An Tóstal - artefacts from exhibition
- IE OCL P87/1/10
- 1953
Part of Papers of Fr Joseph Hurley
An Tóstal - artefacts from exhibition
Part of Papers of Fr Joseph Hurley
An Tóstal - newspaper articles for display
Part of Papers of Fr Joseph Hurley
Newspaper cuttings, some mounted on card, with corresponding catalogue numbers, which were placed on display during An Tóstal exhibitions in Tullamore in 1953 and 1954:
Papers, notes, publications, and artefacts mainly relating to the hosting in 1953 and 1954 of an exhibition of Offaly's history and archaeology in Tullamore as part of An Tóstal, a national festival celebrating Irish culture. Fr Hurley, or An tAth Seosamh Ó Murthuile as he was also known, was the chief organiser for the exhibition, and collected and schematically displayed original artefacts, manuscripts and illustrations detailing Offaly's history from pre-historic times to the modern era.
The remainder of the collection relates to non-Tóstal related notes, publications and ephemera from 1903-1962.
Hurley; Joseph (1905-1984), Jesuit priest and Irish language scholar