Teagasc Athenry Co Galway

EVENT
FREE
BOOKLET
EVENT
10 & 11 June, 2016
10 Teagasc, & 11 June, Athenry, 2016
Teagasc, Co. Galway Athenry,
Co. Galway
Celebrating 100 years of farming and country life
REDISCOVER HOW
THE STORIES OF
A CENTURY AGO
HAVE SHAPED THE
RURAL IRELAND
WE LIVE IN TODAY.
Join us as we celebrate and commemorate farming
and country life of 1916 through drama, music,
interactive exhibitions and re-enactments.
www.teagasc.ie/1916
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Table of Contents
Foreword..................................................................................... 2
Welcome from the Chairman of Teagasc and the
Cathaoirleach of the County of Galway.......................... 3
Agricultural Education &
Cooperatives Village............................................................... 5
Programme of Events - Friday 10th June....................... 6
Art Exhibitions........................................................................... 9
Programme of Events - Saturday 11th June.................. 10
The Land....................................................................................... 13
Event Map................................................................................... 14
Livestock Village....................................................................... 17
Sports and Culture Village.................................................... 19
Programme of Lectures – Friday 10th June.................. 20
Programme of Lectures – Saturday 11th June............. 21
Bringing the Event to Life...................................................... 23
Farm Mechanisation Village................................................ 25
Music, Dance and Storytelling............................................ 27
Farm Family and Rural Life Village.................................... 29
Activities for Kids..................................................................... 31
A Tribute to Lady Gregory.................................................... 33
Ireland 1916 Village................................................................ 35
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Foreword
It’s an accident of history that the Teagasc campus at Athenry was
to be the location for the largest mobilisation of Irish volunteers
outside of Dublin during Easter Week, 1916. Led by Liam Mellows,
after whom the campus was named in 1966, up to 500 volunteers
were billeted for a period during Easter Week on what was then
called “The Model Farm”. The farm at Athenry was well known for
the high quality of the land and was understandably coveted by
local tenant farmers who wanted the estate to be part of the compulsory
purchase scheme ushered in the Wyndam Land Act of 1904.
As a result there was a strong force of RIC men guarding the Farm.
When we were invited by the Taoiseach to propose how Teagasc
would commemorate the Rising it was obvious that Athenry simply
had to be the location. The dilemma of course was to decide on
what type of an event we could mount that would be consistent
with our remit. The idea quickly emerged that we should organise
an event that would be focused primarily on presenting an
impression of farming and country life as it was in Ireland 100 years
ago. It was a seminal period for Irish agriculture, not least because
of the significant land purchase legislation that bookended the
period before and after the Rising. The concept for the event was
enthusiastically endorsed by a huge range of former colleagues who
formed the initial organising group. These were quickly joined by
an impressive array of local and national organisations, such as the
IFA, ICA, Macra, GAA, NPA, UCD, NUIG, GMIT, ICOS, Museum of
Country Life, Castlebar, Johnstown Castle Agricultural Museum,
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Department of
Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Department of Education and
Skills, Failte Ireland, Heritage Council, Irish Folklore Commission,
Irish Army, Conradh na Gaeilige, Udaras, Garda Siochana, Athenry
Heritage Centre, Irish Farmers Journal and several Amateur Drama
and Heritage Groups.
These organisations were augmented by the critical support received
from Galway County Council who are joint organisers of the
event.
decades. The size structure of farms was heavily weighted towards
smaller holdings: about 230,000 farms were less than 30 acres in
contrast with around 50,000 today. The problem of uneconomic
holdings was to be a feature of Irish land policy throughout the
period since independence and today the land question still dominates
policy deliberations on Irish agriculture.
The Ireland of 1916 was truly an agricultural economy. About
860,000 were classified as farmers in contrast to about 111,000
today. Agriculture, food and drink accounted for 60% of our merchandise
trade in contrast to just over 10% today. Bob O’Connor
and Eamon Henry estimated that in 1918/19 Irish agricultural
output was £110 million and national farm income as £22 million.
The figures today would be about £5,700 million and £1,970 million
respectively.
WWI ushered in a period of strong agricultural prices. Price increases
ranged from around a threefold (cereals, butter and eggs) to a
2.5 (potatoes, cattle and lambs) growth between 1914 and 1920.
This resulted in relative prosperity in the countryside which led,
among other things, to extensive construction of new farm houses
that still dot today’s rural landscape.
While cattle numbers in 1916 were about half of today’s levels,
poultry numbers were twice as high and horses and ponies were
five times today’s numbers.
As you will see Farming and Country Life 1916 touches on many
of these themes that have shaped modern farming as well as displaying
the strong elements of social and cultural expression that
continue to mark rural living.
