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The Bolex Boys: celebrating independent film making in North Kerry
This exhibition takes its name from the classic 16mm ‘movie’ camera and profiles the work of independent filmmakers John Lynch and Michael Mulcahy, the so-called ‘Bolex’ boys. They created an extraordinary cinematic record of the changing...
Pinhole photography : Back to the Future
Ciarán Walsh took this photograph with a pinhole camera during a workshop led by Cork-based artist Harry Moore. The workshop was part of an analogue film and photography mini-fest that Walsh curated for Heritage Week 2025. Inspired by Louis...
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
Kerry Writers' Museum has just received €47,750 from the Heritage Council to continue recovering and archiving films shot in rural north Kerry. It brings total investment by the Heritage Council in this project – developed by Ciarán Walsh |...
A Very English Savage | some loose ends, updates and errata etc.
A Very English Savage is aimed at a general reader and, so, breaks many conventions associated with academic publishing - no jargon, no lens, no footnotes and a novel system of referencing. curator.ie goes one step further in introducing an online...
Twenty five photographs that change the history of anthropology
A. F. Dixon, Untitled, 1890. Digital print from scan of silver gelatine, glass-plate negative (Ciarán Rooney, 2019). The original negative is held in in the School of Medicine, Trinity College, University of Dublin. © curator.ie ‘Haddon and...
‘Haddon and the Aran Islands’ exhibition in Royal Anthropological Institute | London | Oct 2023
A. F. Dixon. 1890. Untitled. Digital print of silver gelatine, glass-plate negative (Ciarán Walsh and Ciarán Rooney, 2019). The original negative is held in the School of Medicine, Trinity College, University of Dublin. © curator.ie. I can't tell...
curator.ie finds oldest surviving photo of Skellig
William Mercer, c. 1868, St Michael's Church and Cell, digital scan of gelatine silver print. Permission of the Royal Irish Academy © RIA. “Skellig provided J. J. Abrams with the perfect location for the birthplace of the Jedi. The challenge of...
stolen skulls start the long journey home to Inishbofin
a small book that will change a lot: a very English savage takes a step closer to publication …
Prof Alfred Cort Haddon sits next to Dr Rev Dr Samuel, President of the Royal Irish Academy, and a fellow home rule supporter who also shared a family history of anti-slavery and humanitarian activism (with permission of the Royal Irish Academy ©...
An Island Funeral, Inishbofin, 16 July 2023.
St Colmans's Monastery and burial ground, Inishbofin. Photo Marie Coyne. Inishbofin community representatives and repatriation campaigners met with Eoin O'Sullivan and Ciarán O'Neill of TCD last night (28 March 2023), and agreed in outline...
TCD to announce return of ancestral remains to Inishbofin
Marie Coyne, 2022, St Colman's Monastery and burial ground. It is expected that the board of TCD will decide today (22 February 2023) to return to Inishbofin the ancestral remains Haddon and Dixon stole in 1890. We were unable to achieve the...
Blogging resumes on Ballymaclinton: An Irish giant, 24 stolen skulls, one colonial legacies project and a slave owner named Berkeley.
I suspended work on my Ballymaclinton blog while writing my book on Haddon for Berghahn Books, but the announcement that the Trustees of the Hunterian Museum in London have withdrawn the skeleton of Charles O'Brien – an Irish giant known publicly...
Is the TCD statement on the stolen skulls of Inishbofin a missed opportunity?
The statement issued by the Board of TCD in relation to Inishbofin is welcome for the fact that the Board finally considered the question of what to do with stolen human remains held by the college. However, the statement falls far...
Inishbofin Islanders demand repatriation of remains held in TCD
As of Friday last (November 18, 2022) 150 members of the Inishbofin community had signed a petition demanding the repatriation of the remains of thirteen islanders stolen from the burial ground on the island in 1890 and placed in a collection of...
The Ann Doherty Collection goes on show
The Ann Doherty Collection is an archive of photographic material, typescripts, and print journalism generated by Ann Doherty while working as a social-documentary photographer and photojournalist between 1997 and 2005. Donegal County Council...
“Head-hunting” in TCD: negotiations begin on the repatriation of the Haddon Dixon Collection.
The Haddon Dixon Repatriation delegation gathers in TCD ahead of a meeting with Provost Linda Doyle and her colonial legacies team. L-R: Pat O'Leary, St Finian's Bay community representative, Cathy Galvin, journalist and poet, Pegi Vail...
Ann Doherty | A Common Humanity
[metaslider id=6290 cssclass=""] The first phase of the Ann Doherty Project is complete. Working with County Archivist Niamh Brennan, Ciarán Walsh and Ann Doherty selected and digitised 75 images from the Ann Doherty Collection. The focus now moves...