Last week we had the pleasure of installing our Pop-up Leitrim Women’s Museum to begin a new month-long residency in the wonderful Leitrim Sculpture Centre in Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim. The Pop-up Museum is part of “Leitrim Women Through Time” – a wider collaborative project with the North Leitrim Women’s Centre, and this initiative tries to address the issue of the lack of a county museum to display rural women’s history. We’re delighted to have the chance to display this free temporary museum of women’s history for February. All are very welcome to visit – the Sculpture Centre is open from Wednesday to Sunday, 11am – 4pm!
Huge thanks to Val Robus from the Magnumlady blog (www.magnumlady.com) who interviewed the LWTT team about the project, and who wrote a lovely review of the Museum – you can see the review and listen to the podcast at the following link:
Delighted to attend the launch last week of “Ranging Memories: A Personal History of the Connaught Rangers, 1793 – 1922”, a new travelling museum exhibition we researched and curated for the Connaught Rangers Association. This exhibition introduces the overlooked story of the historical Connaught Rangers regiment to a wide range of audiences, and is available for free public loan to venues across the country for display. The exhibition will be a great temporary historical and educational addition to any museum, library, or community hall.
The exhibition was supported by The Heritage Council Community Heritage Grant Scheme 2023, and was designed by Darklab Creative Design. If your organisation would be interested in hosting this free pop-up exhibition, you can contact the Connaught Rangers Association through email at secretary@connaughtrangersassoc.com.
Scéal Heritage Consultancy and the North Leitrim Women’s Centre are delighted to announce the launch of “Leitrim Women Through Time: 1850 – 1950”, a new travelling museum exhibition telling stories of everyday Leitrim women from the past. The exhibition will be officially launched on Friday 4th November at 7.30pm in the Glens Centre, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim. All are welcome to attend on the night, and refreshments will be served.
This exhibition was formed as a result of the first phase of our new venture “Leitrim Women Through Time”, a collaborative heritage project supported by the Heritage Council’s 2022 Community Heritage Grant scheme. This new community-based project sets out to explore and share people’s knowledge and memories of the everyday lives of women in the county over hundreds of years. The project focuses on the lives of the ordinary Leitrim woman; celebrating the majority, rather than the minority, and those previously neglected in discussion. It concentrates on the experiences of the everyday woman – highlighting the value of remembering and recording what domestic, working, and personal life was like for local women.
For the exhibition, we worked with community participants across the region to gather information and suggestions for themes which would best tell the story of Leitrim women in the period of 1850 to 1950. The exhibition will be displayed in venues across the county, and we would like to connect with any groups or organisations who would be interested in displaying the free travelling exhibition in their venue.
“Leitrim Women Through Time” will be a multi-phase project that will work to gather and preserve an archive of Leitrim women’s history for the future. Everyone is welcome to contribute memories, writings, photographs, and any other information – you can get in contact with the project via the details below. https://www.facebook.com/leitrimwomenthroughtime scealheritage@gmail.com / info@northleitrimwomenscentre.ie / 071 985 6220
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