Prof. Gerry Boyle
Director, Teagasc
Irish agriculture and the issues that have shaped it today warrant
historical reflection and the commemorations of the Rising offer
us that opportunity. By 1916 about two thirds of Irish farms were
owner occupied and this trend was to gather pace in the following
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Welcome from the Chairman of Teagasc and
the Cathaoirleach of the County of Galway
On behalf of Teagasc and Galway County Council we would like
to welcome you and your family to witness one of the largest
1916 commemorative events in the country. Farming and Country
10 & 11 June, 2016
Teagasc, Athenry,
Co. Galway
Life 1916 forms an integral part of the official 1916 commemorations
and celebrates rural life in Ireland through the century.
The event is held at Teagasc campus in Athenry, which was one of
the most important sites involved in the Rising in County Galway.
The campus is named after Liam Mellows, who was the man given
responsibility for co-ordinating republican activities in County
Galway before and during Easter Week 1916.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors,
without whose contribution this event would not be possible. We
would also like to pay tribute to the enormous effort that the staff
in Teagasc, Galway County Council and all of the farming, local
community groups and national organisations have invested in
this event. We would like to commend and thank all of the people
and organisations across the country who are giving their time and
effort free of charge to this very significant event.
This event reminds us of our history, and we hope you enjoy taking
this trip back to rural Ireland of 1916.
Dr. Noel Cawley
Chairman, Teagasc
FREE
EVENT
Celebrating 100 years of farming and country life
Cllr. Peter Roche
Cathaoirleach of the County of Galway
Join us as we celebrate and commemorate farming
and country life of 1916 through drama, music,
interactive exhibitions and re-enactments.
www.teagasc.ie/1916
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Agricultural Education &
Cooperatives Village
This village offers a unique opportunity for the public to learn about the
heritage, roles and achievements of nationally significant organisations,
delivered through dramatic re-enactments and exhibition. It is packed
with people from different agricultural organisations, with lots of stories to
catch the eye of all attendees. The organisations involved include Teagasc,
Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine, Irish Farmers Association,
University College Dublin, Irish Co-operative Organisation Society, Macra
na Feirme and Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association.
For those who are wondering what advice farmers and country women
would have been given 100 years ago, come and visit the Agricultural Education
and Cooperatives Village for a potato blight advisory session re-enactment,
an egg storage demonstration and butter making demonstration.
Visitors will be given the opportunity to participate in an advisory session
of the time. See event programme for times.
Key figures in agricultural education also had key roles in the Easter 1916
Rising. This village tells the story of Nellie Gifford, a Department of Agriculture
cookery instructor and activist, and of Con O’Donovan, an agricultural
scholar who fought as a volunteer in the Rising, to name but a few.
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Programme of Event
Location 10am 10.30am 11am 11.30am 12pm 12.30pm 1pm
Main Stage
Lisheenkyle
National
School &
Comhaltas
Ceóltóirí na
hÉireann
(Lackagh)
Flag raising
Steven
Sweeney,
Anna Falkenau
& Gerry
D’Arcy
Abbey
Theatre
Tribute to
the Abbey
Theatre
ICOS: The
History of Horace
Plunkett
and the Co-op
Movement
Gaelscoil Riada,
Baile Átha
an Rí, Co. na
Gaillimhe.
Name of play
is: Radharc 1
An Filleadh le
hAlan Titley
Davitt
Museum:
The Michael
Davitt Story
Frank Gavin:
The Clonbroke
Estate
ICOS: The
History of Horace
Plunkett
and the Co-op
Movement
GPO
Padraig
Pearse -
The Rebel
Fibín
Women of
the West
Alegiance
Reading of the
Proclamation
Fibín
Dancing
at the
Crossroads
Galway Set
Dancers
Tubber Set
Dancers
Athenry Set
Dancers
Livestock
Paddock
A variety of narrations and demonstrations will take plac
Advisory
Stand:
Kiltomer Hall
Controlling
Potato Blight
Demonstration
Egg Preservation/
Storage
Demonstration
Controlling
Potato Blight
Demonstration
Egg Preservation/
Storage
Demonstration
Controlling
Potato Blight
Demonstration
Sports pitch GAA blitz Sports Day:
three legged
race, egg &
spoon race,
sack race, tug
of war, wheel
& stick race
and obstacle
course
Handball
court
Juvenile
Handball
Tournament
Farm Family
& Rural Life:
Schoolhouse
Dram
Liam
Mellows
Stage
Tribute to
John B Keane
Ahascragh
Rising
Glinsk Play:
Hiring fair
Loughrea
School of
Music
Traditional
Cottage Area
Dramatic
pieces
American
Wake
Eviction
Scene
Programme of Events -
Friday 10th June
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s - Friday 10th June
1.30pm 2pm 2.30pm 3pm 3.30pm 4pm 4.30pm 5pm
Seanacha/
Story telling:
Eddie Lenihan
Floriane
Blancke &
Dermot Byrne
Dordán
Gaelscoil Riada,
Baile Átha
an Rí, Co. na
Gaillimhe.
