland since its foundation over 90 years ago.
“We are very aware of the heritage of the club from those pioneering days over 120 years ago,
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“We wanted to pay homage to the founders but also recall for all our members and supporters the responsibility we have inherited to keep this great club going well into the future.
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As part of Phizzfest, the local arts festival, Bohemian FC staged a walk-and-talk event last weekend around north city sites associated with the club’s founders and early history.