Ruairi and Chris meet after 40 years. Photo by Ciarán Walsh.
In June 2014 Chris Rodmell and Ciarán Walsh returned to Inis Meáin, the middle island of the Aran Islands, to meet some of the people Chris had filmed there in in 1973. Chris, a student in West Surrey College of Art and Design, had won an award of £250 from Thames Television to film life in an “enclosed community living on one of the remote islands off Ireland or Scotland.” He chose Inis Meáin. He spent three weeks on the island, filming with a 16mm Bolex and taking photographs with a medium format Mamiya on Kodak Ektachrome professional stock.
Info: https://www.curator.ie/inis-meain-1973-exhibition-photographs-chris-rodmell/
Peadar Mór, Ciaran Walsh and Muirís Mac Chonaola on Inis Meáin. Photo by Chris Rodmell.
Filming Peadar Mór at work weaving a basket. Photo by Chris Rodmell.
Jocelyne Dudding, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge and Ciarán Walsh of www.curator.ie in the foyer of the British Museum in London.
It’s a big claim, but papers presented by Jocelyne Dudding and Ciarán Walsh at the Anthropology and Photography conference in the British Museum (May 2014) have challenged the chronology of the early development of British anthropology and Haddon’s role in it.
Dudding and Walsh have been working on the ‘Haddon In Ireland’ project for the past 6 months, focussing on photographic and manuscript collections that are held in Cambridge – in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA), the Haddon Library and the University Library.
They presented preliminary finding of their research at a conference organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute and the British Museum. The research, part funded by the Heritage Council of Ireland, is part of a project that is attempting to reconstruct the archive of the Irish Ethnographic Survey of 1891-1903.
The photographic record of the the Survey, the photograph albums of Charles R. Browne, were published by www.curator.ie in 2012 as part of the the ‘Irish Headhunter’ project. The albums are held in TCD but there was no trace of any paperwork that could place them in context. The search moved to Cambridge and significant work has been done in the photographic collections of the MAA and the Haddon Papers in the Haddon and University Libraries there.
Preliminary findings suggest that the Survey, established by Haddon and Cunningham in TCD in 1891, played a much greater role in Haddon’s transition from Zoology to Anthropology than had previously been thought. The photographic record, correspondence and journal entries reveal a lot about Haddon’s role in the survey with significant implications for the history of the early development of anthropology.
These are being teased as the ‘Haddon in Ireland’ project continues with the re-construction of the archive of the Irish Ethnographic Survey.
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.
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
Ár Ré-Na
Taispeantas Scoláirí Ealaine, Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne,
An Daingean
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
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.
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.
www.curator.ie is participating in a conference on anthropology and photography being organised by the RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute) in the British Museum, London, on 29th- 31st May 2014.
Ciarán Walsh is a member of a panel being convened by Dr Jocelyne Dudding of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge University. The panel came together as a result of the ‘Headhunter’ project being shown in Cambridge University in September followed by the National University of Ireland Maynooth in October 2013. Dr. Mark H. Maguire, Dept. of Anthropology, NUI Maynooth and Dáithí de Mórdha of Ionad an Bhlascaoid Mhóir (The Great Blasket Centre) will also be taking part. Dáithí is co-curator of the ‘Headhunter’ project.
The panel will be examining the importance of photography in the Ethnographic Survey of Ireland of 1891-1903 in the context of social, cultural and political issues that framed anthropology in Ireland in the 1890s and, continue to influence it to this day.
Laillí Lamb de Buitléar and Mary Lamb Waugh (right of picture) at the opening of an exhibition (2 August 2013) of paintings by their father Charles Lamb (1893–1964) in Aras Éanna, Inis Oirr, the Aran Islands.
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 in County Armagh and attended evening classes at the Belfast School of Art before he gained a scholarship to the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin where he studied from 1917 to 21. Like so many Irish painters of the time, Lamb was attracted to the West of Ireland where he focused on studies of peasant life in Conomara. He painted on the Aran Islands in 1928 and he settled in An Ceathrú Rua (Carraroe), where he the built a house in the Breton style in the he mid-1930s.
Ag Iompar na gCurraí / Carrying a Currach by Charles Lamb (1893–1964).
The paintings are part of a private collection that is owned by Laillí Lamb de Buitléar and the exhibition was curated by the contemporary glass artist Róisín de Buitléar. It was hung by Ciarán Walsh of www.curator.ie. The exhibition is the highlight of an arts programme, devised by Maighread Ní Ghallchóir and Danny Kirrane in Aras Éanna, that is dedicated to the memory of Laillí’s husband Eamon de Buitléar – the writer, musician and film maker who died in January 2013.
Opening of Charles Lamb Exhibition in Áras Éanna on Inis Oírr, the Aran Islands.