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Jane W. Shackleton: Pioneering Photographer and Unsung Hero of the Gaelic Revival
Купля-продажа товаров Jane W. Shackleton’s singular contribution to the Gaelic Revival has been seriously undervalued. Ciarán Walsh takes another look at the work of this pioneering photographer. In his latest post on the...
Appalling vistas: TG4 broadcasts series on social documentary photography in Ireland in the 1890s
mensclub24 About 10 years go I came across this photograph. The caption suggests that it was taken during the Famine of 1845-9 in Ireland. It wasn’t. True, it is very similar to the scenes recorded in cabins throughout the west of...
In memory of Mick ‘The Iron Man’ Murphy
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...
curator.ie and Ciar Quilters get ready for Culture Night in Kerry County Museum
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...
EYEBALLING the Pattern Thrashers in Ballyheigue
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 elected fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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...