Photocall Notice - Exhibition Official Launch: Recovered Voices – The Stories of the Irish at War 19

Photocall for the Exhibition Official Launch: Recovered Voices – The Stories of the Irish at War 1914 – 1915

The National Museum of Ireland- Decorative Arts and History

Collins Barracks, Benburb, Street, Dublin 7.

What: Exhibition Official Launch: Recovered Voices – The Stories of the Irish at War 1914 – 1915

Who:

Heather Humphreys T.D – Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Raghnall Ó Floinn – Director, National Museum of Ireland

When: Wednesday 28th January 2015

Time: 12.30

Photo opportunity within the exhibition space, Lar Joye (Curator of Irish Military History) will provide the following for the photocall;

• A number of replica gas masks
• A WWI rifle
• Items from Christmas 1914
• WWI medals
• WWI helmets, French, German and British

Where: The National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7

Background Information:

RECOVERED VOICES – THE STORIES OF THE IRISH AT WAR 1914 – 1915

This is a major contribution to the Decade of Centenaries programme. The exhibition unveils the complexity of the Great War and its remembrance in Ireland by showing the huge variety of ways in which Irish men and women were personally involved. The Exhibition looks at the social, economic and political reasons for Irish soldiers to join the British Army and what happened to them, remembering that more than half of them were dead by Christmas 1914. In particular it looks at the Irish regiments in the British Army who went to the Western Front in 1914 and to Gallipoli in 1915. However the story is broader than just these regiments. Irish emigrants fought in the Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and South African Armies. At the same time, many women supported the war effort by working in shell factories or volunteering as nurses at the front.

The exhibition has been installed over two galleries, covering the years 1914 and 1915. Text panels mediate the bigger picture by shedding light on critical events and themes while 21 personal stories linked to the exhibition objects will be used to engage the visitors and facilitate easy access to the topic.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Maureen Gaule, Marketing Executive, Marketing Department, National Museum of Ireland

T: 01 648 6429 | M: 087 9031690| E: mgaule@museum.ie

Ann Daly, Head of Marketing, Marketing Department, Marketing Department, National Museum of Ireland

T: 01 648 6457 M: 087 236 8067| E: adaly@museum.ie

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