Gerard Quinn

 

 

Miss Cooke of Cappagh house. Author of ‘Irish heroes in Red War’

 

Pictures of Ger Quinn, one with his father who was steward of Curraghchase estate

 

Poem by Miss Cooke about Gerry Quinn, August 1937

Good luck to jockey Gerard Quinn

We’ve got a new jockey and the country’s fair rocky, 

From Barowstown races to gay Punchestown,

Your luck will be springing, your Irish horse winning,

At Ascot and at Fairy house ‘till the Derby you crown