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1945 UNCORKED-The Founding of Cork Public Museum. MA Museum Studies 2024-25

(Above) Museum curator, MJ O'Kelly and Eamon DeValera at the museum in 1946.

 

 

 

(Above) The Mardyke at the gates of Fitzgeralds Park, circa 1932

 

 

 

(Above) Site plan for the Cork International Exhibition 1902

 

 

 

 

(Above) Irish Republican Brotherhood outside the museum 1928

  

 

 

(Above) Museum display in the window of the Cork Examiner Offices, 1942. 'Taispeantas Starineamail'.

 

(Above) Sketch of Jane Dowdall by Thomas Ryan 1969

 

 

 

(Above) Air Raid Protection Armband

 

 

(Above) Certificate of national service, attributed to Andrew Fitzgerald 1946

 

(Above) An 'Emergency' ration book, 1944.

 

 

 

 

(Above) CPM opening April 1945.

 

 

You can view the museum opening catalogue HERE

 

 

(Above) Interior view of the museum 1945

 

(Above) Invitation card from the opening of Cork Public Museum, 1945.

 

 

 

(Above) Items that were found at the Garryduff Bird site by MJ O"Kelly.

 

 

 

 

(Above) CPM Stella Cherry with the future Taoiseach Michael Martin 1993. 

 

 

 

(Above) CPM, circa 1992.

 

 

Interested in taking part?

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Recommended Titles

· “The Cork International Exhibition, 1902-03, A Snapshot of Edwardian Cork”, Dan Breen and Tom Spalding, 2014

· “Youghal lace: the craft and the cream”, Earnshaw Pal, 1990.

· “The College: a history of Queens's/University College, Cork, 1845-1995”, John A. Murphy, 1995.

· “A pocket history of the 1916 Rising: the story of Ireland’s independence”, Tara Gallagher, Fiona Biggs, Fionnbarra O’ Duibhir, 2015

· “The Emergency in Cork, 1939 - 1945: a memoir by Paddy McCarthy”, Paddy McCarthy, 2006

· “The World War II years: the Irish Emergency: an illustrated history”, Helen Litton, 2001

· “The emergency : a visual history of the Irish Defence Forces during the Second World War”, 1939-1945, Daniel Ayiotis, 2019

· “Cork City through time”, Kieran McCarthy and Daniel Breen, 2012

· “Newgrange: Archaeology, Art and Legend”, M.J. O’Kelly and Claire O’Kelly, 1982 · “Newgrange”, Geraldine Stout, 2008

· “Irish antiquity: essays and studies presented to Professor M.J. O’Kelly”, 1981

· “The prehistoric archaeology of Ireland”, John Waddell, 2022 · “The Archaeology of Early Medieval Ireland”, Nancy Edwards, 2006

· “The Fitzgerald Park Municipal Museum 1910 - 1924: Cork’s First Public Museum, Dan Breen, 2024

Additional readings from women of the museum;

· “The female pen: Women writers and novelist, 1621 - 1818”, Bridget MacCarthy, 1994

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