Broadcasts
Radio broadcast: Kinmonth spoke on UCC Radio on Mon 15 April to discuss Vernacular Furniture: People, Places and Practice alongside traditional woodworker Eoin Reardon.
Podcast recording forthcoming.
Podcast recording forthcoming.
TV broadcast: Mon 6 Nov RTE One Today Show 'National Treasures' series
Claudia discusses a few of her favourite objects from Tipperary Museum.
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Claudia discusses a few of her favourite objects from Tipperary Museum.
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TV broadcast: Mon 25 Sept RTE One Today Show 'National Treasures' series
Claudia discusses some fascinating objects from the collection at Cork Public Museum including items from the Jack Lynch Archive.
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Claudia discusses some fascinating objects from the collection at Cork Public Museum including items from the Jack Lynch Archive.
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TV broadcast: Fri 14 Oct RTE One Today Show
'Seating and sustainability'.
Claudia discusses traditional farmhouse seating, its inspiration for today's sustainability in mind: how householders replaced seats, renewed broken chair legs or recycled things to make seats that were also containers, etc.
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'Seating and sustainability'.
Claudia discusses traditional farmhouse seating, its inspiration for today's sustainability in mind: how householders replaced seats, renewed broken chair legs or recycled things to make seats that were also containers, etc.
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Watch 'The Way We Were at Home', episode 3 of 'The Way We Were' broadcast on RTÉ on 14 March, 2022.
A look at the recent history of Irish housing, from the idealistic Garden City movement of the 1930s and '40s to the socially destructive high-rise projects of the 1960s and '70s. Kinmonth discusses how families lived in small Irish homes since the 1930s.
Watch on RTÉ player here.
A look at the recent history of Irish housing, from the idealistic Garden City movement of the 1930s and '40s to the socially destructive high-rise projects of the 1960s and '70s. Kinmonth discusses how families lived in small Irish homes since the 1930s.
Watch on RTÉ player here.
Watch Kinmonth's presentation 'The design historian as detective: distribution, construction & late evolution of the Sligo Chair',
given as part of the National Museum of Ireland's recent symposium on The Sligo Chair
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given as part of the National Museum of Ireland's recent symposium on The Sligo Chair
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Listen to Kinmonth discuss the history of beds on 'Drivetime' broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 on 17 Feb 2022.
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Click here to listen.
Watch Kinmonth's interview with Victoria McCarthy, conservation officer at Kerry County Council at Muckross Traditional Farms.
Kinmonth gives an overview of the history of the traditional Irish dresser and settle as part of the Kerry Building Conservation Project.
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Kinmonth gives an overview of the history of the traditional Irish dresser and settle as part of the Kerry Building Conservation Project.
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Listen to 'The School of Kitchen Table Dialogue' podcast, episode 1: 'The Table'
This podcast made for radio by Niamh Ni Chearbhaill is part of her BA in Visual Art run by T.U.Dublin on Sherkin Island, County Cork. Kinmonth helped by contributing her historical view of the kitchen table, or its absence, within the Irish household.
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This podcast made for radio by Niamh Ni Chearbhaill is part of her BA in Visual Art run by T.U.Dublin on Sherkin Island, County Cork. Kinmonth helped by contributing her historical view of the kitchen table, or its absence, within the Irish household.
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Listen to ‘Heart to Hearth: chats about Irish vernacular buildings’, a Society for Protection of Ancient Buildings podcast, Episode 3
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Watch Kinmonth in conversation with Dr. Danielle O'Donovan, Program Manager at Nano Nagle Place discussing her new book, Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings, 1700-2000.
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Listen to Kinmonth talking on C103 FM
23 December 2020
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23 December 2020
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Listen to Kinmonth talking to Ray D'Arcy on RTE Radio One
25 November 2020
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25 November 2020
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Kinmonth's live interview on
BBC Radio Ulster
24 October 2020
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BBC Radio Ulster
24 October 2020
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‘Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000: Revising and Revisiting’
An RDS Film by Dr Claudia Kinmonth MRIA, released on 29 Oct 2020 as part of the Royal Dublin Society Library Speaker Series.
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An RDS Film by Dr Claudia Kinmonth MRIA, released on 29 Oct 2020 as part of the Royal Dublin Society Library Speaker Series.
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Broadcast on Culture Night 18 Sept 2020 was THINGS a 35 minute film, showing Kinmonth presenting some of her favourite objects (associated with butter making), made for Cork Butter Museum, by Dominic Moore.
Carrigeen Farmhouse Survey, County Offaly
Nationwide on RTE 1 on Monday August 17th at 7pm.
In 2017 I was approached by Offaly County Council to survey an unmodernised thatched farmhouse, preserved under a corrugated iron roof, still containing its full range of original vernacular furniture. I did a comprehensive photographic survey, returning repeatedly, and recommended other specialists who visited, such as Barry O’Reilly (to examine the thatch), David Skinner (to scrutinse early wallpaper) etc. The furniture included a rare press bed made to a high standard, a dresser with its display unchanged since the last occupant died at the close of the c20th, a settle bed, a sleeping loft and even parlour furniture. Such survival in situ is far greater than the sum of its parts. Furthermore, the family still had the rent books, copy books, inscribed family bible, local shop account ledgers and early recipe books from past generations. The house escaped modernisation, and its capacious open hearth, still fully equipped with crane and cooking utensils, crucially had its turf fire lit often enough to prevent the fabric of the house from deteriorating. The intervention at a critical time enabled the family to experiment and perfect open-hearth cooking, especially of ‘bastible bread’ as the last occupant, their grandmother used to make.
Nationwide on RTE 1 on Monday August 17th at 7pm.
In 2017 I was approached by Offaly County Council to survey an unmodernised thatched farmhouse, preserved under a corrugated iron roof, still containing its full range of original vernacular furniture. I did a comprehensive photographic survey, returning repeatedly, and recommended other specialists who visited, such as Barry O’Reilly (to examine the thatch), David Skinner (to scrutinse early wallpaper) etc. The furniture included a rare press bed made to a high standard, a dresser with its display unchanged since the last occupant died at the close of the c20th, a settle bed, a sleeping loft and even parlour furniture. Such survival in situ is far greater than the sum of its parts. Furthermore, the family still had the rent books, copy books, inscribed family bible, local shop account ledgers and early recipe books from past generations. The house escaped modernisation, and its capacious open hearth, still fully equipped with crane and cooking utensils, crucially had its turf fire lit often enough to prevent the fabric of the house from deteriorating. The intervention at a critical time enabled the family to experiment and perfect open-hearth cooking, especially of ‘bastible bread’ as the last occupant, their grandmother used to make.
I conducted some initial tours for small groups during Heritage Weeks, which the family now conduct along with pre-booked tours, to help fund conservation. The Egan family who own the little house were shortlisted for the National Heritage Awards in 2019, winning the coveted Heritage Hero Award in recognition of saving such a rare treasure. Such intact houses were familiar to me in the late 1980’s, but are extraordinarily rare now. About ten images from my photographic surveys are published in my new book. It is especially apt that my Frontispiece depicts Pat Egan, who was responsible for lighting the fire for 20 years, sitting beside that hearth.
The story of the saving of the Egan farmhouse aired on Nationwide on RTE 1 on Monday August 17th, 2020, at 7pm.
The story of the saving of the Egan farmhouse aired on Nationwide on RTE 1 on Monday August 17th, 2020, at 7pm.
