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‘The Man Who Shot Peig’ and Other Stories from the oldest press photography agency in Ireland

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on June 26, 2013 – 12:26 pm
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The photograph shows Daniel MacMonagle (centre) in the Gap of Dunloe in 1913 with photographers Louis Anthony and Franz Haselbeck. Ciarán Walsh / www,curator.ie is currently working on a piece for the Irish Independent on 100 years of photography by the MacMonagles of Killarney. A centenary exhibition opens in the Library in Killarney on 6 July 2013.

Daniel MacMonagle (centre) in the Gap of Dunloe in 1913 with photographers Louis Anthony and Franz Haselbeck.

 

Ciarán Walsh / www,curator.ie is currently working with Don MacMonagle on a piece for the Irish Independent on 100 years of photography by the MacMonagles of Killarney. A centenary exhibition opens in the Library in Killarney on 6 July 2013.

 

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Ciarán Walsh edits photographs for book on the Blasket Islands

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on June 25, 2013 – 12:32 pm
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Ciarán Walsh and Con Collins at the launch of  The Great Blasket, A Photographic Portrait. June 2013.

 

The definitive book of photographs of the Great Blasket Island has just been published by Collins Press. 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. There are thousands of photographs in the archive of  Ionad an Bhlascaoid Mhóir/The Great Blasket Centre. They cover a wide range of material, from private mementoes of families to the work of folklorists, press photographers, and others. The first photographs on the Great Blasket were taken by Alma Curtin in 1891. For the next sixty years or so the islanders and the island would be photographed by all who visited, including the children of people who had emigrated. The result is an extraordinary chronicle of a way of life and kinship, of the life and death of the Great Blasket, evacuated in 1953 but never abandoned. This collection captures the spirit of the island community, from the excitement of discovery by the outside world in the late nineteenth century, through to the decline of the 1940s and the legacy since 1953. Many of these photographs have never been published before.

 

Micheál de Mórdha, Ciarán Walsh and Dáithí de Mórdha

 

 

‘Headhunter’ exhibition opens in The National Museum Of Ireland, Country Life.

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on January 7, 2013 – 12:02 pm
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The photograph shows the 'Headhunter' exhibition being installed in The National Museum of Ireland. It features a half plate field camera (c 1895) and a skull sitting on top of a display case while members of the museum's staff hang the photographs of Charles R Browne in the background. The exhibition was developed by Ciarán Walsh of EYEBALL publishing,web www.curator.ie, an independent curator based in Balltheigue, Co Kerry, Ireland. It was developed with Dáithí de Mórddha of Ionad an Bhlascaoid Mhóir,Blasket Centre, Dún Chaoin, with funding from the OPEW and the Heritage Council.

 

 

The photograph shows the ‘Headhunter’ exhibition being installed in The National Museum of Ireland | Country Life in Turlough Park, Castlebar. It features a half plate field camera (c 1895 provided by Chris Rodmell) and a skull sitting on top of a display case while members of the museum’s staff hang the photographs of Charles R Browne in the background. The exhibition was developed by Ciarán Walsh of www.curator.ie and Dáithí de Mórdha of Ionad an Bhlascaoid Mhóir,Blasket Centre, Dún Chaoin, with funding from the OPW and the Heritage Council. Séamas Mac Philib of  The National Museum of Ireland | Country Life is the curator. The exhibition runs until May 2013.

 

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Headhunters: Special Showing in OPW Headquarters, Trim.

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on December 4, 2012 – 4:00 pm
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Publicity shot of the 'Headhunter' exhibition in the headquarters of the OPW (Office of Public Works)  in Trim, Co. Meath, in the east of Ireland. The exhibition entitled 'The Irish Headhunter, The photograph Albums of Charles R. Browne' was developed by Ciarán Walsh who runs www.curator.ie, a web orientated media and punlishing company based in Ballyheigue.

 

‘HEADHUNTERS’  IN TRIM

The ‘Headhunter’ exhibition has been touring the west of Ireland since May, starting in the Blasket Centre and moving through Aran, Connemara and on to Meath where it has just opened in  the spectacular building that is the headquarters of the OPW  – by architect Pat Boyle of the OPW and worth a look in itself.  The Headhunter project was developed with support from the OPW.

