• Home
  • Local Ambushes
    • Ambush at Coolnacaheragh
    • Lissarda Ambush Centenary Exhibition 1920-2020
  • Terence MacSwiney
    • The Annual Terence MacSwiney Weekend
    • Tomás McCurtain and Terence McSwiney – The County Cork Connection
    • Terence MacSwiney Artifacts
      • Cork Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney’s Hunger Strike 12th of August 1920 – 25th October 1920
      • Terence MacSwiney Funeral Hearse Wheel
      • Terence MacSwiney Dish Ring
      • Shard of Wood
  • The Museum
    • Object of the month
      • The Famine Pot
      • Terence MacSwiney Funeral Hearse Wheel
      • Grenade and Home-made Bomb
      • Irish Democratic Labour Federation Badge
      • Aghabullogue Hurley – Cork’s First All Ireland Title.
      • Rush Light Holder from Kilkea Castle
      • Rusheen Pike
      • Manchester Martyr’s Table
      • Princess Mary Gift Box
      • Cork Total Abstinence Medal
      • Bullet from Upton Ambush
      • St. Patrick’s Gift Box
      • Cell No.6, Cork Military Detention Barracks
      • Racehorse shoe owned by Abraham Morris
      • Piece of Fr. Dominic’s Tunic
      • Cromwellian Cannon Ball
      • Oswald Swanzy Gun
      • Shard of Wood
      • Prize Winning Pin Cushion
      • Oswald Swanzy Gun
      • Chinese Embroidered Hat
      • Old school seat from Kilmurry Boys School
    • Articles
      • Kilmurry Hidden Gems Tour Notes Heritage Week 2017
      • The Warrens of Warrenscourt
      • Ireland XO
  • Museum Books
  • News
  • Lectures and Field Trips
  • Attractions
    • Trails and Walks
  • About KHAA
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  • Home
  • Local Ambushes
    • Ambush at Coolnacaheragh
    • Lissarda Ambush Centenary Exhibition 1920-2020
  • Terence MacSwiney
    • The Annual Terence MacSwiney Weekend
    • Tomás McCurtain and Terence McSwiney – The County Cork Connection
    • Terence MacSwiney Artifacts
      • Cork Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney’s Hunger Strike 12th of August 1920 – 25th October 1920
      • Terence MacSwiney Funeral Hearse Wheel
      • Terence MacSwiney Dish Ring
      • Shard of Wood
  • The Museum
    • Object of the month
      • The Famine Pot
      • Terence MacSwiney Funeral Hearse Wheel
      • Grenade and Home-made Bomb
      • Irish Democratic Labour Federation Badge
      • Aghabullogue Hurley – Cork’s First All Ireland Title.
      • Rush Light Holder from Kilkea Castle
      • Rusheen Pike
      • Manchester Martyr’s Table
      • Princess Mary Gift Box
      • Cork Total Abstinence Medal
      • Bullet from Upton Ambush
      • St. Patrick’s Gift Box
      • Cell No.6, Cork Military Detention Barracks
      • Racehorse shoe owned by Abraham Morris
      • Piece of Fr. Dominic’s Tunic
      • Cromwellian Cannon Ball
      • Oswald Swanzy Gun
      • Shard of Wood
      • Prize Winning Pin Cushion
      • Oswald Swanzy Gun
      • Chinese Embroidered Hat
      • Old school seat from Kilmurry Boys School
    • Articles
      • Kilmurry Hidden Gems Tour Notes Heritage Week 2017
      • The Warrens of Warrenscourt
      • Ireland XO
  • Museum Books
  • News
  • Lectures and Field Trips
  • Attractions
    • Trails and Walks
  • About KHAA
  • Contact Us
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Welcome to Independence Museum Kilmurry

 

 

 

 

 

Opening hours:

Please note that the museum will be closed for St. Patrick’s Day

Monday – Friday ………. 1030-5pm

Saturday               …………..  2-5pm

Sunday                  …………..  2-5pm

 

Group Bookings and viewing by appointment available. Contact the museum for details.

