Culture Night ‘18 in Charleville

CULTURE night on the 21st September next will be marked in Charleville with events at the Vincent’s Shop in Keating’s Lane in the town to recall one hundred years of the Vincent de Paul Society.

These will include a fashion show in recognition of the fact that the Vincent Shop in Charleville, and indeed throughout the country, are fashion outlets selling clothes for all the family at reduced rates.

All events on Culture Night are free and there will be refreshments available at the Vincent’s Shop.

Also, on the night the Provincial Heritage at the Convent of Mercy, in association with Charleville Heritage Society will stage an exhibition entitled ‘ The Way We Were.’ This will feature artefacts and items from yesteryear depicting a way of living that is long gone, and which especially for the younger generation will give a fascinating insight into what life was like in the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s.

School students who have seen some of the items which will be on display were stunned when they saw and heard what some of these were used for by their grand-parents and could not believe they even existed in another era, which was not so long ago. However, in this technological age anything over ten years old is viewed as positively ancient by the present generation.

The museum’s curator, Sr. Bernadette Maria, has assembled an attractive collection of artefacts to compliment the permanent exhibits of ecclesiastic items gathered from convents of the Mercy Order that have closed in the south of Ireland, and also from some of the overseas convents. Among them is a table that was used by Mother Joseph Croke while she nursed the wounded soldiers at Koulali Hospital in the Crimea, during the Crimean War from 1854 to1856.