Name of play
is: Radharc 1
An Filleadh le
hAlan Titley
Ballymacward
School Play
Tribute to
the Abbey
Theatre
Big Houses of
Galway
Gaelscoil Riada,
Baile Átha
an Rí, Co. na
Gaillimhe.
Name of play
is : Radharc 1
An Filleadh le
hAlan Titley
Davitt
Museum:
The Michael
Davitt Story
Alegiance
James
Connolly
Women of
the West
Cumann na
mBan- Margaret
Skidner
Padraig
Pearse -
The Mother
Strawboys of
Kilfenora
e in the Livestock Field and Working Horse Paddock throughout the day.
Egg Preservation/
Storage
Demonstration
Controlling
Potato Blight
Demonstration
Egg Preservation/
Storage
Demonstration
Controlling
Potato Blight
Demonstration
Egg Preservation/
Storage
Demonstration
Controlling
Potato Blight
Demonstration
Egg Preservation/
Storage
Demonstration
Hurling Exhibition
Match
Handball
Exhibition
Game
atic pieces every hour
Ahascragh
Rising
Tribute to
John B Keane
The Big Move
American
Wake
Dramatic
pieces
Eviction
Scene
American
Wake
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Established in the 1940’s by the Irish Co-operative Organisation
Society Limited, the Golden Jubilee Trust provides small scale
grants to projects which are co-operative in nature and add
economic, social or environmental value to the agricultural
economy or to rural society.
The Trust is now accepting grant
applications from individuals or entities.
PROJECTS WE SUPPORT MUST:
• promote and encourage the growth of the co-operative
movement in rural Ireland,
• promote research in co-operatives and agriculture, or
• assist co-operative societies, through grants or otherwise,
to undertake new branches of industry or trade which
benefits rural society.
To see if your project fits the Golden Jubilee Trust
criteria and for application information, see:
www.goldenjubileetrust.ie
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Art Exhibitions
There are a number of art exhibitions which will feature as part of Farming
and Country Life 1916.
‘Rural women of 1916: what did they say?’ is a collaborative project
between Teagasc, NUI Galway and GMIT, presenting the real-life stories
of a selection of rural women and the important impacts they had on society.
Sponsorship was gratefully received for this exhibit from Norbert Walsh,
great grand-nephew of Bridget Walsh.
An exhibition called ‘Uniformity’ will also feature, developed by fashion
students at Griffith College. It displays uniforms representing the unique
characteristics and contributions to the Rising made by 12 women members
of Cumann na mBan and the Irish Volunteers.
The Agri+Culture exhibition is presented by artist Deirdre O’Mahony, consisting
of a collection by artists who operate in rural Ireland. Seanie Barron
will showcase his unique walking sticks and Pauline O’Connell will exhibit
‘drawing the water’. This artwork collection recognises the important role
poets, artists and writers had in inspiring and leading the 1916 Rising.
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Programme of Events
Location 10am 10.30am 11am 11.30am 12pm 12.30pm 1pm
Main Stage
Siobhán &
Úna Hogan
Amhráníocht
convened by
Mairéad Ní
Fhlatharta
Army Band Seanchaí /
Storytelling-
Jonathan
Gunning
Abbey
Theatre
Tribute to
the Abbey
Theatre
ICOS: The
History of Horace
Plunkett
and the Co-op
Movement
Gaelscoil Riada,
Baile Átha
an Rí, Co. na
Gaillimhe.
Name of play
is: Radharc 1
An Filleadh le
hAlan Titley
Davitt
Museum:
The Michael
Davitt Story
Frank Gavin:
The Clonbrock
Estate
ICOS: The
History of Horace
Plunkett
and the Co-op
Movement
GPO
Padraig
Pearse- The
Rebel
Fibín Alegiance Coir na Cheile,
Athenry
Music School
Community
Choir
Reading the
Proclamation
String Quartet:
Lorro
Quartet, Athenry
Music
School
Seosamh Ó
Neachtain,
Sean Nós
Dance & Erin
McGeown
Marcus &
Prionsias
Heron, & Alice
Hannon, Sean
Nós Dance
Dancing at
the Crossroads
Abbeykockmoy
Set Dancers
& Marcus
& Prionsias
Hernon
Livestock
Paddock
A variety of narrations and demonstrations will take plac
Advisory
Stand: Kiltomer
Hall
Controlling
Potato Blight
Demonstration
Egg Preservation/
Storage
Demonstration
Controlling
Potato Blight
Demonstration
Egg Preservation/
Storage
Demonstration
Controlling
Potato Blight
Demonstration
Sports pitch
Rounders
Exhibition
Match
Sports Day:
Three legged
race, egg &
spoon race,
sack race, tug
of war, wheel
& stick race
and Obstacle
course
Camogie Exhibition
Game
Handball
court
Juvenille
World
Champion
Exhibition
Game
Senior Mens
Handball
Exhibition
Farm Family
& Rural Life:
Schoolhouse
Dram
Liam Mellows
Stage
Clarinbridge
Rising
Tribute to
John B Keane
Spreading the
News: The
Wild Swans
Glinsk
Play-Hiring
Fair
Traditional
Dramatic
Cottage Area pieces
Programme of Events
- Saturday 11th June
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American
Wake
Eviction
Scene

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- Saturday 11th June
1.30pm 2pm 2.30pm 3pm 3.30pm 4pm 4.30pm 5pm
Cormac
Cannon, Alex
Finn & Colm
Broderick
Sean Ryan
& Kathleen
Loughnane
Gaelscoil Riada,
Baile Átha
an Rí, Co. na
Gaillimhe.
