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“Old” Anatomy: Science Week 2018
The "Old" Anatomy Museum in TCD was used as a television studio during Science Week in November 2018. Here are some photos. Filming 'Growing Up, Live' in the "Old" Anatomy Museum, TCD. Photo:...
Anarchy and Ethnology at the Irish Conference of Folklore and Ethnology 2018
The Go Between: Alfred Cort Haddon and a forgotten engagement between Irish Folklore and Anarchist Ethnology. Ciarán Walsh, Maynooth University in partnership with the Irish Research Council, TCD School of Medicine, and Shanahan Research...
“Old” Anatomy goes live for Science Week 2018
The skulls have been taken out of storage and put on display as the "Old" Anatomy Museum in TCD goes "live" for three nights during Science Week 2018. The Museum has been transformed into a studio for Growing Up, Live. It is...
Research Update | October 2018
Reading Haddon ... Four years ago, I was given the job of finding out what exactly was going on in the Dublin Anthropometric Laboratory, which was established in TCD in 1891. My research has focussed on the Laboratory's...
Knock: Apparition Or Slide Show
The latest post on the curator.ie blog examines new evidence supporting the claim that the apparition said to have occurred in Knock in 1879 was in fact a slide show engineered by the parish priest (pictured above). It builds...
The Skeleton of the Irish Giant, Cornelius Magrath.
The Skeleton of The Irish Giant, Cornelius Magrath is held by the School of Anatomy in Dublin University, Trinity College (TCD). It is the most famous item in a historic collection of anatomy specimens, records, and instruments that is held...