Donnelly's Arm to feature in talk next week

There will be a Kilcullen interest next Wednesday, 16 July, at a County Carlow event in a nationwide tour by two performance artists in a 1960s Renault 4, writes Brian Byrne. Dan Donnelly's arm will feature in a talk at Muine Bheag Arts about 19th-century sport, medicine, media and grave-robbing.

The talk will be given by historian and writer Barry Kehoe between 1pm and 3pm at the Muine Bheag centre. In particular, he will discuss Dan Donnelly’s mummified arm, which was displayed in the Hideout in Kilcullen for four decades from 1953, and subsequently exhibited in New York, Boston, in the Ulster Folk Museum in Omagh, Co Tyrone, Limerick University, and Croke Park, Dublin. 

The free event is part of a summer-long series titled Tour de Force by artist Liliane Puthod and writer Ingrid Lyons. They are travelling around Ireland in Liliane's fully repaired 1960s Renault 4, hosting events, art installations, performances, talks and live broadcasts.

Meanwhile, if you're out and about in Kilcullen today, Wednesday the 9th, the car will be travelling through Kilcullen sometime from midday on. Give them a beep if you're in your own car, or a wave if on foot.

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