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In memory of Mick ‘The Iron Man’ Murphy

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on September 12, 2015 – 6:02 pm
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Mick 'The Iron Man' Murphy by Barry McCarthy from the exhibition 'Blood, Sweat and Gears,' 2008

Mick ‘The Iron Man’ Murphy by Barry McCarthy from the exhibition ‘Blood, Sweat and Gears,’ 2008.

 

I have just learned of the death of Mick Murphy of Cahersiveen in Co. Kerry. Mick was known fondly as ‘The Iron Man’ because of his exploits in a celebrated bicycle race in 1958. Aidan O’Connor, writing in The Kerryman newspaper described Mick’s extraordinary Life:

Mick made a living as a spalpeen and a circus performer. After winning the 1958 Rás, Mick returned to Kerry to work in local quarry, breaking stones with a crowbar and sledge hammer. All the while, the Iron Man was completing daily training routines of 100-mile cycles.

Aged just 27 years, Mick Murphy retired and took the boat to England where he worked as a builder, road maker, a carnival act, boxer and a wrestler.

Mick’s training was as unconventional as his lifestyle. Having read about the important of a high protein diet, Mick drank cow’s blood and ate raw meat, well aware that this was regarded with “horror” by the people of Cahersiveen. The legend that was the ‘Iron Man’ was the starting point for an exhibition that celebrated the 50th anniversary of his victory in the Rás in 1958. The exhibition consisted of still photography by Barry McCarthy interviews recorded by film maker Chris Hurley. The impact of that exhibition is captured in Sean Mac an tSithig’s report (above) which was recorded for the main evening news.

 

 

Mick Murphy was one of the most remarkable people I worked with in Siamsa, a true folk hero. Following the broadcast of Seán’s film a lot of men who had gone through similar experiences came to the gallery and spoke movingly of their lives as emigrants and their love of cycling.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

 

 

 

 

curator.ie and Ciar Quilters get ready for Culture Night in Kerry County Museum

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on September 11, 2015 – 6:25 pm
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This photograph shows a detail of a patchwork quilt by Breda Browne which is on show as part of the Ciar Quilters annual show in Kerry County Museum. Tralee. The exhibition was hung by Ciarán Walsh of curator.ie

A patchwork quilt by Breda Browne which is on show as part of the Ciar Quilters annual show in Kerry County Museum, Tralee.

 

Patchwork and quilting are important craft traditions in rural Ireland. Muckross House hold a number of quilts that a well over a hundred years old, rough cotton sheets and flour bags died with madder and quilted with fleece. Ciar Quilters keep that tradition alive as well as experimenting with contemporary techniques, a perfect match of art and craft.

Ciarán Walsh has been working with them for years, hanging an annual exhibition that showcases the work of women quilters from Kerry. The 2015 show has just opened in Kerry County Museum in Tralee and runs until October 1. It is an important part of the Museum’s programme for Culture Night, which takes place on Friday 18 September 2015: a great night in the museum!

 

This photograph shows a general shot of the Ciar Quilters annual show in Kerry County Museum. Tralee. The exhibition was hung by Ciarán Walsh of curator.ie for Culture Night 2015

This photograph shows a general shot of the Ciar Quilters annual show in Kerry County Museum, Tralee. The exhibition was hung by Ciarán Walsh of curator.ie for Culture Night 2015

 

 

 

Fairscin Inise / An Island Portrait is a big hit in the Outer Hebrides.

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on June 26, 2015 – 1:20 pm
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Definitive exhibition of Blasket Island photography opens in St. John’s Theatre, Listowel.

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on August 9, 2014 – 5:20 pm
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A photograph of the Great Blasket Island in the 1930s taken by Thomas H. Mason of Dublin. L-R: Domhnall Mharas Eoghan Bháin Ó Conchuir and Pádraig 'Ceaist' Ó Catháin who are mending currachs, the traditional boats used by the islanders. it features in The definitive book of photographs of the Great Blasket Island was published by Collins Press in June 2013. The book was authored by Michéal and Dáithí de Mórdha of Ionad an Bhlaoscaoid Mhóir and the photographs were edited by Ciarán Walsh of curator.ie. It also features in an exhibition of the same name.

A photograph of the Great Blasket Island in the 1930s taken by Thomas H. Mason of Dublin. L-R: Domhnall Mharas Eoghan Bháin Ó Conchuir and Pádraig ‘Ceaist’ Ó Catháin.

The definitive exhibition of photographs of life on the Blasket islands opens in St. John’s Theatre in Listowel on Saturday 9 August 2014.

‘An Island Portrait’ has been developed by The Great Blasket Centre and www.curator.ie to accompany the publication by Collins Press of a book of photographs of the Blasket Island. The text was written by Micheál de Mórdha  (Director) and Dáithí de Mórdha (Archivist) and the photographs were edited by Ciarán Walsh of ww.curator.ie. The exhibition contains 50 photographs dating from 1892 onwards and it combines  classic ‘outsider’ views of the islanders and their way of life with photographs from family albums. The ethnographic look is counterbalanced by personal and, at times,  intimate glimpses of family life on the island.

