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Ciarán Walsh begins work on the Ann Doherty Collection in Donegal County Archives Service. Photo: Niamh Brennan, Archivist at Donegal County Council. Donegal County Council Archives Service acquired a collection of photographs by Ann Doherty...

. Anon. 1885. Dredging party, 1885, with friends.Sitting, left to right: A.C. Haddon (in front of light suit), S. Haughton, W. S. Green, C. B. Ball;Standing: Sir D'Arcy W. Thompson (light suit), Sir R. S. Ball (yachting cap), Valentine...

Ciarán Walsh and Mark Maguire, Dean of Social Sciences at Maynooth University after a conferring ceremony in June 2020 . Mark and I set out on a PhD in 2015, which we both agree was ‘an-archic’ mix of art, politics, and engaged anthropology that...

BREXIT, anarchy and folklore: radically new look at the the history of folklore collection in Ireland in the 1890s, when Irish nationalists and their anti-imperial allies intensified their efforts to break the union between Ireland and the United Kingdom.

RTÉ Brainstorm has published "Don't Kick That Skull" by Ciarán Walsh, the second part of the story of skulls stolen by Haddon and Dixon from community burial grounds in the west of Ireland in the 1890s. Covid restrictions have forced us all to...

Ciaran Walsh | www.curator.ie returns to the theme of Charles R. Browne, the Irish Headhunter for a disruptive new study of the relationship between anthropology and the political establishment in the 1890 at The Society for the Study of Nineteenth...

Ciarán Walsh's latest post on RTÉ Brainstorm (14|04|2021) summarises a long campaign to repatriate 24 skulls stolen in 1890 from burial grounds in the west of Ireland by agents of the Anthropological Laboratory in Trinity College, Dublin. Read: The...

https://www.tcd.ie/library/berkeley/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cropped-P7015055.jpg Cultural diversity in universities has been pushed to the top of the agenda by the Black Lives Matter movement and TCD has taken the its first steps towards a...

old tropes & new histories: an "Irish" reading of the Haddon Papers is the theme of a 15 minute presentation by Dr Ciarán Walsh marking the centenary of the establishment of the Haddon Library. The event is part of Cambridge University's Alumni...

Ciarán Walsh and Nuala Finn "attend" an online awards ceremony during which Maynooth University conferred Walsh with a Doctor of Philosophy (Arts) degree. Dr Mark Maguire, Dean of Social Sciences at Maynooth University, announcing the award in a...

Ciarán Walsh has published his first article on Brainstorm, an online platform for researchers and academic that is manage by RTÉ. The article asks if readers have ever thought about the political significance of the shape of their heads and goes...

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-victorian-curator-who-railed-against-racism-and-imperialism-39297723.html Today, the Irish Independent publishes a segment of my research on the skull-measuring-business in Ireland in the 1890s....

I walked into the Anthropology Dept in Maynooth University at 9am on February 2, 2015 to begin a PhD and at 4.31pm yesterday afternoon Mark, the postman, delivered a letter confirming that I had been awarded the Doctoral Degree by the Academic...

Tim Robinson's Connemara with a "Connemara stone" from Ballyheigue Beach. Things happen in threes, so they say. Cathy Galvin, a poet and journalist whose family emigrated from Mason's Island in Connemara, contacted me about Charles R. Browne's...

Tim Robinson 1935-2020 (Photograph: Nicolas Fève). Tim Robinson, whose death was announced on Friday, was a constant presence in the work I have been doing on the Aran Islands. Tim launched my exhibition of the photographs of John Millington Synge...

Jude Kelly, founder of  Women of the World Festival (WOW) and Pat Ahern, founder of Siamsa Tíre, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland (Photo: Ciarán Walsh) Pat Ahern and I have started recording a long conversation about the building of a state of...

www.curator.ie in the field: Peadar Mór Ó Conghaile, Ciarán Walsh and Muiris Ó Conghaile taking a break during filming on Inis Meáin. Do Haddon's photographs of the Aran Islands change the history of anthropology as we know it? I will put this...