Blenheim Orange Blenheim Orange Blenheim Orange (Dempster's Pippin) is a cultivar of apple. It was found at Woodstock, Oxfordshire near Blenheim in England in about 1740. It has been described as a cooking apple. A tailor named George Kempster planted the original kernel and the apple, known locally as Dempster's Pippin, which began to be catalogued in about 1818. It received the Banksian Silver Medal in 1820 and thereafter spread through England to Europe and America. This apple has a greenish-yellow to orange skin streaked with red. It has a distinctive nutty flavour and is excellent for cooking. Blenheim Orange does not
Irish Traditional Music Archive historic Georgian house in central Dublin made available through the Office of Public Works. Guests travel from all over the world to access the collection. ITMA was co-founded in 1987 by Nicholas Carolan and Harry Bradshaw. Nicholas Carolan served as Director for 28 years until he was succeeded by Grace Toland in 2015. Carolan continues as Director Emeritus. The Archive has published two major printed publications deriving from historical manuscript collections of Irish traditional music: "Tunes of the Munster Pipers: Irish Traditional Music from the James Goodman Manuscripts", 500 pre-Famine melodies edited by Dr Hugh Shields from a Trinity College