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Charlie Nash memorabilia goes on
show
05.09.10
OLYMPIC boxer Charlie
Nash has loaned some of his most prized sporting
memorabilia to Derry City Council’s Heritage and
Museum Service.
The retired boxer has given the personal items, all
relating to major fights he contested, on a long
term loan for display at the award-winning Tower
Museum.
Head of Museum Services, Roisin Doherty, said it was
a great honour to receive the items including boxing
gloves, photographs and boxing programmes.
“We are absolutely delighted that Charlie Nash has
donated these personal items to the museum so that
locals and visitors can share in his life, his
excellent career and the contribution he made to
boxing.
"The artefacts are a great addition to the current
range of items we have recording historic events and
people from our city,” she said. |
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Charlie Nash, right, hands over his
European Lightweight Championship of Europe Belt and
fight programme to Redmond Gallagher, Tower Museum. |
Nash, who is still
actively involved in the local boxing scene since
his retirement from professional boxing in 1983,
said he was pleased to donate the items to the
museum.
“They are going to a good home where I know they
will be well looked after. I thought it was a good
idea to donate the items so that generations of
young people can come and view them and perhaps be
inspired to take up the sport and represent their
city and country,” he said.
Born in Derry in 1951, Charlie Nash, grew up in the
Creggan area of the city, where he was a member of
his local St. Mary's Boxing Club.
He won the junior championships at provincial level,
and, after winning the senior title in Ulster in
1969, became the first Derry man to win the Irish
National Senior Title in 1970. This marked the
beginning of his Irish international boxing career.
In 1972, he was part of the Irish Olympic Team for
the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. He
fought well but was knocked out of the competition
by the eventual Gold winner.
In 1975 Nash become a professional boxer and went on
to win the British and the European lightweight
titles on two occasions. He successfully defended
his European Title against Ken Buchanan. |
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