an exhibition of items, introduced by Hazel Vickery and Colum Hourihane, some from the museum as well as some from private collections
Monday, 26th January, 8pm
at Bantry Christian Fellowship Hall
a talk by Hazel Vickery and Colum Hourihane
Members, free , Non-members; 5€
There will be an exhibition of items, introduced by Hazel Vickery and Colum Hourihane, some from the museum as well as some from private collections. Among these was an ornate15th C bronze processional cross, a number of paintings, a 15thC miniature of the Evangelist John on Patmos, as well as one by Von Herkommer of the chapel in Canterbury Cathedral.
Other items included the ship’s bell from the German ship the Graf-Spree, old photographs of the town, very early examples of mobile phones as well as a bronze reproduction of the Kilnaruane Pillar Stone.
Hazel is Curator of Bantry Museum and an active committee member of BHAS. She was born and raised in Bantry and ran Vickery’s Hotel until her retirement.
Colum is an Irish-born art historian, iconographer and editor, formerly of Princeton University, specialising in medieval art and iconographic studies.
