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‘Haddon and the Aran Islands’ exhibition in Royal Anthropological Institute | London | Oct 2023
A. F. Dixon. 1890. Untitled. Digital print of silver gelatine, glass-plate negative (Ciarán Walsh and Ciarán Rooney, 2019). The original negative is held in the School of Medicine, Trinity College, University of Dublin. © curator.ie. I can't tell...
curator.ie finds oldest surviving photo of Skellig
William Mercer, c. 1868, St Michael's Church and Cell, digital scan of gelatine silver print. Permission of the Royal Irish Academy © RIA. “Skellig provided J. J. Abrams with the perfect location for the birthplace of the Jedi. The challenge of...
stolen skulls start the long journey home to Inishbofin
a small book that will change a lot: a very English savage takes a step closer to publication …
Prof Alfred Cort Haddon sits next to Dr Rev Dr Samuel, President of the Royal Irish Academy, and a fellow home rule supporter who also shared a family history of anti-slavery and humanitarian activism (with permission of the Royal Irish Academy ©...
An Island Funeral, Inishbofin, 16 July 2023.
St Colmans's Monastery and burial ground, Inishbofin. Photo Marie Coyne. Inishbofin community representatives and repatriation campaigners met with Eoin O'Sullivan and Ciarán O'Neill of TCD last night (28 March 2023), and agreed in outline...
TCD to announce return of ancestral remains to Inishbofin
Marie Coyne, 2022, St Colman's Monastery and burial ground. It is expected that the board of TCD will decide today (22 February 2023) to return to Inishbofin the ancestral remains Haddon and Dixon stole in 1890. We were unable to achieve the...