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Celebrating Cork's Past Grand Exhibition

With the support of Cork City Council, various local history groups in Cork are planning a one day exhibition at City Hall, in September 2010, show-casing the history and heritage of the city and county.

The exhibition will also include input from a number of institutions, including Cork City and County Archives, Cork City Library, and U.C.C.

Exhibition Location:  Cork City Hall, 30 Sept 2010
Times: 11am to 7pm
Admission: Free

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Celebrating Cork's Past Poster 2010

Exhibition is followed on Friday 1st October with the

Lord Mayor of Cork Heritage Concert 2010

@ 8pm CITY HALL

Exhibition: Aloys Fleischmann: University, City, International Connections

 @ Cork City & County Archives, Great William O’Brien Street (Tel. 021-4505876)

For the Month of June 2010. Monday-Friday 10am-5pm (not including public holidays).

2010 marks the centenary of the birth of Professor Aloys Fleischmann, Professor of Music at University College Cork 1934 – 1980. There are numerous events taking place during the year to celebrate the centenary with 90 organisations participating in concerts, recitals, seminars, exhibitions, dance performances, public lectures conferences and special tributes taking place in Ireland, England, Germany, America and China throughout the year.

Aloys Fleischmann was an Irish composer, conductor, scholar, educator, organiser, campaigner of national and international standing. He had a long association with University College Cork and developed the music department over his forty six tenure as Professor of Music.

The themes running through the exhibition focus on

• Fleischmann’s dedication to teaching and developing the music department in UCC
• his deep interest in the Gaelic heritage
• his fostering of national and international connections through the establishment of the International Cork Choral Festival and especially the introduction in the 1960s of the Seminar on Contemporary Choral Music

 Curated by the University Archives, UCC.

Presentation to Ruth Flanagan Marking Over 30 Years Service to the Archives

Presentation to Ruth Flanagan 18 May 2010. (R-L) John Fitzgerald UCC Librarian,
Ruth Flanagan County Librarian, Liam Ronayne City Librarian, Brian McGee Archivist 

On 18 May a presentation was made to Ruth Flanagan, Cork County Librarian, to mark her recent retirement. Ms. Flanagan was a member of our Archives Executive Committee for over 30 years and in that time she made a huge contribution to the development of the Archives from its very humble beginnings, to the well-equipped service of 2010. We have been greatly privileged, both personally and professionally, to have had such an experienced and able librarian involved in overseeing the Archives over such a long period.

Tomás MacCurtain 90th Anniversary Exhibition

March - April 2010 @ Cork City and County Archives

The first republican Lord Mayor of Cork, Tomás MacCurtain, was shot dead in his home at Thomas Davis Street, Blackpool, Cork on 20 March 1920 during the War of Independence. In order to mark the 90^th anniversary of this event, Blackpool Historical Society are exhibiting items relating to MacCurtain from their collection at the City and County Archives, Great William O’Brien Street from Friday 19^th March. Items from the Archives collection will also be on display including a manuscript of a poem written by MacCurtain in 1918, ‘Eachtra Carraig Cliodhna’, a City Council minute book from 1920, and a manuscript letter written by MacCurtain on the eve of his assassination.

GENEALOGY & THE INTERNET

 TALK & WORKSHOP BY

 ROSALEEN UNDERWOOD, MAPGI

 TUESDAY 23 MARCH 2010, 11AM (Sharp) - 2PM

At Cork City and County Archives, Seamus Murphy Building, Great William O’Brien St, Blackpool.

Learn all about using the Internet to research your family history. This workshop includes demos, Q&A, and the chance to browse the many sites which have come online in recent years. Suitable for beginners and old hands alike. Limited numbers only: pre-booking strongly advisable.

 This event is free and is part of the 7th Cork Lifelong Learning Festival

Genealogy Talk and Workshop in progress: 23 March 2010

‘Denny Lane (1818-1895): Renaissance Man ’

A Cork City and County Archives Exhibition 

On Display @  BOOLE LIBRARY, U.C.C .

Dates: Monday 22 February – Saturday 27 March 2010

An exhibition celebrating the life of Denny Lane, and the recent return to Cork of his personal archive.

The exhibition interprets Lane's life and work and includes original and facsimile manuscripts from the personal archive of one of Cork’s most interesting historical figures. Denny Lane (1818 - 1895) was an eminent Corkman, scholar, businessman, politician and is perhaps best known in Cork for his ballad ‘Carrigdhoun’, which appeared in The Nation newspaper in 1845.

The exhibition illustrates Lane as a ‘renaissance man’, of great and numerous talents and broad education, who received a scholarship to Trinity College and at one time or another was a Barrister,  a Member of the Cork Harbour Board, a politician and member of the Young Ireland movement, a businessman involved in brewing and distilling, and an inventor. He was the Secretary and Resident Engineer of the Cork Gas Company and active in the Schools of Art, Music, and Design, and in the Cork Literary and Scientific Society and the Royal Cork Institution. Lane was one of the first vice-presidents of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society and was very active in promoting and studying Irish music and culture. Lane was well-regarded by his fellow citizens, and was famous for a funeral oration which he gave at the graveside of Joseph Ronayne M.P. for Cork in 1867.

Aside from presenting the best of Lane’s personal archive, which was donated to the Archives in 2005, the exhibition employs photographs and illustrations sourced from the National Gallery of Ireland and other collections, plus heirlooms, photographs, sketches and other materials kindly loaned by Lane’s family.

Launch of Denny Lane Exhibition at Boole Library, U.C.C (19 Mar 2010)