Spymaster Exhibition Opens


 

The new Spymaster Exhibition in Kerry County Museum has been officially opened by the Kerry Museum Curator Ms. Helen O’Carroll. (June 27). 

 

The exhibition charts the life and times of the London based detective William Melville, MI5’s first spymaster originally from Sneem who was  later codenamed “M” in the James Bond movies.

Among those in attendance at the opening at the Ashe Memorial Hall were Andrew Cook, author of “M”, Jackie Cahill from Kenmare, a descendant of Melville, and retired Tralee Garda Chief Supt. Donal O’Sullivan who has loaned a number of items from his own personal police memorabilia collection to the exhibition.  

The exhibition has already attracted large numbers of school tour groups and will continue at the Ashe Memorial Hall during 2007.