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 MacMonagle after the Island was evacuated in 1953. The exhibition was curated by Ciarán Walsh of Curator.ie.

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 MacMonagle after the Island was evacuated in 1953.

‘Ár Ré-na’ Opens in Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne, Dingle.

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on July 2, 2014 – 3:39 pm
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A split shot of the attendance at the opening of the exhibition Ár Ré-na by 5th year students of Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne. An exhibition of self-portraits which are on show in the school  in Dingle in May 2014. The photo features students, members of the public and Sean Mac n tSíthig, school principal Padraig  Firtéir and Art Teacher Brenda Ní Frighil.mountainsphoto.ru

 

 

Ár Ré-Na (Our Times)  is an exhibition of paintings by students of Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland. The students are studying art as part of their senior cycle programme (5th Year) and the exhibition consists of a series of self portraits developed through a photographic project and realised in a wide range of media.  Each portrait is an intensely personal expression of how they ‘see’ themselves but, collectively, they provide us with  fascinating insight into the world of a group a group of 16 year old student artists living in the west of Ireland. The exhibition was opened at the end of May by Seán Mac an tSíthigh, filmmaker and journalist with RTE and TG4.  It is on view during school hours.

 

 

 

The Best Exhibition in Kerry: curator.ie working with Brenda Ní Frighil and the students of Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne in Dingle

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on May 21, 2014 – 10:51 am
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Fifth year students of Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne, Dingle, Co. Kerry with the self-portraits that will feature in the Ár Ré-na’ exhibition in May 2014

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Taispeantas Scoláirí Ealaine, Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne,
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Á oscailt ag Seán Mac an tSíthigh 21.05.2014

Téacs / Text__________________________________________________________________

An dteastaigh uait riamh tumadh isteach in inchinn an déagóra?

Bhuel, seo é do sheans.
Beidh saothar scoláirí ealaíne na 5ú bliana ar taispeáint don phobal ar a 6 a chlog ar an gCéadaoin an 21 Bealtaine le tacaíocht ó Creative Engagement. Tabharfaidh an ealaín a bheidh ar taispeáint léargas ar phearsantachtaí, ar fhéiniúlachtaí agus ar shaol inmheánach na n-ealaíontóirí óga.
Osclóidh Seán Mac an tSíthigh an taispeántas. Is scannánóir áitiúil agus iriseoir le RTÉ agus TG4 é Seán. Is cinnte go mbeidh tráthnóna suimiúil ann a thabharfaidh spléachadh dúinn ar shaol cruthaitheach an déagóra.

Have you ever wondered about the inner workings of a teenage mind?

This is your chance to find out.
Fifth year art students of Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne are hosting an art exhibition of their work in the school ‘Dánlann’ exhibition space, opening on Wednesday the 21st of May at 6pm.  The work exhibited is an expression of the personalities, identities and inner world of student artists. The exhibition will be officially opened by Seán Mac an tSíthigh, local filmmaker and journalist with RTE and TG4.  It is sure to provide a rare glimpse into the creative world of the teenage mind.
Bígí linn. Fáilte roimh cách.

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A thuilleadh eolais le fáil ag /  For more information please contact:
Brenda Ní Fríghil, Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne
fón: 066 9150055;
ríomhphost: pcd07@eircom.net
nó neasa09@pcd07.ie

‘Haddon In Ireland’ project commences in Cambridge

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on May 5, 2014 – 8:07 am
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www.curator.ie has commenced work on a project that promises to significantly rewrite the history of the early development of anthropology. Supported by a grant from the Heritage Council of Ireland, the initial phase of the ‘Haddon In Ireland’ project comprises of an assessment of unpublished photographs and manuscripts held in the Haddon Library and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) in Cambridge, in partnership with Aidan Baker, Librarian at Haddon, and Jocelyne Dudding, Manager of Photographic Collections at the MAA.

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Aidan Baker, Margaret Rishbeth (granddaughter of Alfred Cort Haddon) and Ciarán Walsh at the launch of the ‘Irish Headhunter’ exhibition in the Haddon Library in 2013.

‘Tigh Donal Rua’ Restored

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on December 11, 2013 – 1:13 pm
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‘Tigh Donal Rua’ or ‘Red Donal’s House’ is an installation by Irish artist Caoimhghin Ó Fraithile that was commissioned by Ciarán Walsh in 2006. It involved the reconstruction of a 19th century stone cottage in a remote valley west of Dingle town, in the southwest of Ireland. Since 2006 the roof of the installation had deteriorated and it was replaced in October 2013.