 


  • President MIchael D. Higgins officially opening the Independence Museum Kilmurry
  • Members of the Association
  • Hidden Gems Tour 2017
  • Part of the Independence Museum Collection

 

 

Recently published –

FALLEN LEAVES

by

Bridget Goulding

hardback   €20

paperback €15

 

Béal na Bláth – The local story

 

Ongoing display in our Heritage Room for 2023.

 

As the Decade of Centenaries enters its later stage, the manner in which the  heritage sector, communities, schools, the arts sector and, both local and national government have handled the period of commemoration has been commendable; ensuring that their dictum “appropriately, proportionately, respectfully and with sensitivity” has been adhered to. We in the Independence Museum Kilmurry have benefitted from the efforts and support of other cultural bodies, historians and local heritage offices. The locals, wider public and tourists have been a great support and encouragement in all our efforts to commemorate the key events on the arduous path to Independence. Our museum’s key publications and exhibitions have all adhered to the key objectives as envisaged by the Decade of Centenaries programme, while remaining faithful to our own tagline, “See Ireland’s History Through A Local Lens”.
 
Commemorating the Civil War should be no different despite the difficulties and particular sensitivities raised. The Centenary Commemoration of Michael Collins’ death at Béal na Bláth was always going to be a key component of the commemoration of the Civil War. 
 
No different to the other commemorations locally of the 1916 Rising (commemorating the assembly of local volunteers and those of companies from Cork City, East Cork, South Cork, and the Bandon and Kinsale districts in Kilmurry on Easter Sunday 1916)  and the War of Independence (The Lissarda Ambush, Cork 1920 Hunger Strike, Terence MacSwiney’s death on hunger strike in Brixton, etc.,) we will reflect on the Béal na Bláth Ambush by exploring “the local story”.

 

Our Béal na Bláth  – The local story Exhibition will focus on :

  • Commander-in-Chief Michael Collins’ journey through Cork on the day
  • Map of the ambush site
  • The anti-Treaty IRA personnel involved in the ambush
  • The National Army convoy personnel
  • The local safehouses where the Officers of the Southern Division of the anti-Treaty IRA were accommodated 
  • Commemorating the local anti-Treaty Volunteers killed that July in the Battle of  Limerick.    

The Exhibition will be accompanied by a display of artifacts particular to the local details of the ambush.


This Exhibition  has been kindly funded by Cork County Council  under the

County Cork Commemorations Grant Scheme 2022

 

The County Cork Commemorations Grant Scheme is part-funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries Programme 2012-2023.

 

COUNTY CORK COMMEMORATIONS GRANT SCHEME 2022

                                                                                                                                                               

 

 

 

 

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Object Of The Month October

Lawrence Telegram newspaper coverage of Terence MacSwiney Hunger Strike

 

Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence , Massachusetts) Newspapers

 

 

Lawrence Telegram Newspaper 23-10-1920

Lawrence Telegram Newspaper 25-10-1920

Lawrence Telegram Newspaper 26-10-1920

Lawrence Telegram Newspaper 27-10-1920

 

 

Cork Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney’s Hunger Strike 12th of August 1920 – 25th October 1920
 

After 74 days since he began his hunger strike on the day of his arrest in Cork City Hall Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney died on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, London on the 25th October 1920.

 

LORD MAYOR MacSWINEY DEAD

 

These are the original Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence , Massachusetts)  newspapers whose coverage, not unlike many newspapers the world over 100 years ago, kept the public informed daily on the tragic saga of the Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney’s hunger strike. Note how the coverage continued even after the death of the Lord Mayor.

Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA) showing the daily almost vigil-like reporting with which the world media followed the Lord Mayor’s struggle during his hunger strike in Brixton Prison.

 

Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA) showing the daily almost vigil-like reporting with which the world media followed the Lord Mayor’s struggle during his hunger strike and eventual death in Brixton Prison.

 

Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA) showing the daily almost vigil-like reporting with which the world media followed the Lord Mayor’s struggle during his hunger strike and eventual death in Brixton Prison as well as the aftermath.

 

Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA) showing the daily almost vigil-like reporting with which the world media followed the Lord Mayor’s struggle during his hunger strike and eventual death in Brixton Prison as well as the aftermath. Note also the reference here (“Friends of Irish Freedom- ATTENTION”) to the Cork deaths, also on hunger strike, of Michael Fitzgerald and Joseph Murphy.

