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Living History for Schools at the Museum |
17/11/2011 |
The Museum is currently developing ‘Living History’ workshops for schools so that pupils can learn more about the past in an interactive and enjoyable way.
A number of local schools visited to take part in these workshops which complemented A Great Change: the lives and times of James Harshaw, John Martin and John Mitchel, exhibition.
Students dressed in period costume and were transported to the dark days of the Irish Potato Famine and what life was like in Newry Union workhouse of 1847. Others entered a Victorian school room only to be met with strict discipline of a taste of the cane!
Some of the feedback received from teachers and pupils was positive as one student said "I really believed we were talking to these people from long ago. The Workhouse Matron was quite scary". A teacher commented that "The whole experience was excellent.
Contact Details
Please telephone 028 3031 3178 for more information
“Beliefs and Customs in Newry and Mourne” Lecture Series |
19/01/2012 |
Newry and Mourne Museum will host a number of lectures in February and March, which will complement the exhibition Beliefs and Customs through the Ages in Newry and Mourne, which is on display until May 2012.
On 5th February at 3.30pm Dr Andrew Holmes will give a talk titled “Revivalists, revolutionaries, and ordinary folk: Protestants in south Ulster, 1740-1890”
This lecture will provide an overview of the principal developments within the Protestant community in south Ulster, including the radicalism of the United Irishmen, and the conservatism of the Orange Order.
Professor Sean Connolly will visit the Museum on 19th February at 3.30pm to deliver his talk, “A Religious Culture Reshaped: Catholicism in South Ulster 1750 – 1860”.
He will discuss how an organised and disciplined Catholic clergy began the work of reshaping popular religious life in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
Finally on 28th March at 8pm Professor Marie-Therese Flanagan will examine “Jocelin of Furness’s Life of St. Patrick”.
This talk will explore why the Anglo-Norman Cistercian monk, Jocelin of Furness, who came to Ulster in 12th century, undertook to write a Life of St Patrick and how it reflected contemporary political events.
All of the talks will cost £3 per head. There will be light refreshments served.
Contact Details
If you require further information please telephone 028 3031 3178
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