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Culwick Choral Society is a Dublin based Choral Society that traces its lineage to James Cooksey Culwick's Orpheus Choir, established in 1898.

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The first performance of the choir known as the Orpheus Choral Society, took place on Wednesday, December 7, 1898, at the The Antient Concert Rooms, located at 52 Great Brunswick Street (now Pearse Street) under the leadership of James Cooksey Culwick. After Culwick's death in 1907, the Orpheus choir stopped performing, though Dr Culwick's daughter Florence Culwick worked with some of the lady members of the choir, entering them into the Feis Ceoil, making her Dublin's first female conductor. In 1912, a choir under the name, 'Miss Culwick's Ladies' Choir', won the Cosslett-Heller Cup outright, having taken First Prize three years in succession. In 1955, the Cosslet-Heller Cup was presented to the Culwick Choral Society by Mrs Wallace-Jones for 'competition within the choir', and the choir began a tradition of annual Quartet Competitions. At the 1913 AGM of 'Miss Culwick's Ladies Choir' it was decided to amalgamate the ladies' choir and the mixed choir (which had been performing under the name of 'Miss Culwick's Choir') to form a new society under the title of 'Miss Culwick's Choral Society'. The choir ran as a mixed choir until 1915, when the circumstances caused by World War I meant that only the 'Ladies Section' was able to perform until 1919. From this point onwards, the choir was referred to in reviews as both 'Miss Culwick's Choral Society' and 'The Culwick Choral Society', though it was not until January 1927 that the society formally took on the name 'The Culwick Choral Society'.