Name of play
is: Radharc 1
An Filleadh le
hAlan Titley
Coir na Cheile,
Athenry
Music School
Community
Choir
Tribute to
the Abbey
Theatre
String Quartet:
Lorro
Quartet, Athenry
Music
School
James Connolly
Big Houses of
Galway
Gaelscoil Riada,
Baile Átha
an Rí, Co. na
Gaillimhe.
Name of play
is: Radharc 1
An Filleadh le
hAlan Titley
Fibín Alegiance Cumann na
mBan- Margaret
Skidner
John O’ Halloran,
Emma O’
Sullivan, Sean
Nós Dance,
Anders
Trajberg & Ballinasloe
Club
Damhsa ar an
Sean Nós
e in the Livestock Field and Working Horse Paddock throughout the day.
Davitt
Museum:
The Michael
Davitt Story
Padraig
Pearse- The
Mother
Egg Preservation/
Storage
Demonstration
Controlling
Potato Blight
Demonstration
Egg Preservation/
Storage
Demonstration
Controlling
Potato Blight
Demonstration
Egg Preservation/
Storage
Demonstration
Controlling
Potato Blight
Demonstration
Egg Preservation/
Storage
Demonstration
GAA Football
Exhibition
Game
GAA Hurling
Exhibition
Game
Masters
Handball
Exhibition
Games
atic pieces every hour
Ahascragh
Piece
Tribute to
John B Keane
Clarinbridge
Rising
Spreading the
News: The
Wild Swans
Ahascragh
Piece
The Big Move
American
Wake
Dramatic
pieces
American
Wake
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SUPPORTING
IRISH FARMERS
SINCE 1978
ALWAYS FRESH • NEVER FROZEN
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The Land
Land has always been an integral part of Ireland. During the Cromwellian
plantations from the 1700s most of the land was taken away from the
Irish. Through various laws from the 1695 Penal Laws to the Disestablishment
Act of 1869, we are linked directly to land. Indeed the greatest
tragedy in modern Irish history is linked to the land, the famine. It was not
until major evictions of the land working Irish in the mid-1880s that led
to the rise of Michael Davit and Charles Stewart Parnell and a change in
ownership of land in Ireland.
The Land Village links our rich heritage with the land through exhibition and
demonstration of the Irish fight for land, landlordism and the big houses,
and cultural aspects of the land such as match-making. Visitors can enjoy
the exhibition from the Michael Davitt museum, the big houses of Galway
and Clonbrock Estate, as well as traveling through time to examine the
Irish land question.
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Event Map
1. Main Entrance - Time Tunnel
2. Working Horse
3. Traditional Farm
4. Traditional Cottage
5. Eviction Scene
6. Fair Day Scene
7. Talking Zone
8. Farm Family & Rural Life Village
9. Covered Rest Area
10. Main Stage
11. Town Square
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12. Woodland Crafts
13. Forge & Veterinary Exhibit
14. Food Pavilion
15. Ireland 1916 Village
16. Cinemobile
17. Emergency Services
18. Food Pavilion
19. Dancing at the Crossroads
20. Sports & Culture Village
21. Food Pavilion
22. Farm Mechanisation Demonstration
23. Liam Mellows Stage
24. Sports, Music, Irish Language, Land,
Agri-advisory & Education Exhibits,
and the Abbey Theatre
25. Handball Alley
26. Family & Childrens’ Area
including Circus
27. Bell Tower
Information
Toilets

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Livestock Village
By 1916, there had been a significant move from crop growing to animal
farming in Ireland. There was a significant increase in the number of
cattle and sheep, but also in the number of horses, donkeys and mules due
to the status symbol they had become.
At Farming and Country Life 1916, the livestock village revisits an Irish
farm from 100 years ago. With a patch of crops and a paddock for livestock,
the fully equipped farm is in full working order. Old crops have been sown
in the garden, and demonstrations and narrations will be given to visitors
on the day.
