Originally A Zoom performance / talk, Tuesday 14th December 2021 (postponed from 7th December because of Storm Barra), now available as a recorded webinar, price €6 for the online shop HERE How did their friendship grow? An opportunity to live through a moment in time and a slice of two lives, through their letters. In…
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The two films and other new materials here on the early 1800s page of this website are the culmination of a strand of work by Team Ellen over the past two years or more. The Team set out to understand practical details of the period in which Ellen was botanizing and letter writing. What clothes…
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The Festival starts in a week’s time, on Saturday 14th and this year contains a mix of self guided or DIY events, two online art workshops and in-person outdoor events in special places from Bantry through Ballylickey, Coomhola and Glengarriff to Adrigole and up to Kealkil and Gougane Barra. With three ways of taking part,…
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Monday 15th October, 6pm was the Opening of the Ellen Hutchins, Ireland’s First Female Botanist Exhibition. The exhibition was opened by Astrid Wingler, Professor of Plant BiologyHead of Plant Science, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences and Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork. Carrie O’Flynn, the Historical Re-enactor featured on the poster (see above) was there…
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The Festival is over and will be back next year. We had a wonderful week with some memorable events. The Festival Page HERE has some lovely photos.
The third annual Ellen Hutchins Festival took place in Bantry and the surrounding area as part of Heritage Week in August. As a legacy from the Festival, there are now two permanent displays about Ellen. One is in the Tourist Office, Bantry, which is open on Fridays through the winter, and the other is in…
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Celebrating Ellen Hutchins: Trinity College Dublin The Ellen Hutchins exhibition in Trinity College Dublin has now closed. On display were some wonderful specimens of seaweed that Ellen collected in Bantry Bay over two hundred years ago. These are held in the Herbarium at Trinity, and are on display here for the first time ever. Alongside…
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The Heritage Council has announced its Awards, ‘showcasing the best of National Heritage Week 2015 and recognising the fantastic work of all the event organisers and volunteers that take part’. We are delighted that the Ellen Hutchins Festival has been given the Hidden Heritage Award. The Heritage Council says: ‘This award shines a light on…
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Earlier this year, Professor John Parnell of the Botany Department of Trinity College Dublin helped a small team of Ellen Hutchins researchers to hunt in the Herbarium there for specimens of seaweeds, mosses, or lichens collected by Ellen in the Bantry Bay area more than 200 years ago. The story of the search for them…
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