The Country Houses Of Waterford Exhibition In Waterford County Museum, Dungarvan
A short video about the latest exhibition in Waterford County Museum , Dungarvan. The exhibition is on 'The Country Houses Of Waterford' and features properties from Portlaw, Cappoquin, Lismore, Stradbally, Kilmacthomas and Dungarvan. Admission is free to the exhibition and it will run between Sept 2011 and February 2012. Learn about the architecture, the leisure interests, the gardens, the family and the staff of Waterford's own Downton Abbeys.
About Waterford County Museum, Dungarvan
Waterford County Museum is located in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford Ireland. Founded in 1984, it is a non profit, community run museum dedicated to preserving the history of County Waterford. In this video you can learn about the work of our museum.
Medieval Museum, Waterford City, Ireland
Medieval Museum
Treasures of Medieval Waterford
Viking Triangle, Waterford City
Currently ranked # 1 attraction in Waterford on Tripadvisor.com. Don't miss the unique Cloth of Gold vestments which were lost for hundreds of years after they were hidden from Cromwell's army, and the Great Charter Roll which was viewed by Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Ireland. Take the multimedia handheld guide or enjoy a family friendly tour with a costumed performer.
waterfordtreasures.com -- 051 849501
Open daily year round including Sundays and Bank Holidays
We are Dungarvan
Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland a great place to live, work, invest and do business in. This video is a collaboration between Waterford City & County Council, Dungarvan West Waterford Chamber of Commerce, Waterford County Museum, Dungarvan Enterprise Centre. September 2017.
Waterford County Museum
Artist Tony 'Toner' Hayes contributes to Children's event at gallows Hill Dungarvan, County Waterford, for the Adopt a Monument group.
2018 Community Archaeology Events at Gallowshill, Dungarvan
A video synopsis of the events run by Waterford County Museum's community archaeology group at Gallowshill in 2018. Includes footage of their Heritage Week events and an overview of the week-long archaeological excavations that took place on the Norman Motte & Bailey (castle). Thanks to John Foley Images for the video.
IRELAND Waterford Crystal palace
Une cristallerie de très haut niveau qui date du XVIIème
La visite commence par la fonte pyuis le soufflage et la taille
Waterford County museum exhibition launch
Mayor Theresa Wright open the lated Museum Exhibition.
Reginald's Tower, Waterford City, Ireland
2013, Re-development of the Viking Triangle, Waterford City
2013, Re-development of the Viking Triangle, Waterford City
Niochlás Ó'Griofán interviewed for Grattan Square: A Social History of Dungarvan
Niochlás Ó'Griofán interviewed for Grattan Square: A Social History of Dungarvan
Brewing And Baking Exhibition, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford
Open from the 13th April 2011, this exhibition run for the Waterford Festival Of Food documents the work of bakers, brewers and cider makers in Dungarvan and West Waterford. Admission is free and all are welcome. Waterford County Museum is located on St Augustine Street, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.
William Fraher interviewed for Grattan Square: A Social History of Dungarvan
William Fraher interviewed for Grattan Square: A Social History of Dungarvan
FABULOUS BOATSTRAND WATERFORD IRELAND
Fabulous boat strand on the R675 between Annestown and Dungarvan Waterford Ireland and the beautiful song 'The water is wide'
The location of the shipwreck Morning Star back in 1915
The Morning Star was a two-masted topsail schooner, built in 1877 by Jones & Co. of Aberystwyth. In 1915 she was owned by Fitzpatrick's of Cork, and on 5 October of that year she set off from Cardiff bound for Cork with a cargo of coal. Her captain was Augustine Christopher of Abbeyside and she had a crew of four: the mate Denis Flynn and James Casey who were also from Abbeyside, and two sailors from Cork.
The Morning Star left Cardiff in fair weather and after two days sailing had reached Mine Head, county Waterford. Suddenly, without any warning, the weather changed dramatically and she was soon seen battling against hurricane-force winds. Captain Christopher decided that his best course would be to steer the battered vessel back into the shelter of Dungarvan Bay. However, as the ship turned her sails were torn to shreds and she began to drift helplessly before the gale. As night began to fall, Morning Star was being driven inexorably eastwards away from safety and ever closer to the rocky Waterford coast. At about ten o'clock, with a hideous crunching of timbers, she struck a reef just off Dunabrattin Head beside Boatstrand.
As the masts snapped and the waves and rocks began to pound the ship to pieces beneath their feet, the captain ordered the crew to abandon ship. They were only one hundred yards from the shore and safety, and help was on the way. Their plight had been observed from the shore, and life-saving gear was being brought from Bunmahon. The rescuers' plan was to fire a cable from shore to ship and bring the crew ashore by breeches buoy. The gear was loaded onto horse and cart and the journey began. But the gun needed to fire the cable was heavy, and Kilmurrin Hill proved to be too steep for the horse. The cart had to be taken round the Kilmurrin valley, which put three extra miles onto the journey, and when the rescuers arrived with their equipment they were too late.
The only crew member to even attempt to reach the shore was the mate, Denny Flynn of Abbeyside. After struggling through the huge waves for what seemed an eternity he at last felt the ground beneath his feet and staggered ashore. Meanwhile, the storm continued to pound the ship to pieces right through the night. Morning revealed a dreadful sight: what had been a fine schooner was now little more than a heap of floating wreckage. Captain Christopher and the remaining three crewmen were drowned.
The Morning Star was wrecked at Boatstrand in 1915 -- on this day.
God Bless Ireland and her warm kind people.... Enjoying the craic
Medieval Museum, Waterford, Ireland
Medieval Museum is the one of most interesting tourist atraction in Waterford. Is located in Viking Triangle and every year visiting by thousand of people. A huge part of Waterford history.