Old livestock breeds will feature in the farm including the Galway and
Scottish blackface sheep and Shorthorns, Dexter and Kerry cattle. In the
paddock of our 1916 farm, visitors will be treated to various demonstrations
including one from the working horse in tasks of hay making and
ploughing. This village includes demonstrations on:
• Hot shoeing a horse.
• Feeding the poultry.
• Hand milking cows and feeding
calves.
• Haymaking activities.
• Fair Day activities.
• Feeding the pigs: the story of
pigs in 1916.
• Hand shearing sheep: From
sheep to shawl.
• Digging and sowing the garden.
• Ploughing and tillage operations.
• Veterinary practice in 1916
• Trimming donkey hooves.
• The role of the donkey.
• Display of farmer horse drawn
vehicles.
• Display of gentry/ landlord
horse drawn vehicle.
• Building the sheep cock.
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Connacht GAA Championship 2016
Sunday 12th June 2016
Venue:
Dr. Hyde Park
Semi-Final:
Roscommon v Sligo
Throw in at 4pm
Ticket Prices
• Stand €25
• Juvenile Stand €5
• Terrace/Sideline seating €20
• Juvenile Terrace €5
Sunday 18th June 2016
Venue:
Elvery’s McHale Park
Senior Semi-Final 2:
Mayo v Galway
Throw in at 7pm
Connacht GAA Intermediate Hurling
Championship 2016 Final:
Mayo v Roscommon
Throw in at 4.45pm
Ticket Prices
• Stand €25
• Juvenile Stand €5
• Terrace/Sideline seating €20
• Juvenile Terrace €5
GROUP PASSES
TO ANY OF
THESE FIXTURES
JUST €30
(10 x Juvenile & 1 x Adult)-
application through Club
Secretary only.
Connacht GAA Championship Finals
Sunday 19th July 2016
Venue: tbc
Seniors: 2 pm
Minors: 12 noon
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Ticket Prices
• Stand €35
• Terrace seating €25
• Sideline seating €25
• Juveniles €5

June 2016
Sports and Culture Village
Sport played an important part in Irish society in 1916. The Gaelic Athletic
Association (GAA) provided the link between Irish sporting organisations
and the quest for independence. Therefore it only fitting that Gaelic
games play a prominent role in Farming and Country Life 1916. The event
stages live hurling, football and camogie matches in the attire of the day.
Local teams who are participating in these exhibition matches include;
Athenry, Liam Mellows, Pádraig Pearses, Na Piarsaigh, Craughwell, Sean
MacDiarmada and Killimor. Matches are staged using traditional rules
and equipment of the day. Rounders and handball exhibition matches will
also feature and all sports can all be seen in the sports pitch and handball
alley. See the full programme of events for times of the various exhibition
matches.
Visitors to this exciting village have the chance to get their photo taken
with Sam Maguire and Liam McCarthy, with their own #1916gaa selfie!
This event is packed with exhibitions and demonstrations, including a live
hurley making demonstration from TJ Larkin. Irish language is brought
to the forefront at this village with exhibitions from Conradh na Gaeilge.
A special quiz features in this village where visitors must search for the
answers through the exhibition to be in with a chance of winning a top prize!
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Programme of Lectures – Friday 10th June
Time Title Speaker
Session 1: Chair: Eamonn Gardiner, NUI Galway
10.00 Liam Mellows and the Irish Revolution Brian Hanley, Historian
10.20 Easter Rebellion in Athenry Conor McNamara, NUI Galway
10.40 Rural women of 1916: some biographies and contexts Mary Clancy, NUI Galway
11.00 Tom Kenny and the agrarian dimension of the Galway Rebellion Tony Varley, NUI Galway
11.20 The West of Ireland in war and revolution, 1913-1918 Panel Discussion
Session 2: Chair: Gerry Boyle, Teagasc
12.00 A political harvest: farmers and nationalism in early twentieth century
Ireland
12.20 Evolving political imperatives of Land Reform
in pre- and post-independence Ireland
Arlene Crampsie, UCD
David Meredith, Teagasc
12.40 Farming in Ireland during the Great War Mary E Daly, UCD
13.00 1916: food, diet and cookery Regina Sexton, UCC
13.20 Importance of Lough Corrib in the early 1900s Michael J Hynes, REACH for hynes
Session 3: Chair: Liam Downey, NUI Maynooth
13.40 Herds and graziers in the west: eclipsed by land reform John Cunningham, NUI Galway
14.00 Horse power in the early 1900s Wendy Conlon, Teagasc
14.20 The evolution of the Agricultural Advisory and Education services Michael Martin, Teagasc retired
14.40 ‘The Department’ in time of war and revolution Michael Kelly, Department of Agriculture,
Food & the Marine retired
15.00 Agricultural Education at the Albert College,
the Royal College of Science and University College Dublin
