Can anyone help me with some history of Boxing in Dublin?

CathMaris

Hey there

I hope someone can help me with a bit of history information regarding Boxing in Dublin in the 1920s and 1930s.

My Father (Joseph Bond) grew up in Dublin, I believe he boxed at St Andrews in Dublin. Dad was born in 1915, so it would have been in the 1920s and or 1930s that he was boxing. On the weekend I found the attached sketchPaddy (Joe) Bond - Boxer.jpg on the sketch it says Paddy Bond Lightweight Camp of Ireland. I'm not sure if this is correct or it was just someone mucking around. Dad was quite a modest man and didn't talk much about his achievements. I remember that he had won some trophies for boxing, no one in the family know where they are now.

I know that he was over in Birmingham Boxing and was returning home to Dublin and instead after seeing the advertisments to join the army joined up. He boxed for the British Army during the war, I have a photo of him with the 1944 boxing team. He immigrated to Australia after the war, so we don't know a lot about his life in Ireland.

Hope someone can really help me with this, the family would really love to know, sadly Dad passed away in 1981.

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Regards

Cath Maris

barney4001

http://www.britishpathe.com/search/query/boxing/search-field/record_keywords/page/1

There are 21 pages of boxing here some of the irish teams training,and against various countries you just might get lucky here good luck

CathMaris

Thank you Barney4001, very much appreciate you help. I have started to look at the site, there is certainly a lot of footage.
Regards
Cath

barney4001

could not find any irish pro boxers by your fathers name,or reference to st andrews club here ia a list of dublin clubs you could try some of them in the area where st andrews was located good luck barney

CathMaris

Hi Barney4001

Was your post supposed to include a URL link or was the information contained in the previous link you gave me?
http://www.britishpathe.com/search/q...eywords/page/1
I tried searching on this link under
Boxing Clubs Dublin
Boxing Clubs Ireland
unfortunately nothing came up, maybe I'm being too specific?

Regards
Cath

MBC

Maybe some lads on this forum may be able to help? best of luck and hope you find the info....great hearing interesting stories from yester year so please report back on your findings.


http://thedublinforums.com/showthread.php?731-Irish-International-Boxing-Team-of-1939-and-the-DOwnpatrick-road-connection!!!

CathMaris

Thank you MBC

I have registered to the Dublin forums, just waiting to the administrator to activate my registration so I can post a question. They seem like very nice people from what I have read. Cath

andrehickey

St Andrews boxing club were located around the Rialto area of Dublin. My granfather was Tom Hickey. He would have known your father. Not much info about St Andrews. But im still looking.

CathMaris

Hi Andre

I just found your previous post, apologies for not responding to that.

You would have received a response now from your post today.

Regards

Cath