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AN EDWARDIAN MAHOGANY SINGLE DOOR BOOKCASE, C.1900 BY THE WOODWORKERS LTD, KILKENNY
of upright rectangular form, glazed panel door enclosing adjustable shelving and supported on a shallow moulded...
AN EDWARDIAN MAHOGANY SINGLE DOOR BOOKCASE, C.1900 BY THE WOODWORKERS LTD, KILKENNY
of upright rectangular form, glazed panel door enclosing adjustable shelving and supported on a shallow moulded base, with label to interior. 198cm high x 82cm wide
The promotion of Irish industries by the Gaelic League led to the founding in 1905 of the Kilkenny Industrial Development Association to support the growing woodwork and furniture making industry in Kilkenny.
Ellen Odette Bischoffsheim, married William Cuffe, the 4th Earl of Desart in 1881, following the divorce from his first wife. The newly married couple split their time between the Desart estates in Ireland and their home in England. When William died in 1898, Lady Desart lived initially with her family in Ascot, before retuning to live at Aut Even near Talbot's Inch to continue the work of the Earl within the local community. She helped establish a theatre on Patrick Street and moved next to restore the old woollen mill at Talbot's Inch. She bought the mill along with 90 acres of land in 1904 and restored it within two years.
In 1905 she and her brother-in-law Otway Cuffe, purchased a premises in Patrick Street for the Kilkenny Woodworkers. They later moved to the factory in Talbot’s Inch which had modern and up-to-date machinery installed. The company also had a premises in Nassau St in Dublin which later moved to 66 Grafton St.
Unfortunately a fire in 1927 destroyed the factory in Kilkenny and it wasn’t rebuilt. However, examples of the Kilkenny Woodworkers craft can still be seen in the carved Art Nouveau front doors at Aut Even and the bookcases in St Kieran’s College.
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