{"id":831,"date":"2011-05-12T22:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T02:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archives.nd.edu\/about\/news\/?p=831"},"modified":"2011-05-12T22:00:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T02:00:42","slug":"an-tostal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/an-tostal\/","title":{"rendered":"An Tostal"},"content":{"rendered":" <\/a>
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An Tostal at Notre Dame began in 1967 by students Jimmy Brogan<\/a>, David Ryan, and Ron Mastroni [Scholastic<\/em> 1988\/0414, page 14].\u00a0 Its name comes from the spring festivals held in Ireland during the 1950s.\u00a0 At Notre Dame, it is a student organized event through the Student Union Board<\/a>, and thus the events vary from year to year, but it is generally a week-long festival of games, prizes, music, and food.\u00a0 Other events such as the Fisher Hall Regatta and the Bookstore Basketball Tournament are held in conjunction with An Tostal.<\/p>\n

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An Tostal program cover featuring a leprechaun, 1970.\u00a0 The Hall Presidents’ Council (HPC) and the Saint Mary’s College (SMC) Social Commission organized the event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Map of some of the events near St. Mary’s Lake from the An Tostal Program, 1970<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An Tostal April 1973 – A student wearing a suit of armor and riding a horse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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List of Scheduled Events from the An Tostal Program, 1992<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Events have included movies, concerts, picnics, pie-throwing contests, kissing marathons, tug-o-war contests, mattress races, chariot races, and lots of mud…<\/p>\n

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An Tostal Chariot Races through a mud pit near Stepan Center, Spring 1978<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An Tostal Tug-o-War, c1970s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An Tostal Pig Chase, c1970<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Sources:
\nScholastic
\n<\/em>PNDP 70-An-02
\nGRMD 5\/39<\/a>
\nGPHR 20\/09
\n<\/a>GNDL 33\/11<\/a>
\nGPUB 13\/01<\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/a>

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An Tostal at Notre Dame began in 1967 by students Jimmy Brogan, David Ryan, and Ron Mastroni [Scholastic 1988\/0414, page 14].\u00a0 Its name comes from the spring festivals held in Ireland during the 1950s.\u00a0 At Notre Dame, it is a student organized event through the Student Union Board, and thus the events vary from year … Continue reading “An Tostal”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":4370,"featured_media":833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32,74],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nd-history","tag-events","tag-student-life"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 12:28:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}