1. Dungarvan Museum Reproduction Postcards 2. Recent Donations and Events 3. Two New Articles Placed on the Web Site 4. Contacting The Museum 5. Changing Email address for this mailing list ============================================== 1. Dungarvan Museum Reproduction Postcards ============================================== The reproduction postcard that the society printed at the start of the summer is selling very well. Sales now top 320. The second card in the series Grattan Square circa 1900 has just been sent to the printers and the cards will be available for sale in the museum in 6 weeks time. Thanks to all who voted to decide on the next card to be issued. For the record the voting went as follows. Grattan Square 60% The Lookout 35% Mary Street 2.5% and Parnell Street 2.5%. We weren't too surprised that Grattan Square won but we were very pleased that the Black and White photo of The Lookout proved so popular. When the third card is due to be published (hopefully in the Spring) we will organise another e-mail poll to decide the next card to be issued. ============================================== 2. Recent Donations and Events ============================================== Ivan Lennon of Rochester New York recently donated the unpublished memoirs of his father George Lennon to the museum. George was Officer Commanding West Waterford Flying Column during the Irish War Of Independence. I have spent the last week or so extracting the historical information from the memoirs (resulting in the two new articles to be seen on our web site). Dungarvan museum would like to thank Ivan for entrusting his fathers memoirs to us, I hope we have done them justice in the manner in which we have presented them on the web site. If any other individual has material in their possession that may be of historical interest please let us know. All material donated is given on permanent loan to the museum and can be reclaimed by the doner at any time. Photographs and old cine film are of particular interest. Photographs will be copied and returned to the owner. If any list member has Cine film, 16mm film etc dating from the 60's or earlier of the town or surrounding area please get in touch. Cine-cameras were rare at the time and our major hope of getting footage is from the collection of a holidaying visitor. ============================================== 3. New Web-site Articles ============================================== The following article can be found by clicking on exhibitions at www.dungarvanmuseum.org Memoirs Of George Lennon The following article is made up of extracts from the memoirs of George Lennon, the Officer Commanding the West Waterford Flying Column during the Irish War Of Independence. This has to be one of the most interesting articles we have ever posted to the web site. A frank and honest first hand account of the War Of Independence in Waterford. It contains details of the Burgery Ambush and the execution of Sgt. Hickey an R.I.C. constable that happened in the ambush's aftermath. It also contains information on fighting between the Free State and IRA troops in in Waterford City in 1922. The following article can be found by clicking on downloads at www.dungarvanmuseum.org Trauma In Time Download the complete memoirs of George Lennon, Officer Commanding West Waterford Flying Column during the Irish War of Independence. In the complete memoirs you can read about George Lennon's part in developing the fledgling Irish tourist industry in the early 1940's, his thoughts on returning to Ireland in 1971 and the part his activities in the War of independence played in his spiritual and religious development. ============================================== 4. Contacting The Museum ============================================== All general queries can be directed to the museum at history@dungarvanmuseum.org If you have a comment or complaint about the web site you can contact william@deisedesign.com We are delighted to get all feedback, positive or negative. We endeavor to act on all suggestions that we get but please bear in mind that we are a voluntary organisation and it can take some time to answer queries. ============================================== 5. Changing Email address for this mailing list ============================================== To REMOVE your email address from this list send an email to members-request@dungarvanmuseum.org with the following line in the body of the message. unsubscribe youremailaddress@email.com Example : unsubscribe johndoe@museumemail.ie To ADD your email address to this list send an email to members-request@dungarvanmuseum.org with the following line in the body of the message. subscribe youremailaddress@email.com Example : subscribe johndoe@museumemail.ie