Dermot Ruane and Mary Forrest,
UCD
Session 4: Chair: Lance O’Brien, Teagasc
15.20 Stories from statistics – Census and people of the Rising Moira Buckley, CSO
15.40 Life in 1916 Ireland - stories from statistics Helen Cahill, CSO
16.00 Health and healthcare in 1916 Diarmuid O’Donovan, HSE and NUI
Galway
16.20 The rural childhood experience, 1831-1966 Sarah - Anne Buckley, NUI Galway
16.40 Rural schools and their garden plots Mary Forrest, UCD
17.00 The Irish language at the turn of the century Cuan Ó’Seireadáin, Conradh na
Gaeilge
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Programme of Lectures – Saturday 11th June
Time Title Speaker
Session 1: Chair: Conor Newman, Heritage Council
10.00 Liam Mellows and the Irish Revolution Brian Hanley, Historian
10.20 The Rising and Mellows College Kevin Jordan, Teacher, Banagher
College
10.40 Mapping and exploring the route of the Rising in East County Galway,
1916
Mark McCarthy, GMIT
11.00 Sport and the 1916 Rising Sean Crosson, NUI Galway
11.20 1916: the musical aesthetics of rebellion Verena Commins, NUI Galway
11.40 Who fears to sing of 1916? A search for the Galway songs of the Rising Therese McIntyre, 1916 Song Project
12.10 The Irish language at the turn of the century Dara Folan, NUI Galway
12.30 Place names and the Irish language Conchur MagEachain, DCU
Session 2: Chair: Sharon Ni Bheolain, RTE
12.50 Customs of the time Criostoir MacCarthaigh, UCD
13.10 Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin – The traditional fireside of our
parents and grandparents
Clodagh Doyle, NMI-Country Life
13.30 The GAA and 1916 Mike Cronin, Boston College Ireland
13.50 The Catholic Church and the 1916 Rising Oliver P Rafferty, Boston College
14.10 Horace Plunkett – co-operative and social pioneer Seamus O’Donohoe, ICOS
14.30 Character, co-operation and cultural revival Finbarr Bradley, UCD
14.50 Dressing the Irish dresser: evolution & revolution in the early 20th
century farm kitchen
Claudia Kinmonth, NUI Galway
Session 3: Chair: Cathal O’Donoghue, Teagasc
15.10 Agriculture in 1916 Kevin Hanrahan, Teagasc
15.30 Veterinary practice in Ireland, 1916 - 2016 Michael Doherty, UCD, and Brian
O’Suilleabhain, retired Veterinary
Officer
15.50 Cattle, sheep and pig breeds of 1916 Noirin McHugh, Teagasc
16.10 Rural Ireland and links to the US in the 1910s Tony King, NUI Galway
16.30 Liam Mellows: reflections on a Patriot Padraig McDonnell, Irish Defence
Forces
16.50 ‘Caherlistrane’s Eva O Flaherty – Cumann na mBan secretary, Parisienne
model, London milliner-businesswoman & Achill patron of the arts (1874-
1963)
Mary J Murphy, Journalist and writer,
and Ellen Corcoran
17.10 Dr Ada English -Psychiatrist and Nationalist Pat Johnston, retired Teacher
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Bringing the Event to Life
Drama is one of the pillars of cultural nationalism. Even before the foundation of the Abbey Theatre
in 1904, drama was widely performed in Ireland. Today, it is the second largest voluntary grouping
in Ireland, second only to the GAA. Farming and Country Life 1916 uses drama to bring rural Ireland
of 1916 to life. Groups from all over Ireland are taking part in this project, and we would like to thank
them for their involvement, commitment and support to the project. The event is also paying homage
to the Abbey Theatre, of which Galway woman Lady Gregory was a founding member and to Listowel
writer John B Keane who for many years was the voice of rural Ireland.
American wakes were organised in Ireland as a young person was emigrating. In certain parts of the
country there were dances and songs, while in other parts they were sad occasions. At Farming and
Country Life 1916 we will host an American wake, where you the audience have the opportunity to
share songs and stories and join us in this old Irish tradition.
As was commonplace in rural Ireland, this event includes an eviction scene drama. This piece has been
devised by Sinead Hackett and involves a land eviction in Galway from 1900. These scenes are based on
a series of photographs from the National Library of Ireland which documents an eviction scene from
Co. Galway. This interactive dramatic piece will see members of various drama groups come together
to perform this bespoke piece at Farming and Country Life 1916.
Dramatic performances throughout the event include:
• John B Keane Tribute by Abbey Acts,
Galway and The Big Tree Players, Carlow.
• The White Headed Boy, performed by Athenry
Drama Group.
• Spreading the News by Lady Gregory,
performed by The Wild Swans, Gort and
Moylough Drama, Galway.