The house is thought to have been occupied by Donal Rua and his family and is very typical of the thatched ‘long house’ lived in by tenant farmers and shepherds in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. It is located on the side of a hill at the back of a glacial valley that forms part of the Brandon mountain range in West Kerry, an area steeped in archaeology and contemporary Gaelic culture.

By 2006 the cottage had been abandoned for over a century. The roof was long gone but the dry-stone walls were reasonably well preserved. Working with a group of local farmers, stonemasons and craftsmen the walls were restored, the interior excavated and the hearth stone exposed, along with clay pipes and other bits of crockery that were left behind when the house was abandoned.

‘Tigh Donal Rua’ was installed over a couple of months and was part of a series on installations that Ó Fraithile built in West Kerry, each one dealing with themes of locality and commemoration incorporated into traditional dwellings as reliquaries of tradition and folk memory.

He went on to develop similarly themed installations in the States and Japan.

 

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Exhibition of Blasket Island photography extended due to popular demand.

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on November 26, 2013 – 2:16 pm
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Fairscin Inise, Mám as bhailiúchán grianghraf Chartlann Ionaid an Bhlascaoid

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on October 29, 2013 – 11:21 am
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Léargas ar leith ar shaol phobal an Bhlascaoid Mhóir

 

Sheol rí caide na Ríochta, agus oileánach aitheanta, Mick O’Connell, ó Dhairbhre, taispeántas úrnua grianghraif a thugann léargas iontach ar phobal an Bhlascaoid Mhóir idir na bliantaibh 1892 agus 2010, in oifigí na Roinne Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta ar an mBóthar Nua, Cill Áirne, ar an gCéadaoin, 30/10/2013, ag 18.30 mar pháirt d’imeachtaí Oireachtas na Gaeilge 2013. Is é seo an chéad uair atá an bailiúchán seo á thaispeáint lasmuigh den nGaeltacht.

Is é atá sa taispeántas seo, arna chur le chéile ag Ionad an Bhlascaoid agus Ciarán Walsh ó www.curator.ie, rogha de na pictiúir ar fad atá i gCartlann an Ionaid. Cuireadh an taispeántas seo le chéile mar cheiliúradh ar fhiche bliain a bheith caite ó bhunú an Ionad. Tógadh Ionad an Bhlascaoid Mhóir i 1992–93 agus ó shin i leith táthar tar éis cnuasach an-luachmhar de phictiúir a tógadh de lucht an Bhlascaoid a chur le chéile i Leabharlann an Ionaid agus is ann anois atá an cnuasach is mó ar domhan de phictiúir den mBlascaod nó go deimhin d’aon phobal in Iarthar na hÉireann.

Deir Stiúrthóir an Ionaid, Micheál de Mórdha, gur “bronnadh roinnt mhaith pictiúir orainn le fiche bliain anuas, cuid acu gur cóipeanna de phictiúir as mhór-chnuasaigh eile iad, agus níl aon bhiaiste nach dtagann tuilleadh pictiúir ón mBlascaod in ár dtreo. Bain lán do shúl astu, a dhuine, mar go bhfuil os do chomhair anseo taifead de phobal suaithinseach, nach bhfuil ar marthain de ach dornán beag daoine, mar go bhfuil a bhformhór sa chré agus sinn ag druidim  go tréan leis an seascadú bliain ó bhailigh na daoine leo amach as an mBlascaod Mór.”

Ag cur leis sin dúirt an Mórdhach: “Ceapaim go gcuirfidh an taispeántas leis an éagsúlacht mór d’imeachtaí fíor-thaitneamhacha atá i gclár An tOireachtas 2013,  atá ar bun i gCill Áirne arís i mbliana,  is go dtabharfaidh sé éachtaint eile fós ar  an saibhreas oidhreachta atá againn  anseo sa Ríocht.”

Léirítear ann pobal an oileáin agus iad i mbun a ngnóthaí laethúla ar muir is ar tír, ag iascaireacht, ag feirmeoireacht, iad i mbun tí agus ag friotháil ar chuairteoirí. Tá oileánaigh  mór-cháile ina measc, leithéidí Thomás Ó Criomhthain, Mhuiris Ó Súilleabháin & Pheig Sayers, maraon le grianghraif a thóg cuairteoirí mór le rá ar nós John Millington Synge, Carl Von Sydow agus teaghlach MacMonagle Chill Áirne.

Tá an taispeántas le feiscint in árus na Roinne oscailte  ó Luan go hAoine idir 0915 agus 1730.

 

BREIS EOLAIS:

 

Dáithí de Mórdha – Ionad an Bhlascaoid – 0669156444 – daithi.demordha@opw.ie

Mícheál de Mórdha – Ionad an Bhlascaoid – 0669156444 – micheal.demordha@opw.ie

Ciarán Walsh – www.curator.ie – 087 2370846 – curator.ie@gmail.com

 

 

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