Ciarán Walsh set up curator.ie in 2010 as a vehicle for innovative curatorial projects with a strong public engagement component and a collaborative ethos. He is currently working as Curator of Film and Digital Media at Kerry Writers’ Museum on the management of filmed and digital heritage assets at a local level. The project is supported by the Heritage Council.
Other projects include the repatriation of human remains from TCD’s Anatomy Museum in Dublin (2023) and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow (2025). Berghahn Books published Alfred Cort Haddon, A Very English Savage (2023) and he is working with Special Collections UCC in relation to the Adrian K Dixon album of photographs Haddon and Andrew Francis Dixon took in the Aran Islands in 1890.
Innovate – Engage – Excite
Projects
3 Headhunting In Ireland: Grave robbing in Inisbofin
Headhunting in Ireland: Haddon and Browne
The ‘Irish Head-hunter’ Project 2010 – 23
Fiagaí na gCeann Gaelach in Árann, arís.
Headhunters: Exhibition Dates
Restoring ‘The Maid of Erin’ – a public artwork by Sean Lynch, curated by Ciaran Walsh | www.curator.ie
About the curator.ie
Ciarán Walsh is a freelance curator specialising in ethnographic photography and filmmaking, setting up www.curator.ie in 2010 and works from his home in Ballyheigue, County Kerry. Walsh has developed a series of journalistic and cross-over academic projects designed to engage the general public with issues raised by his research.
