Waterford County Museum

News on upcoming events, exhibitions, latest acquisitions, lectures and opinion pieces from Waterford County Museum, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland.

Welcome back to our Visitors

We are delighted to be able to reopen the museum on Monday 10th May and welcome old friends and new visitors. The museum will be open Mond...

Recent Deaths

The Museum would like to extend its sympathies to the families of Austin Flynn, the great Waterford hurler, and Father Robert Arthure who ...

Old Dungarvan Newspaper - The Dungarvan Gazette

This paper was established by Joseph Hansard and was published at his printing works at Lower Main Street (Now King Solicitors). It was th...

New Country - New Life by Simon Lyons, Grand Forks City, Dakota

This account from the Dungarvan Journal 1883 by Simon Lyons of Ballinamuck Mills, Dungarvan, gives some detail about what life was like for...

John Betjeman and the 'old Protestant Printer' of Lismore

While staying at Lismore Castle in 1958 Betjeman wrote two poems dedicated to the Cavendish family. He decided to have them printed in a l...

Dictionary of Irish Biography

This was first published in 2009 in a series of large volumes but has now been made available free online. It contains nearly 11,000 profi...

New Book by Donald Brady

Congratulations to Museum member Donald Brady on his latest book: “Robert Daborne, Dean of Lismore 1580-1628” . As well as an essay on D...

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