Front cover image: LECTURE LECTURE Attributed to Steven van der Meulen, Power & Privilege - The Butlers of Ormond Netherlandish, fl .1543-1568 Portrait of Thomas Butler, 2015/2016 County Museum Lecture Series 10th Earl of Ormonde (1532-1614) 01 02 Oil on panel Noblemen, Chief Butlers to the King, property and titles - from the arrival of Theobald 93 x 68 cm Power & Photo © National Gallery of Ireland Fitzwalter with Prince John in the 12th Century to the heights of Earls and Dukes, The NGI.4687 Butlers of Ormond gained power and infl uence with almost every generation. Their legacy Privilege - has given us some of our greatest national monuments such as Ormond Castle in Carrick on Suir, the famous lament Cad a dhéanfamid feasta gan adhmad, and such colourful David Edwards of courtesy Image Credit:- and Photo Copyright Arts, of Dept. © National Monuments Service and the Gaeltacht Heritage personalities as Black Tom the 10th Earl and the story of the Cromwellian siege of Clonmel. This lecture series aims to shine a spot light on some of these stories and to separate the Introductory Lecture James 9th & Thomas 10th • All lectures will be held in Clonmel The Butlers myth from the reality. The variety of speakers and their knowledge and passion for their Earls of Ormond subject makes this a lecture series not to be missed. A fi eldtrip to see some of the Butler Library, Mick Delahunty Square (opposite County Museum), Clonmel Co Tipperary. strongholds will help bring to life many of the aspects discussed in the lectures. of Ormond Sat 3rd October 2015 Sat 7th November 2015 • Lectures will commence at 10am and David Edwards Ciaran Brady fi nish at 12noon, refreshments will be DATE SPEAKER SUBJECT Biography: David Edwards Biography: Ciaran Brady is provided. 2015/2016 is a Senior Lecturer in the Professor of History in Trinity Lecture 1 Sat 3rd Oct David Edwards Introductory Lecture • A fee of €50 for the series applies but Department of History in College, Dublin. He researches University College, Cork. His and writes on Irish and English those who sign up for the full series will Lecture 2 Sat 7th Nov Ciaran Brady James 9th & Thomas 10th research interests include history in the sixteenth and receive a discount entitling them to 1 County Museum Earls of Ormond developments in sixteenth and early seventeenth century and free lecture. The cost of the fi eldtrip is 2015 early seventeenth century Ireland from a variety in particular the relations between the Gaelic not included in this and will be subject to Lecture Series Lecture 3 Sat 5th Dec David J. Butler The Cahir Estate under Butler and Charteris Ownership, 1858-1962 of local and regional perspectives. His 2003 Irish lordships and the English government. suffi cient numbers. study of The Ormond Lordship in Co Kilkenny He has also written many articles and edited 1515 - 1642 drew on the enormous Ormond numerous books on the theory and practice of • Those who only wish to attend specifi c Lecture 4 Sat 9th Jan Phil Flood Cad a dhéanfamid feasta gan adhmad? archive in the National Library of Ireland history writing. lectures can pay €5 per session. Lecture 5 Sat 6th Feb Con Manning The building heritage of the Butlers in and The Bodleian Library and explored the Synopsis: This lecture will look at the lives Co. Tipperary fortunes of the family and its subjects through • To book a place and avail of discount of two of the Earls of Ormond - James the 9th 2016 both the Tudor and early Stuart colonisation or for further information please contact Lecture 6 Sat 5th March Micheál Ó Ormond, Cromwell and the battle for and Protestantisation of the country. He has Earl and Thomas the 10th Earl, more popularly Julia on 076 106 5564 or Siochrú Ireland 1649-1650 published widely. known as Black Tom and the builder of the email [email protected] Manor House at Carrick on Suir. Lecture 7 Sat 2nd April Regina Sexton Gaelic and Anglo Norman Ireland: Synopsis: David will deliver the introductory diff erent foods, diff erent identities? lecture. Drawing on his research of the family for his book The Rise and Fall of Butler Feudal Lecture 8 Sat 7th May Jane Fenlon Brave Mansions: The 10th Earl of Power, he will discuss key issues concerning the Ormond’s buildings at Kilkenny and Ormond Castle fortunes of the Butler dynasty. Lecture 9 Sat 11th June Dave Swift Material Culture in Ireland c.1500-1660 Melissa Shiels Lifestyles of the Tudor Rich and Famous www.tipperarycoco.ie MuseumLectureSeries'15(1.1).indd 1-4 22/06/2015 16:33 LectURE LectURE LectURE LectURE LectURE LectURE LectURE 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 Image courtesy of Jennifer McCrea Jennifer of courtesy Image Image courtesy of David J. Butler David J. of courtesy Image Museum County Tipperary of courtesy Image Manning Con of courtesy Image Museum County Tipperary of courtesy Image Regina Sexton of courtesy Image Jane Fenlon of courtesy Image