It is on show there until the 14 December and   this is the last chance to see the exhibition in the Pale. It moves back west in December  when it goes on show in the National Museum of Ireland, Country Life in Castlebar.

 

 

‘Headhunter’ exhibition moves to the National Museum Of Ireland – Country Life in Mayo.

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on November 19, 2012 – 12:06 pm
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Headhunter Exhibition opens in Ráth Cairn, County Meath.

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on October 11, 2012 – 10:36 pm
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The Irish Headhunter: the Photographic Albums of Charles R. Browne, an exhibition by Ciarán Walsh and Dáithí de Mórdha. The photograph shows the poster for the exhibition as part of Éigse Dharach Uí Chatháin (celebration of Dharach Uí Chatháin, traditional singer*) in Áras Pobail (Community Centre) in the irish speaking community in Ráth Cairn, County Meath, Ireland. The festival took place during the weekend of 5 October, 2012. The xhibition was developed with funding by the Heritage Council of Ireland and the presented with funding from The Office of Public Works (OPW). A catalogue was published with funding from The Office of Public Works (OPW). The exhibition is now on tour to venues in Irish speaking areas of Ireland. In Decemmber it moves to the National Museum of Ireland. *Darach Ó Catháin is one of the acknowledged masters of the Connemara style of sean-nós singing. Sean nós (which means 'old style') is a highly-ornamented style of solo, unaccompanied singing in the Irish tradition. In 1975 he released an album titled "Traditional Irish Unaccompanied Singing"(Shanachie) which by wide consent is among the best sean-nós recordings ever made. His rendition of "Sail Òg Rua" particularly stands out. Darach also wrote songs from the age of twelve.

Oireachtas na Gaeilge hosts ‘Headhunters’ in Connemara

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on August 29, 2012 – 10:16 am
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Poster for 'Headhunter' exhibition hosted by Oireachtas na Gaeilge and organised by Ciarán Walsh, www.curator.ie in association with Dáithí de Mórdha, Ionad an Bhlascaoid Mhór.  The exhibition takes place from 1 to 25 September 2012 in The Connemara Islands Golf Course, Eanach Mheáin, Leitir Mór, Connemara. It features the photographs of Charles R. Browne, The Irish Headhunter. The event is an exhibition of photographs taken by Browne during ethnographic surveys that stretched from Dingle to Conemara and Mayo. The poster features young boys in traditional dress. It was taken in 1898 in Connemara. For Information: eolas@antoireachtas.ie / +353(0)872370846.

 

 

National Heritage Week 2012: The Irish Headhunter moves to Inis Mór, Aran Islands

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on August 13, 2012 – 1:56 pm
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Poster for National Heritage Week 2012 event organised by Ciarán Walsh, www.curator.ie in Coláiste Ó Direaín, Inis Mór, The Aran Islands, Co Galway, featuring the photographs of Charles R. Browne, The Irish Headhunter. The event is an exhibition of photographs taken by Browne during ethnographic surveys that stretched from Dingle to Conemara and Mayo. The poster features a young boy in traditional Aran costume. It was taken in 1891 and is among the earliest surviving photographs of the Aran Island. For Information:  Coláiste Ó Direáin, Gort na gCapall, Oileáin Árann, Co na Gaillimhe, Éire. (ph) 353 (0)99 61264 (mob) 353(0) 87 6979979. info@odireain.com

 

 

Clár Imeall, TG4, films a feature on ‘The Headhunter’ exhibition in Áras Éanna, Aran.

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on July 24, 2012 – 3:58 pm
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Clár Imeall TG4 filming 'The Headhunter' exhibition in Áras Éanna, Aran. 'The Headhunter' exhibition was organised and curated by Ciarán Walsh / www.curator.ie as part of an Education and Outreach project funded by the Heritage Council of Ireland, 2012 with funding from the OPW.

 

Clár Imeall, the arts and culture documentary programme on TG4, spent the day recording a feature on ‘The Irish Headhunter’ exhibition currently on show in Áras Éanna, the arts centre on Inis Oírr (Inisheer), the Aran Islands. Directed by Maggie Breathnach of Red Shoe Productions and filmed by Andy with contributions by Ciaran Walsh /www.curator.ie,  Caomháin Ó Conghaile, Inis Oírr, and Deirdre Ní Conghaile who has just completed a fellowship in the University of Notre Dame. The programme will be broadcast in October 2012.

