South Tipperary County Council
Comhairle Contae Thiobriad Árann Theas

The exhibition details the unique number of outstanding ancient monuments that survive from past ages in the Irish Countryside. These range from megalithic tombs to earthen ringforts, of early medieval date, to castles, churches and other buildings. They are a wonderful link to the past and are to be found in almost every townland in the country. 
They are important features in the cultural landscape and when a monument is destroyed part of our history and identity is destroyed with it.   This valuable legacy from the past is something we should all strive to understand, cherish and protect.  The emphasis in this exhibition is on monuments likely to be found on farmland and in private ownership around the country rather than on National Monuments in state care. 
Collaboration: The exhibition will showcase a number of artefacts from the National Museum of Ireland (Cashel N8 – Michelstown By Pass material) and pieces from South Tipperary Museum’s Collection.
Course led work: Students from the Senior College Portfolio and Craft courses will be presenting models of tombs and ringforts. A beautifully lit display of batiks will be themed around the exhibition ‘Earthen Banks and Broken Walls’.
Seminar: South Tipperary County Museum in association with  ‘Earthen Banks and Broken Walls ‘ will host a one-day seminar on current, recent and ongoing Archaeological projects in South Tipperary.  The Seminar will be held on Saturday 19th January 2008 in the Clonmel Park Hotel, the Poppyfields, Clonmel.  All are welcome and admission is free. Contact Julia @ 052 34562 / julia.walsh@southtippcoco.ie  for further information.

A free brochure will accompany this exhibition and is suitable for all ages, school, community and historical groups

Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-65) was an amateur photographer who lived and made photographs in London in the mid 19th century. S he was Scottish-born and enjoyed her visits to the well-known Dundrum Estate. Her affinity with local people developed largely out of her empathy with their suffering in Famine times. She has earned a special place in the history of the community. It makes this collection all the more meaningful and welcome for Tipperary people.

Hawarden was respected among the photographic circles of her time, and her work has stood up to the scrutiny of history and is still influential today. Exploring femininity and family relationships, identity and form, Hawarden's photographs are appreciated for their quality, composition and themes. They also function separately as art photographs or studies of mood.

South Tipperary County Museum worked in partnership with Tipperary Excel to bring this collection back to the locality. Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, more communities will have the opportunity to view this breath taking collection as it tours the region. It will be showing next in Thurles Library 17^th – 27^th Nov 2008.

The exhibition, Local Elections in Ireland, was produced by the Local Authority Archivists Group with support from the Heritage Council. The exhibition details the history of the first local elections in Ireland in 1899 and goes through their history and impact on Irish Society. South Tipperary Archives and the County Museum will also display as part of this exhibition documents and objects relating to local elections in South Tipperary. There will be a polling station as part of the outreach programme and a series of talks to accompany the exhibition which will run for the month of April in the County Museum.

For details contact South Tipperary Archives Service on 052-6134559 or the County Museum on 052-6134550

The South Tipperary County Museum is now hosting a unique exhibition that invites visitors to find out more about fine art conservation. The exhibition features different conservation issues of three paintings and frames from the South Tipperary County Museum’s collection recently conserved in the Museum’s conservation laboratory by conservator Damian Lizun. The aim of the exhibition is to raise awareness of science of the conservation to the public but also offers a different way of experiencing art for people who have a research interests and understand art creation as a complex technical process.

The South Tipperary County Museum was successful under the 2008 Museums and Archives Scheme to fund the project. The work on the objects was carried out over a ten month period from mid-February to the end November 2008.

The paintings with frames and exhibition panels with excellent images showing the conservation process are temporarily displayed in the main corridor of South Tipperary County Museum. The exhibition will run until end Jan 2010. For further details contact the Museum at 052-6134550 or email museum@southtippcoco.ie.

‘Seen but not Heard, Feictear ach ná cloistear’. A century of Childhood in Ireland ‘South Tipperary County Museum’ in association with L.A.M.N. (Local Authority Museums Network) takes a visual look at the story of childhood in Ireland over the last one hundred years and how it has changed in terms of schooling, play, health & money in today’s modern society. Locals from South Tipperary have loaned a variety of memorabilia relating to their childhood, such as fisher price toys, porcelain dolls, board games, trains, teddy bears, a 19th century class room and old money to name but a few. This exhibition will bring you on a trip down memory lane, guaranteed to warm your heart.

Opening on Friday 16th October 2009 – Sat 9th January 2010
Contact museum@southtippcoco.ie or (052) 61 34552 for further information 
A full education programme accompanies this exhibition.
Museum Opening Times: Tues to Sat, 10am – 5pm daily. Closed Sundays, Bank Holidays & Mondays.

