Shamrock Rallies

Once again, today we will travel together in this good old time machine, this time towards the year 1970, and more precisely in the month of March of that year, to take part in the 3rd edition of the legendary Irish meeting of the Shamrock rally, organized by the Limerick & District MCC in Annascaul, a village on the Dingle peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland.

It is said that images tell a story that our brain can interpret faster than text. According to science, the human brain can apparently process images in only 13 milliseconds, or 60,000 times faster than text.

Those seen below perfectly describe the mood and atmosphere of this 3rd meeting. All of these photos belonged to the motorcycle touring enthusiast Michael Foley, previously mentioned on the pages of this website about the first editions of the Shamrock.

They were sent to me several years ago by my friend Gilles Gaudechoux of the Cercle Motocycliste Raboliots, like me an archivist of everything related to the world of motorcycle touring.

It would be a great pity and very sad to let them languish in the oblivion of a computer file rather than share them with the faithful readers of LPMCC.net.

Without further ado, let's discover below these splendid photographic testimonies of this Shamrock rally of March 1970.

Text: Jean-Francois Helias
Images: Michael & Tom Foley, Gilles Gaudechoux