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Major feature on Anthropology by Ciarán Walsh in Irish Independent Newspaper

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on January 4, 2014 – 1:14 pm

The ‘ Irish Headhunter’ exhibition organised by www.curator.ie got a remarkable response from anthropologists working in Ireland. The project was featured in the Irish Journal of Anthropology and the exhibition was shown in the National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM) which has the only Anthropology Department in the state. This switched the focus from the 1890s to the present and, in this feature commissioned by the Irish independent Newspaper editor Katie Byrne, Ciarán Walsh explores the role of contemporary Irish anthropologists. It features extracts from interviews with Mark Maguire, Head of Anthropology in NUIM; Nicola Reynolds, President of the Anthropology Society NUIM; Fiona Murphy, Dublin City University School of Business and, Patrick Slevin of Applied Research for Connected Health (ARCH). Each of the contributors outlines what they see as the main challenges facing Irish society in 2014 from an anthropological perspective.

See: http://irishindependent.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx (Weekend Magazine)

www.curator.ie and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge agree on joint research project

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on December 13, 2013 – 4:48 pm

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Further details to be announced in January 2014.

www.curator.ie participating in RAI conference on anthropology and photography, London.

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on December 11, 2013 – 4:01 pm

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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.

Information: RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute)

‘Headhunter’ exhibition opens in National University of Ireland Maynooth

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Posted by Ciaran Walsh on October 15, 2013 – 8:18 pm

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The Irish ‘Headhunter,’ the photograph albums of Charles R. Browne exhibition has opened in the Library of the National University of Ireland Maynooth. The exhibition has been organised by Anthropology Society President Nicola Reynolds in association with Head of Department Mark Maguire. There was a big turn out for the opening address by Steve Coleman, Lecturer at Maynooth.

The exhibition runs until 22 October.

More information:

http://anthropology.nuim.ie/node/205

‘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 | 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.

For more information contact Country Life at

+353 94 903 1755

tpark@museum.ie

or visit the website at

http://www.museum.ie/en/exhibition/the-irish-headhunter.aspx

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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‘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.