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Advert For Kenmare Irish Point Lace
In 1861 Poor Clare Nuns founded a convent in
Kenmare. It was just after the famine and they opened a school to
help the local women to learn crafts to alleviate their extreme
poverty. Young women and girls were taught embroidery, woodcarving,
leatherwork and lace making. The women became very skilled in
making attractively designed and beautifully executed lace that it
became known as 'Point d'Ire…
Creator
- Printer : Unknown
Subject
- Kerry
- Ireland
- Irish
- Lace
- Shop
- Kenmare
- Posters
- British -- 19th century
Type of item
- Still Image
- Leaflet
- Flyer
Date
- 1883
- 1883
Medium
- Print on paper
Creator
- Printer : Unknown
Subject
- Kerry
- Ireland
- Irish
- Lace
- Shop
- Kenmare
- Posters
- British -- 19th century
Type of item
- Still Image
- Leaflet
- Flyer
Date
- 1883
- 1883
Medium
- Print on paper
Providing institution
Aggregator
Intermediate provider
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Creation date
- http://semium.org/time/1883
Temporal
- http://semium.org/time/18xx_2_half
Places
- -9.750000, 52.166668
- Kerry
- http://data.europeana.eu/place/base/182319
- http://data.europeana.eu/place/base/86
- http://data.europeana.eu/place/base/21805
- http://data.europeana.eu/place/base/90
- United Kingdom
- Kerry
- County Kerry
- Republic of Ireland
Identifier
- 014EVA000000000U06829000
- Evan.6829
- http://data.europeana.eu/item/92037/_http___www_bl_uk_onlinegallery_onlineex_evancoll_a_zoomify73206_html
Format
- jpeg
Is part of
- Evanion collection of ephemera. Collect Britain
Year
- 1883
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2021-12-09T11:51:51.296Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-12-09T11:51:51.296Z