Projects
A. C. Haddon, a very English savage (in Ireland)
Anon. 1885 (detail). Robert Lloyd Preger captioned the photo "Dredging party, 1885, with friends. Sitting, left to right: A.C. Haddon (in front of light suit), S. Haughton, W. S. Green, C. B. Ball ...". Permission of the Royal Irish Academy © RIA....
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...
5 years, 68 days, 6 hours, 31 minutes, & some seconds …
I walked into the Anthropology Dept in Maynooth University at 9am on February 2, 2015 to begin a PhD and at 4.31pm yesterday afternoon Mark, the postman, delivered a letter confirming that I had been awarded the Doctoral Degree by the Academic...
www.curator.ie projects 2012
Chris Rodmell | Cniotáil Inis Meain | 2012 A photograph of rye fields on Inis Meáin, the middle island of the Aran Island, Co Galway, Ireland. It shows two men taking a break whilst cutting rye which was used to make the distinctive thatched roofs...
www.curator.ie projects 2013
Charles Lamb |Aras Éanna | August 2013 There was a big turn out for the opening of an exhibition of paintings by Charles Lamb (1893–1964) in Aras Éanna, the arts centre on Inis Oírr in the Aran Islands. Lamb was from Northern Ireland. He was born...
The Maid of Erin Project 2011
“The older shop fronts of the Irish towns I sometimes see as the armorial bearings of imaginative knights forced by circumstance to don economic strait jackets!” A public art project by Sean Lynch Listowel, County Kerry 3rd June – 27th August 2011...
3 Headhunting In Ireland: Grave robbing in Inisbofin
Teampall Colmáin or St. Colman's Church with the cache of skulls in the alcove on the right. The photograph was probably taken by Haddon during a fishing survey in 1890 when he 'removed' 13 crania from the church. They took more than...
Headhunting in Ireland: Haddon and Browne
The most comprehensive survey of island life in Ireland is largely the work of one man, Charles R. Browne, a G.P. and anthropologist from Dublin who documented the lives of people on the west coast of Ireland between 1891 and...
The ‘Irish Head-hunter’ Project 2010 – 23
Pat Togher’s great-grandparents emigrated from Mayo as part of the assisted emigration scheme Tuke devised to clear impoverished districts in the county. Togher came to the exhibition of photographs taken by Charles R. Browne in the west of Ireland...
Fiagaí na gCeann Gaelach in Árann, arís.
Tá gadaí na gceann ar ais in Árann: osclaíonn 'Fiagaí na gCeann Gaelach, Na Halbaim Grianghraif le Charles R. Browne' in Áras Éanna, Inis Oírr, Árann. ‘Fiagaí na gCeann Gaelach, na hAlbaim Gringhraf le Charles R....
Headhunters: Exhibition Dates
Exhibition Dates 2012 /13 Ionad An Bhlascaoid Mhóir 3 May, 2012 - 23 June, 2012 Ionad Ealaíne Áras Éanna, Inis Oirr, 1 July, 2012 - 28 July 2012 Dublin (September, dates...
Restoring ‘The Maid of Erin’ – a public artwork by Sean Lynch, curated by Ciaran Walsh | www.curator.ie
The Maid Of Erin 25.08.2011 The restoration of ‘The Maid of Erin’ is a public art project by Sean Lynch, of Moyvane, Co Kerry, Ireland, and currently working in Germany. It was funded by the Dept. of the Environment under the...