The Jackie Clarke Collection | Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 5pm | Free Admission

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Jackie Clarke Collection Community and Volunteer Programme

Throughout the year the Community and Volunteer Programme offers many and varied presentations, engaging with Ballina’s local festivals and committees, in addition to countrywide events such as Nollaig na mBan, National Heritage Week and Culture Night.

The Programme is maturing with confidence, now taking part annually in International Women’s Day celebrations. Working together with Volunteer Ireland and a local Volunteer Centre in County Mayo, the Jackie Clarke Collection prides itself in recruiting skilled volunteers from the Ballina area. Their expertise is gratefully absorbed from the fields of Education, History and traditional Irish Music, IT Assistance, among many others.

This Programme enables the volunteers to loyally support the "Community/Volunteer Programmes" on a weekly basis in the Jackie Clarke Collection from January through December, producing exhibitions and assisting with the delivery of various events both in the historic bank building and the walled Heritage garden.

All events are free of charge to those attending, thus leaving money in the pockets of the many visitors to spend in Ballina and its hinterland after each event, thereby assisting in the maintenance of a more vibrant economy in the West of Ireland.

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Tours

Specialist tours can be booked in advance by emailing clarkecollection@mayococo.ie or by phoning (096) 73508.

Contact

The Jackie Clarke Collection
Pearse Street, Ballina, Co. Mayo, Ireland

T: + 353 (0)96 73508
W: www.clarkecollection.ie
E: clarkecollection@mayococo.ie

Opening Times

Tuesday to Saturday: 10am to 5pm
Entrance is located at the side of the building on Walsh Street.

 

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It has been a very busy year for us with the appointment of our new Manager, Yvonne Corcoran Loftus, an expansion of our Educ...
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It has been a very busy year for us with the appointment of our new Manager, Yvonne Corcoran Loftus, an expansion of our Education Programme and a packed diary of Community Events. In June we were delighted to welcome Yvonne to the JCC team; Yvonne joined us with a wealth of knowledge and a background in Museum Curatorship and Finance coming from her previous role as Manager of the amazing Michael Davitt Museum. Yvonne hit the ground running and in just six months has implemented a wealth of new ideas and initiatives including submitting a successful application to the Heritage Council’s Museum Standards Programme for Ireland (MSPI). Yvonne also raised the profile of the museum back in October by appearing on the RTE Today show’s “National Treasures” segment showcasing key items from the collection on prime time television. Our Education Programme under the superb directorship of our Education Officer Celene Brennan continues to go from strength to strength seeing record numbers of students attending our workshops. Celene has expanded the programme to include the whole of County Mayo and beyond including hosting schools from Sligo, Galway, Leitrim and Roscommon. Celene also included both Maths week and Science week workshops for the first time in the Collections history and launched her new “Outreach Programme” taking Jackie’s love of history on the road to schools across our County and beyond. Our Community Programme run by the incredibly talented Anne Marie Forbes has brought a variety of extremely popular events to the house and garden. We have hosted, National Heritage Week, Culture Night, Nollaig na mBan, Ballina Salmon Festival and the Countdown to Christmas event to name just a few. We would like to take this opportunity to thank County Librarian Austin Vaughan and our Director of Services Joanne Grehan for all their support over the past twelve months and our CE Kevin Kelly and Mayo County Council without whose patronage the JCC would not be the success it is today. Finally a huge thank you to every visitor, volunteer, company, community group, school & staff member who continue to make the JCC a place of history, education and enjoyment for all.
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