 

These newspapers were very kindly donated to the Museum in 2019 and were centerpiece in the January 2020 launch of the Cork Decade of Centenaries Programme 2020 by the then Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan in the City Hall Cork.    RTE NEWS January 2020 coverage

 

Thanks to a grant from the Heritage Council and Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage these newspapers recently underwent preservation and conservation in MUCROS BOOKBINDERY AND PAPER CONSERVATION WORKSHOP,  Mucros Craft Centre, Muckross House, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland.

 

 

 

 

Independence Museum Kilmurry Archive Digitisation Project 2021         

 

 

 

Independence Museum Kilmurry are delighted to announce the release of a digital presentation, comprising our main collection dealing with one community’s experience from the Great Famine, through revolution, and on to independence. This release comprises approximately 1/3 of our extensive collection and will showcase our current museum collection as well as our archive; many of these artefacts are available here for the first time and thus make them easily accessible to citizens, students, national and international scholars, and historians.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Substantial funding has been generously granted from the Heritage Council, for resources, under their Community Heritage Grant Scheme for 2021.

 

The digital archive will be standardised according to international museum standards as part of the National Museum of Ireland’s aim “to encourage communities across the country to document and digitally safeguard the irreplaceable artefacts of their local heritage.” 

 

While nothing can recreate the unique experience of the physical proximity to history and heritage that an actual visit to a museum offers, the digital aspect allows for the wider presentation, perusal and protection of documents and artefacts that would not otherwise be possible. The digital presentation will also allow a wider and more inclusive audience to browse or indeed search and engage with our archive.

 

Independence Museum Kilmurry 

October 2021

This project has been funded by The Heritage Council @HeritageHubIRE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Independence Museum Kilmurry
  • Home
  • Local Ambushes
    • Ambush at Coolnacaheragh
    • Lissarda Ambush Centenary Exhibition 1920-2020
  • Terence MacSwiney
    • The Annual Terence MacSwiney Weekend
    • Tomás McCurtain and Terence McSwiney – The County Cork Connection
    • Terence MacSwiney Artifacts
      • Cork Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney’s Hunger Strike 12th of August 1920 – 25th October 1920
      • Terence MacSwiney Funeral Hearse Wheel
      • Terence MacSwiney Dish Ring
      • Shard of Wood
  • The Museum
    • Object of the month
      • The Famine Pot
      • Terence MacSwiney Funeral Hearse Wheel
      • Grenade and Home-made Bomb
      • Irish Democratic Labour Federation Badge
      • Aghabullogue Hurley – Cork’s First All Ireland Title.
      • Rush Light Holder from Kilkea Castle
      • Rusheen Pike
      • Manchester Martyr’s Table
      • Princess Mary Gift Box
      • Cork Total Abstinence Medal
      • Bullet from Upton Ambush
      • St. Patrick’s Gift Box
      • Cell No.6, Cork Military Detention Barracks
      • Racehorse shoe owned by Abraham Morris
      • Piece of Fr. Dominic’s Tunic
      • Cromwellian Cannon Ball
      • Oswald Swanzy Gun
      • Shard of Wood
      • Prize Winning Pin Cushion
      • Oswald Swanzy Gun
      • Chinese Embroidered Hat
      • Old school seat from Kilmurry Boys School
    • Articles
      • Kilmurry Hidden Gems Tour Notes Heritage Week 2017
      • The Warrens of Warrenscourt
      • Ireland XO
  • Museum Books
  • News
  • Lectures and Field Trips
  • Attractions
    • Trails and Walks
  • About KHAA
  • Contact Us
  • Donate

News

Independence Museum Kilmurry Archive Digitisation Project 2021

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  I.R.A. ATTACK ON KILMURRY R.I.C. BARRACKS, JANUARY 1920 A talk by Dr. John Borgonovo UCC Scho ...

