Heritage Week 2021 at Boyle Abbey
8 videos • 77 views • by Office of Public Works On Saturday, August 7th 2021 a session of traditional music and song took place in Boyle Abbey in memory of Roscommon priest Fr. Michael O'Flanagan. Three OPW guides, Barry Mulligan, Martin Byrne and Joe Dolan took part. Fr. O'Flanagan, who played an important part in the events of a century ago, was both vice president and president of Sinn Féin, was the editor who oversaw the publication for the first time of the Ordnance Survey Letters, and the inventor of the modern swimming goggles.