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 filmed and digital heritage assets at a local level. The project is supported by the Heritage Council.
Other projects include the repatriation of human remains from TCD’s Anatomy Museum in Dublin (2023) and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow (2025). Berghahn Books published Alfred Cort Haddon, A Very English Savage (2023) and he is working with Special Collections UCC in relation to the Adrian K Dixon album of photographs Haddon and Andrew Francis Dixon took in the Aran Islands in 1890.
Innovate – Engage – Excite
Projects
A showcase of film and photography from rural Ireland’s literary heartland
Community Cinema kicks off part 2 of Heritage Council film project in Kerry
Leo Finucane’s film Father And Son at Clounmacon Community Centre is a continuation of the community cinema programme and the first act of the second phase of this groundbreaking curatorial project supported by the Heritage Council.
Alfred Cort Haddon, A Very English Savage
IARSMAÍ | the “stolen” skulls of Inishbofin and other stories | TG4 9/10 @ 21:30
Inishbofin burial: the most important anthropological event in Ireland since 1930s?
Heritage Week 2024
About the curator.ie
Ciarán Walsh is a freelance curator specialising in ethnographic photography and filmmaking, setting up www.curator.ie in 2010 and works from his home in Ballyheigue, County Kerry. Walsh has developed a series of journalistic and cross-over academic projects designed to engage the general public with issues raised by his research.