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Book Launch – Friday, 29th of November 8pm

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Object of the Month

Kilmichael Crossley Tender Wheel

Kilmichael Crossley Tender Wheel

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Recently published –

FALLEN LEAVES

by

Bridget Goulding

hardback   €20

paperback €15

 

Béal na Bláth – The local story

 

Ongoing display in our Heritage Room for 2023.

 

As the Decade of Centenaries enters its later stage, the manner in which the  heritage sector, communities, schools, the arts sector and, both local and national government have handled the period of commemoration has been commendable; ensuring that their dictum “appropriately, proportionately, respectfully and with sensitivity” has been adhered to. We in the Independence Museum Kilmurry have benefitted from the efforts and support of other cultural bodies, historians and local heritage offices. The locals, wider public and tourists have been a great support and encouragement in all our efforts to commemorate the key events on the arduous path to Independence. Our museum’s key publications and exhibitions have all adhered to the key objectives as envisaged by the Decade of Centenaries programme, while remaining faithful to our own tagline, “See Ireland’s History Through A Local Lens”.
 
Commemorating the Civil War should be no different despite the difficulties and particular sensitivities raised. The Centenary Commemoration of Michael Collins’ death at Béal na Bláth was always going to be a key component of the commemoration of the Civil War. 
 
No different to the other commemorations locally of the 1916 Rising (commemorating the assembly of local volunteers and those of companies from Cork City, East Cork, South Cork, and the Bandon and Kinsale districts in Kilmurry on Easter Sunday 1916)  and the War of Independence (The Lissarda Ambush, Cork 1920 Hunger Strike, Terence MacSwiney’s death on hunger strike in Brixton, etc.,) we will reflect on the Béal na Bláth Ambush by exploring “the local story”.

 

Our Béal na Bláth  – The local story Exhibition will focus on :

  • Commander-in-Chief Michael Collins’ journey through Cork on the day
  • Map of the ambush site
  • The anti-Treaty IRA personnel involved in the ambush
  • The National Army convoy personnel
  • The local safehouses where the Officers of the Southern Division of the anti-Treaty IRA were accommodated 
  • Commemorating the local anti-Treaty Volunteers killed that July in the Battle of  Limerick.    

The Exhibition will be accompanied by a display of artifacts particular to the local details of the ambush.


This Exhibition  has been kindly funded by Cork County Council  under the

County Cork Commemorations Grant Scheme 2022

 

The County Cork Commemorations Grant Scheme is part-funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries Programme 2012-2023.

 

COUNTY CORK COMMEMORATIONS GRANT SCHEME 2022

                                                                                                                                                               

 

 

 

 

       ————————————————————————————————————————–

 

Object Of The Month October

Lawrence Telegram newspaper coverage of Terence MacSwiney Hunger Strike

 

Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence , Massachusetts) Newspapers

 

 

Lawrence Telegram Newspaper 23-10-1920

Lawrence Telegram Newspaper 25-10-1920

Lawrence Telegram Newspaper 26-10-1920

Lawrence Telegram Newspaper 27-10-1920

 

 

Cork Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney’s Hunger Strike 12th of August 1920 – 25th October 1920
 

After 74 days since he began his hunger strike on the day of his arrest in Cork City Hall Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney died on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, London on the 25th October 1920.

 

LORD MAYOR MacSWINEY DEAD

 

These are the original Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence , Massachusetts)  newspapers whose coverage, not unlike many newspapers the world over 100 years ago, kept the public informed daily on the tragic saga of the Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney’s hunger strike. Note how the coverage continued even after the death of the Lord Mayor.

Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA) showing the daily almost vigil-like reporting with which the world media followed the Lord Mayor’s struggle during his hunger strike in Brixton Prison.

 

Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA) showing the daily almost vigil-like reporting with which the world media followed the Lord Mayor’s struggle during his hunger strike and eventual death in Brixton Prison.

 

Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA) showing the daily almost vigil-like reporting with which the world media followed the Lord Mayor’s struggle during his hunger strike and eventual death in Brixton Prison as well as the aftermath.

 

Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA) showing the daily almost vigil-like reporting with which the world media followed the Lord Mayor’s struggle during his hunger strike and eventual death in Brixton Prison as well as the aftermath. Note also the reference here (“Friends of Irish Freedom- ATTENTION”) to the Cork deaths, also on hunger strike, of Michael Fitzgerald and Joseph Murphy.

