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Press cutting from Imokilly People containing a photograph of members of the Keniry School of Irish Dancing in Midleton, winners of the Munster Under 11 Figure Dance Championships.

Press cutting containing colour photographs of members of Keniry School of Irish Dancing, winners of several awards in the Irish Dancing County Championships.

Press cutting containing a photograph of members of the Keniry School of Irish Dancing, prize winners at the recent All-Ireland Dancing Championships.

Press cutting containing a photograph of eight members of the Keniry School of Irish Dancing, winners of the three hand reel, four hand reel and eight hand figure dancing title at the 1996 all-Ireland Dancing Championships.

Colour photograph (255 x 210 mm) of a press cutting containing a group image of the winners of the Ring Cup for senior figure dancing (mixed) for the second year in succession. The dancers include Kathleen O’Mahony.

Press cutting containing photographs of Midleton Group, winners in the figure dancing, and Youghal dancers, winners of the set dance in the Cork County GAA Scor 1978 finals at Connolly Hall, Cork.

Colour photograph (148 x 101 mm) of the winners of the All-Ireland eight hand.

Press cutting in two parts containing photographs of winners at the Midleton GAA annual Gaelic Week Feis.

Press cutting containing a photograph of Joan O’Brien (Miss Midleton) presenting Miss M. Keniry with the Hurley Perpetual Trophy after she won the junior Championship in the O’Mahony School Feis.

This collection contains memorabilia relating to the Irish dancing school established in Castlemartyr by James O’Mahony in the 1930s and its subsequent expansion to Midleton and Youghal by his daughter, Kathleen Keniry. The collection highlight is James O’Mahony’s notebook (N86/3/1), in which are recorded traditional step dances from many of the dancing masters prominent in Cork in the early twentieth century. The documented steps in the book provide a rare insight into step dances popular at the time and make possible their reconstruction and closer study.