as part of Heritage Week 2025

Join St Cormac’s Heritage Society for a unique ‘Echoes of Our Past’ online cultural heritage exhibition celebrating the forgotten or lost voices of the North Mayo community of Moygownagh.

This free event showcases the work of our current preservation project, which is digitising rare VHS tapes and audio cassettes gathered from local homes, capturing the songs, stories, music, and performances of now-forgotten artists from Moygownagh and surrounding district in North Mayo.

Under the direction of Dr Liam Alex Heffron (creator of BeoMayo.ie), our volunteers are working to rescue these recordings—some nearly 50 years old—from the threat of deterioration. Many feature once-celebrated community members playing music, reciting poetry, telling stories, and performing amateur theatre, particularly from this culturally rich community in mid-North Mayo.

This online ‘Echoes of Our Past’ exhibition will feature curated clips from our developing Digital Heritage project, giving the public an opportunity to rediscover the creative spirit of a region now facing rural decline. These recordings will be permanently hosted online by St Cormac's society in our Digital Heritage Library and be accessible to our local communities, schools, researchers and the wider public.

Location: Online exhibition at www.stcormac.ie
Hosted by: St Cormac’s Heritage Society

Experience the voices of North Mayo’s past—and help ensure they’re never lost again.