Bohemian Football Club Crest

On the evening of Saturday, 6th September 1890, in the Gate Lodge at the North Circular Road entrance to the Phoenix Park, a small group gathered. Mostly young, and mostly students, they were intent on forming a club in the "new" football code, soccer, the Bohemian Football Club.

My receding grip on history tells me that not many men stand a post for over half a century.

The Author Philip Howlin was born at 13 Dalymount, less than 100 yards away from Bohs home ground. It was almost inevitable that he therefore took an interest in Bohemians as an early age. His first official act for the club was in the first weekend of November 1938 when he sold the club programme for Bohemians v Sligo Rovers. At that stage he had become a boy associate member on 4th November 1938.