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Last Friday, I became an anthropologist after I successfully defended my PhD thesis at Maynooth University (MU), where I made a short presentation about my research on the skull measuring business in Ireland and answered questions from a panel of...

"They didn’t manage to kill us all at the time of colonization” says Celia Xakriabá “but we are living through a moment of legislated genocide.” Xakriabá is an activist who is featured in Tribal Voice, an online campaign that is organised by...

L-R: Prof David Prendergast and Ciarán Walsh, Dept of Anthropology, and Dr Mark Maguire, Dean of Social Sciences, with a copy of the thesis Walsh submitted as the first stage in the completion of a 4 year research project that was funded by the...

The burning of the Amazon rainforest in Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Photo: Mayke Toscano/AFP/Getty Images & The Guardian curator.ie is working with a group of activists and scholars to organise a debate about the capacity of anthropologists and...

Prof David Hopkin at the Folklore and the Nation conference organised by the Folklore Society in Derby on the weekend that the UK was due to leave the EU. Photo: Ciarán Walsh. What has folklore got to do with Brexit? That was one of the themes...

Clara Patterson's photograph of children playing a game in Ballymiscaw, County Down, c.1894. Patterson was encouraged by Alfred Cort Haddon to document folk customs in Ireland. Folklore, Nationalism, Home Rule, and Brexit Ciarán...

Ciarán Walsh of www.curator.ie has commissioned Ciaran Rooney of Filmbank Colour Management to undertake conservation work on a box of 50 glass plate photographic negatives exposed in the Aran Islands in 1890.

       The Go Between: Alfred Cort Haddon and a forgotten engagement between Irish Folklore and Anarchist Ethnology. Why did Haddon have Douglas Hyde’s name in his “little black book”? Haddon delivered an uncompromising critique...

          The "Old" Anatomy Museum in TCD was used as a television studio during Science Week in November 2018. Here are some photos.      Filming 'Growing Up, Live' in the "Old" Anatomy Museum, TCD. Photo:...

  The Go Between: Alfred Cort Haddon and a forgotten engagement between Irish Folklore and Anarchist Ethnology. Ciarán Walsh, Maynooth University in partnership with the Irish Research Council, TCD School of Medicine, and Shanahan Research...

      The skulls have been taken out of storage and put on display as the "Old" Anatomy Museum in TCD goes "live" for three nights during  Science Week 2018. The Museum has been  transformed into a studio for  Growing Up, Live. It is...

      Reading Haddon ... Four years ago, I was given the job of finding out what exactly was going on in the Dublin Anthropometric Laboratory, which was established in TCD in 1891. My research has focussed on the Laboratory's...

      The latest post on the curator.ie blog examines new evidence supporting the claim that the apparition said to have occurred in Knock in 1879 was in fact a slide show engineered by the parish priest (pictured above). It  builds...

  The Skeleton of The Irish Giant, Cornelius Magrath is held by the School of Anatomy in Dublin University, Trinity College (TCD). It is the most famous item in a historic collection of anatomy specimens, records, and instruments that is held...

Купля-продажа товаров     Jane W.  Shackleton’s singular contribution to the Gaelic Revival has been seriously undervalued. Ciarán Walsh takes another look at the work of this pioneering photographer. In his latest post on the...

 mensclub24 About 10 years go I came across this photograph. The caption suggests that it was taken during the Famine of 1845-9 in Ireland.  It wasn’t. True, it is very similar to the scenes recorded in cabins throughout the west of...

    I have just learned of the death of Mick Murphy of Cahersiveen in Co. Kerry. Mick was known fondly as 'The Iron Man' because of his exploits in a celebrated bicycle race in 1958. Aidan O'Connor, writing in The Kerryman newspaper...

    Patchwork and quilting are important craft traditions in rural Ireland. Muckross House hold a number of quilts that a well over a hundred years old, rough cotton sheets and flour bags died with madder and quilted with fleece. Ciar...