Sligo Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2015
Northwest Express August, 2015
The Jackie Clarke Collection
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he Jackie Clarke Collection - Ireland's Memory - is an iconic cultural destination in Mayo. Found here in abundance are unique treasures - 100,000 items - uncensored, rare and priceless artefacts. It is a collection that focuses on the Irish people, their struggles and their triumphs. It is the most important private collection of Irish history, now in public hands. The material in the collection covers over 400 years of Ireland’s history. It includes material belonging to Theobald Wolfe Tone, the father of Republicanism; editions of the first newspaper, dating to 1665; personal items from the 1916 Rising's Leaders; autographed letters from Michael Collins and other activists in the War of Independence and Civil War; the papers of the first Irish President Douglas Hyde including a rare early Bible in Irish; letters from Fenians in America - John Devoy, and Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa - and poignantly, primary material relating to the Famines of the nineteenth century and the subsequent evictions that send the Irish to the four corners of the earth. It also contains rare books, cine films, manuscripts, posters, proclamations (several versions of the Irish Proclamation, including the 1916 Proclamation), legal papers, badges, handbills, works by Sir
John Lavery, rare printed maps (some dating from 1600 onwards) hunger strike material, prisoners’ art, graphics, political cartoons, ground plans, architects plans, engineering plans, newspapers, photographs and woodcarvings. Jackie Clarke (1927 – 2000) was a Ballina business man and a genius collector. In 2007 his widow, Mrs Anne Clarke gifted her late husband's collection to the people of Ballina, Mayo and Ireland, in perpetuity, on condition that it remained in Ballina. This donation to Ireland is in the guardianship of Mayo County Council. The collection is housed in the unique setting of the former Provincial Bank building and walled garden, ideally located on the main shopping street in Ballina town centre. The building was designed by noted Irish architect Thomas Manly Deane who worked on of many of Ireland's finest public buildings including the Government buildings, the National Library and the National Museum. The Walled Garden will be a green oasis in the busy town of Ballina. Over the past five years, the listing of this collection has been carried out by historian Sinéad McCoole, now employed as Manager/Curator of the Jackie Clarke Collection by Mayo County Council.
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