Wednesday 18th August
2010
Help save Muings Lace School for the Community
Údarás na Gaeltachta is being approached by Fís na Muingi-Iorras with the object of securing the Muings Lace School for the community, as a heritage project.
The aims of the projects are:
- To acquire, restore and adapt the existing premises for the creation of a small-dedicated Heritage center/Folk Museum.
- To create an environment of awareness, interest and recall for the community, past employees and home workers, visiting and returning émigrés.
- To host lectures, courses, workshops in traditional crafts, including crochet lace, local history, research etc, for adults and children.
- To exhibit Irish crochet lace, Hand knitting, Machine knitting, documents, photos, memorabilia, textiles, domestic and work related artifacts, implements and furniture. To host guest exhibitions. To install a craft shop and web site.
- To boost tourism by providing a center of interest and enlightenment where none currently exists; to cater for tourists with special interests in local heritage, ancestry; to attract craft/lace guild tours and school outings.
- Possible job creation through FÁS schemes.
How you can help save Muings Lace School
Give your time, or share memories:
Your generous help and goodwill are needed to save Muings Lace School.
Please help by giving your time, support, administrative talents, memories, loans of old photos and so on. Contact Helen Moreau, Fís na Muingi-Iorras Chairperson, using the Contact us page on this website.
Leave a message of support on our Forum:
Several thousand people, from all over the world, have already visited this web site and many have send an email of support. It is important for us to record and be able to easily demonstrate the overwhelming support we are receiving for this initiative. To this effect we have now created a secure Forum where you can register and leave your messages of support and encouragement.
Spread the word:
We would also appreciate if you could mention our web site http://www.laceschool.com wherever you can, we need to be known far and wide, the more pressure we can exert on the powers that be, the better for our project.
We need the interest and support of women's groups, guilds and so on, part of our project includes the re-introduction of knitting and Irish crochet lace workshops along with other traditional crafts.
Thank you.
Helen Moreau
Fís na Muingi-Iorras Chairperson
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