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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...

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...