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IARSMAÍ | Decolonisation of historical collections in Ireland | TG4 9/10 @ 21:30
Museums and institutions in Ireland and abroad are actively decolonizing their collections and practices – partly because of Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter campaigns, and partly because of the emergence of a more progressive approach...
Ciarán Walsh curates a home movie fest for Heritage Week 2024
Kerry Writers' Museum have put together a home movie mini festival for Heritage Week 2024. It's an exciting programme of workshops, screenings and talks by Harry Moore, Lisa Fingleton, Laura Fitzgerald, Michael Mulcahy and John Lynch (aka The...
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 the...
‘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...
STORYTELLING FESTIVAL LAUNCHES BUSY AUTUMN SCHEDULE FOR CURATOR.IE
Listowel International Storytelling Festival kicks off a busy Autumn and Winter schedule for curaor.ie. On Thursday 14 September Ciarán Walsh ‘curates’ The Bolex Boys: An Adventure in Storytelling in Film, a public conversation with filmmakers John...
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
#stolenskullstcd start the long journey home to #inishbofinfuneral pic.twitter.com/LOQvyiV4dK— Ciarán Walsh (@CiaranWalshnoe) July 15, 2023
Masterclass at the 2023 Atlantic Anthropological workshop on 23 April .
I will present a masterclass at the 2023 Atlantic Anthropological / Antraipeolaíochta Atlantach workshop at the Sacred Heart Dingle Campus in Daingean Uí Chúis, Co. Kerry. Convened by Dr. James Cuffe (University College Cork) and Dr. Fiona Murphy...
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 return...
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 New York, but the announcement that the Trustees of the Hunterian Museum in London have withdrawn the skeleton of Charles O'Brien – an Irish giant known...
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...
Bérose publishes Walsh’s “masterpiece” on Haddon
with permission of the Royal Irish Academy © RIA 29 August, 2022 We're very happy to announce the publication of your masterpiece on Haddon. It goes with an enriched topical dossier. Christine Laurière & Frederico Delgado Rosa...