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>>> A Brief History of the 91st Oblate Scout Group
Late in the year of 1964 the Scouters of the 42nd Dublin, Dolphins Barn were discussing the long waiting list of boys who wanted to join Scouts. They decided to form another troop. They applied to National HQ for a number, as they felt that the new troop should have its own number and so the 91st Dublin C.B.S.I. (which later became Scouting Ireland CSI and then Scouting Ireland) came into being.

The first meeting of the new troop was held on 11 February 1965 in Dolphins Barn, 42nd Dublin. The young leaders appointed to head the new troop were Dermot Murphy and his assistant Liam Doyle both young leaders from the 42nd Dolphins Barn. The 91st. troop did very well and soon grew in strength and was up to 30 in numbers within a year.

In 1966 both 42nd and 91st Troops held their Annual Camp in Rockingham 1st (Lough Key Forest Park) Boyle, Co. Roscommon.

In 1967 Dermot Murphy received an invitation to start a Scout Troop in Bluebell, from Fr. Granville, he discussed it with all the leaders in Dolphins Barn, and it was decided that the 91st should leave Dolphins Barn and start up a new unit in Bluebell, and so in July 1967 Our Lady of the Wayside was founded.

The first meeting was held in Number 5 School classroom in Bluebell school and over 50 boys from Bluebell came along. Of the original 30 members in Dolphins Barn only 12 came to Bluebell to start the new Unit.

Within 2 years the unit had settled down, and in 1969 we had started a new Cub pack in Bluebell under the leadership of John Murphy (Brother of Dermot). At almost the same time we were joined by a young leader from the 44th / 93rd Crumlin Unit - James F. Dunne (Jimmy).

Dermot Murphy was Unit Leader and Scout Leader, Jimmy Dunne was Assistant Scout Leader and Liam Doyle Was Assistant Scout Leader. Just before the end of 1969 Liam Doyle returned to the 42nd, Dermot who was now Director of Scouts at National HQ stepped down as Scout Leader and continued on as Unit Leader and Jimmy Dunne took over as Scout Leader.

In 1970 we started a Venture Scout Group under the leadership of Maurice Spillane. In 1972 Dermot Murphy died after a road traffic accident, he was a great loss to the unit and was a good friend to all.

John Murphy took over the running of the Venture Scout Group in the early 70's when Maurice Spillane emigrated to Africa. John Murphy unfortunately had to leave due to the pressure of exams and the Venture Scout Group was forced to close down.

The Unit now had two Leaders; Jimmy Dunne, Unit Leader and Scout Leader and Joe Briggs, Cub Leader. By now the Cub Section and Scout Troop were running very well, but we lived in fear that someone would start a new Unit in Inchicore and cut our supply for there.

Towards the end of 1972 we decided to expand into Inchicore and become one big Unit, we got permission from the three Parish Priests to do this and so we became the 91st. Oblate Unit Bluebell / Inchicore (previously we were the 91st. Our Lady of the Wayside Unit). We started in 1972 with a Cub Pack in the Mary Immaculate Parish under the Leadership of Frances Creevey from Bluebell.

This turned out to be a great move and as we recruited more Leaders, Andy Murphy and Terry Cullen, we expanded more into Inchicore.

In 1975 Joe Briggs started our second Scout Section in St. Michael's Parish, we now had four sections, This was soon followed by a Cub Section in St. Michael's Under the leadership of Willie Hickey, we also had a Cub Section in the Model School for some years which was later transferred to St. Michael's.

In 1978 after 6 years as Unit Leader Jimmy Dunne stepped down and Terry Cullen became the third Unit Leader of the 91st.
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In January 2004 Scouting Ireland CSI(Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland) and Scouting Ireland SAI amalgamated to form Scouting Ireland.

On July 3rd 2006 the 91st Oblate Scout Troop held its fisrt meeting the the new Scout Den located at the back of the Oblate Basketball Hall.The is the first Scout Den we have had in our 41 year history.Altogether Young People, Leaders, Fun, Challenge and Adventure make Scouting the largest and best Youth organisation in Ireland.

Written by Joe Briggs.

 

World Scout Jamborees
1920	1st World Jamboree, Olympia, London, England.
1924	2nd World Jamboree, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1929	3rd World Jamboree, Arrowe Park, Birkenhead, England.
1933	4th World Jamboree, Godollo, Hungary.
1937	5th World Jamboree, Vogelenzang, Netherlands.
1947	6th World Jamboree (Jamboree of Peace), Moisson, France.
1951	7th World Jamboree, Bad Ischl, Austria.
1955	8th World Jamboree, Niagara-on-the-lake, Canada.
1957	9th World Jamboree (50 Anniversary of Scouting), Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire,England.
1959	10th World Jamboree, Laguna, Philippines.
1963	11th World Jamboree, Marathon, Greece.
1967	12th World Jamboree, Farragut State Park, Idaho, U.S.A.
1971	13th World Jamboree, Asagiri Heights, Japan.
1975	14th World Jamboree (Nordjamb ,75), Lillehammer, Norway.
1979	Was scheduled to be held in Iran, but was cancelled due to a revolution in Iran, smaller jamboree were organised in various parts of the world.
1983	15th World Jamboree, Kananaskis County, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
1987	16th World Jamboree, Cataract Park, Sydney, Australia
1991	17th World Jamboree, Mount Sorak National Park, South Korea
1995	18th World Jamboree, Dronten, Holland "The Future is Now!"
1999	19th World Jamboree, Picarquin, Chile'99
2003	20th World Jamboree, Thailand
2007	21st World Jamboree, United Kingdom (100 years of Scouting)

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