Another
TV appearance for Seamus!
[Article in Kilkenny Reporter: December 23rd 2014]
One
of the country’s most colourful and inspirational folk museums is making the
news again.
The
Nore View Folk Museum in Bennettsbridge, which regularly finds itself in the local
media spotlight, will feature in a new series due to commence on TV3 in January.
Called Life, it will focus on outstanding or unusual people and places
around the country and the programme team felt Seamus
Lawlor’s collection of more than 12,000 exhibits
certainly ticked all the boxes for them.
The
popular TV3 presenter Sybil Mulcahy interviewed Seamus this week and he took her on an eye-opening tour of
the collection. For over forty-five minutes the curator elaborated on the
significance of each exhibit, from the threshing engines and quern stones to
illicit whiskey making stills, ancient vacuum cleaners, primeval chamber pots,
military artefacts, hurling and football memorabilia, old petrol pumps and an
assortment of odds and ends that once were commonplace in households and on
farms nationwide.
Seamus
said he was honoured and charmed to have the glamorous Sybil call to visit and
looks forward to seeing the resulting programme in the Life series on TV3
in January.
The photo shows Seamus with TV3 presenter Sybil Mulcahy at the museum.