Swift Dave of courtesy Image Shiels Mellisa of courtesy Image The Cahir Estate under Butler Cad a dhéanfamid feasta The building heritage of the Ormond, Cromwell and the Gaelic and Anglo Norman Brave Mansions: The 10th Earl of Material Culture in Ireland Lifestyles of the Tudor Rich and Charteris Ownership, gan adhmad? Butlers in Co. Tipperary battle for Ireland 1649-1650 Ireland: different foods, different Ormond’s buildings at Kilkenny 1500 - 1660 and Famous 1858 - 1962 identities? and Ormond Castle Sat 5th December 2015 Sat 9th January 2016 Sat 6th February 2016 Sat 5th March 2016 Sat 2nd April 2016 Sat 7th May 2016 Sat 11th June 2016 Sat 11th June 2016 David J. Butler Phil Flood Con Manning Micheál Ó Siochrú Regina Sexton Jane Fenlon Dave Swift Mellisa Shiels Biography: An historical Biography: Born and reared Biography: Conleth Manning is Biography: Micheál Ó Siochrú Biography: Regna Sexton Biography: Jane Fenlon, Ph. D. Biography: Dave has worked Biography: Melissa Shiels is geographer by training David in the Ballypatrick/Kilcash a Senior Archaeologist with the is associate professor of History UCC is a food historian, food Currently, Projects Advisor to as a field archaeologist in a Heritage Expert with the is course director of Certificate area, the history of the locality National Monuments Service at Trinity College Dublin. He is writer, broadcaster and cook. National Heritage Properties, Ireland since 1999. He lectures Heritage Council, specialising in History of Family and has always held a fascination and has directed archaeological the author of numerous books She has been researching and OPW, Dublin Castle. Dr Fenlon regularly all over Ireland at in the daily life of Irish and Genealogical Methods at the for Phil Flood. The story of excavations at many medieval on seventeenth century Ireland publishing in the area of Irish has lectured in TCD, UCD, UCC various venues, including OPW European peoples from University of Limerick, where he Kilcash Castle and its occupants sites in Ireland including Dublin and Britain, including God’s food and culinary history since and published extensively on (Office of Public Works) sites, Viking to Victorian times, is also Academic Director of The Irish Ancestry has been of particular interest due, in no small Castle, Roscrea Castle and the Rock of Cashel. Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the conquest 1993. Her research interests include food and Irish Art and Architecture of the sixteenth and at Irish Walled Town Network events and at with a particular focus on the Tudor nobility Research Centre. At University College Cork, he measure, to the wealth of material available. As He has a particular interest in medieval castles of Ireland (Faber & Faber, 2009). He also scripted identity, food and tradition and food and the seventeenth centuries. Her publications include, various Castles and heritage sites across the and 16th century music and dance. She teaches at the department of Geography and the a result of this interest, also shared by her son and churches. and presented the award-winning documentary Irish country house. She has published widely at The Ormonde Picture Collection, (Kinsale, 2000), island, specialising on topics relating to Irish carefully recreates the clothing and everyday Centre for Adult Continuing Education, where in John, Kilcash 1190 -1801 was published in 1999. on Oliver Cromwell for RTÉ. academic and popular levels. Her publications The Dukes of Ormonde 1610-1745 editors, Toby military history c.800-1660 AD. He is the head of accoutrements from numerous time periods addition to coordinating a number of modules, Synopsis: This lecture will deal with aspects of include A Little History of Irish Food (Gill & Barnard and Jane Fenlon (Woodbridge, 2000), Claíomh, a leading Medieval and Early Modern and invites the public to handle the objects that he is academic coordinator of the NUI Diploma Synopsis: The ruins of the old Tower House at the Butlers from the late twelfth century up to Synopsis: In August 1649, Oliver Cromwell Macmillan, 1998) and Ireland’s Traditional Foods Goods and Chattels, A Survey of Household living history interpretation group which made up daily life for thousands of years. in Genealogy. Kilcash are a familiar feature on the landscape as the late seventeenth century and discuss their landed in Dublin with an army of 12,000 men, (Teagasc, 1997). Inventories in Ireland, (Dublin, 2003) and services both the areas of media and education. you travel to Kilkenny from Clonmel. Familiarly relationship with Co. Tipperary through their determined to avenge the massacres of 1641 and Clanricard’s Castle Portumna House, Co. Galway, Dave is currently working on reconstructions Synopsis: The focus for this presentation is The Synopsis: This paper looks at the management referred to as Kilcash Castle it generally evokes surviving castles and other buildings.