Projects
Rushes | Luachair – celebrating women’s moving image art practice
Charlie Broderick, Paul Moynihan, Jim Counihan and Mike Moynihan of the OPW with Rushes | Luachair curator Laura Fitzgerald and artist Chris Steenson. Ciarán Walsh developed the Rushes | Luachair project in collaboration with artist...
The Wren | An Dreoilín 1960-2025, a view from the archive.
Tony Fitzmaurice, c. 1960, Killocrim Wrenboys perform in Listowel. Tony Fitzmaurice photographed Wrenboys from various townlands in north Kerry performing in Listowel in 1960. Inspired by this I filmed two ‘Wrens’ on St Stephen’s Day 2025;...
The Tony Fitzmaurice Collection
A race against time Tony Fitzmaurice (1932-2019) of Ballybunion built an extraordinary collection of social documentary photographs over six decades, starting in 1954 when his parents gave him a present of a Kodak Retinette camera in...
A Midnight Court: Brendan Kennelly @ Carrigafoyle 30|09|25
Brendan Kennelly (1936-2021) reads his poetry at Carrigafoyle Castle on 30 Sept 2025, Billed as a Midnight Court, this posthumous reading is possible because of a new archive of digitised videos, digital humanities art its best …
A Day in the Bog | Heritage Week 2025
Tom Dillon, historian, and Aideen O’Sullivan, filmmaker, discuss the communal art of turf cutting at Heritage Week 2025.
A showcase of film and photography from rural Ireland’s literary heartland
Kerry Writers’ Museum marks International Museum Day 2025 with acquisition of three very important collections.
Community Cinema kicks off part 2 of Heritage Council film project in Kerry
Leo Finucane’s film Father And Son at Clounmacon Community Centre is a continuation of the community cinema programme and the first act of the second phase of this groundbreaking curatorial project supported by the Heritage Council.
Alfred Cort Haddon, A Very English Savage
Alfred Cort Haddon, A Very English Savage is the first in depth study of Haddon’s contribution to modern anthropology since Alison Hingston Quiggin published her underrated memorial ‘sketch’ in 1942. I reinterpret her title in line with Haddon’s provocative adoption of the persona of an English savage – a head hunter.
The “stolen” skulls of Inishbofin
So, a funeral on Inishbofin marked the beginning of the end of the saga of the “Stolen Skulls” held in TCD …
Returning Home: the photographs of Charles R. Browne
Inishbofin Heritage Museum presents 'Returning Home’, an outdoor exhibition of photographs taken in Inishbofin 1893. The aim is to add living faces to the anthropological collection of human remains that Trinity College, University of Dublin...
Donegal County Archives Service
Donegal County Council Archives Service acquired a collection of photographs by Ann Doherty in 2018. Doherty worked as a photojournalist with the Sunday Times Magazine between 1994 and 2005 and documented ordinary people living in extraordinary...
Anarchy in the UK
A. C. Haddon. 1898. Digital scan of a still from the short film that Haddon made of the dance of the Malu Zogo Le on the island of Mer, Torres Strait (© National Film and Sound Archive of Australia). Anarchy in the UK: Haddon and the anarchist...