100 Years

1926 — a century of the Institute

A commemoration of what a community built for itself, and an invitation to help record it properly before the memory thins.

Athlone Institute centenary badge: 100 years

What the centenary is for

  • To honour the people who founded and carried the Institute.
  • To gather and publish the Institute’s photographs and records.
  • To collect oral histories from those who remember.
  • To set out what the Institute intends for its second century.

Contribute to the centenary record

Photographs, programmes, certificates, letters, newspaper cuttings and spoken recollections are all welcome. Every contribution is credited to its source and the original stays with you.