Public Programme for February/March 2010
NOTE: We regret that public tours will not be available on the following dates: 21st & 28th February and 7th & 14th March. We apologize for any inconvenience which this may cause.
Junior Workshop. Exploring Ceramics - Workshop - Children under 6 accompanied by an adult
Thursday 11/02/2010 - 3.30-4.30pm
Join Lorna Elms for this junior workshop. View the Museum's ceramic collection, design and decorate your own plate.
Musical Performance: 'The First Month of Spring' a Traditional Irish Music Performance - Performance - All Ages
Sunday 14/02/2010 - 2.30-3.30pm
Join Emer Mayock and friends to hear some seasonal traditional Irish music and songs.
Tour & Workshop. Moylough Belt Shrine - Workshop - Adults & Children over 7
Wednesday 17/02/2010 - 2.30-3.30pm
Join Lisa Fahy to look at this important reliquary and then join in our art activity to make your own medieval masterpiece based on the Moylough Belt Shrine.
Drop in Event. The Knitting Circle - Demonstration - Adults & Children over 7
Friday 19/02/2010 - 11am-1pm
Drop in Demonstration. Exchange patterns, learn new techniques, bring along your knitting and join in on the third Friday of every month.
One Day Course. Ever Tried Felt Making? - Workshop - Adults
Thursday 25/02/2010 10am-4.45pm
Full Day Course. Join Susie Sullivan of Derryaun Crafts for this full day course as she demonstrates the techniques of wet felt making. Afterwards have a go at making your own piece of felt.
Talk. Growing Vegetables - Tour - Adults & Children over 7
Sunday 28/02/2010 - 2.30-4.30pm
Join Kevin Gannon, local organic gardener, to learn about growing vegetables using traditional methods.
Thursday 4th March: 2.30pm - 4.30pm.
Talk & Performance. "I'll live ‘til I die". All Ages.
Join Gavin Brown, Carmen Cullen and Márín O'Donovan, for a celebration in Talk, Story & Song of the life & times of Delia Murphy.
Location. Education Room.
Saturday 6th March: 2.00pm - 4.00pm.
Workshop & Demonstration. Hosted by Mayo ICA. All Ages.
Join Deirdre Flanagan and other members of the Irish Countrywomen's Association for a demonstration of knitting techniques to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the I.C.A. and International Women's Day.
Location. Education Room.
Thursday 11th March: 10.00am - 4.45pm.
One Day Course. Spring Gardening. Adults.
Join Frank Bouchier & Gráinne Vaughan of the Irish Seed Savers Association to learn about starting a vegetable garden, how to create a sowing plan for the year and much more.
Location. Education Room.
Sunday 14th March: 2.30pm - 3.30pm.
Seachtain na Gaeilge; Fadó, Fadó...Story Telling Performance. All Ages.
Join Gearóidín Breathnach, Donegal Storyteller, to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge through stories in both Irish and English.
Location. Exhibition Galleries.
Saturday Club: March 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th. 10.00am - 12.00pm.
Workshop. Get Crafty with Tradition. Children aged 8 to 13.
Spark your imagination, light up your mind, work with your hands to create a little piece of Irish culture with ceramics, rush, straw and wool over 4 Saturdays of craft activities.
Location. Education Room.
NEW FOR 2010
Drop in Event. The Music Circle. Open to 7 yrs and over (children with an adult).
Take this opportunity to pick up that instrument you have left down for too long, exchange music and learn new tunes. The Music Circle will meet from 3pm - 5pm on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month - next meeting 20th February.
Location. Education Room.
SCHOOLS PROGRAMME
Friday 26th February: 10.00am & 11.30am
Workshop. Gaelic Script 1st to 6th Class
View the museum's facsimile copy of the Book of Kells and afterwards join Albert Siggins to learn the fundamentals of writing in traditional Gaelic script.
