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    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...

    Ciarán Walsh has been working with a group of musicians who have come together to put music at the centre of one of the biggest community festivals in Kerry. Inspired by the legendary “big winds” of September the musicians have...

  Ciarán Walsh has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. This follows his pioneering work on the Irish Ethnographic Survey and the impact this had on the early development of anthropology in Ireland and the UK. Walsh...

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RAI RESEARCH SEMINAR SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Haddon in Ireland: reconstructing the archive of the Irish Ethnographic Survey Ciarán Walsh, Curator.ie and Maynooth University Dr Joe Dudding, Arch and Anth Museum,...

    Ciarán Walsh was among the 'top postgraduate researchers' who received funding from the Irish Research Council last week. The award was announced at a ceremony which took place in Dublin as part of the Innovation Showcase. Walsh is...

      Ciarán Walsh / www.curator.ie has been notified  by the Irish Research Council that the Employment Based Postgraduate Programme he proposed has been recommended for funding. The programme is being developed in partnership with...

Taimse Im Chodladh Vimeo(2) from Ciarán Walsh / www.curator.ie on Vimeo. 'Taimse Im' Chodladh' or 'I am Sleeping' (2014)  was Directed by London based Kerryman and artist Denis Buckley and produced by me for www.curator.ie. It has been...

[simpleviewer gallery_id="87"]   31.08.2014:  Ciarán Walsh participates in a 1 day wet plate collodion workshop with Monika Fabijanczyk   In the wet plate collodion process photographs are created on glass or metal plates. The plates are...

A photograph of the Great Blasket Island in the 1930s taken by Thomas H. Mason of Dublin. L-R: Domhnall Mharas Eoghan Bháin Ó Conchuir and Pádraig 'Ceaist' Ó Catháin. The definitive exhibition of photographs of life on the Blasket islands opens in...

Mark Maguire, Head of Anthropology NUI Maynooth, Ciarán Walsh , Nicola Reynolds, President of thr Anthropological Society NUIM and Steve Coleman, NUIM at the opening of the Headhunter exhibition in NUI Maynooth in October 2013. A major research...

Ruairi  and Chris meet after 40 years. Photo by Ciarán Walsh. In June 2014 Chris Rodmell and Ciarán Walsh returned to Inis Meáin, the middle island of the Aran Islands, to meet some of the people Chris had filmed there in in 1973. Chris, a student...

  A starving Irish family from Carraroe, County Galway during the Famine . (Source: University of Virginia)   About 10 years go I came across this photograph. The caption suggests that it was taken during the Famine of 1845-9 in Ireland. ...

Jocelyne Dudding, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge and Ciarán Walsh of www.curator.ie  in the foyer of the British Museum in London.  It's a big claim, but papers presented by Jocelyne Dudding and Ciarán Walsh at the Anthropology...

mountainsphoto.ru     Ár Ré-Na (Our Times)  is an exhibition of paintings by students of Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland. The students are studying art as part of their senior cycle programme (5th Year) and the...

<img class="size-full wp-image-3376 " alt="Photograph of 5th Year students (aged 16+) holding their self-portraits, A2 sized multimedia works, which will go on show in the school as part of the Ár Ré-na exhibition.. Pobalscoil...