About

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Ciarán Walsh set up curator.ie in 2010 and works from his home in Ballyheigue, County Kerry.

A graduate of NCAD (1984), he completed a PhD (Anthropology) in 2020 and resumed work as a freelance curator and writer.

He currently works as Curator of Film and Digital Media at Kerry Writers’ Museum, a post funded by the Heritage Council. He continues to develop sidebar curatorial projects on a freelance basis.

Previous curatorial projects include archivist/curator in Donegal County Council Archives Service (2022) and The Bolex Boys exhibition at Kerry Writers’ Museum (2023).

Between 2012 and 2023 he worked with Marie Coyne, Director of Inishbofin Heritage Museum, on the return and burial of the ‘stolen skulls of Inishbofin’, the remains of thirteen ancestors stolen in 1890 and held in the Anatomy Museum in TCD since 1892. The campaign is one of three stars featured in Dearcán Media’s feature Iarsmaí (Remnants).

Berghahn Books (New York, Oxford) published Alfred Cort Haddon, A Very English Savage in October 2023. Walsh co-curated the Haddon and the Aran Islands exhibition in the Royal Anthropological Institute to set the scene for the book launch and to exhibit – for the first time ever – photographs featured in the book alongside photographs that put these in context. The exhibition ran from November 2023 until February 2024.

Other articles are listed at Publications