 

Logos for the agencies that have supported the "Irish Headhunter, The Photograph Albums of Charles R, Browne' a project developed by www.curator.ie. The logos feature the Research Collections and Manuscripts library in Trinity College Dublin, The Blasket Centre, Ionad an Bhlascaoid Mhóir, The National Museum of Ireland - Country Life, The Office of Public Works (OPW), The Heritage Council, Áras Éanna Inis Oírr (Inisheer, Aran Islands) and Oireachtas na Gaeilge.

 

 

 

The Headhunters are back in Aran, exhibition opens in Áras Éanna, Árann.

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on July 5, 2012 – 10:20 am
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Tá gadaí na gceann ar ais in Árann: osclaíonn ‘Fiagaí na gCeann Gaelach, Na Halbaim Grianghraif le Charles R. Browne’ in Áras Éanna, Inis Oírr, Árann.

 

 

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The headhunters return: ‘The Irish Headhunter, The Photograph Albums of Charles R. Browne’ opens in Áras Éanna, Inis Oírr, Árann.

 

‘Anthropometry in Aran’ captures Browne and Haddon in action measuring he head of Tom Conneely on Inis Mór, Árann, in 1891. It is one of a small number of photographs of Aran that feature in ‘The Irish Headhunter, The Photograph Albums of Charles R. Browne,’ a project developed by www.curator.ie that opened in Áras Éanna, the arts centre on the island of Inis Oírr on Sunday 1 July, 20.

These are the first images of Aran that are known to exist and form part of a photographic survey of the communities of the western seaboard of Ireland between 1891 and 1900. It is the first time that these photographs have been published and it is probably the most important photographic archive to come into the public domain according to Ciarán Walsh who curated the show with Dáithí de Mórdha.

In 1891 Charles R. Browne and Alfred Cort Haddon (Haddon the Headhunter) arrived in Aran to carry out an ethnographical survey of the Aran Islands on behalf of the Anthropological Museum in Trinity College Dublin, one of a complex of initiatives based in the Department of Anatomy of  TCD that were involved in the investigation of the origin of the species in the aftermath of the acceptance by the scientific community of  the theory of evolution.

Browne and Haddon, Irish scientists funded by the Royal Irish Academy, had established the Anthropometric Laboratory  in TCD and, during the long vacation of 1891, they pitched their tent in Aran and began surveying the ‘natives’ in an attempt to record the typical Aranite. The idea that the population of the British Isles was composed of ‘types’ that could be differentiated through measurable racial characteristics was closely linked to ideas about the origin of the species and social Darwinism in particular – that societies evolve from a primitive to a civilised state. In crude terms, the primitives of Aran were less evolved than the white, Anglo Saxon Protestant as represented by the scientific establishment to which Browne and Haddon belonged. The fact that Aran had once been occupied by ‘Firbolgs’ – a mythical race of small dark, people – had no doubt influenced the decision to begin the survey of the remotest parts of Ireland (na Gaeltachta effectively) in Aran.

After Aran, Haddon returned to Cambridge and became very influential in the development of British anthropology -; earning the nickname ‘Haddon the Headhunter’ in the process. Browne continued with the ethnographic survey of the the western seaboard, carrying on with Haddon’s habit of collecting specimens, the skulls of dead islanders removed from graves and ruined churches in the islands. He became the Irish headhunter, a practice revealed for the first time in this exhibition.

In 1893, Browne and Haddon published the Ethnography of the Aran Islands in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, the first of  a series of six reports on the people and their lifetstyle, customs, folklore, archaeology and natural environment of the west coast of Ireland. Combined with the photographs in this exhibition, they form an unprecedented social history of the communities that were surveyed.

The opening of ‘The Irish Headhunter, The Photograph Albums of Charles R. Browne’ by Micheál de Mórdha revisits Browne and Haddon’s survey of the Aran Islands for the first time in 120 years.

 

 

Ciarán Walsh, www.curator.ie, launches the 'Irish Headhunter Project,' May 2012, the most important photographic archive to come into the public domain in Ireland in a long time. In association with Trinity College Dublin, The Blasket Centre, Ionad an Bhlascaoid Mhóir, Justin Carville, Ciarán Rooney and Séamas Mac Philib, The National Museum of Ireland - Country Life. Supported by the Office of Public Works and the Heritage Council.

 

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