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Rewriting the history of Irish anthropology part 1: BEROSE International Encyclopaedia.
. 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...
‘Head-hunter’ project enters a new phase
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 collection in Ireland
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.
Don’t Kick That Skull
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...
Disrupting history at SSNCI 2021
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...
Decolonising public spaces in Ireland: a practical contribution
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...