A Collection of Things Nearly Forgotten - an archive of memories from County Tipperary, 2025
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This is a social engagement project, compiled by Thurles Men's Shed, Presentation Convent Clonmel, Borrisokane Men's Shed, Fethard ICA Guild and Tipperary artist Annie Hogg.
Together, we have compiled and created a snapshot of a whole host of techniques, expressions and customs, which were familiar not so long ago in the daily lives of people living here in Tipperary.
We turned this collection into a booklet and four accompanying audio blogs. Project booklet contains QR Codes, allowing access to all four audios. Booklets held in all county libraries, and here as PDF.
The inspiration for this projects has come from the acknowledgement that in all our families and communities, there exist expressions, traditions, stories which we are familiar with. I wanted to gather some of these memories and create an archive. The space between my generation, and the generations of the collaborating groups is not that far. However, the daily workings of normal life which they recall from childhood and young adulthood, paints a picture of a very different world. This project shines a light on these ways and aims to consider our past and future as a larger community.
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This project has received funding as part of the Creative Ireland programme with support from Tipperary County Council.
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Emerging Narratives | STAC Chapel 2024
Junction Festival, “Encounters”, The Workmen’s Boat Club, Main Guard, Clonmel. 2025
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Historical and current photographs, marker on geotextile and fabric, oars and boat floor, boat building paraphernalia, sound piece with interactive elements. Process Zine and postcard collection.
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Variable dimensions. 2024
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Over six months, I received mentorship from Deirdre O’Mahony, Kate O’Shea, Evelyn Broderick & Enya Moore. I spent the final two of those months, working with The Workmen’s Boat Club in Clonmel. We explored the River Suir from the perspective of the members, most of whom have spent their entire lives on the river.
​Sound piece which was on constant loop throughout exhibition. When spectators scan and play the QR code audios interspersed throughout the map, an audio overlapping is produced, echoing the visual of the map itself, which exhibits layers of past and present route of the river, along with now unused and/or changed names of marks along the riverbank.
These stories were also woven into the sound piece with the interactive pieces being accessible via scanning QR Codes, available on main Soundcloud page
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We mapped out the stretch of river that the club uses and gathered place names and stories, along with a host of flora and fauna throughout the last 70 years along the river.
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Further sculptural elements were supplied by the use of boat and boat building paraphernalia supplied by the Club for the duration of exhibition.
A project zine was made with assistance from mentor Kate O’Shea, documenting the development of the projects included in this mentorship project.
Image Credit - Irish Hospice Foundation
Irish Hospice Foundation Seed Grant,
Message To The River, Lough Gur,
County Limerick, 2022.
Drawing on the employment of nature and the elements to assist with grief and bereavement, people were invited to create prayer rafts lit with candles to carry messages of loss and prayer.
I hosted a public workshop and memorial event at Lough Gur (a site of ritual significance dating back to the Stone Age), in Co Limerick on Sunday 1st May 2022. The date was deliberately chosen to coincide with the ancient Irish festival of Bealtaine and the symbolic use of fire.
“Annie came up with the idea because she feels crossing a river or transformation by fire is a resonant metaphor for the unknown journey of the soul. But more than this, she believes strongly in the importance of ritual and the impact of its loss during the pandemic.”
Participants gathered at the nearby Honey Fitz Theatre where they created small floating prayer rafts guided by Annie. Private thoughts, prayers, and messages to loved ones were then penned onto the rafts’ skins.
Just as the sun was setting, the rafts were released as a flotilla on the waters of Lough Gur.