For Heritage Week 2022 the Museum of Childhood Ireland is asking members of the public to make suggestions of objects that they would like to see in the Museum. Do you have an object that that tells a story about the history of children and childhood in Ireland? Or can you think of an item… Continue reading Heritage Week 2022: Suggestions for Objects for the Museum of Childhood Ireland
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Heritage Week Tipperary 2022. Heritage Council County Award Winner
As part of Ireland’s National Heritage Week, the Museum of Childhood Ireland have teamed up with Tipperary Town Revitalisation: https://www.facebook.com/TippTownRevitalisation/ Councillor Anne Marie Ryan Shiner: https://www.tipperarycoco.ie/your-council/cllr-anne-marie-ryan-shiner and Excel Heritage: https://www.tipperaryexcel.com/ to deliver an exciting range of sustainable heritage projects for children and young people in Tipperary Town. This wonderful NHW 2022 project grew out of the… Continue reading Heritage Week Tipperary 2022. Heritage Council County Award Winner
Art to Reimagine Tipperary Town
The Ask Imaginative Reuse! Attention all budding young Artists, Designers and Architects! Do you have an idea of how you’d like to reuse any building ( whether in use or not at the moment) in Tipperary Town? You can be as imaginative as you like! (Personally, I’d love a shop that sells good luck, and… Continue reading Art to Reimagine Tipperary Town
#Sustainability
The Ask! This year the Heritage Council chose sustainability as the theme for Heritage Week. We asked children for their thoughts on the word Sustainability in prose, or verse. Attention budding Poets and Writers! When you hear the word SUSTAINABILITY what comes to mind? Would you like to explore your ideas, express your understanding, let… Continue reading #Sustainability
Tipperary Photography Competition
The Ask! Attention all budding photographers under the age of 18! We are looking for you to take a photo of your favourite building in Tipperary town for #Heritageweek2022 and let us know why you love the building you’ve chosen! #Sustainability #CTCHC Tipperary town from a child and youth perspective The Photographic entries were judged… Continue reading Tipperary Photography Competition
Photos, Heritage Week 2022 in Tipperary Town
Heritage Week 2021. Heritage Council County Award Winner
For Heritage week 2021 we presented a series of videos on the history of children from medieval times to the eighteenth century. They are available on the MoCI Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx8bymLYkYRJ0tqCNxCx5cg Presenters The presentations explore what these places, buildings and objects can tell us about childhood in Ireland in the medieval and early modern period. … Continue reading Heritage Week 2021. Heritage Council County Award Winner
Heritage Week 2020
Online Exhibition Childhood: What Books Taught Me This project will explore the role children’s literature plays in educating children of all ages. Project organisers will ask the public to nominate a favourite book from their childhood and provide a short description of what their chosen book has taught them. The project will be hosted online… Continue reading Heritage Week 2020
Heritage Week 2019
Event Day Heritage Week. August 18th. Location: The Royal Marine Hotel. Childrens’s Pastimes in Past Times. Also taking place are: Displays on the theme at Bloomfields Shopping Centre, Piggybank, and Bank of Ireland. Games and stories 1-12 yr olds at Piggybank, from 10 am-12 noon A Puppet Show with the wonderful Julie-Rose McCormick in the… Continue reading Heritage Week 2019
Heritage Week 2018
Event Day Heritage Week. August 25th. location: Multiple venues. See poster. Theme: Sharing Stories Our Childhood. Our Heritage. Dr Pat Donlon, and Minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor Dr Marnie Hay, Professor James Kelly, and Dr Richard McElligott Event Management: Majella McAllister, the Museum of Childhood Ireland.