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Seán Dunne Festival - Simon Ashe 2003 National Award Winner

Seán Dunne Festival - Simon Ashe 2003 National Award Winner

© Waterford City Council - Arts Office

Gaming counter

A 12th century gaming piece (like a draughts piece) made of antler.

Jet cross set in gold

This exquisite mourning cross of jet set in gold belonged to Madame Mère, mother of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Portrait of Thomas Francis Meagher

This is a lithograph print of Thomas Francis Meagher by Edwin Hayes, signed by Meagher and by the artist.

Inscribed Knife

A 12th century iron knife, consisting today of a blade and a handle-tang or core

The Dalmatic

The T-shaped dalmatic is one of the six pieces of the High Mass vestments and is green brocaded velvet on cloth-of-gold ground with pomegranate design made in Florence about 1480.

Tallystick

A tallystick, which was used to keep an account of a payment.

Portrait of Bishop Charles Este

Portrait of Bishop Charles Este (1696-1745) - the Church of Ireland bishop of Waterford from 1740 until his death in 1745.

Small paternoster

A small paternoster made of light amber beads. It was the medieval equivalent of the rosary beads.

O Carolan Pageant Programme

An O'Carolan festival was held in Kilmainhamwood in 1970 to celebrate the tricentenary of the birth of O'Carolan. Members of the pageant included Carolan as a boy and as an adult, Bridget Cruise, Mrs MacDermottroe and her husband and some of the patrons for whom Carolan composed music. The pageant was written and directed by Proinnsias O Duigneain. The whole community was involved in the production which had an elaborate script, thirteen different scenes, various stage sets, multiple props and a small army of actors and stage assistants. The pageant was performed six times in June and July 1970.