Enniscorthy Athenaeum Museum and Historic Theatre

05/09/2021

Today Enniscorthy Athenaeum mourns the death of one of our most esteemed patrons. Donncha Ó Dulaing was a great advocate for us and added an undoubted gravitas to our fundraising attempts. As a committed Republican, he especially appreciated our work regarding the 1916 commemorations and the restoring of the Enniscorthy garrison. He also had a love of theatre and looked forward to a reopening of the Athenaeum.
He will be sadly missed.
Rudyard Kipling has the perfect description of a man of Donncha’s worth:
“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch …

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it…”

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.

17/08/2021

A chairde
After more than a decade of hard work and terrific help, laughter and friendship, good days and bad days, the final chapter of the Athenaeum Restoration Fund has been written.
We did what we set out to do: the refurbishment of the Athenaeum.
The Athenaeum was built as a theatre, and she was host to countless plays, musicals, concerts, dances, speeches and lectures. The Athenaeum the centre arts for the county.
of the 1916 Rising was our finest hour when Wexford TDs and local municipal councillors, helped to make the Athenaeum one of the nine national flagship projects of the Rising Commemorations. This guaranteed Enniscorthy’s significance on the national map, as the last garrison to surrender and only on Padraig Pearse’s order.
It is the love of the people that has kept her alive for almost one-hundred and thirty years.
Who will write the next chapter?
Slán go fóill

17/08/2021

“We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday!” - Mícheál MacLíammóir

16/06/2020

Happy Bloomsday to all Joyce fans. Next year we'll be here readings, poems and wine.

16/06/2020

12/04/2020

Remembering with pride

15/10/2019

25/09/2019

Believe

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22/09/2019

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01/09/2019

Here we are now. This theatre deserves lighting and sound. You could make a difference.