Heritage
Week, 2010
To celebrate Heritage
Week 2009 entry to the museum was free on Sunday 23 August and again
on Sunday 30 August. This will happen again during Heritage Week 2010,
which takes place from 21st to 29 August.
• On the morning
of Saturday 29 August a guided walk along one of the Siúlóid
Oidhreachta took place beginning at the museum at 10.00 am and finishing
c. 12.30 pm. Each of these walks incorporates some of the local archaeological
sites, and the guides were 2 members of staff of Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne,
who are very familiar with the area and all of its interesting features
and stories. It is proposed to have a similar walk during Heritage Week
2010, 21-29 August.
For further information
about Heritage Week, please look at www.heritageweek.ie.
Launch
of 2010 Scoil Cheoil an Earraigh
The launch of
the 2010 Scoil
Cheoil an Earraigh will take place in Músaem Chorca Dhuibhne
at 8.00 pm on Wednesday 17 February. Breandán
Feirtéar will do the honours, and there will be plenty of music
and singing as well. All welcome!
Also as part of
the Scoil Cheoil, a Coffee Morning in aid of Crumlin's Children's Hospital,
Dublin, will take place at 10.45 on Sunday, 21 February.
Please support this good cause!
Festival organisers:
Niamh Ní Bhaoill & Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich.
Further information about the 2010 event from eolas@scoilcheoil.com.
www.scoilcheoil.com Tel: 086 2285385 or 087 9967501
Launch of Conair
Oidhreachta Chorca Dhuibhne/Dingle Peninsula Heritage Trail
Conair
Oidhreachta Chorca Dhuibhne/Dingle Peninsula Heritage Trail, a
joint venture between the
Museum, Ionad
an Bhlascaoid Mhóir (the Blasket Island Interpretative
Centre) and An Díseart
was launched in the Museum at the end of October 2009. This initiative
consists of a leaflet containing discount vouchers for the three venues,
providing entry discounts of up to 40%, and they will be widely distributed
throughout the peninsula in time for the 2010 season. We are grateful
for the assistance provided by the Department
of Arts, Sport and Tourism to enable
this project to happen.
At the launch of
Conair Oidhreachta Chorca Dhuibhne/Dingle Peninsula Heritage
Trail were Mícheál de Mórdha, Manager, The Blasket
Centre, Isabel Bennett, Curator, Músaem Chorca Dhuibhne, Muireann
Nic Giolla Ruaidh, Manager, Benner’s Hotel, Dingle, who launched
the brochure, TP Ó Conchúir, Manager, Díseart and
Pádraig Firtéar, Comharchumann Forbartha Chorca Dhuibhne.
(Photo courtesy Ted Creedon, The Kerryman.)
Regular Activities
In conjunction with Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne, many events are held
in the café of Músaem Chorca Dhuibhne. Among the regular,
annual events are the Hospice
Coffee Morning in September, the Alzheimer’s
Tea Day in May. Each August a coffee morning is held to raise funds
for the Chernobyl Children’s Group. Seachtain na Gaeilge
is celebrated each March with an appropriate event in the museum, usually
a demonstration or a reading of some sort, and International Languages
Day at the end of September is also celebrated appropriately. Other
events are advertised locally.
Traditional music
classes for children and adults are held during the winter
months, during some afternoons and evenings. Should you wish to enrol
in one of these classes, please contact Máire Uí Shithigh,
mus@cfcd.ie, 066-9156100.
The Book
Club as Gaeilge will recommence on Wednesday
15 September at 8.00pm with Joe Steve Ó Nechtain's second collection
of short stories, Salann Garbh. For further information about
the Club, please contact Máire Uí Shithigh, mus@cfcd.ie,
066-9156100.