Saturday 29th May
11am – 4pm

All day Events:
Neolithic Pottery - Try your hand at making pinch and coil pots
Ogham Necklaces – Write your name or a secret message
Rush Work Demonstration – See traditional crafts in practice
Replica Costumes and Weapons – Try on the clothes and use the weapons of past peoples
Coin Minting – Watch a local Silversmith at work
Finds Identification Clinic – Have you every found an unusual stone or object while gardening or walking?  Why not bring it along to the County Museum to have it identified by a professional archaeologist.
Conservation Advice Clinic – Ever wondered what is the best way to safeguard family heirlooms.
Puppet Show/Story Telling
Face Painting

12 Noon: Exhibition Launch of Rathkeevan NS Making Our Own Museum Project and Time Capsule Project by Clonmel Town Schools.

FREE ADMISSION

PRIMARY SCHOOL
Class 1st Place
4th Class – Rathkeevan NS
5th Class – St. Michaels NS, Clerihan
6th Class – Joint St Patrick’s Boys NS, Fethard & Cahir Boys NS
Individual 1st Place
4th Class – Andrew Butler, Ballinure NS
5th Class – Jaimie Caron, Sisters of Charity
6th Class – Annie Coffey, Sisters of Charity
Group 1st Place
4th Class – Julie Fennessy, Holly Power, Robyn Whitely, Sarah Egan, Roisin Mullins, Sisters of Charity
5th Class – Noel Richards, Keith Griffin, Daniel Lonergan, Emily Quinlan,
Knocavilla NS
6th Class – Ciara Crogan, Aoife Collins, Sarah Carroll, Hillary Crogan,
Our Lady of Mercy NS, Cahir
Class Highly Commended
4th Class – Thomastown NS, 5th Class – Ballinure NS, 6th Class – Knockavilla NS
Individual Highly Commended
4th Class – Roweena Dowling, Sisters of Charity, 5th Class - Shania Dowling, Sisters of Charity
6th Class – Sean Egan, St Mary’s CBS
Group Highly Commended
4th Class – Molloy Hogan & Sadhbh Treacy, Sisters of Charity
5th Class – Joint
Aoife Shortis & Keela Dahill, Scoil Mhuire Newcastle
Sophie Cronin Murphy, Amy Dwyer & Chelsea Keane, Sisters of Charity
6th Class – William O’ Dwyer, Jamie Ahearne, Simon O’ Donnell, Anthony Tobin, Dean McLaughlin & Dylan Kennedy Vokes, StOliver Plunkett’s NS
Best Model Entry - Olivia, 5th Class Presentation Primary
Judge’s Comment - St Oliver Plunkett’s NS

POST PRIMARY
Junior Certificate
1st Place - Brian Twohig, CBS Highschool
Highly Commended – Andrew O’ Donnell CBS Highschool
Leaving Certificate 1st Place – Treasa MacGrath, Sinead Grant & Rachel Condon,
Loreto Secondary School
Highly Commended – Daniel Guinan, Amanda Ryan, James Murphy, Aisha Tobin, Gemma Byrne, Simon Stanbridge, Scoil Ruain Killenaule

In association with its exhibition  'My Place' – an exhibition of projects on local heritage by school children, which will open on March 10th - South Tipperary County Museum invited submissions from Adults (Over 18’s) for a My Place Photography Competition.  Participants were asked to submit photographs depicting their understanding of the theme, My Place - the heritage of my local area.  A huge number of entries were received and these can be seen in the County Museum from Friday 5th March.  Admission is free, all are welcome.

Winners:
1st   Place: Larry Kenny        – McCarthy’s
2nd  Place: Maureen Maher   – Doorway to the Past – Chapel at St. Patrick’s Well
3rd  Place: Michael Malone   – Galtee Mountains, Tipperary

Dust in the air suspended is an exhibition of works from the collections of the Arts Council of Ireland and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, presented by South Tipperary County Council’s Arts Service at the South Tipperary County Museum. The exhibition brings together an exploration of both the physical and metaphysical understanding of suspension and the tensions that arise from the state of being suspended or in suspense. This collaborative project between the Arts Council, the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s National Programme and South Tipperary County Council’s Art Service, brings together for the first time in one exhibition, works from two national collections. Artists in the exhibition include; Dorothy Cross, Gary Coyle, Antony Gormley, Ilya Kabakov , Alice Maher, Fergus Martin, Austin McQuinn, Isabel Nolan, Jesús-Raphael Soto. The exhibition will be accompanied by a full colour catalogue and an education programme will form part of the programme.

For more information contact Sally O’Leary, Arts Officer, South Tipperary County Council. Tel: 0526134565, Email: sally.oleary@southtippcoco.ie , Web: www.southtippcoco.ie