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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my book on Haddon for Berghahn Books, but the announcement that the Trustees of the Hunterian Museum in London have withdrawn the skeleton of Charles O'Brien – an Irish giant known publicly...
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...
curator.ie begins work on the Ann Doherty collection in Donegal County Archives Service
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...