Aughakillymaude Mummers Centre
Knockninny Road
Derrylin County
Fermanagh, BT92 9JT
UK
Aughakillymaude’s Mummers Centre boasts an intricate display of detailed mumming sculptures of Ireland and abroad that recite nonsensical mumming rhymes, a photographic exhibition on mumming, a wickerman effigy and video documentary on mumming bonfire rituals. Groups/Schools can participate in straw craft and mask making workshops.
The mummer is a menapian mummer in traditional garb. The character he represents is ‘Jack Straw’, the personification of straw. The figure wears a semi-plaited conical straw hat made from oat straw, a plaited straw jacket worn as a bandoleer to ease movement of the body whilst enacting the folk drama of mumming. The arm plaiting and loose unplaited straw skirt gives off a “swish noise” when moving.
© John Mc Vitty, The Mummers Foundation