Projects

Heritage Week 2024

Heritage Week 2024

Kerry Writers' Museum contributes to Heritage Week 2024 with an exciting programme of workshops, screenings and talks that explore the heritage value of film and digital media used to generate personal and community memories and networks. Daily...

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Kerry Writers’ Museum

Kerry Writers’ Museum

Kerry Writers' Museum has received significant Heritage Council funding for r&d on the management of film, digital media and intangible heritage assets at a community level. A key part of this task will be developing a collection management...

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What is it like to be inside a Camera?

What is it like to be inside a Camera?

Kerry Writers' Museum has constructed a camera obscura so that people can experience what it is like to be inside a camera. Curators drilled a hole in a shutter on a window overlooking the square in Listowel and an image of St. John's Theatre and...

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The Bolex Boys

The Bolex Boys

’The Bolex Boys’ exhibition takes its name from the famous 16mm camera and profiles the work of independent filmmakers John Lynch & Michael Mulcahy. They created an extraordinary cinematic record of the changing social and cultural landscape of...

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The Haddon Dixon Repatriation Project

The Haddon Dixon Repatriation Project

In 2020, TCD announced plans to deal with its colonial legacy and we asked Provost Paddy Prendergast if he had heard of the stolen skulls held in TCD. The repatriation of these remains would, we proposed, be a good way to start decolonising the...

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The Photography of John Millington Synge

The Photography of John Millington Synge

In 2007, Ciarán Walsh discovered an album of John Millington Synge’s photographs that Lilo Stephen’s published on the centenary of his death in 1971. He tracked the original negatives to TCD, and Felicity O’Mahony in the Manuscript Library arranged...

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Alfred Cort Haddon, A Very English Savage 

Alfred Cort Haddon, A Very English Savage 

Alfred Cort Haddon, A Very English Savage is also a book about photography and it pivots on Haddon’s discovery of ‘instantaneous’ or social documentary photography in the Aran Islands in 1890. I argue that this led to an experiment in...

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John Millington Synge | Photographer

John Millington Synge | Photographer

An installation shot of the exhibition of photographs by John Millington Synge in Knitwear Inis Meáin, the Aran Islands in 2009. Photo: Ciarán Walsh. Synge's photographs were first exhibited on Inis Meáin – the island most associated with Synge –...

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Fairscine Inise | An Island Portrait

Fairscine Inise | An Island Portrait

  Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin, the last child to live on the Great Blasket Island, with Dáithí de Mórdha, The Great Blasket Centre,  in front of a photograph of Gearóid with his Grandfather Maurice Mhuiris Ó Catháin, taken by Dan...

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Folk

Folk

Folk is an oral history of the folk theatre movement that developed in County Kerry in the 1960s and thrived for over three decades.This project has been developed in partnership with Pat Ahern, the leader of that movement. I have recorded a long...

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Public History | Journalism

Public History | Journalism

LINKS Walsh. 2020. "The head-hunter who measured Irishmen's skulls," selected for broadcast as podcast (link). Walsh. 2020.“The Victorian Curator who Railed against Racism and Imperialism.” The Irish Independent Review, June 20, 2020, p. 10 (link)....

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Donegal County Archives Service

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...

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The Skull Measuring Business

The Skull Measuring Business

The Skull Measuring Business (2015 – 2020)   A miscellany of murderous little facts from the hidden spaces of anthropology in Ireland: Some Background   Ciarán Walsh set up curator.ie in 2010 following the international success of his exhibition...

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