Trust News - January 2011 Issue

Official Opening Of New Curragh Military Museum

Military Heritage of Ireland Trust Ltd series of Articles

Military Heritage of Ireland Trust Ltd Lecture Programme Winter 2010 – 2011

Forthcoming Events at the Soldiers & Chiefs Exhibition National Museum of Ireland

Military Heritage Trust Visits Royal Irish Regimental Association In Northern Ireland

Irish History Students' Association website link

 

Official Opening Of New Curragh Military Museum

G.O.C. Defence Forces Training Centre Brig. Gen. Conor O’Boyle , Comdt. Miriam McCann, who is Officer in Charge of the Museum and the Chief of Staff Lt Gen Sean McCann

It is with great pleasure that the Military Heritage of Ireland Trust announces the opening of the new Military Museum at the Curragh Camp.

This beautiful Museum is housed in one of the original permanent buildings on the camp.

The building was originally a stable during the British presence in the Curragh and in fact a section of the original floor and troughs have been retained in the museum. Great care has been taken to transform the building into a modern museum which will take the visitor on a historic journey through time. The Museum reflects all the users of the Curragh, the Defence Forces, the racehorse industry, the sheep graziers and recreational users.

In doing so, it recognises the responsibility that resides with all users to ensure its preservation for future generations.

The Museum was officially opened by Lt. Gen. Séan McCann, Chief of Staff, on 18th October 2010.

Opening Hours & Contact details:-

Monday to Wednesday

1000hrs – 1300hrs
1500hrs – 1700hrs

Thursday
1400hrs – 2000hrs

Sunday
1200hrs – 1530hrs

Ph. No.:045 445342

Email:   curraghmilitary.museum@defenceforces.ie

Curator Sgt Charlie Walsh

Free Admission and Free Parking

 

SOLDIERS AND CHIEFS EXHIBITION- NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND
Series of Articles

The Soldiers and Chiefs military galleries at the National Museum in Collins Barracks, Dublin, have proved to be hugely popular and are attracting a greater daily attendance than expected. These exhibitions increase public awareness of the story of the Irish soldier, one of the principal objectives of the Trust.

To add to that knowledge and appreciation of the Irish soldier, the Trust arranged for series of articles on selected items in the exhibitions to be published in An Cosantóir and in local newspapers around Ireland, both North and South. Each article concentrates on a particular item in the military museum that caught the author’s attention and imagination, is of 300 to 500 words in length and accompanied by an appropriate photograph.

The Trust now publishes these articles on its website thereby contributing to developing amongst Irish men and women, both at home and abroad, a greater knowledge and appreciation of Ireland’s proud military heritage which is common to the different political and religious traditions of this island.

Read these Articles

Military History Society of Ireland

Lecture Programme
WINTER/SPRING 2011



Friday, 14th January 2011
Fighting the Confederates:
T the Protestant armies from Benburb to Cromwell
Dr. Robert Armstrong


Friday, 11th February 2011
General Humbert (1767-1823):
Citizen, soldier, friend or foe of Ireland
Dr. Sylvie Kleinman

Friday, 11th March 2011
Secret intelligence and the British Army in two World Wars
Professor Keith Jeffery

Friday, 8th April 2011
Battle, blitz, blockade and the weather forecast:
The Luftwaffe and neutral Ireland
1940-45
Dr. Pat McCarthy

Friday, 29th April 2011
The organisation and structure of the I.R.A., 1921
Mr. Tom Brace

Lectures will be given at 8 p.m. in Griffith College, South Circular Road, Dublin 8

Non-members are welcome to all lectures


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FORTHCOMING EVENTS AT THE
SOLDIERS & CHIEFS EXHIBITION NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND
COLLINS BARRACKS, DUBLIN
JANUARY TO MARCH 2011

 

Saturday 1st January to Monday 31st January 2011

All Day – All Ages

Photographing Your Local Heroes

Students at Larkin Community College, Dublin1 will have photographs of their local heroes from the Lourdes Day Care Centre on display. Based on the Soldiers & Chiefs Exhibition, this display is part of a long term education project involving Localise National Community Service Learning, Poetry Ireland, Larkin Community College, City of Dublin VEC and the Museum

Saturday 16th January 2011
3.00 – 4.00 p.m.
Families with children aged 6 +

My Museum: Make Art Not War

Musical instruments carved from wood, caps made from artillery shells, lighters made from bullet shells. It’s hard to believe that these were all made by soldiers living in the trenches during World War One. See some of these objects in the galleries and then make your own trench art with archaeological historian Niamh Keating

Places are limited and are allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis

Friday 21st January 2011
12.30 to 1.00 p.m.
Adults

Gallery Tour: Behind the Barrack Wall

The history of Collins Barracks
1706 to 2006

Join curator Lar Joye for a tour of the Soldiers & Chiefs exhibition

Places are limited and are allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis

Sunday 20th February 2011
3.00 to 4.00 p.m.
Families with children aged 5 +

My Museum:
The Sound of the Barracks

Boom! Crash! Quick March! Recreate the sound of the Barracks using percussion and other instruments with musician and composer Peter Morrow.

Places are limited and are allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis

Friday 4th March 2011
12.30 to 1.00 p.m.
Adults

Gallery Tour: Fighting Abroad

The Irish Soldier from 1690 to 1900

Join curator Lar Joye for a tour of the Soldiers & Chiefs exhibition

Places are limited and are allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis

Thursday 31st March 2011
11.30 a.m. to 12.15 p.m.
Adults with toddlers and babies

Babies on Board: A Soldier’s Story

Join curator Lar Joye in the Soldiers & Chiefs exhibition to hear the story of an Irish Soldier from Independence in 1922 until 2011

Places are limited and are allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis

All events are free and start at Museum Reception unless otherwise stated
For a full programme of events and for up to date information go to www.museum.ie/events

When booking is essential, please phone 01 648 6453

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Military Heritage Trust Visits Royal Irish Regimental Association in Northern Ireland

In response to an invitation from the Royal Irish Regimental Association in Northern Ireland, the Chairman and Directors of the Trust on Wednesday the 16th of February 2011 attended a briefing on a proposal to relocate the Regimental Museums in Northern Ireland to Cultra, on the southern shores of Belfast Lough. The briefing, held in Hillsborough Castle, was given by Lt Gen (retd)  Sir Philip Trousdell KBE CB. As the occasion coincided with a Directors Meeting, the Trust was invited to also hold this in Hillsborough on that day. The Trust being an all Ireland organisation, with directors and members from both sides of the border, it was agreed that this would be an ideal occasion to hold a Directors Meeting in Northern Ireland for the first time.

After the meeting and a coffee break, Gen Trousdell gave an in depth briefing on why the military museums in Northern Ireland needed to move, the attraction of collocating with an existing museum (the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum) and the type of exhibitions planned, using the term ‘gallery’ in preference to ‘museum’, telling the story of the people who served, their socio-economic background and history, as well as their experiences in the various military campaigns.

The visit proved to be informative, and an opportunity to further improve friendships, North and South.

Hillsborough Visit
Our photograph shows the Trust Chairman Gen Paddy Nowlan with Gen Trousdell
in the company of Trust Directors and members of the Royal Irish Regimental Association.
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Irish History Students' Association

The Military Heritage of Ireland Trust Ltd is pleased to announce the addition of a link to the website of the I.H.S.A., which can be found at http://www.irishhistorystudents.net/  The I.H.S.A. have kindly agreed to organise our annual Military Heritage Paper award project.