Sunday 31 December: 2.30-3.30pm
Theatrical Performance. The Mummer's Play
Watch the Sligo 'Sidhe Gaoithe' Mummers bring to life such characters as St. Patrick, Gráinne Uaile, Queen Maeve and many more in a traditional Mummer's play. Location: Museum Galleries

Sunday 7 January: 2.30-3.30pm
Tour. Housing in the last 100 Years
Join Brendan McGowan of the Education & Outreach Department to learn about traditional rural housing. Location:    Education Room

Sunday 14 January:  2.30-3.30pm
Talk. Images of Folklife in the 20th Century
Join Dr. Séan Lysaght to hear how Irish artists, such WB Yeats and Paul Henry, redefined the image of folklife in the    20th century. Location: Education Room

Sunday 21 January: 2.30-3.30pm
Workshop. Brídeóg & Cros Bríde
"In the past garments might be stuffed with straw or hay to approximate to a human figure." Make a Brídeóg & Brigid's    crosses with Merovee.  Location: Education Room

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Courses for Adults
Courses take place between 10am & 5pm

The Natural Environment
Communities relied on the resources available in the immediate natural environment for self-sufficiency and survival. This exhibition looks at how the way of life in rural Ireland was influenced by the landscape and its resources. This is explored through vernacular architecture and illustrated by using different raw materials to make similar objects.

Location: National Museum of Ireland - Country Life, Level -1, Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co. Mayo

TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS

First Quarter - A Celebration of 25 years of the Irish Patchwork Society
The Irish Patchwork Society was established in June 1981 and this travelling exhibition First Quarter is a celebration of their achievements and work over the past quarter of a century. It consists of a selection of quilts and wall hangings    completed by members of the Society especially for this exhibition.

Michael Davitt 1846-1906 an exhibition to commemorate the life of the father of the Land League.
This exhibition, which was organised by Mayo County Library and Mayo County Library, will run in the National Museum of Ireland - Country Life, Turlough Park, Castlebar until December '06. It is rich in images of Michael Davitt and his times and traces his life from birth in Mayo, to founder of the Land League, imprisonment, Member of Parliament and international activist. It is supplemented with artefacts drawn from the National Museum's collections associated with Davitt and the Land League.

Down Memory Lane - Childhood in the 1950s
Following its huge success in The National Museum of Ireland - Country Life, this exhibition is now showing in Dublin at the National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks, Dublin 7. This exhibition illustrates childhood in the 1950s through objects from the Irish Folklife Collection. On your next trip to Dublin, you are invited to come along and take a trip Down Memory Lane.

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May 2007