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This photograph shows Ciarán Walsh in the doorway of a stone building, the entrance to the Zoology Dept. TCD. The word "Zoology" is carved above the door. The photograph was taken in December 2015 by Siobhan Ward. Walsh is director of www.curator.ie and is a research scholar on a joint project with Maynooth University and TCD, funded by the research Council of Ireland. Ward is the Chief Technical officer in the Anatomy Dept., School of Medicine, TCD. They have recreated a photograph of D. J. Cunningham, Professor of Anatomy TCD, that was taken in the same spot 125 years ago. Walsh and Ward are working together on the resolution of the collection of the Anthropometric Laboratory TCD that was discovered in 2014.

 

This photograph shows Prof. Daniel J. Cunningham, who held the Chair of Anatomy TCD from 1883 - 1903. He is shown standing in the doorway of a stone building, the entrance to the Zoology Dept. TCD. The word "Zoology" has since been carved above the door. The photograph was taken around 1891 by Charles R. Browne. Ciarán Walsh and Siobhan Ward have recreated this photograph to mark the commencement of work on the resolution of the collection of the Anthropometric Laboratory established by Cunningham and Alfred Cort Haddon in 1891. The collection was thought to have been dispersed in 1949 but it was rediscovered in storage in 2014. Walsh is director of www.curator.ie and is a research scholar on a joint project with Maynooth University and TCD, funded by the research Council of Ireland. Ward is the Chief Technical officer in the Anatomy Dept., School of Medicine, TCD.

The top photograph shows Ciarán Walsh in the doorway of the Zoology Dept. TCD. It was taken in December 2015 by  Siobhan Ward, Chief Technical Officer in the School of Medicine TCD. It recreates the photograph (below) of D. J. Cunningham, Professor of Anatomy TCD, that was taken in the same spot 125 years ago. Walsh and Ward are working together on the resolution of the collection of the Anthropometric Laboratory TCD that was discovered in 2014. 

 

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Ciarán Walsh | curator |researcher

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Ciaran Walsh is a freelance curator and is currently engaged in postgraduate research with Maynooth University (Anthropology PhD Programme, Dr Mark Maguire) in association with TCD School of Medicine ((Prof Martina Hennessy) and a research fellow with Kimmage Development Studies Centre (Dr Rob Kevlihan). The project is funded by the Irish Research Council under its Employment Based Postgraduate Research Programme 2015 – 2020.

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Professional Profile

 

Ciarán Walsh is a graduate of NCAD (1984) where he specialised in arts education. He has worked in a number of educational contexts including Triskel Arts Centre and the Arts Council. He joined The National Folk Theatre as Visual Arts Director in 1995 where he worked until June 2010. In 2008 he completed an MA by Research (HETAC) and in 2010 he established www.curator.ie as a vehicle for innovative arts, heritage and media projects.

 

Margaret Rishbeth, granddaughter of Alfred Cort Haddon, and Ciarán Walsh of www.curator.ie at the opening of the 'Headhunter' exhibition in the Haddon Library, Univesity of Cambridge. The photographs show pages from the albums of Charles R. Browne, Alfred Cort Haddon's assistant in the Ethnographic Survey of Ireland. The exhibition was curated by Ciarán Walsh.

Margaret Rishbeth, granddaughter of Alfred Cort Haddon, and Ciarán Walsh at the opening of ‘The Irish Headhunter’ in the Haddon Library, University of Cambridge.

 

In 2013 he developed the critically acclaimed ‘Headhunter’ project in association with Trinity College Dublin and The Great Blasket Centre,  with funding from the Heritage Council of Ireland and the OPW. This led to the discovery of significant new material relating to the Irish Ethnographic Survey (1891-1903) in the “old” Anatomy Building TCD. In 2014 the Irish Research Council agreed to fund a 4 year programme of postgraduate research with Maynooth University (Anthropology PhD Programme) in association with TCD School of Medicine and Kimmage Development Studies Centre (KDSC). The funding was provided by the Council under its Employment Based Postgraduate Research Programme.

In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

In 2016 he was appointed as an associate of  TCD School of Medicine.

 

The research continues …

 

Recent Publications

 

Published work includes an essay on the photography of R. J. Welch in Framing the West, Irish Academic Press, 2007, Ed. Dr. Ciara Breathnach. He published The Stuccowork of Pat McAuliffe of Listowel by Sean Lynch in 2008. The essay Níl Scoil Phéintéireachta Gaelacha Againn Fós was published in Shorelines (2010) by Memorial University Newfoundland. Irish Headhunter, The Photograph Albums of Charles R, Browne was published in May 2012. An essay on the photography of J. M. Synge was published in Céiliúradh an Bhlascaoid Mhóir 14 in 2012. Charles R. Browne. The Irish Headhunter was published in the Irish Journal of Anthropology Vol 16 (1) 2013 and An Island Portrait  (photographic editor) was published by Collins Press in May 2013.

He is currently working on a series of articles on Alfred Cort Haddon and the Irish Ethnographic Survey (1891 – 1903).

 

Personal Profile

 

The photo shows Ciarán Walsh approaching the Blasket Island in a kayak. It was taken on10 July 2013 by Padraig O'Donoghue. The Great Blasket lies off the coast of Ireland, just north of the town of Dingle. In 2013 Ciaran Walsh, director of the heritage project management company www.curator.ie, edited a book of photographs from the collection of the Great Blasket Centre (An Island Portrait by Micheál de Mórdha and Dáithí de Mórdha and published by Collins Press). The islanders were famous for their prowess with the 'naomhóg,' an open canoe up to 19 feet long and rowed by a crew of three. It was very different from the sea-kayak being rowed by Ciarán Walsh but the journey across the Blasket Channel. notorious for strong currents, was no less challenging.

Ciarán Walsh approaching the Blasket Island on 10 July 2013. Photo by Padraig O’Donoghue.

 

Ciarán Walsh is  married and lives in Ballyheigue, Co Kerry, in the south west of Ireland. He is a member of Tralee Mounteering Club, a Kayaker and an occasional cyclist.

 

 

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