Ciarán Walsh set up curator.ie in 2010 as a vehicle for innovative curatorial projects with a strong public engagement component and a collaborative ethos.

He is currently working as Curator of Film and Digital Media at Kerry Writers’ Museum on the management of film, analogue and digital heritage assets at a local level. The Heritage Council funds the project, which currently focusses on the digitisation and archiving of three important collections –Jimmy Deenihan / North Kerry Literary Trust, Leo Finucane and Tony Fitzmaurice. This includes a strategic partnership with Kerry Education and Training Board and a bold initiative in the area of archival and curatorial training.

Current curatorial projects include Rushes | Luachair, an exhibition that celebrates women’s moving image art practice and features selected work by Lisa Fingleton, Laura Fitzgerald (project curator), Bláithín Mac Donnell, Lorraine Neeson, and Mieke Vanmechelen. 

Research projects include a long overdue review of the photographic work of John Joly (1857 -1933) and his network in Dublin, including Andrew Francis Dixon, Alfred Cort Haddon and John Millington Synge. This draws on Walsh’s ground breaking study of Alfred Cort Haddon, A Very English Savage.

From 2012 to 2023, Walsh ‘curated’ the return and burial of human remainsfrom TCD’s Anatomy Museum in partnership with Marie Coyne of Inishbofin Heritage Museum. TCD resisted determinedly before returning half of the collection in 2023. Dearcán Media featured the campaign as one of three stories in Iarsmaí (Remnants): exploring how museums and institutions in Ireland are ‘decolonising’ their historical collections.