• Allegiance and Chamber Pot monologues,
recited by Bryn Coldrick.
• Faces and Places of the Galway Rising, by
Brian Quinn.
• Women of the West performed by Áine
Sheridan.
• Glinsk Heritage Group.
• Riarcross Drama performing a tribute to
Lady Gregory.
• Culm dancing by Willie-Joe Meally.
• Loughrea School of Music performing musical
pieces.
• Cathleen ni Houlihan written by William
Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory, and performed
by Blen Diva.
• Bikes, pikes and baskets by Hedy Lynott
Gibbons, performed by Clarinbridge Drama
Group.
• The Hiring Fair by Holy Faith Secondary
School, Mountbellew.
• Ahascragh Rising by the Ahascragh Re-enactment
Group.
• Declan Finneran performing Horace
Plunkett and Jenny Lynam and Moira
Mahoney performing Murray’s Incarceration.
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Farm Mechanisation Village
Farm mechanisation as we know it today was starting to evolve at the
beginning of the 20th century, and much of this farm machinery is still
part of everyday farming today.
The farm mechanisation village at Farming and Country Life 1916 plays
a significant role in bringing to life the story of Irish farming from 100
years ago. At that time, farming was beginning to evolve from the steam
engine age, with new tractors being invented and harvesting machinery.
This village will educate and entertain visitors on how farming changed
from the 1900s to 1930s.
From horsepower to steam and oil engines, this village is filled with the
machinery from the time; it even has live demonstrations from a horse-powered
thresher, steam thresher and road making, timber sawing,
and beet pulping. A vintage parade will form part of this exciting village
where visitors will see machinery and motorised vehicles from the time.
A special feature on the restoration of early 1900’s Galway County Council
steam roller will be narrated by Mountbellew VC. This steam roller was
formerly on display outside county buildings in Galway.
This village includes demonstrations and exhibitions such as:
• Steam display.
• Bicycle and motorcycle display.
• Hand driven machines.
• Tractor display.
• Automobile display.
• The story of grain demonstration.
• The combustion engine.
• Displays from NPA, Irish Agricultural
Museum and Local
Vintage Clubs.
• Horse and Tractor implements.
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Music, Dance and Storytelling
As we celebrate our Irish heritage at Farming and Country Life 1916,
we join with singers, musicians, dancers and storytellers from across
Ireland and enjoy live performances throughout the two days of the event.
This event features over 50 musicians and 60 dancers, with visitors invited
to try the harp or uilleann pipes, or join in a dance at ‘Aeríocht at the
Crossroads’. What better way to pay homage to Galway’s Éamonn Ceannt
than to play the uilleann pipes with Píobairí Uilleann na hÉireann, the piping
organisation of which Ceannt was a founding member.
Special thanks to the Centre for Irish Studies and the Huston School of
Media at NUI Galway for working with us to create a programme of 1916
music and dance, and to our musicians, dancers and storytellers.
• Prionsias Hernon, Seosamh Ó
Neachtain, and Emma O’Sullivan,
Sean-nós Dancing.
• Ballinasloe’s Club Damhsa ar
an Sean Nós.
• Kilfenora Strawboys.
• Tubber, Galway, Abbeyknockmoy
& Athenry Set Dancers
and the Corrib School of Step
Dancing.
• Kathleen Loughnane, Úna Flanagan
and Floriane Blancke,
Harpists.
• Cormac Cannon, Siobhán
Hogan, Tommy Keane and All
Ireland Under- 15 Champion
Colm Broderick, Uilleann
Pipers.
• Dermot Byrne, John O’Halloran
and Steven Sweeney,
Accordionists.
• Marcus Hernon, Flautist.
• Erin McGeown, Anders Trajberg,
Anna Falkenau and Úna
Hogan, Fiddlers.
• Corn uí Ríada, sean-nós champion,
Mairéad ní Fhlatharta,
Geraldine King and Gerard
D’Arcy, Vocalists.
• Performances from local
schools – including Lisheenkyle
NS, Scoil Mhuire, Oranmore
and Coláiste an Eachreidh –
will also form part of this exciting
musical programme.
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Farm Family and Rural Life Village
trip to the Farm Family and Rural Life Village will take you back to
A times gone by. This village emulates life in the Irish countryside as
it was in 1916 with an old country cottage, schoolhouse and shop and
demonstrates some of the crafts that were a key part of life in rural Ireland.
The vast majority of Ireland’s 3.1 million population in 1916 lived in rural
areas. Small, thatched, two or three-roomed cottages with no running
water, sanitation or electricity. A typical thatched cottage from the west
of Ireland has been recreated at this event, and is furnished with authentic
pieces from the era, including a settle bed, a coop dresser (with hens), a
“Cailleach” or sleeping hag and the focal point of all homes at the time, the
hearth-which is fully equipped with crane and cooking pots. Come and visit
the ‘woman of the house’ to learn all about the duties of rural Irish women
in 1916, such as making butter, baking bread, curing bacon, tending to
livestock, bringing water from the well and mending clothes.
