3pm, Saturday, 16 December 2023
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Christmas carols in the galleries
Join this inspirational choir made up entirely of cancer survivors for some Christmas carolling in the museum galleries.
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A section of the Keep Well Glass Quilt. Image: Karen Cox
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Find out moreThe Irish Folklife Collection amounts to c.35,000 objects complemented by extensive archive documentation which includes a specialist library, field recordings and image collections.
The aim of the Irish Folklife Division is to collect and preserve objects representative of the material culture that forms part of the traditional way of life of Ireland.
Did you know?
In Ireland, at Halloween, we carved turnips to create scary-faced lanterns. The term, Jack o’ Lanterns, takes its name from the folktale about Jack, who was welcome neither in Heaven or Hell and was destined to wander the countryside forever, with just a lantern to light the way.
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