Day: August 18, 2016
Millstreet Set Dancers to Compete in the All Ireland Fleadh Cheoil
Best of Luck to Millstreet Set Dancers competing in the All Ireland Fleadh Cheoil in the West County Hotel, Ennis this Friday!
Also, we wish all other members of the Millstreet Ceoltas Branch luck in their competitions over the weekend!
Please get behind your local teams and show them your support!!
[read more …] “Millstreet Set Dancers to Compete in the All Ireland Fleadh Cheoil”
Mahwish talks about DP and next weekend’s garden Fête
Mahwish is a Pakistani mother of three who arrived in Ireland with her husband and three children a year and a half ago. She has been living in the Millstreet Drishane Castle Accommodation centre since June last year, and talks about the challenges and also about a fundraising Fête in Drishane she is organising for school books, uniforms, etc for the children who are staying there, which takes place in Drishane Castle next Saturday 20th August from 2-6pm.
The interview is by Roos Demol and was first aired on Irish Radio International yesterday.
Terence McSwiney Historic Badge at Millstreet Museum
On this Sunday, 21st August 2016 President Michael D. Higgins will officially open the new state-of-the-art Independence Museum at Kilmurry (near Lissarda) following his delivery of the Michael Collins oration at nearby Béal na Bláth (at which Millstreet Pipe Band perform annually). The original Kilmurry Museum was named the Terence McSwiney Museum because of his close connection with the area. Several years ago before the official opening of Millstreet Museum in 1980 I recall visiting that impressive Museum where Mrs. O’Sullivan gave me such a wonderful welcome and provided a superb guided tour of the splendid Centre. To mark this Sunday’s historic event we here feature from our Lucey-Coleman Collection at Millstreet Museum a truly historic Terence McSwiney & Family Badge – part of a larger selection of important medals and badges. We hope to share images from this Sunday’s Kilmurry event at a later point. Incidentally, due to further very generous contributions towards our recent annual church gate collection for Millstreet Museum and Millstreet Website – our final amount has reached a much appreciated €1,820.00 for which we are truly grateful. Click on the images to enlarge. (S.R.)