Dungarvan: A Historic Guide & Town Trail
An introduction to the new 80 page guide book about Dungarvan from Waterford County Museum, Ireland. Content includes a history of Dungarvan, articles on notable local personalities, historic sites in the locality, a town walking trail, numerous full page photos and maps. The book is produced to a high standard and the museum ships worldwide. All profits go the upkeep of the museum. The book is available to buy from the museum and can be bought on-line using PayPal.
Tall Ships , Sea Shanty song at waterford County Museum, Dungarvan
This earliest Sea Shanty was sung at the launch of the Tall Ships Book at the Waterford County museum on Thursday 23,6, 11
Medieval Dungarvan Above & Below Ground by Dave Pollock
Review of a 44 page book written and illustrated by archaeologist Dave Pollock on the archaeology of Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland. Suitable for anyone (students, historians, tourists, teachers) with an interest in the history of Dungarvan. The book is available to buy from Waterford County Museum.
2013, Waterford - Ireland Oldest City
Waterford - Ireland Oldest City
Credit to the original uploader Philip Dean Communications
Waterford City is the capital of the Sunny South East of Ireland and Ireland's oldest city.
Viking raiders first established a settlement near Waterford in 853AD. It and all the other longphorts were vacated in 902, the Vikings having been driven out by the native Irish. The Vikings re-established themselves in Ireland at Waterford in 914, led at first by Ottir Iarla (Jarl Ottar) until 917, and after that by Ragnall ua Ímair and the Uí Ímair dynasty, and built what would be Ireland's first city. Among the most prominent rulers of Waterford was Ivar (The Boneless) of Waterford.
In 1167, Diarmait Mac Murchadha, the deposed King of Leinster, failed in an attempt to take Waterford. He returned in 1170 with Cambro-Norman mercenaries under Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (known as Strongbow); together they besieged and took the city after a desperate defence. In furtherance of the Norman invasion of Ireland, King Henry II of England landed at Waterford in 1171. Waterford and then Dublin were declared royal cities, with Dublin also declared capital of Ireland.
Throughout the medieval period, Waterford was Ireland's second city after Dublin. In the 15th century Waterford repelled two pretenders to the English throne: Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck. As a result, King Henry VII gave the city its motto: Urbs Intacta Manet Waterfordia (Waterford remains the untaken city).
After the Protestant Reformation, Waterford remained a Catholic city and participated in the confederation of Kilkenny -- an independent Catholic government from 1642 to 1649. This was ended abruptly by Oliver Cromwell, who brought the country back under English rule; his nephew Henry Ireton finally took Waterford in 1650 after a major siege.
The 18th century was a period of huge prosperity for Waterford. Most of the city's best architecture appeared during this time. In the 19th century, great industries such as glass making and ship building thrived in the city.
The city hosts a number of festivals during the year including the ever-popular Spraoi.
A natural playground for Arts, Golf, Water Sports, Equestrian, Walking, Angling and Cycling enthusiasts, Waterford City and County offer the complete holiday experience.
Waterford City was founded by Viking traders in 914 and it has an exciting medieval flavour and riverside bustle.
The Waterford Museum of Treasures tells the 1100-year-story of Waterford from the treasures of Viking Waterford at Reginald's Tower, the oldest civic urban building in Ireland, to the story of Georgian Waterford at the Bishop's Palace from 1700 to 1970.
Waterford City is the home of Waterford Crystal, a lifestyle product of exquisite craftsmanship. A visit to the House of Crystal visitor centre includes an opportunity to choose from the world's largest selection of Waterford Crystal. The factory tour offers first hand access to all areas of traditional crystal production.
The city has a strong maritime tradition and an estimated 500,000 people enjoyed the colourful spectacle of the 2011 Tall Ships Race and festival of music and culture in the city and along the river Suir Estuary to Dunmore East.
Weathering the Storm: A Fish Story of Ireland and Irish America
“Why didn’t the Irish fish when the potato crop failed during the Great Hunger of the late 1840s?” is a perennial question asked by the perplexed in a modern world with a global infrastructure. An examination of one family’s migration from an Irish-speaking fishing village in County Waterford to the American seaport of Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the post-Famine era, seeks to answer this persistent question.
The Power brothers left their homeland in the early 1850s at the same time on different ships. Having promised to find and marry two sisters they met in Ireland, the brothers eventually arrived in Boston where they did indeed find and marry the sisters.
The Powers were not unskilled when they arrived in America. They were the heirs to a millennium-long tradition of deep-sea fishing in Ireland. Eventually settling in Gloucester, a premier fishing port on the North Atlantic coast, they plied their heritage in a new world.
This is the story of frontiersmen working in the wilderness of the open sea, and of the connection between Irish and Irish-American fishing traditions. The Irish did indeed catch fish during and after the Famine, as they long had done.
JANET NOLAN is professor emerita of history at Loyola University Chicago, where she taught Irish and Irish-American history for almost a quarter of a century after receiving her PhD in history from the University of Connecticut. She has also taught full-time at the Universities of Connecticut and Rhode Island. She is the author of two books: “Ourselves Alone: Women and Emigration from Ireland, 1885-1920”
(1989) and “Servants of the Poor: Teachers and Mobility in Ireland and Irish America” (2004), as well as numerous essays, articles, and reviews. She has given invited lectures in both the Republic and Northern Ireland, and throughout Europe and the United States. She has also appeared on television and radio in the United States, Ireland, and Northern Ireland. She now lives by the sea in Portsmouth. This is Professor Nolan’s second lecture for the Museum