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Kilkenny Castle becomes eighth OPW heritage site to receive prestigious museum standards award by Heritage Council
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Double-edged truce: The summer of 1921
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The faded brown autograph book has seen a lot of wear in the past century. Its pages are filled with signatures, snatches of poetry and inspiring slogans all written out, in florid cursive, by Irish prison inmates.
The autograph book belonged to Sean McCarthy, a teenaged Irish revolutionary. Swept up by British arrests after the Easter Rising of 1916, young Sean found himself transported to Spike Island, a prison in Cork harbor, along with other members of the Irish Republican Army.
The book passed to McCarthy s daughter, Joan Brillaud. Her husband, Andre Brillaud, is now working to preserve his father-in-law s memory.
Major accolade for Athy s Shackleton Museum as it gets accreditation from Heritage Council
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The Shackleton Museum Athy, is one of 11 museums that has received accreditation under the Museum Standards Programme for Ireland (MSPI) from the Heritage Council, as the sector prepares a fightback against the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The certificates were presented at a special online ceremony today. Accreditation certificates were awarded in 2020 but last year’s ceremony was delayed due to Covid-19 restrictions.
Selection under MSPI is seen as a major accolade in the sector. The Shackleton Museum Athy achieved a Maintenance of Full Accreditation certificate in 2020 for excellence in caring for its collections; as well as its museum management, visitor services, and education and exhibitions programmes.