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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The Kerrygold wrapper from years past, as seen in the collection on the Museum gallery floor.

The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Happy New Year with the Castlelyons (Co. Cork) wrapper. A red and blue on white paper, utilising the scroll effect as seen on many other designs. A lovely symbol on the lower right hand side. The L(?).A.W.S. (printers?) are a new one for us. Any info gratefully received 😊 BM

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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

The Cratchits’ Christmas dinner in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, as illustrated by E. A. Abbey (1876). It’s one of the few images to show the Cratchits’ Christmas goose. Merry Christmas everyone from the Butter Museum 😊

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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The humble butter box. Made of Swedish pine, and came in flat packs to be assembled onsite: the original Ikea. This particular example is creamery registration number 113: Coachford, Co. Cork

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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The Millvale creamery butter wrapper. It never ceases to delight how the designers managed to incorporate such deeply symbolic iconography into such a small space (a piece of square parchment paper, the size of which encloses a pound of butter), and with such grace. BM

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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

A final (snow) flurry of visually stunning butter wrappers this morning: Baileboro, Carrigeen, North Clare, Millvale 🧈😊 BM

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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

An example of two butter prints (or stamps) from the Museum’s collection. They were used to impress a unique design on the butter and were found especially useful by members of the community who were illiterate, but able to recognise the particular brand from the design.

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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Following on from the other day, another four beautifully original butter wrappers: Freshford, Outrath, Greybridge and Golden Vein. Enjoy! 😊 BM

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Ursa Borealis @ursaborealis.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Thank god the Butter Museum is over here. I'd hate to leave the vintage wrappers behind at that other place.

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

@thebuttermuseum.bsky.social they're not active, but I have a vague hope that one day they may start reposting their butter wrappers of Ireland. Anyway, it's butter. And a museum. And those two things are a great combination.

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Ursa Borealis @ursaborealis.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Some highlights from my weekend in Cork City. (1/2) #Im @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social

Exterior shot of The Butter Museum. It has remarkable bright orange doors and a beautiful symmetry that could feature in a Coen Brothers Film

A butter commode!!! Wooden Swedish-made butter box originally used to transport butter, and later fitted with a porcelain pot so it could be used as a commode.

Bog butter!!! A small wooden cask filled with butter that was stored in a bog for a thousand years!!!

A stack of vintage butter wrappers wrapped around blocks and displayed atop a tall yellow stand that resembles a stick of Irish grass-fed butter (as evidenced by its rich yellow color that comes from the high level of beta-kerotene found in Irish butter due to their diet of rich Irish grass).

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Ursa Borealis @ursaborealis.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

More Cork City highlights. (2/2) @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social #Im

It wouldn't be an Irish cultural site without a Séamus Heaney poem. The poem "Churning Day" printed on a wall behind a butter churn.

Framed poster featuring a drawing of an Irish wolfhound above the slogan, "Buy Irish Free State Butter".

Another stack of butter wrappers, including one from the woefully under-represented Town of Monaghan.

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Ursa Borealis @ursaborealis.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I do feel truly fortunate. Especially having had the opportunity to spend some time with a keg of bog butter!! Also. @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social has a station where you can use a rubber stamp and ink pad to stamp your own butter wrappers!!

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If you have any power with the @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social prostrate yourself before them after showing them this and beg them to return here. Then Bluesky will be truly complete.

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Caroline Hennessy @bibliocook.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

For the best buttery content, @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social 🥰

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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Hello Bluesky! We joined here a while ago and we will now regale you lovely people with butter wrappers, artefacts and all things butter and Cork. Here, enjoy a selection of our more ‘original’ - in a visual design sense - butter wrappers 😊🧈: Blackabbey, Caherciveen, West Clare, and Kildimo. BM

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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Some happy scenes from Culture Night last Friday ☺️ BM

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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Our doors are open to visitors, free admission, this evening until 8pm 😊. We would be delighted to see you on this Culture Night. Enjoy 😊 BM #CultureNight @corkcityarts

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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

This week, leading up to Culture Night on Friday, we are honouring the memory of a colleague, Don Humphreys. Don loved Culture Night; interacting with visitors, regaling them with folk and fairy stories galore and reminding them that “every single day you learn something new” ❤️

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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Butter wrappers: Blackabbey Co-Op, Co. Limerick

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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Butter wrappers: West Clare, Kilrush

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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Butter wrappers: Southern Pastures, Dublin

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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Butter wrappers: Piltown, Co.Kilkenny

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Lisa Grimm Grinning Ghosts Come Out to Socialise @lisagrimm.com · 23/08/2023

If you don't know The Butter Museum, well, now you do.

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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

Butter wrappers: Golden Vein, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick

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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Butter wrappers: Carrigeen, Co. Waterford

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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

Butter wrappers: “Golden Valley” from Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary

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The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

Our first post on Bluesky 😊We have a lovely collection of butter wrappers in the Museum here in Shandon. We regularly post scans of them online and people seem to like them. This is one of our favourites: Freshford, Co. Kilkenny

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