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The skull measuring business – Ciarán Walsh submits PhD thesis
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...
Vanished Knowledge: turning research into activism and advocacy
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...
Brexit and Folklore ?
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...
Brexit & Folklore: a Conference in Derby | March 29 2019
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...
Conservation work begins on the first ethnographic photos of the Aran Islands (1890)
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.
Folklore and Ethnology Conference 2018
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...