History & Visual Arts
MARCH
Seachtain na Gaeilge
4ú - 17ú Márta 2010
Ceiliúrann Ard-Mhúsaem na hÉireann Seachtain na Gaeilge, le réimse imeachtaí trí Ghaeilge - turais, seisiúin scéalaíochta agus ceoil. Tá Bileoga Gníomhaíochta trí Ghaeilge ar fáil chomh maith. Beidh na himeachtaí ar fad dá-theangach.
The National Museum of Ireland celebrates Seachtain na Gaeilge, with a range of events through Irish including tours, storytelling and workshops. Irish language Activity Sheets are available. All events are bi-lingual.
Turais stiúraithe i nGaeilge Rang 1 go Rang 6
Ar fáil ón Céadaoin 3ú go dé hAoine an 12ú Márta
Bíonn uas-teora 15 áit i gceist. Beidh turais i nGaeilge ar fáil i rith na seachtaine do ghrúpaí. Is gá réamh-áirithint a dhéanamh.
Stair & Gaeilge
Guided tours in Irish 1st to 6th Class
Available from Wednesday 3rd to Friday 12th March. Places are limited to 15. Tours in Irish will also be available throughout the week for groups.
Pre-booking is essential.
History & Irish
Friday 5th 10.00am, 11.30am & 1.00pm
Interactive Performance. Living History 5th & 6th Class
Join Michael Moylan of ‘Irish History Live' to experience living in the past and everyday life in Ireland around the 1900's. Try on the clothes, find out about the food and much more.
History
Aoine 12ú 10.00 & 11.30 uair Ceárdlanna. Lá Féile Pádraig! Rang 1 go Rang 6. Dá-theangach.
Tar le baill den Tómás O Dúill le crosa traidisiúnta na féile Pádraig a dhéanamh.
Stair & Éalaíonn
Friday 12th 10.00am & 11.30am
Workshop. Prepare for St. Patrick's Day! 1st to 6th Class. Bi-lingual.
Join Tom Doyle to make traditional St. Patrick's Day crosses.
History & Visual Arts
TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
Museums Matter: Accessing Ireland's Heritage
Irish museums have something for everyone and the rich variety in museum collections across Ireland is being celebrated in this cross-border exhibition-project developed by the Irish Museum's Association (IMA). Its key aims are to showcase some of attractions housed in the 400 Irish museums and heritage centres. The exhibition also features a sample of recent acquisitions by the Museum of Country Life: pre-Independence signage from Castlebar's old post office; a paddling curach made for the Museum by the last traditional maker and a set of golf clubs sold by Clery's department store, Dublin in the 1930s. There is also a special handling collection of replicas which includes a Bronze Age axe, a drinking horn and a Viking spoon and knife. This exhibition continues until 25 April 2010.
MAYO ICA EXHIBITION
The Irish Countrywoman's Association celebrates its centenary this year. To mark the occasion the Mayo guilds of the ICA are preparing to hold an exhibition of work of ICA members in Mayo, past and present. The exhibition will be hosted at the National Museum of Ireland - Country Life from May 2010.
The Mayo guilds are particularly interested in representing the guilds of the early 1900s. If anyone is interested in submitting items to the exhibition, please contact Deirdre on 094 9256228 or Mary on 094 9023481 by mid February.
STRAW, HAY AND RUSHES
You can imagine a mat made from straw. How about sleeping on a straw mattress, horse riding using a saddle made from rushes, making a rain coat from a wheat sheaf or insulating your home with plaited straw draft excluders. The Museum's new temporary exhibition includes more than a hundred objects made from these natural materials some of which you can experience for yourself. You never know, in these days of credit crunches and recession, you might even pick up some money saving ideas. This exhibition continues until Spring 2010.
Extended to Spring 2010: The Moylough Belt Shrine: Objects associated with saints in early Ireland were often preserved after the saint's death and these relics were encased in precious metal shrines. A belt belonging to an unknown saint was found in Moylough, Co. Sligo in the 1940s by local man John Towey when he was cutting turf. The leather belt was encased in a bronze shrine. This was richly decorated with silver, glass and enamel. The Moylough Belt Shrine dates from the eighth century and is one of the great treasures of early Ireland.