 

These newspapers were very kindly donated to the Museum in 2019 and were centerpiece in the January 2020 launch of the Cork Decade of Centenaries Programme 2020 by the then Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan in the City Hall Cork.    RTE NEWS January 2020 coverage

 

Thanks to a grant from the Heritage Council and Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage these newspapers recently underwent preservation and conservation in MUCROS BOOKBINDERY AND PAPER CONSERVATION WORKSHOP,  Mucros Craft Centre, Muckross House, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland.

 

 

 

 

Independence Museum Kilmurry Archive Digitisation Project 2021         

 

 

 

Independence Museum Kilmurry are delighted to announce the release of a digital presentation, comprising our main collection dealing with one community’s experience from the Great Famine, through revolution, and on to independence. This release comprises approximately 1/3 of our extensive collection and will showcase our current museum collection as well as our archive; many of these artefacts are available here for the first time and thus make them easily accessible to citizens, students, national and international scholars, and historians.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Substantial funding has been generously granted from the Heritage Council, for resources, under their Community Heritage Grant Scheme for 2021.

 

The digital archive will be standardised according to international museum standards as part of the National Museum of Ireland’s aim “to encourage communities across the country to document and digitally safeguard the irreplaceable artefacts of their local heritage.” 

 

While nothing can recreate the unique experience of the physical proximity to history and heritage that an actual visit to a museum offers, the digital aspect allows for the wider presentation, perusal and protection of documents and artefacts that would not otherwise be possible. The digital presentation will also allow a wider and more inclusive audience to browse or indeed search and engage with our archive.

 

Independence Museum Kilmurry 

October 2021

This project has been funded by The Heritage Council @HeritageHubIRE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • President MIchael D. Higgins officially opening the Independence Museum Kilmurry
  • Members of the Association
  • Hidden Gems Tour 2017
  • Part of the Independence Museum Collection

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KHAA present an evening with Mary Byrne - X Factor Finalist at Eire Og Pavillion on Saturday, 21st September, 2019 at 8 pm. Support acts include Newcestown Comhaltas and Kilmurry Parish Singers. Join us for a fabulous evening of song, music and first class entertainment. ... See more

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Michael Collins House

On this day August 28th 1922, six days after being killed in an ambush at Beál na Bláth, Michael Collins was laid to rest.

A reported 500,000, one fifth of the country’s population at the time, lined the streets and paid their respects to ‘The Big Fella’ in what would be the largest attendance to a state funeral in Irish history.

See below a birdseye view of Sackville St. (O’Connell St.) Dublin as the funeral procession made its way from the Pro Cathedral, Dublin where Collins lay in state to Glasnevin Cemetery where Collins would be buried. (Credit: National Library of Ireland)

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    Kilmichael Crossley Tender Wheel   When Independence Museum Kilmurry opened in 1965 one of the first accessions by the rural museum, was this distinctive rear (double) wheel from on ...

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The Museum on Facebook

3 years ago
Mary Byrne In Concert

Link for Mary Byrne tickets on Eventbrite.
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/mary-byrne-in-concert-tickets-69229626677

KHAA present an evening with Mary Byrne - X Factor Finalist at Eire Og Pavillion on Saturday, 21st September, 2019 at 8 pm. Support acts include Newcestown Comhaltas and Kilmurry Parish Singers. Join us for a fabulous evening of song, music and first class entertainment. ... See more

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Michael Collins House

On this day August 28th 1922, six days after being killed in an ambush at Beál na Bláth, Michael Collins was laid to rest.

A reported 500,000, one fifth of the country’s population at the time, lined the streets and paid their respects to ‘The Big Fella’ in what would be the largest attendance to a state funeral in Irish history.

See below a birdseye view of Sackville St. (O’Connell St.) Dublin as the funeral procession made its way from the Pro Cathedral, Dublin where Collins lay in state to Glasnevin Cemetery where Collins would be buried. (Credit: National Library of Ireland)

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Independence Museum Kilmurry
Kilmurry, Co. Cork, Ireland

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