Saturday 24th August: CLONMEL
Bianconi Documentary: "The Man Who Changed Ireland”
Venue: Education Rm, Tipperary Museum of Hidden History, Clonmel
Times: Running on the hour from 10am, 11am, 12noon & 2pm & 3pm

Sunday 25th August: CAHIR
Bianconi themed walk followed by Bianconi Documentary
Walk: Meet at The Fountain on The Square at 2.15pm.
Bianconi Documentary: “The Man Who Changed Ireland”(40 mins duration) in the Audio-Visual Room, Cahir Castle.
FREE : Queries 0868372154

The story of Bianconi is an example of an immigrant who changed his country dramatically by thinking outside the box, and in doing so created a network of transport that would fundamentally change the way business was carried out in Ireland, and especially rural Ireland. He did that from his base in Clonmel and never forgot the generosity of that town and made it his home till he died.

The video uses the words of people who met him, and also of his daughter who wrote, at the behest of her father, the definitive account of his life, as well as interviews with local historians and expert academics to help uncover the amazing story of Charles Bianconi and his very colourful and distinctive 'carts' as he called them. He is probably the first to use a franchise system in his Bianconi Inns, he introduced a system of punctuality with schedules, and he is also probably the first to use advertising and distinctive branding in transport in Ireland

Address
Saturday 24th August, Tipperary Museum of Hidden History, Mick Delahunty Square, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary E91Y891, Co. Tipperary