Visitors will be transported back to a 1916 schoolhouse, where our schoolmaster
will re-enact the curriculum from 100 years ago. Children are invited
to participate in a class of the time and experiment with ink pots and
blotting paper, to view maps of Ireland and the world from the era. A village
shop and pub are also recreated, with shopping lists of the time displayed.
Visitors can marvel at the differences between food of the past and that
of the present at ‘Jack Murphy’s’ shop.
As crafts played a huge part in rural Ireland from 100 years ago, a cooper,
a thatcher, a basket, a tailor, a cobbler and a tinsmith will also demonstrate
the techniques and tools used at the time.
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Activities for Kids
There will be lots of fun and creativity throughout the villages for children.
Some of these activities include:
• Make and do crafts
• Scarecrow workshops
• Dress up and take a selfie #farm1916
• Sports Day
• Community Circus
• Make your own 1916 broom
• Play a 1916 game
• Find some treasure
• And lots more!
Listen to the music, watch the dancing
and have fun!
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A Tribute to Lady Gregory
Lady Augusta Gregory (nee Percy), 1852-1932
The great Irish playwright Sean O’ Casey
once called Lady Gregory “a sprig of rosemary
among the laurel”. Considered as one of
Ireland’s greatest playwrights she was born at
Roxborough, Co. Galway in March 1852. As a
child she gained an interest in fairytales and
folklore. This was fostered by Mary Sheridan,
a neighbour of the Percy’s at that time. Mary
was a woman in her 70s who could remember
the landing of the French at Killala, Co. Mayo
in 1798. Augusta drew on Mary’s inspiration in
many of her plays, particularly in ‘The Rising of
the Moon’.
When she was 28, she married Sir William Gregory
and moved to Coole Park outside Gort,
Co. Galway. He was 35 years her senior. They
had one son Robert who was born in 1881, and
who would later go on to represent Ireland in
cricket. When William died in 1892 Augusta
could earn little from the estate so she took to
writing. It was at this time she rediscovered her
love of folklore. During the 1890s there was a
great revival of Irish folklore inspired by Douglas
Hyde and W.B. Yeats. Around this time she
became interested in theatre. Along with Yeats,
she longed for an Irish theatre to be set up. Lady
Gregory’s first play ‘Twenty Five’ was premiered
in a Dublin hotel in 1903.
On December the 27th, 1904 the Abbey Theatre
was born. On that night, two plays were premiered;
‘On Baile’s Strand’ by W.B. Yeats and Lady
Gregory’s comic masterpiece ‘Spreading the
News’. She was for many years considered the
queen of one acts. As she moved away from the
Abbey Theatre her life changed. Her son Robert
was shot down and killed in Italy in 1916. And her
nephew Hugh Lane also tragically died.
However, she continued to write. She wrote
her last play, ‘Dave’, at the age of 72. But her
influence in Irish theatre had not receded. In the
early 1920s she discovered an up and coming
playwright Sean O’Casey. O’Casey would later go
on to become one of the greatest theatre writers
of the 20th Century.
She died in 1932, shortly after the house of
Coole was pulled down. The only remains of her
presence in Coole Park today is the autographed
tree where the initials of famous writer friends
are carved.
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Ireland 1916 Village
When you visit the Ireland 1916 Village you will be treated to a vast
array for exhibits and activities for people of all ages. Visitors can
engage with the many interactive elements at this village, including Kids
Zone, genealogy, assessment of memorabilia and various performances
and films.
Some of the highlights of this village are:
• Experience a re-enactment of
the morse code radio transmission
from Irish rebels on
25 April 1916.
• The National Museum are on
hand to tell you about the significance
of your memorabilia.
• Record a story from 1916, a
song or poem in our ‘recording
studio’ inside the GPO.
• Genealogy experts will help
you find your ancestors who
lived through 1916.
• Talks on the material culture
of 1916.
• Mac Piarais i bPictiúir: reimagine
the Easter Rising through
music, drama and art.
• Hear the Sounds and See the
Sites of 1916.
• Visit the Bell Tower with a
guided tour from Athenry 1916
Relatives Committee.
• Enjoy a movie at the Cinemobile.
• Craft workshops
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1838
Visit the Centenary Wall, a snapshot of a selection of
salient moments in the history of the agricultural advisory
services, educational institutions and farm organisations
before, during and after the Easter Rising of 1916.
We invite you to walk along the wall, stroll back through
time, and see the people, places and events that shaped
the development of agriculture in Ireland.
Teagasc, Mellows Campus, Athenry, County Galway