A limited edition of 100 fine art prints commemorating the return and burial of the “stolen skulls” of Inishbofin released for sale.

The Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin has given Marie Coyne and Inishbofin Heritage Museum permission to print a limited edition of 100 fine art prints of the photograph Alfred Cort Haddon took in St Colman’s Monastery on 16 July 1890.

This is a fundraiser, the aim being to recover the costs incurred by Inishbofin Heritage Museum during the return and burial of the remains on 15 and 16 July 2023, especially the ’Returning Home’ exhibition of photographs Charles R. Brown took on the island in 1893. The aim of that exhibition is to put the living faces Browne recorded on to the remains TCD has returned for burial.

Ciarán Rooney (Film Bank) will print a digital scan Gill Whelan, (TCD Digital Collections) made especially for the ‘Returning Home’ exhibition. Rooney and Whelan both worked on the original scans of the 2012 Charles R. Browne exhibition called ‘The Irish Headhunter: the photograph Albums of Charles R. Browne’.

The entire collection of Browne photographs is freely available online.

• All proceeds go to Inishbofin Heritage Museum

• Each print costs €50 (including post and packaging)

• Prints are unframed.

You can order your prints here: